Long day

I've been taking a begining drawing class and well its midterm time. I wrote a short story called 8 minutes. Which took forever then drew out some character concepts. There was so much preparation it didn't hit me how long it would take to actually draw all the panels. I divided 18 x 24 paper in 2 so i got about 4 comic pages but it took most of the night to get done. Its been a long day and I am extremely tired. But with that said I am happy that Im updating atleast 2x a week. I wanna keep it up. Also I wanna quit the Criminal Justice route and Go here. http://www.scad.edu/sequential-art/index.cfm sucks that I've already invested my life in this bs. Well Im gonna go catch some Zzzs cuz im tired as hit. Hopefully this weekend I get to put in more work in photoshop. Well with that said nite.

Return to Innocence( enigma)

Well I meant to post this on sunday being the beginning of the week but I've been lazy. and that has been well the thing with me for sometime. Ive become complacent although Ive achieved nothing. I want to make Dormant Happen yes I just capitalized that H. I don't know how long it will take but I'm gonna get it done. Ronald has a phenomenal story and its coming together quite nicely. I'm at work though. I lost 2 story arcs because of a washing machine mishap which made me realize although the digital format is nice. It's not the end all be all. I'm gonna try to update this blog atleast 2x a week. Hopefully that gets me in the frame of mind I will need to update a comic bi-weekly. This is what I want to do even more so than what I'm doing in school. Well thats enough but, last week I picked up Applegeeks Vol. 2 and a Moleskine note book to write my notes in transition on the bus and stuff Dormant will happen. Till next time.

Impetus..

Well today is the first of July so In a sense, i'm try to get back on my grind so to speak. I don't want a new start because, I feel there is no sense in wiping clean all the mistakes. Looking back on the mistakes I've made... I can't laugh but I can learn. Anywho today was pretty sick. My first time working two jobs. The irony of it all is that I didn't have a job to begin with and now two. So Yeah I'm going to do that. The rant earlier about making mistakes is me hinting about how happy I am in the city. And I would not have had the chance if I hadn't messed up. I'll elaborate on that later on.
Lemme just give you a rundown of how sweet my day was. 8:15 my eyes open 8:16 I realize that I have to be at work for the first time at 8:30...fuck. I put on a nice button down shirt some slacks and head for the Bus which happens to be waiting for me at the bus stop. I get to work at 9:11...balls ... so as I sit anticpating being fired from a job before I even got to work there for a second time( one of the MANY mistakes I hinted at) a ray of hope flickers through the window the manager shows up and tells that the woman who was doing the orientation was late...later than me...YES... After all the training. I went to see Justin and realized that I was late for my second Job...Great..Took the F all the way to West 4th and for lack of better judgement took the C train I saw this old guy sitting there and I ask him If the Train was headed to nordstrand. He said that and that was that ...or so I thought.
Sitting there on a local C train while possibly late..I heard you from Africa... I replied to the man yeah...then a moment later he yelled West Africa? and I was a lil bit more suprised but went with the yeah....he said Ghana?Right? That suprised me..and from there we began one of the best random subway conversations I've had... It was cool seeing my culture from a different perspective.. He told me how he loved the palm wine and the beautiful women. He told me about the 70s when he was twenty he has seen most of the world. Told me he went to nigeria but It couldn't compare. We laughed about Star Beer and Fufu. He said the first time he had fufu he cried.lol.(I'd later come to find out he was a professional chef.) He told me about his radical days one in particular that stood out. At a checkpoint in Nigeria him and some friends were trying get rid of some weed in the car so they ditched it last minute. At the checkpoint the guards were laughing cuz they saw it happen. The guards explained they were looking for weapons an not drugs..when he asked for it back they laughed even harder and said no.
His name was Vernon and this was a random encounter but it is because of days like these..when I'm tired beat down and downtrodden. I smile I realize how much I love this damn city.

Oh hey whats up

wow haven't seen you in a long time, whatchu been up to? me oh nothing just taking a couple of classes here and there you know? oh yeah did I mention that school takes up all my EFFFIN time. Like seriously right now I gotta study for yet another sumthin or other after writing a around FOUR PAPERS in like TWO days. Ofcourse I miss you. I miss the hell outta you but I dunno if I can make this work right now. I can't ask you to wait for me that would be too cruel. Your young and beautiful and Im just spreading myself wayyy tooo thin. Well just know its not you its me...really it is..well it was nice seeing you again. Hopefully we can get together sometime in the future..

LOL in all seriousness though Im really busy I've been sketching more but not enough to where im happy, school is kinda overwhelming but yeah...Check back tommorow Im gonna have somethin good for you tommorow...maybe...if I can find the time... :(

Another Week in the life...

What a week this has been, I don't really know how to follow that up but I've just been thinking about the choices we have to make as opposed to the choices we want to make and how they define us. Because, the thing that sucks with choice is that usually you only get to make one. After almost 20 years I find myself asking the same questions I did when I was in Hs. I can only wonder if things will be the same when I'm 30. In an attempt to become more adult I keep finding myself in juvenile positions. And I can't help but wonder am I making the right choice. But good or bad it's just a matter of perspective. I've been working harder than usual trying to play catch up in school. Bought some expensive books for 3 dollars. Lost my only set of keys. and here I am reflecting on a non productive week. For some reason it's one of those things that you can't help but smile...so I didn't do much skeching although I got a new one. On a lighter note my Hallmate...? I dunno he lives across the hall decided to sketch me and damn...Its hot...real hot, so on that note I'm going to find something to occupy my time...maybe this reading thing.

Saturday Night of the Living Dead

Since the start of the semester...Lets just say time hasn't been on my side but I was listening to HelloGoodBye alot during the break and their album called Zombies! Aliens!Vampires!Dinosaurs! and I thought that would be a great idea something to draw but I never got around to it but now its aboot 4am on a Saturday night and I didn't really do much beside sit around and play Legend of Zelda for the Ds my hall mate was so kind but anywho I digress I drew it, I'm quite pleased I did it all in one sitting and yeah my scanner decided to work with me today so I scanned it and here is the first draft for your viewing pleasure with that said I'm gonna go do what young people do now a days.

ClusterPHUCK

Since the semester started I've had little time for myself let alone a comic or a blog but as cliche as this sounds I won't let my dream die regardless of my obligations so I i'm spending the night playing catchup and so far it goes well. My only concern are the twilight hours, I'd hate to to fall asleep minutes before class, or during a lecture but, Its a sacrifice worth making. Unfortunately I don't have any sketches for today but I'm working on it.. In the mean while... you can check out this guy's artwork he looks like he knows what hes doing...( http://www.zack-finfrock.com/ ) Hes got a good webcomic and launched a personal site so for the one person who actually reads this. Go show him some love. This weekend on the other hand was amazing...From a house warming...to a emotional superbowl win to dickin around at el museo to playing rockband until the wee hours of the morning. Good times with good friends. It would be nice to see some friends from home but we can't have it all can we... Guess I'm gonna do some reading.. and yes Once a week update at the minimum . But whats a blog without pretty pictures 9 times out of 10 ya look at the pictures first.