What Month Is It?

Wow!... it really has been a long time since I updated this thing. Sorry about that. I've also been somewhat bad about keeping in touch and getting back to people in general over the past few months too, so apologies all around again.

I've been really struggling to find some sense of balance ever since the move and unfortunately that has poured over into my artwork as well. I've been feeling like I'm stuck in a horrible creative rut for months now and frankly it terrifies me. That is the main reason for my not posting much, it's not for lack of drawing. But most of what I do is kind of in that awkward and painful stage of experimentation where everything seems like a miserable failure and I dont find myself feeling very strong or confident about much of anything that comes out of my pens and pencils lately. But I am still trying to suffer through and keep working at it by studying and copying older artists work that I admire and trying to push myself to learn new things and think differently about how to approach design and technique in the hope that the fog will soon lift and I will come out of it a stronger artist.

But I have decided to try and start posting semi-regularly again, even when it's not material I think is particularly strong. I have always found it hard as an artist to see much value in most anything I do... always thinking that no one could possibly be interested in seeing most of what I do, and only seeing what could be improved or done better. Perhaps by putting some of this stuff out there, some of you might see things I'm missing that actually are working that I'm incapable of noticing myself, and maybe... just maybe that might help me find a little more direction. I can sure use it!

Okay so obviously this first one is Reeeeal old!

Just some sketches for a Holiday card I never got around to finishing or sending out. Hey there's always Christmas in July I guess.



And here's a page of sketches I did trying to study some old Hank Ketcham from a book I have. I've always loved his sense of design and think he has one othe greatest line qualities I've ever seen. Obviously I need to study much more and much harder... and I plan to.



The next three pages are just random assorted phone doodles and other nonsensical tidbits that while nothing overly exciting to me, were at least good or had something in them that was interesting enough to save them from the trash.







I have several more catch-up posts like this in the works as we speak, and may even get them up later today.