Noodles Over Meat

Uploaded by songstowearpantsto on Sep 27, 2011

It's Halloween season again, and Emily Carrol's got another terrifying tale to tell.

I like JP Coovert's comics. Also Puppy Teeth looks interesting. I'm mostly interest in the work of Kevin Czapiewski and his brother Matt who does Eat That Toast. I also discovered Stuff No One Told Me.

Remember this sketch from last week? I decided in keeping with my New Year's Resolution, and having read an awesome google + thread begun by Dustin Harbin relating to publishing, perseverance, and self consciousness, to push myself through in completing this sketch. The first pic is a feeble attempt at inking digitally in GIMP. The second one is a scanned and cleaned up version of a pen & pocket brush ink.




Can you tell which one I felt more inspired by? If you guessed the second picture, you get to see this preview. While I was inking I began to think about what these characters appearances could say about their personalities and histories. I've been reading a lot of Dresden Codak's tumblr, including this latest Speculative DC Reboot on villians. The female character on the left really came to life for me. She's definitely a very masculine character who is unsure of how to act feminine, but outside of her duty, wants to experience courtship and romance. I'm a little wary of pandering to LGBT readers, but I think her character is truly compelling for me. The other two, are pretty prototypical master/student, stoic/goofball archtypes. I'm certain these characters should be on a quest of some kind, and I'm heavily leaning towards a tongue-in-cheek, possibly self-referential slant.

This weekend I watched Contagion, a bunch of The Wire, NCIS, and Battle Star Galactica. I was so caught up in work I forgot to watch Breaking Bad. That might, for once, be a good thing. This past week the world lost Steve Jobs. Bless you Steve Jobs for all that you were, and all you accomplished.


Uploaded by jackcontemusic on Oct 8, 2011

anaesthesia

Uploaded by ransriggs on May 12, 2011

Hey, It's May 29th. Tomorrow's my sister's birthday. The day after that is Memorial Day. A lot of things happened on this day in history involving people coming back into power, or treaties being signed. One year the inventor of Coca Cola put out an ad in the Atlanta Journal. It's all pretty dry to me.

So I discovered Eat That Toast. It's delicious. Also Ed Piksor wrote this awesome post on the comic book classic 64-color chart. I got to watch and chat during a livestream by Jen (glassass on tumblr) who was brought to my attention by daleof.


Uploaded by weezer on May 27, 2011

My neck and back have been killing me all week. I've resorted to taking some NSAIDs I had precribed a year ago for a different injury. They're good right up until I suddenly feel itchy all over and my veins decide to either stick out, or sink in.

This week I also managed to blank my firefox profile by trying to reinstall firefox 3.6. Why did I do that? Well, because not all my extensions were compatible with 4.0, and I thought it better to take a step backward than carry forward with something missing. Story of my life. But don't worry, I managed to recover an archived profile and start over from May 18. I lost a few days of browsing history but now everything seems good. Better than good. Now both 3.6 and 4.0 work flawlessly and stay in constant sync!


Uploaded by oznolera on May 4, 2011



Paint Tool Sai and sketch of Kate Beaton

I have another day off because hundred of thousands, maybe more, people died at war with hundreds of thousands of other people. I'm not sure how I should feel about that, other than mournful and cynical. So instead of grilling burgers and watching parades, I'm gonna lay low and heal. Thanks either way.

Milton Glaser – on the fear of failure. from Berghs' Exhibition '11 on Vimeo.