Accept Rejection

Ok, I have no new drawings I wish to share and being that it is Sunday, the day when I get NEW comics that came out LAST Wednesday, I feel it is finally time to share my thoughts on this cool online project I participated in.

So the theme was to relate to a major calamity or bad luck or about a dozen other fill-in-the-blank synonyms. I admit to not being first on the scene with a project offering because I was reading what others submitted while I thought, tweaked, and worked on mine. Plus, I worked manadatory overtime at the time and had little or no free-time.

The fact that one got rejected kind of bothered me a little bit at first. I understand why and frankly I was lucky enough to have even one accepted. In fact, I’m elated one piece got accepted. Bottomline: I didn’t follow directions as well as I should have and neither piece truly fit the theme. Story of my life, not following directions in some cases. Since this was a project for fun and not of dire need, that is, not a source of income and something that puts food on the table, I need to accept rejection if this hobby of mine is ever to become more than that someday. However, I was a tad bit annoyed the deadline got extended well after I submitted mine. Hell, for the piece that got accepted the changes I made, the shortcuts I took, all that was done in order to meet the deadline.
Anyway, I pride myself on offering things that are more than a simple gag cartoon. I like for my creations to have many or multiple layers of interpretations. For the item below, the accepted cartoon, my intention was always to have a major disaster occur within the scene. The hero above wasn’t just supposed to float in the sky, in other words.
Here’s the one that got accepted.

And, below, is the one that got rejected. I agree it’s not a calamity of any kind. There’s no deus ex machina too, but perhaps if you think about the wife and what she will possibly contend with at work, I can think of nothing worse than: bad luck. Still, if you have to explain or analyse a joke to fit the theme then it’s not worth a lick. What do you think?

The Lastest News

In keeping with the goal I made to myself of uploading and sharing my art on the weekends I realize that I am firing this one off later than planned. It’s Midnight, Monday, and I want to read my new comics instead of doing this.

Things just get plain hectic around the house: cleaning up after the kids after every meal, touch up painting on the exterior of the house, yard work weeding, and filling up the pool.

Oh, the scans below are fine, but the images I snapped from out secondary camera won’t have the greatest clarity because I discovered that the kids handled it and got the lens extremely filthy after the fact.

At any rate, see the images and commentary below.

Here’s a Wonder Woman I did in crayon.

This one’s of the family done without pencil, just a ballpoint pen. I don’t know what happened to Batman’s crotch, but mine’s surely not like that.

Oil painting is one medium I’ve never tried. So here’s my warrior that I hope turns out like a beautiful Frank Frazetta Conan. It’ll never look that good, but I can dream. The pencils are difficult to see and it’s not just the cameras fault, in some areas the pencils have smudged.

These next two pictures don’t belong here, but I don’t think my wife has yet got around to sharing them on our fan art website. Here’s two she recently completed. Both are from images she copied, as usual. The Wonder Woman pose was copied from a coloring book and she asked me to draw Themyscira/Paradise Island. I also was the one who used a darker color red paint to give the breasts 3-D form. It’s all hers but for those minute details.

Below, the reason I don’t get to draw! Notice the drafting table is cluttered with toys, books, and so much more. In fact, I’m supposed to give this room up to my youngest daughter.

2 Quick Sketches From My Archive

These were done super fast like Sergio Aragon`es style. I just used a standard ballpoint pen, no penciling. When the ideas hit I was hoping to share on the Jinxworld.com forum, but decided against it more or less because the creators may have taken offense and they’re not especially good for showing off to two of my heroes anyway.

I’m not accustomed to using a non-photo blue pencil so you’re going to see sketches by me in the future with mistake lines and so on. Chances are, though, the ones I do share will look better than these two. At least I hope so.

Hello World!