Rats Nest

had to catch a flight down to burbank this morning (5 am. ugh) been a loooong day. lot of tech stuff, but pretty educational. "what ever you do, never push this button, not even sure why its still there...."

did some drawing on the plane.

well I spend a hunk of time doing a color job on this sketch, got to the end, on a whim ran a filter on it and it looked waaaay better and a lot more simple. doh.

oh well

haven't colored much lately....sOOooo

Well fanime went well. Its a very different crowd then when I first got into anime, with very different priorities. it went from a bunch of dudes trying to get VHS copies of things (often to trade for other VHS copies, etc) to a lot of high school kids in cosplay looking to hook up with other kids in cosplay. at least thats what it looked like.....I could be wrong on this.

The dealers room which was once a place of the rare and the obscure has become a collection of the same stuff over and over, like a high end china town market.

and artist alley has become this amazing place of talent from a wide range of backgrounds. It was a massive room to!!

anyways.

I had a blast meeting new people and hooking up with high school kids (kidding!!!)

sketch from fanime. I had a table at artist alley this year, didn't have the sales of wondercon, but I did do pretty well. had really good time to.

well I did supercon in san jose this weekend. it was loooong on time, and short on audience. I don't do the con thing to turn a buck (though that is nice) I tend to just enjoy meeting people and showing my warez. alas, there just wasn't that many people. oh well. so I did manage to sit still and do some sketches.

I did get to talk to jim silke who was just the coolest guy I've ever met. So giving, and amazingly inspirational. just...wow. it was worth going to the con just for him

I picked up an original pin up from him which was the bomb. Kelly spent like an hour just talking to him about printing stuff. really neat.

I hope that I can have a fraction of the talent that man has someday.

So after I had thrown in the towel for doing cons (well at least until APE) my friend got a Table at SDCC and was willing to share! OMG! supercon gave me the green light and Fanime which had put me on the waiting list, shot me an email telling me it was a go. jebus! I need to get some stuff together like quick!

SOooo if your in San Jose May 16-17 swing by for supercon, or if your gonna do Fanime I'll be in the artist alley.

woot!

well I watched beast stalker last night. pretty good hk thriller.

Also saw Ip man which was total bad ass.


and some recent drawings

more doodles

drawing while kel watches crap tv

well it was a good easter. Went to a cousins and had dinner/lunch.

been toying with the idea of painting my mustang gulf racing colors.....

anyways

nother meeting doodle

some quick color on a pencil sketch

well I got turned down for both artist alley and small press tables. ugh.

I actually was foolish enough to try and get a hotel room thursday at 9am when the con room rates opened up online.

I hit the button at 9:00:15 and was placed in a que for a room. 3 hours later (no joke) it took me to a screen that said the nearest hotel was 6 miles away with no shuttle service. and that was the only choice. oh fuck that.

so I got a room at full rates a block away. I wish I had known that it wasn't a remote chance of me getting a con rate room, but NO CHANCE, and I wouldn't have wasted my time.

so now I have a room, a day later the con emails me to tell me that I didn't get either table. new level of suck there. been looking forward to this all year long. ugh.

so some of the books are up on indyplanet. gotta get the rest of them up there soon.


http://www.indyplanet.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1636&osCsid=af4df07c748db07a9db0dd4f45361d7c

http://www.indyplanet.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=845&osCsid=af4df07c748db07a9db0dd4f45361d7c



looks like they are going to soon start a direct to store wholesale service as well which is kinda neat.

http://www.comicsmonkey.com/blog/


Once I get the the thing finished and into a trade I'll do the whole ISBN gig/ amazon/ diamond. no point till then, just not regular with anything yet.

did this one for left.