I hold the fire. I fight the good fight. I'm a good guy.

I'm not sure if anyone can relate to me at all.
I was always told to follow my dreams and do what's right in my heart.
But after years of trying to do what speaks to me on all the different levels I still don't get anywhere with it.
I had a dream years ago when I started streaming on Twitch, that I would eventually have a support structure in place where I could stream and this would be my full time job.
I would create content via playing games and streaming my artistic endeavors.
I thought that in college that I was going to find my niche or my groove and just keep riding the wave.
It just turns out that in my senior year of college it was obvious the education I received was questionable and for a fact it did not prepare me for the work force in the animation world today.
I learned a lot about myself in college, and through out all of my hardships in life.
I learned that I have a strong sense of work ethic. I do not give up easily.
I follow my gut instincts and I always try to do what's right.
After 4 years or so streaming on Twitch and my whole life drawing and making art, it's hard to accept failure.
I learned that when you feel like giving up is when you should push harder because you're on the brink of a break through, BUT, I've been at this point several times in the past.
I always just want to keep trying and never give up, because of the "HOPE" that it will finally be my day.
I've accepted the fact that I am not the greatest artist, or the greatest person alive.
I understand that success isn't owed to me. I get it. I know long hours, tears, blood, life force, EVERYTHING goes into getting there.
Maybe I'm not putting in everything, doing everything, giving everything, and that's why I haven't made it.
Honestly... I want it. I want a comfortable life where I don't have to worry anymore.
I'm tired of worrying. I've been worrying about money and shit since I was 10.
Another part of that dream was just being able to support myself making art. Doing the whole content creation and being able to do conventions network, then show people, grow, rinse repeat.
It's like it would have been self sustaining if it all worked out.
Where did I go wrong? What did I do wrong?
What did I do, or say?
What the hell?

well, alright?

working on some goofy ideas.
Wanted to start doing stuff with phrases and what not.
I'm working on two ideas loosely right now. One is the above seen rough drawing of a goat who's "horny and lonely'
The other one is "Trade Paper Until You Die"

Anyways, I loved appropriating the satanic goat devil doing the shocker making a goofy goat face as my imagery.
I was streaming on Twitch and chatting up with my viewers while making this, taking suggestions and getting on the spot critiques.

I went through and drew this a couple of times to get kinks out and get a feel for a style I wanted.
I'm going to lay down all the flat colors and then do some details on top to bring it together.

Here's where we ended tonight.

I also showed off some of the progress on the TPUYD piece.

Just working on basic stuff on those ones, like style and colors.
They're coming together and I'm trying to produce more personal work instead of trying to do mash-ups and shit.
Getting ready to do Tucson Comic Con again in November.
Not sure how things are going to roll out but I might be getting some keychains or enamel pins.
Haven't quite figured it out yet.

Anyways, HI. Bye.
See you soon.

cool

Hey there, reader! How's it going for you? Is this just a stupid simple formality to engage you? Want to just get to the meat of it? Cool.

OK so I've messed around with the idea of mixing Splatoon and Jet Set Radio before but this time I've actually made the leap and did it.

Well, I decided to try out a couple of things but I settled on this rough idea and went with it. 

Hmm. Well, looking to make some keychains for maybe enamel pins?
I don't know. Pins can get pretty expensive quickly, so I'll have to do some more research and money saving.

I also worked on another mash up, Rick & Morty X Ren & Stimpy.

I didn't do progress shots of this one, I just kinda banged it out.

Throwin' Bombs

Been playing a lot of the new Legend of Zelda as of late. I guess you could tell, since it's affecting my artwork.
Here's a mash up of a Banksy piece and Link from the game.
This was my rough idea.
I know that the Banksy piece was cool because the guy was throwing flowers but he looked like a man in a riot. So it had a cool play on it.
But for some reason I wanted to just keep it uniform to the game.

I put link in the Sheikah Armor because it has a face cover and it has some cool identifying marks like the shoulder armor and the leg guards.

 So I spent some time cleaning it up and getting things together for it.

Go it all filled out and what not, made it look cool then started thinking about what color it should be on.

I then added some texture to it to make it feel like a spray painted item.

Check out the stuff " HERE "

Still Pushing and Pulling.

Hey guys, what's up?
I realize it might have been some time since my last post.
Just reminding you that I'm alive and that this is still a good space to see me do stuff.

I have been playing the new Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
It's a great open world game where you can do anything your heart desires.
You basically just run around and find stuff, kill stuff, cook stuff and fight for your life in the harsh cold, heat, or monster dens.
While exploring you find these little forest spirits called Koroks.
They give you seeds for finding them.
You use seeds to upgrade your inventory.
They are super helpful and have you solve little puzzles to unlock them.
Here's a pattern I wanted to make using them!

Alright, so there was my rough idea- Just the basic outline and shapes of the spirits and a seed, and I just wanted to see how they'd work together in a pattern. 

 

I arranged them together in a way that I thought would look cool, then figured out how I wanted the seeds to be placed. 

Here's the basic coloring and placement that I liked!

I then just threw it out in a pattern to see how it works out visually.
I liked it enough to keep going! 

I cleaned up the line work, then added some details that made it a bit more interesting.

 

Cleaning up the colors then going on top and adding some of the leaves details and shadows. 

I added the spirits faces and mouths, then added a little light detail to make them interesting to look at. Then just finished up the design, slapping it on stuff for RedBubble.

Check out the stuff you can get the design on " here "

I am particularly fond the of the design on a clock! But it looks great on leggings and the other stuff I put it on!

Oh, yeah check out this other design I did too.
It's a mash up of Pin Head, from Hell Raiser and a Mr. Meseeks, from Rick & Morty!

Check out the t-shirts and stuff " here "