First Post (Or How I Came To Love The Bomb...er, I Mean Blog)

Well, here I am jumping into the blogosphere. I think I’m at a point where I know too many people with blogs and am feeling left in the dust. So, this is my attempt at putting myself out there and letting people see some of my “art”. I use that term loosely because I’ve never claimed that I am an artist, I just take art classes. I don’t usually like to wax poetic and am not much of a wordsmith, so don’t expect some long diatribes of posts. If I even get 5 regular viewers I’d be happy.

So, to give you an idea of what will be showing up on this blog I’ll start with 2 pages of quick sketch work where I used magazines as reference points. I spent no more than 5-8 minutes on each because I wanted to get loose and work on a more “gestural” appearance. I also used just a simple black ballpoint pen because I wanted to focus more on the flow than the technicality of each line. In the future I’ll be posting a mixture of quick studies like these, along with more detailed technical pieces, design work and possibly things done in different medias.

If by some strange chance you actually like looking at my horrible attempt at “art”, tell some friends and/or acquaintances. Also, feel free to drop comment, critiques and ideas for future drawings and what not.

And to bite an idea of some dude I know- he knows who he is- here is a playlist of music on in the background while working on the samples and writing this. Peace and Grease.

“Wight Spider”- Marilyn Manson
“Number of the Beast”- Iron Maiden
“Run to the Hills”- Iron Maiden
“Midlife Crisis”- Faith No More
“Every Day is Exactly the Same”- Nine Inch Nails
“Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)”- Steve Harley
“Violent World”- The Misfits
“Weathermaker”- Clutch
“Dragonfly”- Clutch
“Lily (My One and Only)”- Smashing Pumpkins
“Wicked Little Town (Tommy Gnosis Version)”- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
“Origin of Love”- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
“The Last in Line”- Dio
“Airbag”- Radiohead
“Runaway”- The Misfits
“I Wanna Be Your Lover”- Prince
“Teflon”- The Mars Volta
“Astro Zombies”- Pennywise
“Attitude”- The Misfits
“Rainbow in the Dark”- Dio
“Cassandra Gemini III”- The Mars Volta
“Pardon Me”- Incubus
“Lifetime”- Maxwell
*The laptop didn’t do too good of a job shuffling all of my music. Trust me I have more for music than Misfits, Iron Maiden and Dio.*