dandyrebel

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Dammit, I'm on this blue hell site again

I used up some spare chalk and charcoal for the sidewalk in front of my apartment's staircase. . . . . . #halloween #happyhalloween #skull #chalk #charcoal #chalkart #sidewalkart #halloweendecor #halloweendecoration (at Orlando, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4S-g0ODKKC/?igshid=ahmomsuyaw3g

It’s finally InkTober, and I ended up going peak millennial with the Day 1 prompt of “Ring” for some reason—probably because I was waiting on the Chinese food I order and I was really hungry for dinner.

Anyway, have this peak 2010s onion ring and banner thing.

Today's #throwbackthursday is brought to you by a WIP based off of UCF's branding. It feels oddly appropriate to bring this up while I'm seriously thinking about going back to school at FSU. . . . . . #artistsofinstagram #digitalpainting #illustration #ucf #pegasus #yellow #black #gold #horse #wings https://www.instagram.com/p/B1fhsxihN13/?igshid=htgdbyvvckia

Guess who updated his own logo to be a bit sleeker. This guy. Guess who's about to put his own portfolio site back up online? This guy. Guess who's going to try to get back into design while we goes back to school for a Statistics degree. This guy. . . . . . #logo #logodesign #redesign #dandyrebel #vector #lettering #wordmark #graphicdesign #design https://www.instagram.com/p/B1aQV6yDhal/?igshid=1xl28l1w76jzj

This has been an idea I’ve been meaning to implement for a while...and by a while, I mean a few years now. For a while, I didn’t have the emotional fortitude to think about it, let alone sitting down and actually making it.

I still don’t think that this does a whole lot of justice regarding the sheer devastation I feel towards gun violence at this point in my life, but at least I finally gathered the guts to make this today. In a sense, I’d like to think that I’m not as plagued with the idea as I was now that I’ve let this come into existence.

Oh, by the way — I did listen to Childish Gambino’s This Is America while working on this.

I want to make a New Year's resolution to stream art stuff every Thursday afternoon.

I wanted to get to it today, but I was overloaded with doctor's stuff

So, I had this commission for a friend that I finally finished—I have to say that I’m proud of myself for getting Photoshop CC’s current liquefy tool to recognize this as an actual face and let me make a few slight tweaks as if it was a photo of an actual person. I legit did not expect that.

If there's anything I'm proud of today, it's that my Halloween pumpkin that I doodled at my day job today managed to earn me a Pez dispenser that's shaped like Eleven from Stranger Things.

I am weirdly proud of myself for this

Here's an after-work selfie that absolutely no one asked for! Also, yes, I do have a day job. Sometimes it's why I come home and then don't do any art or design. Not always, but sometimes.

So, I decided to buy Hirohiko Araki's "Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga" book with an Amazon gift card I got for completing a survey...because my accidental splurges tend to to entail buying art books that I buy in the hopes that artists better than I am might rub off on me, and I really like Hirohiko Araki and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure a lot.

Anyway, lemme just say that I found myself saying "Bless your heart, Araki...", because of one particular paragraph in the book (on page 69, in Chapter 3).

I don't know if Araki realizes that "Stein" and "Berg" are stereotypically Jewish last name endings or not, or if this is the translator's own commentary, but just...

... I can't help but laugh with pity, because it's just...why? Perhaps he doesn't know that specific thing about Western culture or something, idk, but it's something that warrants a very stern "oy vey" and laughing because of just how naive it comes across as. If anything, I'd imagine people with -stein and -berg last names as being minor characters in Seinfeld.

Most of the advice seems pretty similar to what's offered in Scott McCloud's "Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels", with some clear cut differences on things like execution of the book itself, opinions on digital versus traditional art, differing takes on the important components of what makes good sequential art good, etc.

Otherwise, the books is relatively similar to any other book on sequential art, and it's still interesting to take a glimpse at his opinions, especially when I'm leaning towards the assumption this is more of a minor faux pas with Araki being kind of a Westaboo than anything. He still ultimately strikes me as a man who's really dedicated to his craft more than anything else.

I decided to combine Inktober’s Day 3 theme of “Roasted” and Inktober’s Day 5 theme of “Chicken” in order to make one weird comic idea that’s been on my mind for the past couple of days.

It’s definitely some dark humor. However, it’s something that came to mind because I was thinking about how one of my great-great grandmothers knew how to snap chicken necks with her bare hands, and how distanced I am from that as a modern human who hasn’t really seen a chicken get killed at all. It’s kind of a bizarre thing to think about, really.

This is my Day 1 for Inktober—and like a total nerd, I decided to draw a greyscale Alolan Muk for the theme of “Poisonous”.

I know Alolan Muk is super colorful, but I’m thinking that keeping the greyscale palette that I intend to keep for my (mostly neglected) webcomic would be good practice.

In Love with Love, 2018

I’ve finally decided to finish this stupid thing after keeping it on hold for about five years—and loving someone not for the person, but because you desperately want to be loved seems like such a terrible thing to make an illustration about, but I finally finished it.

Ok, I've been tagged

Even though I rarely use my main Tumblr for anything, but shhhh, it's what I like everything with.

