This Is Madness!!

Actually, it's Monstrous Monday.

Still working on getting out of my funk (you'll see how bad it is in just a moment), but I feel like I've still been pushing to be creative and that's something of an improvement in my attitude and discipline. Anywho, let's get on to business.

A day late, here's my piece for Structured Sundays. I wanted to work on my watercolors and also do something architectural. I chose the Eifel tower. I think this came out terribly, but I had some good ideas while working on it. In case you were wondering it's much easier to make an acrylic painting look better the more paint you slap onto it. Water colors not so much....

The next piece is for today's Monstrous Monday, and I wanted to draw use some of my original characters I haven't drawn in awhile. Here we have Nemo (based on a Sundays comic strip character of the same name from the early 1900's), and Lunacy. Nemo's story takes place in Slumberland, and to make a long story short, Lunacy is one of the monsters that inhabits this dreamworld. More info and art from my Slumberland story will surface as it develops. Nemo is the character being psychadelically warped, by the way.

And that's it, until tomorrow!

Monstrous Mondays

Back again on Monstrous Monday.

I wasn't feeling too creative tonight, so I went and sketched up a generic demon of the dark.

I did however slap some water colors on it!

So, today was a productive day. I got a few pieces done and recorded a few videos for my youtube channel.

While I wait for my videos to finish uploading, I'd like to mention that most of the time my personal sketches for which I am compiling for sketchbooks, concept ideas, etc. I will be taking teaser pictures of and putting them on my Facebook.

I'm going to reserve posting loose sketches and possibly fanart on this page. Basically anything I don't plan on using for publishing and the like will be shown here. Everything else will be available eventually in some other avenue.

Blogging: Starting Over

This isn't the first time I've started a blog. Once upon a time I had a blog going where I would post my sketches and also rant about my thoughts on life. This was during a phase in my life where I was learning alot about myself.

Well, things have calmed down, and while I'm always learning, I've learned not to be so outspoken and opinionated. I think they call that maturity...

Anywho, I've been going through a bit of a rebirth since the first of the year, and have been concentrating on my art more than ever. I've started using my Youtube account to post videos of tutorials of traditional art basic concepts, and also videos of my artistic process. I plan to integrate those videos with this blog, and also with my personal Facebook and Twitter accounts. The plan is to use these to help jump start a career in the arts, whether it helps me to get hired or as a way for me to self-publish and create my own businesses.

In the meantime, I'll leave you with my latest videos that I've made. Please feel free to rate, subscribe and leave comments about what you think and what you hope to see. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for future projects!

-Bret