Does anyone else have a wacom tablet? I've had mine for around 3 years or so, I've never really had any problems with it until this morning. I was trying to do some pixel art work when I noticed that the pen wouldn't stop drawing if I pulled up from the tablet. It even would draw if the pen was a few centimeters off the tablet. The tablet itself seems to work fine with the mouse, because I use it all of the time, its just the pen that is acting up. I tried deleteing the preference file and that didn't help. I also installed the latest driver. I'm starting to think that I might need a new pen, which really wouldn't be that bad since my pen is getting gross looking anyway.

Anyone have any advice or tips.

Thanks in advance!

Seriously derbyartist looks like he has been working for the New Yorker for the past 40 years! But he is only 21. Unlike hughferriss people already seem to know that he is awesome. Great stuff, honestly I don't know when he got good, it just seemed to happen. Most guys you kinda see the progression, but with this guy its just there. Go check it out.

Last year I finished my election comic after Obama won and this year I finished my Halloween drawing a few days after halloween.



Honestly it bugs the shit out of me to put the whole picture behind a cut. Because honestly what is so wrong with nudity? But someone might be looking at their friends page at work and their co workers or bosses might be uptight fucks.

( Because some people are uptight fucks. )

I found master_post on here and while I was looking through his journal I came upon a Frank Miller post with " The Philistine". A classic short comic he did back in the day. Check it out here.

Other than Super Metroid and Zelda are there any other cool Super Nintendo games other there? I wasn't too impressed with Super Castlevania or Super Marioland.

Also what is a good nes emulator for macs?

Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't get along with the California state legislature and let them know it...Subliminally.

Check out what he wrote in response to a bill he recieved.

Here.

In 12 years, Antoine Walker made more than $110 million playing professional basketball moderately well. Take away taxes, throw in some adidas endorsement money and , a "NBA '99 Live" cover and he's left with, what, $60-to-65 million?
Whatever the details, it was a big chunk of change, which, amazingly, it wasn't enough. That's right, during the last several months, the once multi-millionaire athlete has been pursued by multiple financial institutions for unpaid debts.
In fact, according to The Boston Globe, "Employee No. 8" owes more than $4 million to his creditors and is facing felony check fraud charges in Las Vegas. All of this at the age of 33. Wild.
Now I know what you're thinking: How in the world does somebody not named Montgomery Brewster even begin to blow through that amount of money?
The answer: fairly easy.
"[Walker] liked to move in an outsized entourage; his mother estimates that, during his playing days, he was supporting 70 friends and family members in one way or another. And speaking of his mother, he built her a mansion in the Chicago suburbs, complete with an indoor pool, 10 bathrooms, and a full-size basketball court. [...]
Living at the Bishops Forest condominium complex in Waltham during the Celtics season, Walker turned the pavement surrounding his home into a virtual luxury car lot — two Bentleys, two Mercedes, a Range Rover, a Cadillac Escalade, a bright red Hummer. Often, the vehicles were tricked out with custom paint jobs, rims, and sound systems at considerable added expense. He also collected top-line watches — Rolexes and diamond-encrusted Cartiers."
Condos, luxury cars, watches ... I guess that'll eventually force you into bankruptcy. Especially when you're not investing any money or collecting $200 with every fifth or sixth roll of the die.
But Walker's lavish lifestyle wasn't all "me-me-me." He was also a generous friend and teammate who had custom suits made for coaches, routinely picked up giant team dinner tabs and, when there were funds to spare, gave to underprivileged youngsters. He was basically spending money like it was going out of style.
And it did.
I guess Biggie was right after all: mo' money, mo' problems.

Orginal article here.
So yeah I feel bad for this dude because he spent his money taking care of his family a few friends and a bunch of leechs. People who are nowhere to be found now that the good times are over... Now I know some of you are going "Good those altheles make too much damn money anyway". To which I say to you what about the CEO's that make insane amounts of money, even if they do a bad job? Even if they outsource a lot of jobs, further eroding our ( american) economy? Nobody talks about them. And if sports stars are making so much money what about the people behind them? Why is no one mad at the team owners? Because trust me those dudes are really raking it in. But no you people are too short sighted and go for the easy target.

Everytime I go on facebook I feel like my IQ drops. Seriously facebook is really dumb in my opinion. Its like Livejournal lite. But I use it to share stuff with family so I do get on it every once in awhile. I feel like no one really says anything at all of any sort of consequence. Its all quizs and stupid status updates. I really don't know how people are feeling, what they are thinking or who they really are. At least with LJ you tend to get a feel for people for better or worse. You get to hear their thoughts and opinions. Facebook is like Idiocracy come to life.

