CLINT DRINKING IN BUSHES

Another comic about Clint and I. This focuses on some of my favorite type of low responsibility nonsense from our homeless days together

SPERBLE ELITE GRAPHIC NOVEL SAMPLE

Here is a sampling of some pages from the Sperble Elite. Just to get a view of some of the sequential art.

This is all art from the Sperble Elite graphic novel. As you can see, there's a pretty big transition in art here. I started the first pages when i was 17. Now, more then a decade later I'm still continuing the story.

R.I.P. CLINT HAMMOND

This is a comic in memory of my friend Clint, who passed away recently. The rizz razz was a weapon he made, a fist pack with a chain attached to it. Clint, our friend Zach and I spent a long stretch homeless together, though Clint and I had fallen out of touch in recent years. But, when you're homeless with someone, you spend ungodly amounts of time together. The only people you maybe spend more condensed time with are probably romantic partners and children. I got a lot of time with Clint when I knew him, is what I'm saying. This comic showcases the silly violence we were prone to getting up to together.

Oh, another thing: this comic came off super sexual. I didn't even realize it until I was halfway done with it but it really does. I think Clint would've thought it was funny

KICK ROCKS!

My friend Ian gave me the components of a lightboard yesterday. This brought up an interesting question: where does tracing fall in the 'art' spectrum. It's a low creativity activity, almost ending up closer to crafting then creating. At the same time, all of your style comes through, and you still have to make choices about what to draw and how.  Drawing from life still qualifies as art to me, so why not tracing? Also I altered the people in this picture to like The Dark Walrus and the Thunder Sloth. Does that small alteration make it qualify more so as art?

I don't have answers for any of this. Really, in the long run, it only matters if it comes across looking insincere, unreal or bad. Many light board tracing artists end up in that real (Greg Land), where they scrape the uncanny valley and become limited by bad composition and stiff figures. As long as you don't go there, use whatever tools you want I say.

A COLLAGE, A PICTURE AND FOUR LITTLE PAINTINGS

 Dr. Badweird, my old character from my zine THIRST.

 Four little canvases making one painting. Unfinished, very in my brother's art style.

A collage I made at work.

tons of work, largely unfinished

 Friend's on the beach

 The breakfast Octopus

 The party from my first session of the RPG I made, Carbon City

Group picture my friend Billy and I did

 My friend's D&D character (I've become so damn nerdy)

Derp, a schizophrenic D&D character.

Supers

 

More sketches. These first two are designs for a Super Hero RPG I'm running called Carbon City.

And these are some side characters who haven't found their way into the main Sperble Elite story.