Anyway, I was tagged by @asphodel-night-adder, and it's posting about five things that make you happy, and tagging the last ten people in your notifications (I'm not counting any bots, galleries, or people that Tumblr seems to refuse to let me tag, FYI)

So, in no particular order, five things that make me happy include

Time spent with my friends playing tabletop RPGs

Cooking with the boyfriend

Petting cute cats and dogs

Pokemon GO

Days off from work where I get art things done

Consequently, I'm tagging @loveisjustabloodsportson @arzeron @plaguenurse @scyllaxcharybdis @saikou0taku @galacticglaciers @violet-ks-garbagery @schreiliebe @goldenspaceoddity and @extinctgender because they meet this criteria.

So, this is the result of my about 3-4 hours of work trying to draw the Gen 1 Starter Pokemon.

I was initially going to make it a short and quick cartoony thing, but then I decided to go into digital painting mode for some reason.

I’d also say that @galacticglaciers has the quote of the day, because I was listening to the Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles OST, and I laughed when it was described as a Celtic hoe down.

I’m gonna go ahead and do a Twitch stream*, so feel free to say “hi!”

I’m thinking of drawing Gen 1 Pokemon Starters: because I can.

*even though I might want to switch over to Picarto at some point due to political/economic reasons.

I wish I didn’t have to wear glasses because I think I look significantly better without them, but I’m still quite fond of how I wear a suit.

I’m normally not one to make personal works, but I felt like drawing a personal thing after listening to The Man by The Killers—with a dash of Oh No! by Marina and the Diamonds.

Enjoy the weird vaporwave gender themed drawing.

I ended up finding a REALLY old high school doodle of a character I made  when I was about 15-16ish. I haven’t drawn much of him in a while.

It was my 26th birthday last week, and I decided to try to do a speedpaint of the same thing about a month ago in order to get a general idea of the progress I’ve made in the past decade. Overall, it’s definitely and improvement, to say the least, assuming I’m only given an hour or so to pop something out.

I’m quite pleased to see an obvious visual improvement at this point.

(Also, I’m totally not enamored with this character, I swear...even if he is a main protagonist in a story I wanted to write. I’ll try my best get to him later.)

Dollar store goth makeup is simultaneously the best and worst. Fight me.

I am super happy to call this finished. It’s not perfect, but it’s at the point where my personal standards are satisfied at this time.

I can finally go on to another page, and probably try to learn how to do things faster, I suppose.

I’m gonna make it a point to do my streams on Thursdays, so feel free to drop on in to watch me draw and nitpick over a webcomic that doesn’t have that many pages!

So, I started my Twitch stream on a newer page and the like—although I still need to do a few tweaks to a previous comic page.

Unrelated; I was really sad to find out that Odile van der Stap/jumei passed away recently; I really loved her work when I was on DeviantArt years and years ago, and it was really shocking learn this when I wanted to mention an artist I really liked in context of a specific thing in the Twitch stream.

That said, I’ve found that I don’t handle learning that people have passed away, period.

I felt like my headphone cords draped around my head would make a neat aesthetic. I was right. Also, I like my face.

As a piece of advice to anyone who ever gets involved with clients from hell that attempt to stiff you on art work, design work, etc that I wish I had learned sooner instead of assuming that being too poor to afford copyright attorneys I know meant that I had to sit here and accept design theft...

...in the United States, you can take the aforementioned non-compliant client to small claims court, assuming it falls under that threshold. Different states have different thresholds for what constitutes a small claim, but overall, it should cover most artists on Tumblr. (I say this because even at my historic design rates and the extent of work I did, I manage to fall under Florida's $5000 threshold.)

Of course, I'm in this situation currently, so that's why I bring this up. Essentially, I wish someone told me that I didn't need an attorney while working as a lower-tier designer sooner.

I found myself revisiting an old drawing that touches upon a lot of the same fears and feelings I have right now—and I have to say that I’m pretty happy with what I can do these days with my speedpainting skills... even if I don’t have a lot of time and I’m kinda weirded out by the sense of deja vu.

I asked my partner about how he’d feel about drawings, and he basically mentioned that he would feel so bad if it took me longer than 30 minutes to do something like a stick figure...

...I told him that I could do a lot more than a stick figure with 30 minutes, give or take, and I decided to challenge myself to draw something in a 30-minute time frame right in front of him.

I ended up drawing a character of mine that I haven’t touched in a few years, because why the hell not...and he was quite baffled by my ability to sit down and churn this out, and was expecting something more like my weird 5-minute Milhouse doodle I did a while back.

Granted, this isn’t polished, but...yeah. It’s a pretty rewarding speedpaint.

I appreciate this advice...also, I think this puts yet another bullet point under "Let's establish some boundaries at work and shut off availability on at least Tuesday".

Maybe more streaming would be in order as well.

I’ve noticed that I’m quite abysmal at keeping up drawing whenever I have a new partner in my life.

I love art and design, but I’m absolutely infatuated with my bae, and it’s conflicting. because I don’t know how to balance both loves at the same time, as well as my day job.

I don’t know what to do with myself at the time, and advice would be lovely.

@freackthejester I’m sure he’d appreciate it, although I might want to do that sparingly.