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I've been resettling myself into the SCAD way of things, which took much more doing than I was originally expecting. Art classes are weird, I've found. As is college in general.

BUT, the reason I haven't been talking to you (and by "you," I mean the entire Internet) is that I dropped my computer on the cold tile floor of my dorm room on my first night here. I thought it was nothing, but took it into a Mac Store-ish place to be looked at. Turns out my hard drive got fucked in a nasty way, and I had to get a new one. I still have most of my files, but I was out of commission for a while.

Anyway, more comics as soon as I get into the groove of things.

AND IF YOU GO TO SCAD: Hello. How are you? I'd like to meet you. Because this is a big place, and I like to get to know people.

So yeah.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/20440561/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/20440561/ Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:54:23 PDT
NO COMICS until I get all settled, due to being busy and such shit. But I've got a few planned, so I'll get those done ASAP.

Anyway, enough about me. How are you? Good?

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/19893606/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/19893606/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:07:58 PDT
Well, everyone. I've posted two things in one week, which has broken my previous posting record of no things in two months. That's exciting.

The other five children in my family had school start today, one of which has taken my car. So, I'll be at my house for extended periods of time until SCAD starts up on September 15. What am I going to do with all that extra time? Draw, hopefully.

I couldn't go to sleep last night, so I spent an hour writing down comic ideas. That's the first time I've written things down, so hopefully we get somewhere with that this time.

So, I'll be drawing comics. And some Halloween stuff (weird right? but I will) and also some illustration stuff for a friend of mine.

Yeah.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/17542769/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/17542769/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:32:07 PDT
RULES:
1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, ETC on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Put this on your journal.


1. If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say?
CROWN OF LOVE - Arcade Fire
(Off to an excellent start, I see. After saying this, someone quietly replies "...What?")

2. How would you describe yourself?
BANKROBBER - The Clash
(...I'll take this. If the bank is life and the money is quiet contention, that is. OOOH.)

3. What do you like in a girl?
T BONE - The Rakes
(Hooo-WEE! If I can tayk that gurl out ta a Steak-Eatin contest, an she wins? THAT'S HOYT.)

4. How do you feel today?
THE TREES AND THE WILD - Matt Pond PA
(Huh. I.. guess so? I feel hermit-ish today, and they tend to live in trees and wilds. As a side note, it's fun to say Matt Pond PA. MATT POND PEE-YAY.)

5. What is your life's purpose?
BY THE WAY - Red Hot Chili Peppers
(Well, I tried to say I'd be there, WAITING FOR. This might mean something, if any of the the Chili Peppers lyrics made any sense. Sadly, they never will.)

6. What is your motto?
DON'T LETS START - They Might Be Giants
(I say this literally every time someone asks me to do something. NOT DOIN STUFF IS FUN.)

7. What do your friends think of you?
SUDDENLY EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED - The Flaming Lips
(I do like to change personalities on a dime. YOU THINK I'M FAT!? I LOVE YOU!)

8. What do you think of your parents?
THEY'LL NEED A CRANE - They Might Be Giants
(They might very well need a crane. I don't know why we have half the shit we have, and therefore a crane would fit in perfectly next to the collection of porcelain roosters and the pile of used newspapers.)

9. What do you think about very often?
CONTRECOUP -They Might Be Giants
(As a contrecoup is a concussion that one receives on the opposite side of the skull that was initially hit, I have a hard time thinking very often. As another side note, I have a shitload of TMBG.)

10. What is 2 + 2?
I'M IMPRESSED - They Might Be Giants
(DAMN MORE TMBG. I am impressed everytime someone can do basic math, however. Long division is for nerds. Addition, on the other hand, is downright AMAZING.)

11. What do you think of your best friend?
DOG PADDLE - Modest Mouse
(I could make a joke about my only friend being my dog, but it'd be too true to be funny. DEPRESSING! JK, LOL)

12. What do you think of the person you like?
WHO CARES? - Gnarls Barkley
(HAHAHAHAHAHAfunny.)

13. What is your life story?
THE BOOGIE MONSTER - Gnarls Barkley
(I'm a scary mofo. It's true. THE WHOLE TIME THE MONSTER WAS ME-E-E-E. As a third side note, however, I'd like to note that my shuffle is retarded.)

