Current Influences "of the moment"...

Jeff Smith and Windsor McCay

I kind of miss drawing actual cartoons, instead of all this pitch black Apocalypse Samurai stuff.

I love the detailed stuff I do at times, but I'll probably end up blowing my brains out if I don't draw something Disney or Warner ish once in a while. My work is rooted in that style, in reality.

Ever wonder why my sketches often look so simple?

Well, now you know the "secret". No one noticed me when I drew the old way.

EVERYONE noticed me when I drew Mono and THAT mythos. Kind of got sick of dealing with it, wanting to draw the stuff no one in the public eye ever cared about, and revitalize it, or at least just practice drawing stuff that way.

I go where the FUN is.

Also, I like McCay's philosophy of art. There's next to no artists alive like him today. Every artist nowadays is like "Oh mah gawd! Ah hope they worship me and like mah art!"

McCay was the opposite. It's a documented fact he didn't give a shit if A) Nobody liked his art or everyone hated it, and B) He didn't give a shit if he did a million bad drawings either.

The guy just liked drawing. He didn't give a shit if his style was "too simple" or "too complex". He just shut the fuck up and drew. Wow, an artist who DOESN'T ANNOY AND IRRITATE THE SHIT OUT OF ME WTIH HER INFERIORITY OR SUPERIORITY COMPLEX AND ONE UPSMANSHIP.

IMAGINE THAT! I'm gonna be more like McCay. Might as well be.

And ANOTHER THING! ONE MOH THING!

People might not believe this, but there WAS a time in my life when no one knew who I was, and I literally DID NOT HAVE a CARE IN THE WORLD. I cared and thought about 2 things: Drawing and Super NES. Maybe Saturday Morning Cartoons as well, but that was as "deep" as it went. 

I'm a different person now. I've evolved. Now I'm an adult. And the world is less forgiving of adults than it is of kids. The world doesn't care about my opinion of this matter. The world's a NOISIER place now. A more chaotic place now. I don't ever remember my life being as angry, complicated, involved, tedious, and stressful 20 years ago, like it is now, in 2012. I often wonder if kids now really have the carefree lifestyle I had the privilege of leading when I was the same age as a kid. The internet throws everything together, like an evil BLENDER, so it's really hard to say. If I was a parent, I wouldn't LET my kids use the internet unless it was to play video games or watch children's shows on Netflix. Then again I'm not a parent, so oh well.