Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Genetic Predisposition Towards Obesity? - Yes.

Obesity doesn't run in my adoptive family, which is why my adoptive family is skinny. But obesity runs in my genes, and family history, and goes back into history all the way to my ancestors.

I've ALWAYS had a genetic predisposition towards obesity doctors didn't want to acknowledge. They kept attempting to irresponsibly convince me I was "choosing to be fat". I accept a physical appearance as it is,  be it good or bad. Nothing really shocks me. You can't just choose your body structure or how you look. You can't just "choose to be handsome, pretty, or generally beautiful" You don't CHOOSE to be fat most of the time. Being fat is in fact a genetic predisposition MOST of the time. If your fat you shouldn't blame yourself just because some health psychos tell you you should. FUCK them. Know your family history. Your REAL family history, not your adoptive one.

It's not just being fat that makes you fat. Other physical characteristics factor in:

Hunger, chemicals, predisposition to be physically active, fatigue, energy level, laziness, physical power, natural body structure. Some people live lives that keep them active, which leads to them staying in shape. Some people lead lives that don't involve much physical activity, allowing fat cells to accumulate. 

But yes. Fat runs in the family. You can ATTEMPT to diet, but if dieting were the answer for everyone. If exercise made everyone skinny just by people attempt it, the fat epidemic would already be solved.

It was actually kind of....ODD Seeing people react to me in the media. Nearly everyone who mocked me mocked "the odd peculiarities of my face". But even the ones who mocked my face, and voice never actually seemed to notice my actual fatness, or obesity itself. I've never seen so many twigboy impersonators in my life. Seriously. I know my face looks bad, but the really weird thing and part about it was that no one seemed to realize I weigh over 344 lbs. I guess my weight problem isn't as noticeable as I used to think. Better news for me I guess. The guys trying to steal my identity are all twigboys, yet I weigh 344 lbs. in reality. Like i said. Odd. 

Monday, July 29, 2013

Growing as an artist and the art of Redrawing Older Drawings

While studying the work of other artists and copying from other artists is an important requirement to teach yourself how to draw from scratch. It's important to appreciate the of your own work. Understand what makes your drawings and artwork work or fail, and don't be shy about redrawing and reinterpreting your own drawings. Not just recreating good elements, but improving upon the ones that didn't work as well early on.


Getting a little fabric sketching (based on an older work) in before bed....

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Things Time Warner Has Brought Us

Blade Runner
Cartoon Network
Toonami
CNN
Adult Swim
Cowboy Bebop
Dragonball Z
Modern Anime
Anime In General
Time Magazine
The Matrix
Bruce Lee
Enter the Dragon
Man of Action
Ben 10
Ted Turner
Steve Blum
The Lord of the Rings feature film
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Dexter's Laboratory
Warner Brothers
DC
Batman
Superman
Teen Titans
DC Animated
IGPX
Big O II
William Street Animation Studios
Boomerang
Hanna Barbera
Cartoon Network Studios
Regular show
Generator Rex
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Sailor Moon
Family Guy
Robot Chicken
The Boondocks

My Favorite Disney Movie?

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Tarzan
Mulan
Hercules
Toy Story Trilogy
The Sixth Sense
Pulp Fiction (kidding! Sort of!)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
The Black Cauldron
The Sword in the Stone

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Indie Anime Drawing: HAND STATUS


HAND STATUS: ACTIVE

Didn't I tell you? I'm creatively braindead 13 now?

Here is a character design. Randomly designed.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Never bet against a Robot or an Alien.....Don't rely on them for real creativity or imagination, either

As far as I'm concerned, as  an artist, you need not concern yourself on what's being drawn and manufactured at DeviantART. It is the car factory of websites. No soul, just efficiency.

To put it in an analogy. Competing against DeviantART, no matter HOW good of an artist you are, is a lot like being a person playing chess on your PC with the computer itself as an opponent. The computer knows how to beat you logistically and tactically, but it doesn't know how to do much else. It's a manufactured win. Not a real one. It's not a fair fight. You're competing against robots who only know how to imitate and never show signs of actually being a real human on the other end of that computer. No real world presence, no soul.

Saturday, July 20, 2013

I used to shoot my mouth off here all the time....

Until I realized people who actually LIKED me formally were reading everything I write.

Awkwaaaaaard. Seriously though. I don't mean any offense by it. I'm ranting. I sometimes have a foul mouth.

But if my mouth really offends people that much I'll see if I can watch what I say here a bit more.

Which is weird, because no one, none of my actual fans (And I have a lot of of them in EVERY CONTINENT) never write me any comments on this blog, hence tricking me into thinking I am alone with my curse words. Weird as fuck.