Quack

I've drawn the next comic in the series... but I haven't inked it like I've been doing, and have been instead trying to figure out GIMP (freeware equivalent of photoshop that I was directed to by Phil). It's complex! It might take me a while to figure it out, but hopefully I'll be able to start using that instead of the basic paint program for comics and such things.

But I really wanted to update the blog, so I cheated and used Paint to quickly crank out what is below this text:

Post Apocalyptic!

Okay, so I was browsing through Livejournal artists, and, similar to the Teen Meme, I found a place where lots of people were posting themselves as survivors in a post- apocalyptic world. I decided to do one... so I spent entirely too much time on it, and drew it with merely a mouse in MS Paint. It's huge (once you click it), but I'm exhausted right now, and don't care to resize it.



...but since I'm such a nice guy, I'll also give you a black and white one... which was last saved before a lot more was done to the background... and I will resize it a bit. It's still kinda big, and you should still click it.



I thought about adding speech or thought bubbles, with me thinking/saying something like "Seriously, guys, just let me grab some groceries and I'll leave," but then decided that I'd actually try to make it seem more like a comic book cover than a mere panel.

If I'm ever successful

You know what I would do if I were ever to become successful to the point of financial security? I would experiment. Not with drugs or lifestyles, but with cheese.

I love cheese but, honestly, I've only tried a handful of varieties. Sure, I've had Swiss, Cheddar, Feta, Monterey Jack, Mozzarella, Ricotta, Cottage, Pimento, Parmesan, Muenster, Provolone, and American, but there are many more types out there in the great Cheese Spectrum which I've never tasted. Just check out this Wikipedia list!

Man, that's a lot of cheese. And I want to try them all, to taste the subtle differences, to be a connoisseur.

But first I must become successful.

Until then, I can only dream.

Dream of cheeses.

MS Paint Pieces

Tomorrow, or sometime also relatively soon, I'll scan and post the second comic strip about the guy what is going on a date. But tonight you get two things I churned out in my basic paint program. They're just random little things that I made and happened to like.

Two Images

First is something I drew quite a while back. The second is something I drew very quickly in Paint pretty recently. I had thought about posting a story, and even wrote a good chunk of it today... but then I realized that the length of the thing might put people off, considering this is just a silly little blog. The tale is currently about a page in length, and probably has another full page to go. I might go ahead and finish the story later, and post it here... or I might try to make it more concise... We'll see. For now, here are the images.

The Arts.

This is one of those random attempts at wit.

It seems to me that I'll never have the wealth, social standings or grace to ever truly be a patron of the arts. However, I do think that I could make it as a patronizer of the arts.

















Due to a temporary lack of scanner, this was drawn by mouse in MS Paint... Also, I think it looks better if you actually click it and view it at a larger size.

A self-portait, drawn by mouse in MS Paint