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.