Bernie Wrightson has had small strokes

Bad news. I feel very connected to Bernie Wrightson.

Hope he gets better and that his abilities aren't altered.

Tumblr Note where I saw the news

 

 

A fit of scanning

I'm scanning all the "Creeple" stuff I have in the hopes of putting together a sketchbook.  This rather fishy looking drawing is just one of a bunch I've already scanned, and I know I have tons more.

In other news, next weekend we are helping Denise relocate to Cal Tech via a train ride from Seattle to CA.  We won't have tons of time so we probably won't get out of Pasadena (and we are focused on spending as much time as possible with Denise), but future trips down will probably include visits with all sorts of S. CA friends.

2 Days left

 So worn out. So much left to do. Roger Robinson is coming over tomorrow to help. Hopefully I will be able to get all this done by Sat morning

Photoshop ink

Here I have Tom Moon's wisdom on creating work from well executed pieces and I'm still plodding along tracing things up from a page layout. I'll start fresh if I ever get this done. I want to finish this and send it along with the writer to San Diego Comic Con

Archive

I did a search, ellis goodson art, got lots of hits that take me to miscellaneous ebay stuff that always interests me.
One creature sketch intrigued me and it took me to this TAG archive of glory. Marty-Jeff-Dok- active and smoking with the contributions to the blog.

 I did this drawing at Sooner Con, based on the fellow pictured. I had already done his 5? year old son as Superman. So later he wants me to do him. I take a ref photo and I think tear it up on the likeness.

His reaction, "I'll tell people it's supposed to be me."

I suffer every day for the art.

Life sucks.....looks like I'm bugging out sooner

Dad has taken a turn for the worse. Busting my ass to leave this coming weekend. The stress alone is going to kill me.


UPDATE: Now my Mom was taken to the Hospital last night via ambulance .....this is unbeleavable

Comics Alliance discovery!

Click Here to see that my Monsters and Dames drawing was previewed on the Comics Alliance website.  I didn't even know about this until just now!  Kinda cool.

BTW, I have a game that I've been working on for about a month now and we are nearly done with it.  I'm really looking forward to sharing what we came up with.  I've made every single piece of art in the game and it's been a blast to work on.  It's a pretty simple game and the art is mostly a bunch of digital paintings.  I'll keep you posted about it.

TAG for July is meeting on the 1st... can anyone come up to make it to the meeting?   You are all invited!  :)

Going to Sooner Con tomorrow

Taking my little whiteboard sketchpad.

I'll take pictures of the con and my whiteboard

I had a good time and made some sales and enjoyed some people. Here's what I did on index cards as I waited for people to come to me.
Kind of a lure. One dollar for 5 minute doodles.

http://weirdellis.tumblr.com/post/90212482087/drawings-on-index-cards-i-was-selling-for-a

  Table mate , Scott McClung captioned this as
"Here is Ellis Goodson using his super speed to do a sketch at SoonerCon Saturday."
Explaining the blurred hand. 
More like having a fit, trying to do a child likeness. 

 Last one.
Another overfed Goodson thread.

New Website for Home Depot Apron Art ...

Hi, y'all ... Just an update. First, I have made a Website for my Home Depot apron designs. Here it is. The reason? I had a meeting with the District 21 HR person and made the suggestion that the district have a person in charge of aprons for special events, etc. She wasn't against it (was actually wearing one of my aprons at the time, but didn't know I had made it). Now I have a Web page for her to check out and send to the top guy in the district: The Decision Maker.

Next, I am talking to two investors to come in and fund a new company that would make two initial "popper" game prototypes, Candy Popper!! and a bulk candy version of Space Baby Patrol. One guy is considering my business plan right now (a high tech & Costa Rica teak plantation baron I met in the aisles of my Home Depot store ... go figure) and I am meeting with another tomorrow. There may be a third guy, too. Gotta give him call.

That's about it. Maybe more to follow when there are updates.

Fire and Brimstone

Guy at work, bugging me for art to go with his Biblical epic script

So I did this messing around in Photoshop. 

Pretty bad.

Could paint into it and address a lot of glitchy stuff.

But I won't

Is it Wordpress?

Just plain old blogspot

Facebook interacted with the artist of this web comic. Indi Martin.

It became clear to me that for my purposes Blogspot would be all the web comic delivery system I would ever need.

The simple buttons.

Links to archives. 

Customizable page look.

It's official, Sayonara San Diego

Well it's official. After 17 years (23 total) I'm leaving San Diego. My Father had a fall and broke his hip. He's in bad shape, My Mother's Alzheimers is progressing quickly. My job options are at ZERO. I can no longer in good conscience stay here. Technically broke I have to go and help my family while there is still time. I have no idea what the future holds. This is a BIG unknown for me. Moving day is July 18, 2014.....very worried, very sad....lots of packing

Close to making a usuable xtra bridge

This is a proof of concept item. The negative space on the roof of the mouth filled in.

But the teeth look very plausible when I placed it in my mouth.

Big issue was learning to use alginate for the mold. Never used it. It is touchy and it shrinks quickly.

Used my existing metal and acrylic bridge as the positive.

The teeth are embedded in a clear silicone. Shouldn't be toxic. Just rubber.

I want something that is easy to use, doesn't bug me as much as the metal, still looks halfway presentable and I don't care if I lose it.

 SUCCESS!
Not really. I'm using fix-o-dent here. I don't know how people stand that stuff. And it still migrates all over the place.
Nothing to hold it into place like the metal bridge.
Now I know. Leave dental work to the pros.

Reynold Brown- NOT

I thought everyone of these beauties was Reynold Brown.

Now I know different.

The Not Of This Earth is a big favorite.

Albert Kallis

Tom's got me thinking. I should be all about photoshop compositing. Never think of a panel until I start to scale the art . Never touch a pencil. Do the art in ballpoint an image at a time..
These were done in the back of the Van , down times waiting to get to the airport to pick up "dirties."

Got a bunch of auctions going. Pass it along

Some ending tomorrow
http://stores.ebay.com/maurice9762ca

Got an interview

Finally got a call back. Tomorrow at 10am. Guess my test samples worked. They said this is a open ended contract.


Got back UGH!

Setting Tom's mind at ease

The bottom pic has the words Larry Latham gave me about doing boards or panels. 

"Whats important? What's an interesting way to show it?"

Sometimes you feel like a Hulk

Smallest thumbnails are often my best stuff

I like how easy it would be to do a nicer sketch and have something that catches the eye.

Just a prop and theatrical lighting.

Got the Vistaprint Banner.
HUGE!
I added this bit of news here rather than a new post.
The next post knocks off the completeness of Silent Joe being on these first Blog entries.

Stagefright at the Labcorp

And enough with the autobiographical cartoons for a while.

Here's the one that was deleted, because my ego demands the oeuvre stay intact.

Concluding with the Comic Fest badge: