Saturday, January 30, 2010

Mac Frenzy!!!


I've been on somewhat of a binge over the last couple of weeks. It started with a purchase of a new Macbook. It was for my wife and after much negotiation, I finally relented. We brought her new toy home and immediately unpacked it. After about a minute I knew that this was no PC. Where the hell have I been? I mean I fancy myself as an artist and I never entertained the thought of buying a Mac. I was floored by the ease of use. Are you kidding me? This thing actually has an OS that takes less than a minute to boot up? But it has less processing speed and ram! Didn't matter. This baby was all about efficiency.

A week or two passed and I felt the urge to blaze my own trail in the Mac universe. I couldn't steal my wife's laptop all of the time. But I wasn't quite ready to commit to throwing down good, folding cash for another mac. Ebay to the rescue! Now I have to admit that I had a little trepidation in buying a used computer from the internets, but we are talking about an Apple product here. After much research I decided upon a gently used 20" Imac G5. Within 4 days it was on my desk. Even this 4 plus year old computer dusted my my supposedly best PC. It really is embarrassing. To think that all these years I was forced to wait for my PC to think about think about something, only to then ask me permission to think and then think some more. Simply crazy. I used to call Mac users Cultist or Fanatics. I now understand. Consider the Kool-Aide drunk.


More to come...


Friday, January 15, 2010

Dead But Not Forgotten!!!


Yes this is my first post in almost half a year. Why? Just fucking lazy. As of yet I am still doing my same day job. I like the job but it sucks not doing what I know I should be doing. In the last six months I have been working to increase my digital art IQ so I can produce the finest quality comic art in about half the time. Kind of a deconstruction of my talents. I the next month or so I plan to retire the ol' Wacom Bamboo and step up to the big leagues. That's right! I'm getting a Cintiq!!! Now some of you may be saying to yourselves that 1000 dollars is a lot to spend on a one piece of art equipment. I beg to differ. In the long run it will save me over all cost of having to buy physical-art supplies. Not to mention the amount of time I would save working in a digital work flow. Ah well, time will tell. For the two people that actually read this, thanks! I'm back from the dead. Like a zombie or something.


Wednesday, September 2, 2009

I'm back...

After a moth of perpetual hiding, I have awaken to give you an update! This is my post Comic-Con update. The last time I checked in I was steadily working on my portfolio and had it just about done. Sadly I scrapped that one and worked on another. Fear not, as I had a portfolio intact in time for the San Diego Comic Con. I can say that it was a humbling experience. At first I was reluctant to show my work, but after awhile I built up th courage. Although, I didn't get a big job out of it, I left feeling better about my prospects. I am now recharged and ready to go out and succeed! More updates to come...

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Page one in the Can!

Not a bad start. I manage to put out a respectable page today. I still cant figure out how not to smudge my artwork. It really pisses me off. I'll have the images up soon.

OMG! I'm Freaking Blogging!

Welcome! This is my first foray into the Blogisphere! This blog will be mainly be about my adventures in putting together a comic portfolio for this year's San Diego Comic Con. Stay tuned!