Yooo wattup homies. I'm writin' here to collect my best noggin droplets. I've felt pretty unfocused lately in my art pursuits. My goal is to be a professional independant comic artist! and make fun stories with ink on paper~

I decided to take up Tim McBurnie's Line & Color Course and really work hard on it to get myself to a professional level. Gotta get paid and all that right.

But anyways I'll mark out here the things im doing in the course and what im working on. I'm not a programmer and my website making skills are sorta RAW so bear with me. I'll keep things in a simple format for now.

• Fill out Influence Map (x)
• Write a Like List (x)
• Watch Mini-workshop video
• Create a Sketching System
• Sketch Everyday [21days to start]
• Build Ritual

What can i say? Ripley is just a beautiful lady. I loved her appearance in Alien and when i saw that movie for the first time as a boy i think it had a profound impact on my taste in ladies artistically. Her shaggy hair and the low-leg pantsu are foundational to me. Not to mention her personality, Ripley is strong willed, and doesn't take no shit. That's what i love about her.

This is actually one of the first comic books i read that inspired me to draw after an exhausting career in the armed forces. The art is incredible and starts with Sable fighting a Shark underwater before tactically assaulting a ship of Mercs. What a badass. Also, iconic knife in mouth panel as she rises from that water. I can't tell you how many times i've read this one comic over and over. It has a special place on my shelf of Coolness.

Okay now this one might seem like a bit of a curve ball but here me out! This is a JP artist who specializes in Thicc Beautiful Women and Candy-like colors. What really inspires me though about Kafuns work, is an ability you only see in professional comicbook artists, making scenes that are FULL of FUN & DETAIL! His characters are always interacting in some crazy environment packed with creatures, items, props, etc.

Brett! He's the man~! I love this guy so much, his art is so full of life and energy and fun, I really aspire to be like him as an artist. His art featured in Tank Girl is up there with my favorite works. I love Brett's no holds barred approach to Art. He's unafraid to draw whatever he wants and its always so fun to see Alan Martin's crazy Comic stories through Bretts art. I actually met Brett at a convention in Oakland, CA! He was such a cool dood. I bought one of his prints and got to take a picture and chat with him. It was a fun time, also in our photo is a little bit of Brian Posehn's (from Big Bang Theory) head which makes me laugh.

Hmm.. this was actually the last square i filled out, but DQ8 is just a game that i remember playing vidily as a kid and the first i saw in the series. Toriyamas Design is Untouchable (have you ever noticed you always remember the Orange Heroes, Naruto, Goku, Ichigo's hair lol). I really love the simple story telling of DQ. I think you're usually a DQ fan or a Final Fantasy fan. I always found FF to be a little too complex story wise to hold my interest as a gamer kid even though that art would be so good. I grew up on Dragonball and DBZ so playing a game in that art style was much more effective at holding my attention.

haha okay.. this show man. I said earlier i grew up on DBZ and thats true to a point. I remember when i was little (like in elementary school) DBZ was about mid way through the Cell-Saga. Once I got around the age of 10 (2005ish) Naruto was airing on Toonami and I WAS HOOKED. I had a religious clockwork schedule built as a child so i would never miss an episode.

I was a lonely kid who grew up in a rural area in America's South. I really connected with Naruto- depicted as a kid who had trouble making friends but wasnt afraid to just do things his way and make things work through effort and hardwork. I always asked for copies of the manga for christmas, Kishimoto's art was so exciting to me. I had a dream of oneday becoming a big comic artist just like him and meeting him oneday lol that was how inspired i was by his art and stories. Alot changed and shifted in my life over the years, but i still look back fondly on that series. I felt like i grew up with Naruto since i was about his same age when i started watching it on Toonami. One of my very first drawings was actually of Kakashi lol. If i ever make it back around to my parents house ill try to find it.

Some more JP art! Man Disgaea is such a fun game. My first in the series is 5 and i absolutley love it to pieces! I love the really interesting enemy designs and the character work is so good too! I've had alot of confliction over the years about whether or not to draw in an anime style or more western comic style and my love for Disgaea has not helped XD haha. I love the wacky prinnies and their unhelpful nature. I think personally i'll be leaning more towards western looking characters as I work my way through Tim's course. But i will definitley be looking back to Disgaea for fun Isometric art ideas and wacky little characters. Oh Metallia, i always played with her in my lineup, the Swamp Witch is my favorite! i believe she had her own PS3 game, i've yet to play but surely intend to. Metallia stokes my passion for devious ladies with her maniacal laugh and smirks. I'd love to make an antagonist based off her!

MR. Parker is right up there with Brett to Me! I look to his videos on Youtube and his Sketchbooks whenever im in need of some advice or inspiration. I love his professionalism and how much he cares about sharing his industry experience. Mr Parker is absolutley another artist I aspire to emulate in my work. Like Brett i really love his approach to drawing with beautiful brush lines. I also love the interesting subject matter he draws, mechs, robots, spaceships, people on journeys, big fluffy clouds, machinery etc. I backed his robots and ships books on Kickstarter and recieved their print versions i think a year or 2 ago now. I always look at them and just marvel at the designwork.

Okay Lorenzo's Drawing Tutorials are out of this world! if you need some advcie one drawing defintley go look them up! I got a few of their books as well, and the fun ink work and design ideas are so good. I really feel admire the level of detail they put into teaching design and how to THINK through world building and drawing in general. I continuously revisit their work and hope to measure up to that kind of skill someday.

Lina is such a fun character. I really like OLD Anime. I've spent alot of time going through animes on the Internet Archive etc. My favorite is definitley Slayers. I really relate to Linas nature and how she often goes on long internal monologues before speaking. haha I tend to be that way too. Overthinking before acting. Lina is just so cute! the juxtaposition of her explosive personality is really fun and shes ranked as my top retro anime character.