introvertedart

So here it is the comic that I've talked so much about and have shown so little of. This thing is a monster...I never saw myself doing a comic documentary type of thing, but I had an english paper to do and I asked if I could do it as a comic. The teacher said yes and so I did a bunch of research and after a crazy month or so I handed in some very rough looking layouts. Then over the next year and a half inbetween school,work and a wedding I managed to get the 7 pages done( well I still have two pages to ink and one to letter). Its been a long trip with a lot of redrawing and stops and starts. I didn't want to share the pages as I was working because I wanted people to just be able to see it more or less complete.
   I want to get back into some fictional comics as well, because I miss the storytelling aspect of an action adventure sort of thing. But before that happens I have the next chapter to layout and get drawn. I kind of stumbled on the idea for it so I should get it done or at least laid out much quicker. Storytelling wise its not as abstract as this one, but it will require a lot of references. But that is kind of fun in my opinion. I'll share a bit more on it as well so that it won't seem like I vanished.

I'm on a new and much faster computer. DA is no longer a hassle to view, this being the case I'm going to be spending a lot more time on here now. Sadly, I no longer have a copy of Photoshop since the one that I had doesn't work with the new OS X. But I'll buy one in a few months so its all good.

So I'm going to be uploading some comic pages in a couple of weeks. I've been working on this project for the better part of 11/2 yrs. inbetween work and school I had to fit art in, but this summer I had a chunk of time and I have one more page to pencil,letter and ink. I do plan on coloring the pages too, but they were made to hold up in black and white.
  I also got married this summer to the love of my life and as you can imagine that also took out a lot of time artwise, but it was worth it.Now to finish these pages before I fly in to New York for my oldest friends engagement party. I'm also on tumblr ( introvertedart.tumblr.com/ ) a lot, which is a great site for viral promotion and also for finding photo reference.
  Anyway that is it for now...see you soon!

Due to favoriting some of my humble drawings I have noticed some activity going on in this dusty space so a big thanks goes out to him.

This is actually something I that I had posted elsewhere but I thought that it might be helpful to some of you to read.

I came upon this, seemingly at random. But really how random is it that I find this, at this point in my life? Sometimes I feel like things come into my life at just the point where they are needed. Sometimes I feel like I'm pointed in directions that I need to go to by life itself. And I tend not to question that voice inside. Sadly, with all of the conflict of modern life it gets hard to pay attention to that voice or to even recognize it. And its important to listen and trust that voice. It hasn't been wrong yet. People thought that I was crazy to just move across the country and although things have been extremely hard at times, I know it was the right thing to do. I'm a better person for it , maybe not in anyway that you could put a dollar value on, but I'm still better for it.

Well anyway, I thought I would share this with you. Its part of John Frusciante's last blog post.

The life giving properties that the suns rays contain is something we imitate ourselves, whether by smiling at someone or telling a joke, or singing a song. It is a human need when you feel something inside to express it outwardly. And that life giving substance the sun shines out is a lot like our own creative actions. The sun is telling us that if you repeat an action every day (like learning something, playing something or making something), the object of your efforts will grow and grow. Your ability to express yourself or to give to the world around you will grow with your persistence in doing whatever that thing is you do. And even though the sun appears to go up and down, having its process of apparently rising up, peaking, going down, and then hiding, science has taught us that this only appears this way to our point of view and it is circling around, and shining at full strength always. Likewise our own ups and downs just appear as they do to us. In actuality we are thriving all the time. Everything we do is directed towards shining our form of light. We couldn't do it if we were just peaking all the time, just as life as we know it would end if the sun always stayed at what appears to us as its highest point of strength. A person could never exceed at something if they just did it once in a while, it's a hint and half that the thing we owe our existence to repeats its rounds every day. Persistence is an incredibly potent thing. We are lucky that life isn't like dreams, in which the result of our actions is lost by the next dream. Here we have the ability to build a thing from day to day, whether it is skill at something or an actual edifice. Whether in the physical world or in our minds, this principle stands. We read one page of a book, and upon reading the next page its events appear to us as following the last one. In music, one note leads to the next, the new one heard in relationship to the ones, which preceded it. Or we learn the basics of something and then gradually learn that subjects complexities. These gifts are ours to do whatever we want with.

Trying and giving up go hand in hand. But it's trying that deserves the attention of our will. Giving up is just breathing out. Breathing in is the one we need to remember to do. Breathing out naturally follows. The important thing is just to keep breathing. To try and then just go through all that happens, including not trying. And so we hold our breath sometimes. These things aren't problems. They are just living. As long as the message you send yourself is that it is important to you to be guided by the creative force inside you, in the long run you are on the same path as the sun. Of course you'll seem to go up and down, and be in darkness and light. That's life. The reality of it is that you are a shining star circling through space all the time. So by making your own circular actions (doing some creative or educational activity consistently) you will naturally become more of what you really are. And you are that already. It's just a game to learn to be it more completely amidst environment, and the illusions of constant change and separateness. One entirety of everything is all there is, ever was, and ever will be.

Sadly I haven't been drawing as much lately, I guess I've let school and work kinda grind me down. I know that I just need to get off my ass and start drawing, its just that the will power has been down lately. I don't visit here as much as I used to because I find that they site is slow on my old ass G4 powerbook. Actually the computer isn't that slow on most sites just graphic intense ones...like DA. Once I get a newer computer I'm sure that I'll be more motivated to check DA more than once a week.
  I have a work study job helping out a middle school art teacher that is pretty interesting. I get to see the public school system first hand and I get to see what the young kids are into and get paid for it at the same time. I find that most of the kids in art class aren't that into art, its not that they hate it its that they just like it. I feel like when I was their age a lot of my friends wanted to do something with art. Not these kids. I also find that the "art" class is more really a craft class. The teacher gives a project and the students copy the steps close to the way that the teacher did it. With the college art class I did last summer, the teacher gave us a lot more room for personal expression.
   I got myself a japanese ink stone because I saw that Brain Ewing used one and I wanted to try one out. I'll let you guys know how that is working for me when I get around to inking something. I have a few pages of my comic ready to ink but I want to ink them all at once so that I get my inking chops back up. I find that you need to warm up to inking if you have been away from it for awhile. With drawing you also need that warm up period but I will usually draw almost on a daily basis so its not as bad. I have to say that the drawing class was really good for keeping me in the drawing groove. Now that I don't have to draw as much for class I don't draw as much. Really a shame. I need to do something about that.

So that is what is up. I'll try and update this thing more often.