I guess that this must be the place...

I have a pencil and ink version of this piece as well, which looks much better.

 I'm trying something. I thought I'd do some practicing with my digital pen. It's something I tried a while back...for like a day, when I was considering changing my style completely. Become much more of a cartoonist. It certainly had some peculiar results.

I really suck at it... but there is SOME improvement over the very few images.

And now it's time to talk about the images. I decided to do some interpretation of song lyrics. the first image was from This Must be the Place by Talking Heads

Home - is where I want to be 

But I guess I'm already there 

I come home - she lifted up her wings 

I guess that this must be the place 

 

This is an interpretation of the original version of Tenacious D's Tribute way back when it had a riff from Stairway to Heaven.

It's Satan's surprise and its magic

It's a mystical disguise ahhh

The Devil's song and it's tragic

You are the mystical eyed virgin and your rocking 

 

Now this... Is from a Red Hot Chili Peppers song. She Looks to Me

He looks to me like heaven 

Sent this for your roughest night 

She looks to me 

She looks to me all right 

They're all very rough as you can see... And suck quite a bit.

Inspirations

 

I mentioned before that my Journal comics were inspired by Kate Beaton . Well Now I wanna talk about her(and some other artists) for a while. I'm not short on comics for here, I just wanna do this instead.

In the last few months, I've been heavily influenced by cartoonists and how they get by doing what I do! Sometimes I try to over-complicate things but these guys just show me I don't need to! Look at that duck comic! So simplistic, yet it's one of her most well known comics. THAT'S what inspires me so much.

Another reason I wanted to write this is because she posted updates on Twitter from her life drawing class last night... with hilarious results! (That's 3 separate links by the way!) And considering in my life drawing class I was forced to stay away from my own style and just seeing her blatantly use her own made me resent those forceful classes. It also gives me the knowledge that an artist, cartoonists in particular, is nothing if they don't have a distinguishable style. It puzzles me why people...other artists... don't understand that! If you recall my older post... the reason I started project December was because I was accused of all my characters "looking the same" when it was actually just an insulting comment that I have a distinct style!

Well I'm gonna stop this rant here and talk about the other artists. I was led to Kate Beaton on a forum one day, and promptly followed her on Twitter when I discovered she had one, and through that I discovered even more great cartoonists that served to inspire me just as much, if not more than Kate Beaton herself! First, there was Scott C. Probably most know for his artwork on the video game Psychonauts, but every weekday he releases a Great Showdown from cinema history. Then there was Emily Carroll, who really blew up after her amazing Halloween comic(That's even how I discovered her). And Graham Annable, who recently did ALL of the art and animation for a Professor Layton-like game called Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent. It's €5! Available on iPod, iPad and PC. I recommend it!

All amazing artists, and if you have any interest in my work, it won't kill you to look at their work!

Well that's all! I gotta get back to tomorrows Murderman comic!