Yeah, I think I'm back

I never got what turned bourbon into the ultimate men's product additive. I don't even mind it, I like bourbon, it's a good drink, smells nice, I just don't think it can single handedly represent masculinity.

Castle doctrine's about to get some real action this year

You should have a ratio of a dozen shitty drawings to every one attempt at a completed piece. Don't get precious, expect to botch your work, move on. Think like Sid Gautama, attachment bad

Coming back to me very slowly

Economists and investors are dubbing them "Quantum Futures"

I don't put too much thought into aesthetic as it's a bad foundation to hitch any line of thought on but i do worry about committing to a commercial style entirely over a more "fine art" mode of expression. Like it sucks but I think on some level people do treat the work as it's presented

Don't expect much but I'm animating again

It never works but I'm the kind of guy who does like, three warmup sketches at the beginning of the week and then hopes the status buff can last til Friday

I have to keep a mental distance from this shit because inevitably some dunce will try and suggest we can vote these problems away as if this wasn't a 20 year bipartisan project. There is no timeline in which people aren't getting greased by feds in the street, and no future elect intends to stop it

Found a free mellotron plugin, time to make ripoff Stax records soul loops for the rest of the week

So is someone gonna finally smoke one of these hogs or what

Promised myself I'd practice more with color this year but I just remembered I hate the shit out of using color

You ever think about how God Hand is Zoroastrian for some unexplained reason

They're really making Lord of the Rings: Hunt Down the Freeman huh

Animal Crossing: New Leaf's been out for some time now, that's why I'm so confused

The real danger of social media is there's no equivalent to a bunch of people giving you an aggrieved look when you say something stupid in real life so every single bad impulse can be freely indulged on

Disillusionment is the main personal experience I need to commit to narrative, like I need to capture this feeling of insanity as I watch people even now affirm to themselves what's happening is just an anomaly that can be corrected while the empire putrifies around us all

I've spent 15 years buying guitar effects and honestly for lead I don't know if you can really do better than an overdrive and chorus. You can do different, just not better

Yeah

The World Of Ultimate Music

Chocolate pudding is one of those foods that makes me feel stupid while I'm eating it but in a good way

All I can say is don't be reminiscing of a time before this because this shit has been USA foreign policy for the past century. This administration is doing the same thing we've always done, but this one happens to be conveniently crude and ugly enough for it to be noticable

fiddling with the pens lying around at a friend’s place

Not worth posting through, it's been like this

Some nights are quiet and reserved and some nights you learn about Jim Henson's The Hoobs

I made a small, Year in Review video for myself and anyone interested.

Quiznos would have survived if they made that coyote the company mascot

They got my ass 2 for 2 on working the Friday after a holiday, I'm down to my last straw man

New year new bread

Puppet Show! 😅

Never going back to pursuing a career in visual arts but I'd rather not let all that time and education spent go to waste, so the foreseeable future is a lot of harsher self critique and reaching towards portfolio grade work if only to substantiate it.

Think I need to spend more time around animals

We'll see how it goes

What I’ve been up to lately

Eat the pennies Quiz Boy

If I'm going to be wholly transparent this year was a lot of pointless suffering and harrowing personal experiences that have left me with a bad outlook and overall worse for wear. Despite it all I'm immensely grateful to my new and old friends who found a way between it all.

I just need a band that can do this youtu.be/3dJO47d26kc?...

2025 Sketchbook Summary Less to show off from this year after I jumped back to digital.

I did the bluesky wrapped thing and scrolled down and saw the section for "here's the words you use most compulsively" and now I'm having to stop myself every time I go to use one

I don't remember what I did exactly this year but there is evidence. #ArtvsArtist2025

I think I've got moderately good phantasia/visualization but it's not really something I can switch on in the process of drawing or rely on in any meaningful way. It feels more like there's visual data stored in my arm than in my head

Every year I face the cold weather graciously without complaint and every year it shanks me hard in the kidney anyway

In reflection of the decade that's followed I have to concede that I peaked with making Weedy's

You think they let people sit in for tantric chanting, I think I'd be pretty good at that

Finally sat down and watched Seven Samurai for real, Kurosawa had some uncanny skill to get you to pay attention cause it was like I stopped having ADHD for 3 hours

I'm hesitant to using tags cause I'll just look at the post and go "yeah it sure is I guess" and feel dumb about it