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
HOLLAND - Sufjan Stevens
(Screw being the leader of the country, I'm going to be the country ITSELF.)

15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?
YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND - Queen
(Awwwwwww.)

16. What will you dance to at your wedding?
SOLDIER SIDE - System of a Down
(I realize this sounds ridiculous, but if my wife would agree to this, I would marry her TWICE. I don't even like SoaD that much, but I'd love her all over again if she agreed to this crazy crap.)

17. What will they play at your funeral?
SUMMERTIME BLUES (live) - The Who
(If they can get The Who to play live at my funeral, they could play anything they wanted. I'd have to come back to life, just to enjoy it. And then die again, to make sure the emotional impact was kept. You know.)

18. What is your hobby/interest?
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY - Imogen Heap
(Returning to the burgling theme, eh iTunes? I do enjoy a good robble from time to time. Fourth side note: I still haven't listened to this whole album. I don't know why.)

19. What is your biggest fear?
RAGOO - Kings of Leon
(HOLY SHIT, IT'S A WORD THAT CLOSELY RESEMBLES A KIND OF SPAGHETTI SAUCE!)

20. What is your biggest secret?
PAPER BIRDS - The Slip
(I have an extensive collection of origami swans. So what? I bet your secret isn't as beautiful and majestic as mine is.)

21. What do you think of your friends?
7/4 (SHORELINE) - Broken Social Scene
(...Yeah, so... Yeah.)

22. What will you post this as?
I WONDER - Willowz
(This is what I get for buying the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Soundtrack. Now everyone will be wondering what I wonder, only to be horribly misslead. OH WELL.)

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/17466749/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/17466749/ Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:09:25 PDT
I just posted a bunch of stuff from the portfolio I just sent to SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). Of course, that's for scholarship stuff. Somehow, some way, I've managed to GET ACCEPTED INTO SCAD.

I'm so damn excited to be going to an art college. I'm visiting the city this week, just for the hell of it.

My brain isn't really working properly, due to it being so late at night, but I'll tell you more later.

And post more stuff later.

MAYBE.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/14702320/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/14702320/ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:32:01 PDT , and now I have to write 8 facts about myself. This should get interesting.

1.) I really like to conceptualize and doodle things. In fact, my DA page only has about 5% of the things I conceptualize on it in completely-done-piece form. This is true due to two things. One, I conceptualize and doodle a LOT, and not all of it can fit up here. That's why I sketchdump so often. I love to do that. And two:

2.) I never finish anything. Well, almost anything. Here's what happens: I get an idea. I like the idea. I get it started. I draw it out, and I put it into my compy. I start inking it, and then in comes another idea. I like THAT one too, and I forget about the other one. I've had a Dethklok picture in Illustrator for about a month now, half inked. I was also "commisioned" by my friends to make a T-Shirt, and they have to constantly remind me to keep working on it.

3.) In an unrelated topic, I really like music. Like, a LOT. Almost anything can grab my attention. If it has a good beat and I can dance to it, consider it listened to. I have my favorites, of course, but really I'll give anything a listen. I'm very often moved by music, as well. Most of the time it's by just one bit of music: a single chord, a single note, a single quick progression. I'll tear up, or at the very least, I'll forget about whatever I was doing and finish up the song before continuing work again.

4.) If I keep in regular contact with you on DA or at the Tavern, and I somehow run into you one day on the street, consider a drink bought. I see you guyses as good of friends as those people I keep in regular contact at school or elsewhere. Just don't turn out to be a child predator or anything. That would be a little awkward.

5.) I'm really into personal philosophy. I know it sounds odd, but I constantly think about the nature of the universe and our place in it. For example, on the way to school this morning, I saw two people in the distance. They looked like they were in each others arms, in a warm embrace (or something). Turns out, as I approached, they were actually standing 15 feet away from each other on the sidewalk, and that my perception from that distance was fooling me. I then asked myself why our eyes flatten images: why does something we see flatten out in our minds eye to form a picture like it does? Why can't we see the world around us in a truly three-dimensional way? If you stood in one place forever, and nothing ever moved in front of you, you'd be convinced you were looking at a 2-D image, along with being absurdly bored. We don't really see anything in three dimensions, it's just the relationship with one 2-D image with another one right after it that gives that illusion. ...I'll stop.

