Ok guys and gals... I've been using photoshop drawing my cartoons for awhile now. I scan my cartoons at 300dpi make a new file and use the PENtool to digitally ink my drawings...

I love the crisp even lines. It's clean and neat looking and TAKES FREAKING HOURS!!!

The pay off is worth it but it's killing me. The "Star Blast meets Ernie" comic from start to finish 4 pages took me 16 hours. I started at 12pm and finished 4am the following day. So I'm looking to try some different techniques to speed up the process.

Any tutorials that can be sent to me or shown to me would be much appreciated.

Holla at y'all later!
SAm...

Dramatic title...for a bullshit journal entry. I'm on vacation. I'm doing NOTHING, I'm going nowhere except to DRAW! Hence the redesigns and fanart for others. I've really haven't kept up with my "Secret Wars" pages. I am going back to them next week. I am also going to write it where Stunboy redesign makes sense in the story. I want to practice this style and the "Serect Wars" will be a fun place to try it.

Here is a comparison of old Stunboy to New Stunboy

So it's wednesday, and I'm going to work on some new comic strips. Ernie Mustard demands I bring the funny.

Well...It's been month with Maureen aka In that time we have watched some great movies. We got to spend alot of time together. We got to know each other on a much more intimate level than we have ever gotten before. In all...it's been wonderful.

I'm sad to see it end, but on 6-28-09 Maureen will be flying back to NYC. She met my family and that was the last great hurdle for us to get past as far as boyfriend and girlfriend goes...

My family asks when will we get married? I laugh, when it's right. I love Maureen. I know I want to marry her but we both want to accomplish things before we settle down. I assumed with both of us in one house we would become a dynamic drawing duo, little did we realize we distract each other horribly...SHE SO CUTE!!!

I have to truly apologies to everyone I owe drawings too. There are alot of people that I promised pics for. I drew Rocket, that was one down form many. I shouldn't have done the "AFL3" unless I could committed to it throughly. I'm also behind in the "Secret Wars" which I'm losted in, Stunboy is all over the place

I love the character Stunboy. He is my kid...at the same time I even wrote in the Secret Wars that he gets killed just so I have time to draw some cartoons. That is horrible I know but so true.

Stunboy hogs alot of my time latley and to be honest...he isn't my favorite character to draw. He is my go to guy for comicbook shenanigans but humor appeals to me much more. I like the challenge to attempt comicbook fights but that shit is hard

Give me a comicstrip with humor...much more my speed. Still I'll watch a good episode of Batman: Brave and the Bold and I'll start thinking Stunboy or Uber Monkey. It's a weird circle of life for me. I started drawing because of comicbooks, I learned how to do comicstrips and cartoons and now I spend free time thinking up comicbook stories because of a cartoon show about a comicbook superhero...Oy vey!

Ok I've rambled enough now. This was going to be a quick post about Moe and I ended up talking about my spare time and how I want to use it. Here is the list of thinks I still owe to folks...

THE LIST...

The Rumor

Sombra

Knucks

and let's not forget the Secret Wars...

I'm missing a page from chapter for Drawing comics is fun but I have no idea how guys do this for a living.

I think I will through myself back into cartooning as I tearfuly say goodbye to Maureen. Erine Mustard will have to feel the void for a little bit

Ok, I'm back...mostly

I'm drawing and writing again...it feels good. What has changed, MAUREEN aka is going to spend a month with me in FLOriDA! So except to see us draw some awesome stuff together. I just feel better when she is around me...like the universe is alined correctly.

So before I get back to the funny I got to wipe the board clean. I owe many people some ART.

THE LIST...

The Rumor

Sombra

Knucks

and Rocket, the winner of the AFL 3

let's not forget the Secret Wars...

I'm missing a page from chapter for Drawing comics is fun but I have no idea how guys do this for a living.

Well I got to do AND it is late. I get Moe tomorrow so night for now. Later

Ok...this is my offical post pulling out of the AFL3. I've tried but I don't believe that I will be finishing anymore of my fights in the tournment. I will be giving fanart to these very cool people...



Why am I not finishing? Is there really excuse? This AFL is way bigger and little more intense then the previous. The rules felt a little too rigid for me this turn around. Still I haven't had any time to draw...not for the "AFL" or "Secret Wars", not even for myself.

I enjoy the AFL and thank Leigh aka for hosting the afl. It has been a pleasure to take part in this tournment. Still drawing for me is an outlet for creativity. I make no money submiting my cartoons and comics. I draw for the pleasure and challenge of making my ideas take form. I want to purse my dream of one day doing this professionally instead of relying on working a 9 to 5 for the rest of my days. That is why I like DeviantArt. It has really given my a chance to see some great drawings and make some great friends. Hell I've met my future wife thanks to this website.

Lately I haven't really been feeling that creative. Times are rough right now...we all are a little more uptight. I want to counter that. I want to bring the funny and make others laugh. That in turn would make me smile again. So I'm going to try harder for humor. I want to go back to that goofy place where I laugh and think about monkeys all day.

I wiped a months worth of dust off my art table lastnight as I shouted..."I'm A MONKEY!"
So hopefully I haven't lost any friends or respect for dropping out of the AFL. I look forward to drawing again and showing the world what I can do.

PEACE...Sam Ray