latest art

sorry didn't mean to confuse you with the title, I'm just putting up my latest ebay purchase. Although I should say I am on the verge of completing another 2 pages for my comic. Anyway this little gem is zombie spider-man by Arthur Suydam, the artist behind the paining covers which have been sweeping across all the marvel titles.

I get paid next Friday with the princely sum of about £300, the vast majority of which I'm going to put aside but there are two peices of art currently on my radar; a wolverine drawing by Mini Marvels artist Chris Giarusso (sp?) and possibly moving into big boys collecting with a George Perez page featuring supergirl and green lantern (among about 100 other characters, he's ridiculous) with is being sold for $250.. that's a mere fraction of what it's actually worth but it's still a lotta money, epecially since I don't know how long I'l be able to hold out at my job and I really want a big chunk of money saved.

Still no art

As the title suggests I still haven't had time to do the thing that keeps me going... drawing. I'm on the half-term 'holiday' at the moment but I've got to much work to do to actually enjoy it, I'm begginning to question if it's really worth it. But then I think that once I've completed these tasks (mammoth as the are) then theres realatively little left to do. It's a completely lie because there are many more things after this current list is completed, with the small matter of the 3 most important exams that I will ever take... probably. So between sleep, school work and shop work I am determined to knock out a few pages over the next week, especially as I have found new inspiration in Todd Mcfarlane's spider-man work ;D. Anyway I can't sit around talking I have 3000 words to write...

How can anything be this hard?

I have to 1st give a warning: if you are in a good mood then skip the following post.

No art today. The simple reason for that is that I haven't had time to do any- of any type. That kills me, it really does. I got the job I applied for which is essentially stacking shelves at morrisons. £5.50 an hour, 15 hours a week. Not the best pay and 15 hours doesn't sound like much right? That's what I thought. My 1st night on Tuesday I didn't think went to badly (this was after a 9 hour induction day on saturday), however my second night was just awful. That's not me being overly-dramatic. Seriously, it was awful. My manager (who has been there 21 years and therefore I can assume hes not going to be leaving anytime soon) made it hell for me. Now I can hold my hands up and say I'm not particularly good yet, I mean who is on their SECOND NIGHT!? For some reason the dude gives me a list of about 5 or 6 tasks to complete and tells me how to do them all (knowing full well that by the time I've done the 4th I will have forgotten) and then gives me some impossible amount of time to complete them in. Here's an example: stack meaty flavour crisps as tall as I am, stack classics crisps as tall as I am, face an end row, fill an entire display of jaffa cakes, fill chocolate fingers, fill these weird simpsons biscuits, fill in a row of bran flakes and fruit'n'fibre- IN 15 MINS. No exageration there. Its what he expects from a dispraxic and autistic guy who doesn't entirely know what hes doing. Then once I was done (and he was watching me for most of it) he told me why most of what I had done was wrong and told me about how he could not afford a bad link in the chain and that I was a serious cause for concern. I received several of these speeches which essentially mean
if I dont become as good as him very, very quickly then I'm sacked. No pressure, ay?

Basically I hate it there and I know already that I'm not going to be there long. Whether I quit or get sacked is irrelevant because everytime I realise, like right now, that I have work in a few hours time I die a little inside. It doesn't help that when I trudge home at 11 at night I am fully wide awake so I will still be up for a few hours, however I am to tired and my back is to sore for me to do anything usefull. This makes me very tired the next day for school which is really not good for the moment as all my school work is suddenly coming to a head and I am getting very far behind. I have already given up on doing any comic work for the next month but I still think if I carry on with this job my chances of passing are in serious jepardy.

So I am going to see out next week and cling on as long as I can, after all £25 a night is not to be sniffed at but this will not be lasting long. Sorry if I bummed anyone out with this post but its just the way I feel...

Timm style

Heres a random sketch of a blond (possibly supergirl now that i look at it) which was drawn with markers using Bruce Timm's 'animation' style. Its quick and fun which is good because i dont have much time for anything between school and my job atm. enjoy and expect more...