6.) I really, really appreciate all the artists on DeviantArt and the Tavern. Even if I don't talk to you regularly, if you're good, I've most likely sat down and anylized how you draw, and tried to take somehting out of it. That's how I taught myself how to draw, apart from the critiques I've been recieving on the tavern for the past year. Another example: I just finished reading the last two Harry Potter books (all in one week, no less!), and I was in a seriously HP mood. That's when I remembered an artist that I really admire, iconly . I don't regularly favorite or comment on her stuff, but her stuff is absolutely amazing. I took a couple of days to look at the mechanics of the way she draws, and tried to apply some of that to the way I do. Bam.

7.) I've always aspired to write a novel. Or a short story. Or something. But most of the time, if I sit down and start to write, my novel comes up too short or my short story comes up too long. I really just get carried away with what I'm doing, and write however much I feel. Which will probably be what I'll do if I ever do sit down and write for a while. I promise, as soon as a really good concept comes to me, I'll be sure to put it up here.

8.) I'm a major movie buff. I've always wanted to direct something, or at least storyboard something, and I'll most likely try to head down that road upon graduating college. I don't want to do it to meet all those celebrities I admire, or to get my name up in lights; I just think it would be an amazing thing to do. More specifically, I've always wanted to create my own show. I realize it's a hard dream to attain, but if I can do even one episode of a show that I'd like to make (probably an animated one), That dream'll be fulfilled.
~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/14065403/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/14065403/ Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:44:38 PDT
Actually, I've been back for about a week. But an odd series of events has kept me from this wonderful thing called the "internet." The first of which has to do with my monitor. While I was gone, lightning struck my house and knocked out my parents' monitor on their computer. So I decided that I would see if their computer was still workingby hooking up my monitor to their CPU. That, in turn, knocked MY monitor out. And the weirdest thing was that the monitor only was broken while attached to MY computer. As soon as we re-attached it to theirs, it was fine.

Anyway, I got a new monitor. It's all wide and doesn't hurt my eyes. Which is very nice.

Second thing had to do with my modem, which broke for no reason at all. We had to call the cable company and they had to have it replaced.

And that's my excuse for not updating.

I haven't been drawing as often, but I need to. School's about to start up (for the last time), and I've been preoccupied with school reading and summer reports and other such injustices.

But I'll be doing some more stuff soon, including - I hope - that painting I was thinking about. I'm trying desperately to get into the art class at my High School so I can motivate myself, but it's turning out to be more of a problem than it should be.

Seriously.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/13880165/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/13880165/ Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:33:25 PDT
I'm currently practicing the style for the short comic-things with some characatures and whatnot. I personally like the way most of them came out, and I would show you them. But

I'm leaving again.

Yeah, I'm going to Georgia to visit a friend, and I don't know if I'll be in the immediate vicinity of a useable computer. I say that because this friend is currently addicted to WoW. He already tried to get me into it, and FAILED.

But, again, we'll see.

I should have some stuff for you come next Wednesday. Sorry I keep putting this stuff off.

EXCELCIOR.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/13844801/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/13844801/ Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:20:04 PDT
I'm going to keep updating this journal until I post something. Which, hopefully, won't be too much longer.

Do any of you have something that you need to have with you at all times while drawing? It may just be my wierd Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder rearing its ugly head, but I HAVE to have my pencil sharpener and heavy eraser on hand before I can draw. Even when I'm inking on Illustrator, I like to have them nearby.

Keeping the sharpener is easy. It's a big, round, bright red piece of plastic. Pretty much everyone can see that it's a pencil sharpener, and they leave it alone. But for some reason, in my house, people like to throw away my eraser without my knowing it. The problem is that I hold onto it so often that I rub off the printing on the sides and erase the corners off, leaving an unsightly hunk of rubber behind. So, I leave it with my sketchbook, pencil, and sharpener in a room for no reason, and when I get back to it, everything is in its proper place; except the eraser, which is gone.

