Hey i havent posted any art for a while, i withdrew from PUMMEL so that once a month drawing is on hold for the moment. There are a few reasons i dropped out, one i have a new baby girl that takes alot of my time, and my 2 year old girl ^_^. I also go promoted at work so i working longer hours.


The main reason i dropped out tho wasn't because i didn't have time to complete the piece is that i only had time to do that piece and i found myself not drawing for myself. I do want to get published in the next coming year. I'm not aiming to high but im gonna do a short story and try to get it published in a magazine.

So basically you will be seeing more concept drawings and some story boards... yep thats right ^_^


I also build a new computer!!

2.8GHz Core i7
4 500 gig HDs
EVGA Nvida 275 video
EVGA P55 SLI MOBO
Corsair 750watt PSU
Corsair 4 Gigs ram.
Windows 7 64Bit
HAF 932 Full Tower
24" Samsung LCD


I still want to get a blue ray combo drive and a sound card but l8tr.

Well i thought i write something,

I was trying to step up my drawing but never have an idea what to do. Then this compition started over at PencilJack.

Penciljack for those who dont know is an art forum, mostly geared to comic art. They started a UFC type drawing contest. First they took 48 contenders and then broke them into seeded positions via votes. Then once the ties are broken they will start a tournament. To declare a champion . There are three divisions lightweight, middleweight and heavy weight but you have to fight your way to the top and if you are at the top you need to defend your position.

There are also street fights where you can openly challenge ppl for a draw off and it adds to your score.

The thing i like about this is that ill be drawing alot more and should help me since it will be highly competitive and there is alot of great talent in the composition and in the site in general. Now after the tourney is over anyone can join but they start at the botton and work there way to the top.


They way its looking now ill be at the middle of the middleweights, I personally would like to start at the bottom. So anyways if you see a drawing with the word
P.U.M.M.E.L near my signature that means it was for the compilation.




So which me luck and please comment on my art they are open for comments helps me get better.



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Well i have gotten CS4 and i am loving it, runs so smooth on my computer, cs3 used to lag a bit and sometimes made bigger files chug. The rotating canvas is great. I hope to have a some new stuff to show you but right now i am still playing around with it. I been sketching on it alot more and its alot more fluid.

I have also gotten Painter 11 , I have never been able to use the other Painters or i don't have the patience but ill give it a shot. I think i am bias so i don't give enough effort.


I been checking out Conceptart.org alot more lately i love the weekly challenges and i hope to participate in them shortly. I need to increase the speed and quality of my work and i believe that will be the perfect opportunity.




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Well I lost everything, i started having problems with my computer, i got another Hardrive to store what i wanted to save on it. I figured i load Vista in since i bought it almost 2 years ago and never installed it.

It all went smoothly Vista loaded. I noticed it wasn't showing the new drive i put on, sayd off line. I put it online,. I didn't realize before i clicked it is said loose everything on disk. It basically formatted the drive. So i lost every piece of art i had done digitally. I lost years of collections of references,brushes for photoshop, textures tutorials, e-books. They are all gone.

I guess the moral to this crisis is pay attention! Also make hard copy backups don't be lazy. I was actually going to but for some reason i didn't have anything that would burn a DVD data disk. Vista does it Nativity.



Well i guess i have to use this as a new beginning in art. Start fresh make sure all the new stuff is finished. Saved ^_^ and 100X better than my old stuff. I believe i can do that. Even tho it kina really sucked loosing almost a years worth of sketches doodles, experiments and unfinished PDFs that i planned to finish.

So i have no clue what i want to do, very confused about what kind of art i want to do or what direction Im going, have a few drawings to do but keep putting them off. Have a LOTR commission, a Logo for a trucking company and a Holiday Xmas Swap over at Pencil Jack. I am suppose to be drawing Batman by Gaslight. I didn't even know what it was i started drawing batman lit up by a gas lamp until i found out it was a comic lol.

Anyways I thought i post where all this creativeness is suppose to happen but doesn't.





Oh and Merry Xmas Everyone! or Happy Holidays or have a good day off ^_^

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