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I wish I'd had time to color this. Oh well. Maybe another day.

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I'm having a really hard time staying motivated to draw right now. It's cold and dark and depressing outside. I'm home all alone and wearing two pairs of socks because the floor is so cold. Sigh.

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Happy birthday to Pablo J., possibly the biggest Spider-Man fan I've ever met!

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Another ink and washes thing... Again, take the time to click to see the full-size version, because the details kinda gets lost in the reduced size.

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Marvel Monday!

Special thanks to Raz, who posted a lot of great comments after that insane rant I posted yesterday, and to Vega, who posted a really insightful one. You guys are great!

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I was hanging out with some friends yesterday and the subject of my blog came up - and something they said surprised me.

Now, I'm my own worst critic. When I started this blog a month ago (one month anniversary today! Woohoo!), I knew that to keep it going, I would have to compromise. On occasion, I would have to post something I wasn't completely happy with. Sometimes I try something new and it may be a bad idea - or maybe it's a good idea and I just can't pull it off. Sometimes there just isn't time to keep at it until you're satisfied with the result. The point of this blog is to keep practicing - to improve the ratio of "good enough" to "good."

Here's the thing... my friends pointed out a certain entry that they liked a lot. I hadn't mentioned it to them, but if I had to choose I would've said it's the single WORST thing I posted so far. On the other hand, one of my own favorites I've barely gotten any feedback on at all! Now, it's one thing if your mom or dad say they love your artwork. Of course they will. But when a couple of creative people, talented in their own right, say this - is it my judgment or theirs that is flawed? Both? Neither?

Mystifying, isn't it?

Sometimes I feel I really nailed it, sometimes I'm disappointed in my own ability, but I don't feel that it's my place to say what I feel about the sketches I post. As I said before, this sketchblog doubles as a portfolio to potential employers, and the last thing I want to do is negatively color their opinion of my work, and I don't mean to say to my friends that they've lost their marbles either.

I think what I mean to say is, if you're a casual reader of this thing... please take the time to comment. Tell me what works. Even tell me if it sucks. Because I sure as hell don't know.

Enough of this rant. Back to our regularly scheduled escapist spandex fantasy tomorrow.

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I added a few new links today. Catalina says I inspired her to start a blog, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she'll post. Esbjörn taught an art course I attended a few years back. Chris Piers and maraROCK are two other sketchblogs I recently discovered.

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Yeah, this is all you get today. Sorry.

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Having some problems with my Blogger account, so I’m thinking of moving over to Wordpress instead. But don't worry, I'll let you know if I do. Right now I just hope the problem resolves itself soon.

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I decided today's exercise would be drawing fast, so I drew this bunch in about the same time it usually takes me to draw one character for the previous sketches.

This is also a birthday shout-out to fellow sketchblogger Mark Englert, whose Capes TPB arrives in better comic shops everywhere tomorrow. Happy birthday Mark!

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Marvel Monday!

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Decided to do something a little different today. Went straight to inks and washes for this one, no pencil underdrawing. Not for the perfectionist, right? Turned out okay anyway, I think.

Click on the picture to see a larger version (the linework really gets lost in the reduced size).

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Wow, it's been three weeks already! Isn't that Super, boy?

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This is what people mean when they talk about "false modesty."

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I don't know. Just messing around.

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There's any number of funny captions you could attach to a pose like this. Any suggestions?

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These guys rock.

I haven't decided what I'll be drawing tomorrow but please come back anyway.

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Marvel Monday!

I was really struggling today, so in the end I decided to do something easy. Tomorrow: Not sure I should Tell... come back tomorrow and find out.