So, here I am, extremely lazy and unwilling to leave the house to go buy another one. And I can't draw without the thing.

But I'm going to get one today. Because all of that whining that you read above was really a clever ploy to trick myself into going to get a new one.


Anyway, other news. I'm planning on, as soon as I get my eraser, drawing a short set of comics. Nothing complicated, as I'm planning on using them for practice with my sequentials. I'm doing them Beaver & Steve style, I think. But we'll see.

The painting will come as soon as I'm happy with the materials. I go a'shoppin' today when I get my eraser.

Oh, and those four sketches. I'll get on that. Yeah.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/13731778/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/13731778/ Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:07:06 PDT
I've been slacking here for a while, so I thought I should at least do a proper journal in explanation.

I know I haven't been updating lately, and that's due to my amazing laziness. I've been playing video games and watching TV for the past week or so, with no art coming down the tube for even longer. I've got tons of ideas, mind you, but no drive to get them done.

Don't worry about me, though. Drive will eventually win over, and I'll get off my but and post some stuff.

I've been planning on making a traditional painting for a while, but I'm concerned that I'll mess it up or some such nonsense. It's been a while. That's probably the reason for my current roadblock. But.


In other news, I went to Erie, PA recently to visit my family, and I checked out a college. A college named Edinboro. And it was nice. I've never really been formally tourned around a college campus before, and it was a nice change of pace from the normal "wandering around" method I've been using previously.

My parents have me scared out of my mind that I won't get a job after graduating school with degrees in animation and creative writing, so I'm trying to pick the best college for me. And I really like the 'Boro, but I'm going to see about a few more.

Oh, and I hear that Edinboro has a problem with snow for half the year. I have a good feeling that if I go there, I'm going to annoy the crap out of all my friends when it starts. I've never seen snow before. And that's going to be a LOT of snow.


And in other, OTHER news, I'm planning on getting through my laziness in another area: buying stuff. Mostly via the internet. I need Cereal and Pajamas, Rice Boy Book 1, and Rice Boy Book 2. All I need is that drive thing.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/13272204/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/13272204/ Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:13:55 PDT
You know.

I'll be sketching a full page every day I'm there, so we'll see if I come back with something worthwhile. Ooooh.

See you in a week.

P.S.- I'm working on everyone's sketch who asked for one. Really, I am. Just... maybe not for a week, as computers aren't allowed in Florida.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/12529118/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/12529118/ Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:59:26 PDT
Easter break has totally sucked any initiative I had previously (I don't know what happened), and I need to get in the game. So, I'm forcing myself. Via YOU.

SO. You guys know the rules. First come, first serve. And there better damn well be five of you, or I will be depressed.

And I know, I know, FIVE. I'm not totally sure that five people even watch me attentively, so I'll keep it there for now until further notice.

Oh, and the first one to tell me how to add the little profile picture with a link to the artist gets a "Get out of jail free" card.

And you'll be needing it, believe me. Monopoly is TREACHEROUS.

(PS- I'll get to your little "tag" next up, Neil. Yeah, I saw it.)

EDIT:

So here's where we are now.

1.) - (He gets first dibs for learning me, along with that card I was talking about. It's fictional, but it's still useful.) SCRUBS-A-PALOOZA.

2.) - APPLESAUCE, apparently.

3.) - DON QUIXOTE.

4.) - THREE JACKS AND A LION. Ha.

5.) ?

Come on, guys. One more to finish this mother out. It's free, for goodness sakes. GOODNESS.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/11935527/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/11935527/ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:11:28 PST
My journals seem to always transform into a goal list, so I might as well go along with that outline. Even though most of the time I don't do them.

It's there for emotional support, we'll say.

1.) Comic for the fighting game battle. It's going to be BIG. HOPEFULLY.

2.) Colored version of my Valentine's day comic. I've had the lines done for this thing since... Valentine's day. It's about time I posted it.

