Pea Soup #10

Ok, So if you didn't notice, "Gramps" had a heart attack and dies. Why? Why did I do it? Well.. 'Pea Soup' was a learning experience and a "pushing" experience for me. Not only did I adapt my comic format to an irregular size, but I've also pushed away from always using medium distance framing. ( which Pea Soup #10 is a Medium distance, but its not a standard for Pea Soup) In the end I thought I'd push just a little more and have "Gramps" have a heart attack, because it may just be the most "uncomic" thing to do. I wonder if its been done at all before this? Well.. for comics with main characters anyways.

OH!! If you think you've caught a mistake I made by having him grab his right chest instead of his left (left being the side with the heart), you may just have. I intentionally did this because I decided I would look better to have him grab with his right arm. Most people wouldn't grab with thier left arm, but unfortunatly "Gramps" arm isn't long enough to reach. oh well.

Pea Soup #9

This one should be pretty strait forward. The only thing to comment on is the fact that I loosley based the band characters after my roommate and some guys he "banded" together with for a talent show night.

I don't know if this needs confirming, but I'm not really making fun of the band or the old guys. It's my hope that when college kids read my cartoon, they'll already have a rebuttle to what 'Gramps' says. My cartoon "Pea Soup" just plays with the merky 'pea soupy' misunderstanding between two generations.

Illustration Friday - Fortune

They called him, Nickel Pete. Besides a slight tendency to loose grips with reality, he was an all right guy. When he would find a discarded soda can he would celebrate with a holler and a mild cough. It's been rumoured that between the load in his stolen shopping cart and a hidden stash (still unknown to this very day) that Nickel Pete has well over $85 dollars in cans. He has yet to cash them in and some think that he never will, because sometimes fortune lies outside of value and worth. He may not have a home, financial stability or clean clothes; but then again, you don't have $85 dollars in discarded cans.

"You can make a fortune in lies" -Dream Theater

Illustration Friday - Green

Ok, So not only is this my first submition to "illustration friday", but this is my first time using PhotoShop. I didn't want to submit anything until I could use PhotoShop but Now that I see that I'm horrible at PhotoShop. From now on I'm just going to stick to drawing and coloring by hand.

If you think this picture stinks, good, so do I. Live and Learn.

OH! If you're wonder what this has to do with "green", my idea started with a guy vomiting. (Green face, green vomit) Then I thought that if he's going to have a green face, why not just make him a zombie.

Playing Card

I thought it would be cool to design my own playing card design, so one day I did. I've actually cleaned this image up and made it symetrical and made it actually ready to be made into a deck of playing cards, unfortunatly the jpeg file was on my External hard drive, and I've sense then accidentally broke my hard drive.

Oh, and I've actually found a guy online who will take jpegs and print them on a deck of cards. Suprisingly it only costs about $30 for the whole process.

Pea Soup #8

So,.. Why is there so much difference between doing things with purpose and purposing to do thing for no reason at all? I used to have a tongue ring and people would ask me why I got a tongue ring. The only real reason I could think was, "Because I wanted a tongue ring". But at the same time, I got a cross tattoed on my leg because I couldn't imagine getting a tattoe just because it looked cool. Hmm..

Little Baby Spunga

I was writting a friend a letter and became captivated by the eyes of her baby in a photo. I drew a cartoon version on scratch paper immediatly, then became inspired to try and see if I could fuse unrealisticly sized features onto a "realistic" drawing. So,.. realistic in nature, cartoon at heart.

Park Fued

This is a picture I drew a long time ago (2 years ago). I wanted to begin drawing in a new style, and at the same time incorporate a drawing into an actual picture. Up to this point I hadn't really drawn complete works. Just doodles and single framed comics. Oh, and this is my first time using any kind of color. I haven't learned any 'photoshop' programs yet, but I'm planning on teaching myself soon.

Pea Soup #7

If i had to give an example of what I want "pea soup" to be, this would be it.

Pea Soup #6 (Writters Block AGAIN)

Ok,.. So, I'd been on break and couldn't get into the 'pea soup' mentality right away. Plus, I decided I'd move away from the 3-panelled form, and create kind of a new, unequal 2-panelled form. This way my Comic fit better in the Newspaper.

OH!!! Thats the first female in my comics. She's a hottie!

Pea Soup #5

My last Comic for the 2006 Fall semester at Messiah College. So... What to submit to the "swinging bridge"??? Well, what do tv shows do to make us keep watching between seasons? (p.s. this is my first time drawing 'Gramps' at a perfect side view, and i'm still not satisfied with how he looks.)

Pea Soup #4

This was probably my favorite comic from my fall semester of '06. If you dont know who Ammon Perry is, he draws the Political comics that is placed right above mine in the "Swinging Bridge". Here's his BLOG.

http://doodletillomega.blogspot.com/

Pea Soup #3 (Writters Block)

Now, I get writters or "creativeness" block when i get pressured with time. So Here's the first time I got pressured with time. In the end I figured it was better to meet the dead-line then to not have anything submitted to the college newspaper.

Oh, and it's not my intent to just make fun of older people, and I felt guilty about the 'diapers' comment being the punch-line to the joke. Otherwise, I thought it would be cool to have an actual time-line of male exsistence from left to right. Starts with a baby, goes to younger men, then to the old man.

Pea Soup #2

Here is the second comic I have ever drawn. I found that the last cartoon didn't take place anywhere. They were just standing in nothingness. So this comic I had them "be" somewhere. The 'funniness' to the comic didn't need anyone to conversate with, but obviously needed someone to talk to. In my experience there are old people who talk too much, and those who don't talk at all. Here are both.

PeaSoup

This is my first attempt ever at a 3-panelled comic. I started this series of comic for Messiah Colleges newspaper, "The Swinging Bridge". I figuresd a Comic about the differences in generations would be fun in a college newspaper.

Originally I was going to call the cartoon, "Gramps" because even though its about the gaps between generations in America, I wanted to let the readers know that the old guy was the main character. I decided that "Gramps" just didn't sound good and it was a little too strait forward. So I came up with "Pea Soup". There's some kind of expression about situations being as clear as pea soup, and this comic was going to be about two generations who can't see eye-to-eye. Plus, pea soup is a soup that older people tend to eat, so it does the job of letting you know who the main character is.