What a week . . .

So much for the daily posts eh? Took a week or so off due to crazy life issues. It almost seems that anytime I'm committed to doing something, life throws me a curveball and fucks it all up. Anyhow, I'm back now and drama free (for now . . .), so here's today's sketch!

This is a sketch that I drew up for a buddy of mine who runs Misunderstandings Between Friends.

MuBF is a daily webcomic, and it's awesome. He needed a Guest Strip for Monday, here's hoping he likes it! Anyway, check out his web comic and let him know what you think. Later!

Old Sketch Day

Every wonder where old kids show mascots go to die? Me too. This was a sketch I did for a thread at General Any Topic where we occassionally do "Draw My Character" threads. The idea of the thread is that you draw up an original character, for others to re-draw in their own style. Likewise, you can redraw any previous characters however you see fit. This is still one of my favorite personal sketches. As with any sketch, I still see a lot of things that I'd like to change about it, but I think part of learning to draw is to accept your mistakes and learn from them.

Since this isn't actually a "new" sketch, I'll probably put up another later. I wanted to make sure I still hit my midnight deadline though, and since it's the 4th of July, I'll probably be away from the comp until well past midnight. Old for me, but new to you! Lemme know what you think.

Haunting Visage

Todays sketch, comes from that of a 3 year olds recent nightmares. My daughter has had trouble sleeping the past few nights due to a "monster" in her dreams. As a father, I want to do everything in my power to make her feel safe. This is new ground for me however. I've had nightmares in the past, but I've never known a way to "deal" with them. I just push past them and try to move on.

Of course, my daughter doesn't quite understand that type of thought process yet, so I had her sit down and describe it to me. The creature above is my best rendition of what she said. I'm hoping that getting it out in the open will ease her worries. I also sketched it in front of her to show her that it's all just the power of imagination and that there's no way it could harm her. Did it work? So far, she hasn't woken up crying yet, so here's hoping.

Being a parent is a strange and fantastic thing. You learn stuff every day and you grow along with your spawn. It truly is the greatest adventure.

Mental Child

Working in a Customer Service based job, you get to see a lot of different types of people. I'm constantly amazed by the overwhelming stupidity found in this town(and others). They do however, prove to be great subjects most of the time when it comes to art. This particular kid, had a crazy egg-shaped head and was shooting stuff with some sort of invisible finger ray.

Normally, that may be cute, but the kid had an credible mouth on him. As a father myself, and one that has never spanked or struck my child, I had an incredible urge to punt kick this brat across the store. Back talking his mom, throwing shit on the floor, screaming, kicking . . . the child was a complete terror.

The problem though, is that it's not entirely his fault. His parents were complete pushovers and allowed him to run wild. Their children for gods sake. It's really not that difficult to keep them in line.

Ugh, this is only one side to bad parenting that I see daily, the other is the people who let their kids sit in the basket portion of the cart and ignore them. Countless times I've seen a child fa;; out and smash their head into the hard linoleum. It's heartbreaking to see. There are warnings all over the cart, and I'm sure common sense has to kick in, but they do it anyway because they've decided that they need to be their childs friend first, and parent later.

But, I digress, no amount of venting or complaining will fix anything. It's depressing to see the world in the state it is though. That's all for now.

Visitors from below

This is an idea I had for some sort of subterranean monster. Apparently they know Kung-Fu.

Very short post for the day, but at least I'm keeping to half of the agreement to myself. I'm drawing.

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Old Legends Revamped.

Meet, Teachy Hollow.

A poor S.O.B. stuck teaching middle school brats. As if his life hadn't been shitty enough, he was decapitated during a freak pep rally accident. Finally released from his hellish lifestyle, he's come back to wreak havok on the dirty little terrors that made his life a living hell. Payback's a bitch.

A friend and I were discussing old myths and legends today. As a kid who grew up loving comics and stories of all types, it was the real outlandish or sensational stories that hooked me the most. The Sleepy Hollow story was one that always enthralled me. At it's core, it was a big scary dude on horseback who was out for other peoples heads. What's there that's not to love? Love him or hate him, The Headless Horseman is the basis for todays sketch.

I think this is an idea I may revisit in the future, as I had a blast drawing this up. Re-imagining old or classic characters can be tons o' fun. Unfortunately, I've no time for a "blog"-ish post for now, but I wanted to make sure I got a sketch up. If there's anyone out there that's even seen this at this point, I hope you enjoy it!

Whelp, here goes . . .

This is a project that I've wanted to start for some time now. The concept is pretty simple. Daily (I hope), I intend to put up a post and a sketch or two. Sometimes the sketches may be quick scribbles, other times they may be complete works. The idea is just that I actually start drawing on a regular basis.

Now that all the introductory shit is out of the way, let's get to the good stuff.

Does anyone else feel that there just isn't enough time in the day to get shit done? I mean, I'm a single parent, who works a full-time job. After work, and tending to my daughter, I generally get maybe an hour or two to myself to do whatever I want. I have tons of hobbies and things that I'm into, and cramming them into a 2 hour time slot just isn't happening. The worst part of it is that I generally spend the first hour of my "free time" deciding what I'm going to do with my free time.

Should I play guitar?
Read that book I'm only halfway through?
Write?
Play a game?

Half of the time I just end up vegging out in front of the tube. Maybe it's a lack of drive, or focus. Perhaps I'm just exhausted from everything else I had to deal with throughout the day. Whatever the case may be, I have a tough time balancing life enough to get some of that all-important "me time". The real bitch is that if I could just focus on one of the hobbies enough to become proficient, they'd allow me a better job with better pay, and far more free time to get things worked out.

Alright, enough rambling. Here's the sketch for the day.

It pretty much sums up how I felt today. I was exhausted at work, so instead of working, I reflected on the problems I've had with life lately. Hope you enjoy it, catch you tomorrow.