3.) T-Shirt designs. I'm going to take up Obtuse's suggestion and start making up my own shirts, starting with my Mathmagician sketch which will be coming up eventually. I've got the lines for that one, too. I'm just lazy.

4.) Duck-hunt comic. This one will be big too. It's a comic concept I've had for a while.

5.) Some That Handsome Devil fanart, if I can get around to doing it. There's none so far that I know of, and I think Godforbid (lead singer) deserves some.

So there's my list.

OH, and also, I've come up with a concept for a collab piece that someone may want to join in if they want.

It's inspired by a sketch-off between Madeline and I on the Tavern. She said something about Jason Mraz, I said something about Jason Mraz back, and it evolved into me being pecked the crap out of by chickens.

Either way, it was a ridiculous amount of fun to do, going back-and-forth with sketches like we did, so I'm putting it out there that if anyone want to have an aguement in which we sketch instead of making direct comments to each other, please say so. I'm all for it.

Except this time, in COLOR.

LASTLY: I'll be eventually doing 10 free sketches. But not now. Eventually.

Keep up the good journal reading, good sirs and madams.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/10705577/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/10705577/ Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:14:49 PST
Stuff I want to do:

BECK DRAWING.

Borat stuff.

Comic, eventually.

I am SUCH a procrastinator. Like right now. I'm procrastining stuff.

I really have nothing else to say, as it's late and I can't focus on anything.

So there it is.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/10426508/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/10426508/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:54:28 PDT
Man, it's been a while. What can I say, I'm lazy.

Anyway, in the time you've not heard from me, I've been attempting to master a new coloring technique which includes the use of those magical and mysterious settings we call OPACITIES. It's been freaking me out, but I think I'm getting the hang of it.

I've also been experimenting with subtle filters, and I think I've been using those fairly well. As well.

So. Other than that, not much going on in Seantown. I could get into personal stuff and current events, but I don't feel like doing that right now.

As for the comic... It's coming. I've got some final character models, and two complete storylines worked out completely in my head. Which doesn't happen often. Just letting you know that it hasn't been stopped. I need to get motivated, man.

...Okay.

That's another journal that can be considered DONE. BAM.

]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/10012122/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/10012122/ Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:18:17 PDT
Okay, I've been sick recently, and that's why nothing has been coming out of the old art tube. However, sitting in front of a TV for five straight days did fill me with the need to draw celebrities, and I'll be doing that for a while until I can think of something better.

I need to post something new, really. That crappy penguin picture is laughing at me for a terrible color job (experimentation sometimes sucks). And for putting hair where hair doesn't dare to go: on a penguin. I want to get rid of it, but I need to remember my missteps, so I won't step there again later.

Anyway. Comic. I haven't forgot. I am passionate about the characters, and I am constantly thinking of plots and such, but as of now I'm not drawing anything for it. Once again, I want to get to a good point in my style. I'll tell you when to wha'chout.

That's about it for now, so stay tuned, loyal viewers, stay tuned.

See yous. ]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/9782670/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/9782670/ Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:03:51 PDT
Anyway, the comic is still in the works. I have all the stories I could ever want, but right now I'm still working on my style, and I want to see what happens to my character models as time goes by.

Besides, I'm trying to sort out my time now. SCHOOL just started again last week, and I've been semi-tied up. Ah well.

One more thing has kept me from launching the comic, and that's the size of the comic itself. Should it be a traditional 4-panel left-to-right? Maybe a square? And I've been playing around with the idea of a 5" by 7" rectangle to cram stuff in. Any advice would be appreciated on this.

Well. Up next I'm expecting some character drawings, probably from different angles (I like my 45% to the left (our left, that is) look, if you haven't noticed), and maybe some work on the female form. I want to do BETTER!

Thanks for the hits, ever-body.

See yous. ]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/9682633/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/9682633/ Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:31:07 PDT
Well, let's see... Some of you may have noticed that the tone of my recent stuff has changed from before, and that's mainly due to those crazy guys at the [url=www.sketchtavern.com]Sketchtavern.[/url] They've been pushing me to improve my style, and I think I have. And I'll try to keep that up.

