Portrait of my mom’s cat Ebby. I think. I dunno. I only get brief glimpses of him once every 6 months for the last 10 years. Anyhoo. I started watching Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt last night, the new Netflix series. It’s a goddamned delight.
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040 – Saint Sebastian
Yesterday was the lady’s birthday. She collects Artist Trading Cards, and we agreed to trade back when we first started dating. Almost immediately, she painted a Blue Beetle for me. And I did nothing. I’m a bit of a procrastinator and kind of a horrible guy. Finally, though, I drew this card to give to her for her birthday. I also learned a little about Saint Sebastian himself.
Learnin’! Double weird: the city in which my mom was born and raised is San Sebastian in Puerto Rico.
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I saw someone post a “challenge” on twitter. Draw a shrug. So. There.
Was busy drawing, scanning, and editing podcasts last night in a feeble attempt to ignore that my life is about to completely collapse. Also watched Dead Alive again, still the best Peter Jackson movie.
Also been watching the 12 Monkeys television program. It’s fine. Go into it not expecting the movie, and it’s fine. Totally watchable.
Holy F*ck #3: On sale this week!
Fuck Nick Marino.
038 – Wonderous Woman
I was scared to draw the face.
Sometimes I think I may have some severe sociopathic tendencies. I find it incredibly difficult to relate to people, and most times, I simply care not to. When people talk to me, I will focus on anything else so I do not have to have any kind of conversation or emotional reaction. The overwhelming amount of “can’t give a fuck” inside of me is on ocassion a frightening thing.
But then I watch a movie like Nightcrawler and see a shocking portrayal of a sociopath and I realize how normal I am.
Holy fucknuts, Jake Gyllenhaal is amazingly gross and cuh-ray-zee in this film. It’s incredibly good, but good lord, I felt like I needed to soak in an acid bath to wash the ick off of me. It’s intense and at times funny, but fuuuuuuuuuuuuckin’ dirty. I’m honestly surprised my television and blu-ray player didn’t just explode with slime about halfway through. Just… ugh. Gross. Fuckin’ gross. But so good.
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I think about sex a lot.
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I watched JOHN WICK last night. Keanu Reeves is terrible, but the movie is fantastic. Just the perfect action shoot-em-up I was wanting to see. Stylish, funny, violent, decent characters, and just enough pathos.
034 – The Flash
Back cover to yesterday’s blank variant cover. Again, this will be up on eBay soon, unless perhaps you’d like to make an offer, Joe (or anyone). So y’know, yesterday’s relevant text here.
Also, still, the new Flash TV show delights me. So does the original.
That said – and I know I’ve mentioned this multiple times in multiple places – whenever you see me draw The Flash, it is always Wally West. Despite Barry being back in the comics, despite him being the star character of two television programs (and an upcoming movie played by someone else for some reason), I will always draw Wally. Always Wally. Always. He is MY Flash. He is THE BEST Flash.
033 – Reverse Flash
I believe I’ve made my love of the blank variant covers publicly known. Seriously. I love them. The paper… oh lord, the paper. I’ve drawn two of these in as many weeks, and I think I’ve officially become addicted to drawing on them. Seriously. I’m jonesing for the next one. Unfortunately, I don’t have any access to one now. I need to build up a stash. Or, if you have one and want to pay me some money, I’d gladly draw on one.
My pal Joe donated this Flash #39 cover to me so I could add it to my other new addiction – trying to sell my art on eBay. I may not be the Flash fan Joe is (no one is), but I do enjoy drawin’ me some Flash characters.
Sidebar: The Flash TV show makes me incredibly happy. It is a joy to watch each and every time.
I decided to draw the old DCU Reverse Flash on this nu52 cover, ’cause, well, they old DCU costumes and characters are the best versions. Decided to try some coloring on this. Over the last couple years, I’ve been experimenting with gray Copics, and I find them a joy to work with. I need to work with them more. But also, I need to refill a few of them. I got the lady into working with Copics last summer, and she became temporarily obsessed with them, buying a ton of colors. I asked her to use them to color this cover, but she did not have a yellow, which is kind of an important color for this character. So I broke out my old Chartpaks from art school from 17 years ago. I was afraid the markers wouldn’t be as versatile as the Copics, but was pleasantly surprised. I’m relatively pleased with how this turned out.