February 2012
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Keep holding on
we’ll make it through.
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There's always time for a sandwich
and a shoeshine.
Yesterday I posted a tweet asking total strangers to send me their ideas to sketch.
One Niko Geyer said:
Tao is Taokaka!
No. I had loved that game before lag killed the dream.
and a certain Clay Gardner suggests:
You could always try a high-tech cowboy/girl!
Now there’s an interesting idea. And this break-time sketch turned out to be more than a sketch after...
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Say yes, you fool! Say YES!
You know you’re in trouble when the characters in your drawings have better luck than you do in life and mostly in everything else.
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Laddertop: a brief anatomy of a panel
Between bouts of psychotic depression and illogical paranoia, there are those rare happy moments when I suffer from the destructive delusion that I have too much time on my hands. Today is one of those times, thus I happily ignored sleep and did something remarkably unproductive — color a panel from a black and white book.
I’ve had always wondered what Laddertop would look like if...
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Sketch Time, Break Time
I’ll do anything to avoid work! Even coerce people on twitter!
From: Jerzy Drozd
“I SO want to see an awesome robot rendered in your style.”
From: Veritas Unae
“how about a drawing of some kids doing hopscotch? owo or maybe an elderly couple just being happy together?”
— No idea how to do this yet. ヽ(￣д￣;)ノ
From: socketwench
“And here my...
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Zombies Beware!
For the last 10 years, Cemetary Valley has been voted as the best place in the world to rest your weary bones. The neighbors keep to themselves with neither a bone to pick nor tales to tell. The accommodations are simply to die for with nary a wandering salesman to knock you out of your slumber. It is expected to stay that way for another 10 years, and perhaps even a hundred more, humidity...
January 2012
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Mercenaries have dirty thumbnails
I usually try not to make a habit of showing off client work in my personal site. I’ve always believed that there should be a healthy amount of separation between what I do for a living and what I live for. This isn’t to say that I’m not proud of what I do. I LOVE my work and I try to do the best I can but I’d generally prefer people to visit my site and see what really...
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Goodnight Mars
Been sifting through my files and found this ancient drawing I did back in 2009 for the brilliant webcomic Marooned by my good friend Tom Dell’Aringa. This came out in the first self-published volume of his comic. I’m not sure how many volumes he sold but as far as I can remember I’ve never really publicized this drawing on my own until now.
A very mundane scene. This is one...
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Now I see clearly
it’s you I’m looking for.
Been looping the song All My Days by Alexi Murdoch while working on volume 2 of Laddertop and kept having this nagging scene in my mind. Decided to just stop working and get it out of my system. Tried coloring it but decided to just stick with just lineart later on. Quite happy with how it turned out.
I really really love mundane scenes.
This song is also...
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My face after watching Real Steel...
…when I realized I won’t be a washed-up pugulist driving cross-country to enter ROBOT BOXING with my plucky sidekick.
Truth be told, this is really what I looked like after watching the latest robot beat-em-up Real Steel. Heck, is there any other robot beat-em-up? No. Transformers do not count. Well, there’s Robot Jox, but the last time I saw that movie, I recall squirming in...
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Sola has no manners... :(
Sketch of Sola falling asleep while eating: 20 minutes. Time it took to decide what to write here: 1 hour. Face = palm.
November 2011
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Haul for the day
14 delicious books! All mine! My life is filled with words and pictures. I will write more about this dig soon.
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The first thing you do is, don't tell anybody.
“All I want to find is one dinosaur,” Daniel was saying. “My own. And I’ll find it right here. On my own land. Like I do all my fossils. Plowing up the ground to plant, or digging a well”
“Or a grave,” I reminded him, but he didn’t seem to hear me.
I’m a big fan of mundane stories. Some people prefer calling them slice-of-life and perhaps...
September 2011
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The Box
This arrived today. It was from a different dimension. It was addressed to someone having the same name as I do, and living in the same address that I am, but in a country called Lippines. I checked the map. There is no such country. I stared at the box cautiously but equally impressed at how far UPS had managed to expand their service.
I opened it. The first thing that caught my sight were the...
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I Don't Get No Satisfaction
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Bed and Breakfast
It’s been over a year now since Sola had her epic breakfast and I think it’s time to give my beloved readers some explanation on why my webcomic By Moon Alone had gone for such a lengthy vacation.
But first of all, no. I did not die.
Simply put, I was extremely busy. It was the kind of busy that was the stuff of nightmares. It had even come up to a point where I drew for 16 hours a...
No Day But Today
I’ve been meaning to start a new blog for a very long time but somehow I never got around to doing it. Perhaps because for the longest time I’ve convinced myself that it’s too much work and that I’m simply too lazy (neither of which is completely false, by the way). There’s also the reason that for the last year and a half, I haven’t done anything that I can...