Don't get me started on Twitter...

So I checked my hard drive status like a good mac user and I got a repair your hard drive with disk utility. The first problem really is that my cd/dvd drive is in need of repair. Yeah I guess I could shell out the cash and just get an external one. Which brings me to problem number two. I don't have an OSX 4 install disk. I just have the disk that came with the computer. So do I actually need the OSX 4 install disk or can I use the one that cmae with the computer itself?

I have a powerbook 1GHz PPC G4 with OSX4.11

And here is the message that I got. ( cut for largish image )

So any advice would be helpful. Thanks for your time : ) BTW my computer seems to be running just fine, I'm worried about the future though.

I've been pondering why I feel so strongly about good and bad art lately. Why does it bother me so that artists out there are lazy about their art. Or rather why does it bother me when they don't take it as seriously as I do. And I do take it seriously. Its like the scene from Pulp Fiction when the get away cab driver asks Butch about how he felt about killing a man in the ring. That is how I feel about art. I don't care if lives are ruined or feeling are hurt. If you aren't serious about it then don't step in the ring.

A bit extreme..yeah.

But then again you didn't have to endure my first semester in art school. I had a teacher that would make students cry on a regular basis. " Oh did I break your concentration". She was like that hard. I'd have a headache by the end of every class. I had her at least 3 days of the week and often for at least 3 hours of the day. It was hellish. You would be trying your best to do a great drawing while you were worried that she wouldn't like what you were doing.

And the weird part? She liked me, she called me a true artist which was the highest praise that you could get out of her. But she said that I wasn't really an illustrator, which was fine with me. Because at least she knew that I was serious about what I was doing.

Now that I look back on it I almost feel like it was a traumatic experience, sort of like what movies make basic training out to be. Honestly I don't know if it was worth it, but it definitely shaped me. I reinforced that art was serious business, life or death serious. In fact it wasn't much fun after that. I didn't stop drawing, but I didn't like going to class as much. I guess her classes really let you know how you felt about art. The fact that i could find joy in the middle of that shit storm is prtetty amazing. But I definitely had moments where it was just me, the paper and the model.

I should also say that I grew to dislike most of my classmates. And the feeling was mutual. So yeah i feel like I have paid a lot of dues. Every artist does really in one way or another. You will suffer for your art. But I will have to say that its worth it. Because I can really get a sense of how far I've come with it. Which to most isn't that far at all, but its enriched my life and given me purpose. You can't really ask for more than that.

So yeah now you know something else about me that you might not have before.

Why do once great artists start to suck. I guess this could be related to my last post about why some artists never get better. Although that was more about amateur artists. This is about pro's like Boris Vallejo. I used to love that dudes 70's and 80's work. Now... yuck I can't stand it. John Byrne is like that as well, back in the day he could do no wrong. Now? his comics are pretty sad. Although the commissions that he does are pretty tight.

Some artists keep getting better like Gil Kane, George Perez or Larry Elmore*. But most start to suck or they never get better which I guess is just as bad. I guess this really applies to bands even more than artists. A lot of the musicians that I liked fell off big time.

* My friend that has that Elmore painting doesn't like his new stuff. But I still think he is getting better. Part of that is that we grew up on all of the TSR artists back in the day and nothing tends to be as cool as it was when you were 12.

So you guys know that I'm on Deviant Art a lot during the day, right? One thing that I always see comic book guys advise wannabe's is that you have to draw all of the time. And I agree with this, to a point. See, the thing is that I see a lot of prolific artists on DA and elsewhere that never seem to improve. Year after year they draw the same low quality stuff. And yet they arre drawing all of the time. But they aren't improving at all. Now I know that its hard to get better sometimes, you plateau for a bit before you hit the next level. Also the better you get the harder it is to improve, but if you suck then you should be getting better fairly quickly. So why don't these people get better faster or at all?

Any thoughts?

So I saw job offer :

Looking for a manga style variation of the following photos name photoArguing1, photoDating1 and photoToast1.

The style of manga I am looking for are named MangaExample1, MangaExample2, MangaExample3. I need 3 drawings.

I only expect to pay $50 for this.

You must have a portfolio so I can see your previous work.
If assignment is done well, future assignments will be considered.

