It's been awhile. I've been busy doing cartoon work for a local paper, here's some recent stuff

Busy

Summer seems to be set in full-swing now. The hot lazy days have begun & I've decided to start a full-fledged story/short graphic novel, mildly based off of my Skeleton Blues comic. I don't know much of the details about myself, but it's going to be a dark gothic-style tale taking place in 19th century.

I'm also going to be working on a mini-comic for a zine this September. It's going to be dementedly ridiculous to the extent my morality lets me draw.
Around last week I found, to my surprise, a pack of canvas panel at Wal-Mart (of all places) for probably 3 bucks so I'm going to be trying those out for a series of paintings I'm starting to work soon as well.

Busy, busy, busy; as a Bokononist would say.

Also, The Flaming Lips are finally coming to my town. Upon fainting, I promptly bought tickets. I'M EXCITED.

Italia

I'm back from my trip to Italy. I've seemed to have left my heart there, as well as the keys to my luggage. Luckily one of the hotels I was staying at had some pliers I could break the locks with.

I took around a thousand pictures, 400 of them I'm suspecting to be blurry.

I'm planning on going back there to study abroad in college.

Here's a picture:

Skeleton

After around six months of production, I've finally come up with a good description for my Skeleton Blues comic.

"It's classic slapstick cartoon humor mixed with obscure pop culture regurgitation and watered-down surrealistic absurdity."

Well

Last November I said I was going to revitalize this blog and start posting art again. This was obviously a complete and total lie, seeing as how I haven't updated since January.
I blame tumblr; it's much more user-friendly when it comes to posting art (conartdoodles.tumblr.com).

Regardless of this, I've made the decision to turn this into more of a "multi-purpose" type of thing. Photos, daily life events, the occasional sketches, writings, pseudo-intellectual ramblings.

Anywhooooo, I'm leaving for Italy and Spain this Wednesday for eight days and I'll be keeping a daily sketch journal and taking loads of pictures, many of which will most most likely end up on here.
I'll be back on the 16th.

Until then, I'll be sleeping.

Mouse

Deranged little mousey mouse

Born on the Bayou

Continuing with the 60's music theme

Lucy In the Sky

Insert Beatles reference here.

Chicken Animation

I've been getting into animating lately. First, since I have no money, I was using a free program called Pencil which turned out to be pretty disappointing. But I found another Plastic Animation Paper which downright awesome.

Here's a short animation test I did in the Pencil program.

Bears

I get the weekend off from doing stuff so I doodled some bears being bears