May I Introduce..

Half of my Mad Scientist. Drilled through and strung up. And boy do I love polymer clay, even though it might make me sick from breathing in it's dust.. But hey, it WORKED.


It was a somewhat long process, but it was the best way I could think of. And I learned a few things while drilling and stringing. One is I get to mold a hollow body (mid-torso, I say) in order for the strings, as well as the drill, to get through the way I need them to. And I also get the fun filled pleasure of re-doing the neck. BAH!

Ah, learning made easy through mistakes. At any rate, I managed to drill holes through the arms and chest easily because the friction from the cordless drill heated up the clay (you could even feel it go through the forearms, awesome indeed). Making that task a bit easier to manage. Surprisingly the only sign of damage is in his left upper arm. A few cracks due to the drill getting off course. But everything else is peachy. Now all I have to do is drill the rest of him, mold a torso and neck, make a mold for his face, and then slap it all together using.. er, wire? Strong elastic? Rubber bands? Snot? We'll try a few things to see what works best, but for the mean time he's being held together with thin elastic band (the kind that little kids make bracelets out of.. the ones that snap and the beads go everywhere and then the kid gets all teary-eyed and loses her shit because, oh however will she make another one!!) ......... I mean.. nope, nevermind, that kid just needs to calm down. For there are Mad Scientist to be made!

New Job and New Projects

Just to let you know, you will be getting more pictures here in a bit. I not only managed to get my hands on a sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project but I also got a 'job' as a cartoonist for The Buchtelite (the University of Akron's campus paper). So you will be seeing my slow progress on the sketchbook. My topic being "Dirigibles and Submersibles", so I want to try for either several pictures of tons of different models of nonsensical creations for the sky and the water, or a few story lines. So it'll kind of look as crazy as the pictures that managed to spread themselves everywhere on the page:
Fun stuff, I agree. I mean, men with ridiculous beards and moustaches and child labor! What wonders!

In the mean time, I also have two projects that I have put on the back burner. One being the rebirth of "Worst Halloween Special". The other being the continuous journey of me finishing my ball-jointed doll so that I can make my "Mad Scientist" stop animation film. All that I have left on it is to sculpt the head and face, then to drill holes and string him up. I'll get pictures of him when he's all put together. And so you know.. He is about 18 inches tall, or about the length of an average bed pillow. Yeah, shot myself in the foot a bit there..

The Mad Scientist Lives..

Well, I ended up starting a project I put off far too long. But I have to say that when I bought the makin's for a Sculpie figurine I had no 'efing clue how to even go about it.. Now I do.. I've stared it up, and I'm about 50% done with it. Problem is, the last 50% is the most difficult half. Not to mention I'm nearly out of polymer clay and the head, face, legs, and torso won't be forgiving. I have a ten buck coupon for Crap Catan's, so we'll see.





Those are the arms and unfinished ball joints. Above are the hands and feet. I decided that my figure (that will be [hopefully] fully pose able) will be a Mad Scientist type. He just seemed to have that type of personality . That or I'm just insane and having conversations with severed limbs of clay. When I finish him, he'll stand nearly a foot tall. Then I'll have to make clothes for him.. another pain in the ass.. go me..

I thought you all might want to see a few test pages that I threw together to get through my study halls.. there were many.. and we were few.. I'm still in the process of finding a new plot line for "Worst Halloween Special". You know, one that I won't get sued over. So I gave this a shot, where our paranormal duo hunt down urban legends. *shrugs* Meh, we'll see where it goes..

As you can see, they aren't my best efforts. All in pen and no pencil marks to be seen. It's quicker and I really hate penciling.. oh how I hate it..

And for added fun fun fun, try and see if you can spot my huge-ass mistake!

Secret Agents, Campers Counselors, The Rich, and The Worst

As the end of the year draws nearer than ever, I now have all the time in the world to kick up my summer break projects. Here's my briefing for you:

I'll be juggling around ideas and plots for my latest comic book project I want to do that involves secret agents. After watching The Avengers the past three weeks, I've been itching for this one.

Next Of course is my on going series of molding and remolding "Worst Halloween Special" to avoid copyright issues. But I assure you that this comic will never die! It's just too much fun making fun of B movies.

Naturally I can't pull up too many comic books, so I'll be pacing myself with two 'break comics' where I can unwind and not lose practice. The first is the rich guy page-length comic, the other is "Camp Happy Dales". 

I'll expand on all of this nonsense later.. school tomorrow morning..

Witty Title

I'm not one for introductions, so I'll just start how I usually would. By jumping in the middle of it all. I just finished a painting I did for one of my teacher friends (Mrs W.) and now I only have a few more commission doodles, then I'll be kicking up so new projects just for me. Though I don't pay well. A few things caught my eye. One being something my sister (Ruth, for future reference) suggested. She's been working on a movie illustration something-or-other, and brought about the idea of me trying to illustrate something for a movie myself.

The other potential project I decided on was ilfluenced by "Hey, Oscar Wilde, It's Clobberin' Time". Where artists do these incredable pictures of either authors or their characters in their books. Fun, right? But for now, I need to be doing work work. None of this FUN work.. that's unheard of..

Now, don't get me wrong.. I always make time for this so called fun *grins*. (And so you know the banner in the back says "Los Hazmadors"). Enjoy!