i’m working on a new version of my sado-masochist world print, which i’ve done and redone many many times over the last 3 years. it looks like it’s going to be an improvement on the previous versions, so i’m happy about that.
it represents mother nature whipping the earth while the people ask for more. we don’t like the pain, but we also don’t like the effort needed in order to avoid it.
also, i recently joined society6
Since I have a day job and am having a hard time finding time to make art, I decided that if anyone is willing to donate any amount, with a minimum of $1, I will make a post with a link to their site or blog, i will also have a special section for my supporters and it will be added to the links section of my site. You may also provide a short description, but please note that I will not come up with a description for you and no pictures are allowed. And no porn sites either.
Maybe you don’t know much about SEO, maybe you do. But by far the best way of getting up there in the search results is by getting other people on the net to link to your site. Another SEO tip by the way, is that you should carefully select the words you will use for your link. These should be relevant to the content of your site. And if you were to make a significant donation, let’s say $20 or more, I’d be happy to add your name (with your url) to the credits of my upcoming (and first) comic book, “Over the ill” (self-published through Lulu.com). Which will be all about how I was able to improve my health after 12 years of feeling sick all the time. So it’s for a good cause.
I feel like my drawings have taken a big leap recently and that I finally deserve to get paid for my hard work. Not that I’m getting greedy but I wouldn’t mind doing this for a living. I’m aware it’s a long shot but i think it’s worth the try. Or if I can at least work at my other job a little less and do this more often, I’d be very happy with that too.
Also, as I’ve briefly mentioned in my previous post, I will start selling original autographed sketches for $7 a piece plus shipping costs. If interested just click here.
thanks for considering. :-)
someone asked me (by e-mail) for an autograph last night for the first time. so here it is, my very first autograph… which i haven’t really figured out how to autograph my name yet, and it’s looking a little weak. I haven’t sold any sketch yet so this is also the first one i’m sending out to anyone in the world. It was a lot of fun to draw and I realized I enjoy sending drawings out to people, it’s nice to spread some joy.
of course i can’t do this for free, i also have to make money somehow, i’m a strong believer that artists should get paid for their work. it took me 30 something years to be able to draw this way and it takes several trials and errors to get one decent drawing. it’s normal not to get paid until you get good but once you’ve acquired some solid skills i think we deserve to get paid. that being said, i’m willing to draw a sketch for anyone for $7 plus shipping costs…
for the past few months i’ve been tired and bored of my drawing style and obsessively focused on changing it. which is why i haven’t done much else. so for now it looks like this, and although it might change again, i’m hoping i can cling to this one.
yes, i changed my web design once again. this must be the 50th time in the last 3 years but i’m hoping one day it’ll be good enough so i can leave it alone for a while…
that being said, my web design still sucks and i’m trying to think of a way of improving it.
i’m working on a new art-o-mat project. it’s going to be a short comic drawn with colored pencils. each will be an original, so not a copy. they sell for $5 and i make a whopping $2.50 per item sold. meaning with shipping costs and the cost of boxes and the fact that it takes about an hour to make each, i’m really not doing this for the money because there isn’t any to make. but i think it’s a good way to get people to know me. here’s a few sketches…
i might also start selling these on etsy.com, but they’ll be slightly more expensive. they also will be original drawings, each being a little different. i got the idea from the shitty products print, which i removed from my site since it looked kind of awful. and i don’t need to have both a print and a comic saying the exact same thing.
this guy has the snowman with clown-nose look. which i was thinking the other day that my inspiration probably came from growing up in a cold climate. the clownish part i think comes from the fact that i think men have a very clownish side to them. no offense, it’s kind of a compliment. i think humor is a survival skill for men among other male mates, also as a way of getting women and keeping them around. and who doesn’t like to have a laugh? humor can be used for all kinds of purpose, not always good ones, but good ones too.
i have to admit that sometimes i find that some men put humor higher on the priority list to other things like respect. i also think that women (in general) don’t have a sense of humor as developed as men, but then they have other senses more fully developed. anyway men are becoming more like women and vice-versa. i’m well aware there are plenty of exceptions, but i think often there is at least “some truth” to prejudices. ouch, i hope that didn’t hurt too much. but prejudices are when we make a big deal out of things we shouldn’t. if something is encouraged by a certain culture it will naturally become more common. nothing to freak out about.
just a sketch i made this afternoon. for the past few months i’ve been confused as how to draw men. i came up with a style i like for women and then tried to apply it to men but it hasn’t been working out. so i decided to simply draw men and women a little differently, the men will look a little more cartoony. aren’t men a little more cartoony?
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