Thanks!


Fuck you buddy. YOU only expect to pay $50. For three drawings? Are you sick in the head? I guess you will be working with artists who live outside of North America and The European union then. It always drives me crazy how arrogant these fucks are. How the hell can you expect skilled artists to work for nothing? Why am I going to work for less than minimum wage? Try that on a plumber. Good art is a luxury and should be treated as such.

On another note, friday while I was working I came across someone who was an art director. The person in question had just filled a graphic design position, so I asked the person how they chose the one person for the job out of the sixty that applied.

The answer..." The person that had a degree from the same program that I did." Not the best or most talented...not even someone with a degree. Someone with a degree from the same place that they had a degree from, how messed up is that? This person in my opinion shouldn't have their job. Lucky for them the design work thye do isn't of a competitive nature. Because then they would be in trouble. See the thing is that no one looks are art and then holds their opinion of said art until they find out what kind of degree the artist holds. They like the art or they don't. I've see art from people that have gone to an art school that sucks. And their are plenty of artists without art degrees that are amazing. Of course their are a lot of amazing art school grads as well. But its the art that you see first, not a degree.

I think that all of the Twilight fans are hipocrites. I mean c'mon what is so damn romantic about a 300 year old vampire lusting after a teenager. If the dude looked like he saw even 45 yrs. old there would be protest nationwide. But no since he looks young its all good. Just keep this in mind the next time you think that an older guy is disgusting for looking at a younger woman...

I never understand people who say " I don't know what to draw". At least if they have a computer handy. Now if they said " I don't feel like drawing" that is a different story. I have a ton of pictures on my hard drive that I can use for reference or in those " I don't know what to draw" moments. I normally hate showing things that I've drawn from photographs as "my" work but I haven't posted any new art in awhile so I thought that I'd pull this from my sketch book.

For those of you that belong to voluptuouspinup or nekkidbbw will recogize muffin_von_chub Although she hasn't posted pictures in quite awhile, she has the whole retro pinup thing down to a science. Where some girls just post pictures of their body parts, she actually has costumes and themes going. And her poses are pretty much like something that you would see at a Dr. Sketchy's ( which I'm kinda doubtful of) well the tamer ones.

So this was some thing I did based on one of her pictures. The likeness was a bit off and I added an element to the picture so that it would work as a composition so itsw not photo realistic or anything just something that I did to keep my skills up.

( Because some people are afriad of female nipples... )

The fact that my girl had a bratwurst ready for me when I got home...and that I got some professional level love on DA.

So early this week I mentioned how I sent away for this. I got it at Jstationary, which is out of stock so the link no longer works. I have to say that Jstationary got it to me fast and cheap. It was only 2.50 for shipping and handling. I ordered it on a sunday and got it that Wed. I have to say that this is hands down the best brush pen ever. I've always thought that most brush pens sucked, basically they were felt tipped markers in brush pen drag. The pentel brush pen is the best sketching tool that I've come across. I'd say that I liked the Pentel color brush a little more because of the size of the brush hairs and the handle. But it doesn't draw the ink out, you have to squeeze it. I'll have to get one of those as well to compare. But so far the brush pen is the sketching in ink tool of choice here.

However it doesn't replace a real brush since the ink doesn't flow effortlessly like a real brush would and it can't get as thick as a real brush would. So while it will go in my bookbag my real brush will be used at home.

Roman Polanski is a douchebag. Let the French keep him I say... How all of these hollywood people can even come to his defense is outragous. The only one that I can see is Woody Allen, another creepy director.

So AC/DC has a new box set coming out. Yeah, how exciting I thought. I really like their stuff but not enough to need the box set... Except that the package is an actually guitar amplifier. A solid state one true, but damn it you can actually play the fucking packaging! How cool is that? Check it out. Having said that for 2 hundred bucks I could get a really cool sounding practice amp, but still the idea is total genius!

So yesterday we had an impromtu B.S of comics at T.'s house. He was inking over some professional pencils while I was playing around with his Pentel Color brush. I liked it so much that when I got home I looked online for them. These things are fuckin' incredible. They are almost like my Rapheal brushes. I can get super thin lines with them and get thick lines as well. The place that had the Color brushes wanted 8 bucks for shipping so I opted not to get one. But I found the Pentel brush pens here. I've heard a lot about these and I'm guessing that they are pretty much the same except for the body. The shipping was reasonable so I ordered one.