Upcoming stuff:

I'm planning on drawing a few things on a character that my brother and I thought up: Chalky the Chain-Smoking Hawk, who teaches kids about the exciting life of the nicotine addict. I'm thinking T-Shirts.

I'm planning on something for a sketchjam, involving monkey pirates. AKA, my dream sketchjam. It's going to be a monkratestravaganza. Hopefully.

And... that's it for that.

As for the comic, I'll be waiting until I feel confident again with my drawing ability. Not that I don't like the way I draw now, it's just that I want to do a little bit more before I'm ready.

MAN, I've been putting that off.

As for personal stuff, ehh... School starts Monday. I've got to read books. ACTUAL BOOKS.

But I did get my driver's license today, which is great. Now I can drive.

Anyway, I think that's it. Keep on looking at the page, and I'll try to put interesting things on it for you. In v5 format, too.

See-yous. ]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/9410308/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/9410308/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:16:01 PDT
I realize I haven't been submitting a lot of stuff recently. But if you're dissapointed in the lack of stuff, check out my scraps. I should have about six pages worth of doodles I did on my last vacation on there.

By the way, and to none of my friends' surprise, I have given up on yet another comic. Pirates is over. Not because I didn't like drawing it, but because, once again, the plot was waaaaaaaaay too shaky.

And in the time between my last journal entry and now, I have thought up three -yes, three- separate concepts for comics. Only one of them stuck.

The first was going to be a story based in a universe where EVERYONE was a superhero, except for one guy. It was going to be called Normal Man, and I did a lot of concept drawing for it. I only came up with two good character models, and I still like them now, but... Well, once again, the idea was too sketchy. I need to find a way to use those character models, though...

The second came out of a revalation I had: I don't like one long storyline in my comic. I like a lot of separate storylines, and a back storyline loosely connecting them all. I've been trying to do that for a while, but most of the time the back storyline was way too screwed up to build on (Pirates.)

So in this concept, I got rid of the back storyline completely, and I was going to do a twilight-zone-esque type webcomic, where every storyline would have new characters, a new setting, etc. However... Most of the time I kept thinking that it was too much like the twilight zone, and that most every idea I came up with was either done or didn't get me excited to do. Which is necessary. So, no twilight zone comic.

The third (the one I have now) is a secret. I'll have the first comic up very soon, and I'm happy to say that I think I have found a good union between separate storylines and an overall, loose one. Plus, I really like my characters in this one. I have some things to iron out, but I'll do that as I go.

I'll get to it later. You'll see. Now, I need to stop typing, seeing as how this journal is so friggin' long.

See yous. ]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/9108982/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/9108982/ Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:46:03 PDT
At this point in my deviant career, I have 39 page views. Better than 38.

I've been trying to make as many pieces of stuff as possible. Or not trying, really. Because when you're obsessed with something, it's not trying anymore.

Yeah, I'm obsessed with making things for the site. I'm glad I found it, because when I finally get tired with the site I'm going to have a reservoir of art. An artservoir. I'm going to have quite the artservoir.

In other news, I've realized that I have to leave more comments. The love you get is equal to the love you get, to quote the Beatles. However, I've ALSO realized that it's had looking through the site to find art I like. The proverbial needle in a haystack. But then again, it's not THAT difficult. So... maybe a small rabbit in a haystack. A quiet, yet irritated rabbit.

And suddenly, I've run out of things to say. I suppose I could just ask everyone to comment on what they like here, if they like it here, and I'll get back to you. Right now, I've got to satisfy the urge to fill an artservoir. ]]> ~The-Mack http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/9009860/ http://The-Mack.deviantart.com/journal/9009860/ Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:07:37 PDT
You may notice my style is loose. It took me a long time to teach myself to draw in my own style, and I'm finally starting to let it loosen up. Tell me what you think of it.

I use Flash and a tablet to draw these in, but of course I have a sketchbook that I keep all of my... sketches in. And while I feel that the first 3/4 of that sketchbook should be burned, I'll occasionally show all of you a page or two. Before I get the urge to burn again, of course. That's a hard urge to beat.

I'll write more later, but until then I'll be making comics. Lots of comics. HOPEFULLY. ]]> ~The-Mack