Skulldog Studio

I feel like this is some sort of social experiment, the kind where you think you’re electrocuting puppies in another room and then someone jumps out and goes ‘surprise, it was just a test, and you passed!’.

Perhaps I should use the printer attached to the open network and send them a message? Maybe something about puppies.

There really is something amazing about the sudden jump from snow, to 80 degree weather that I love about New England. Now that I’m no longer in a daily battle of wanting to get out of my warm, warm bed, I must move on to the Spring Cleaning part of Spring I love.

Over the weekend I’ll be scanning and adding a ton of old sketches to the shop,  it’s long over due that I cull the five pound box of loose paper doodles that grazes under my work desk. Keep an eye out for updates.

Or maybe clothing is more your thing? Well hot damn do I have some shirts for you.

First up, Cameesa is no longer charging up front for supporting shirts! That means you don’t have to put any money down, at least until the shirt reaches full support and it’s on it’s way to your house. No better time to start.

Don’t feel like waiting, want a shirt RIGHT NOW? Want to pick your own damn shirt color and style? I’m also starting a few designs at Mysoti that you can customize and have shipped today.  Also keep an eye here, I’ll have new art up over the coming weeks.

Are you a bad enough dude for shirts?

First, a convention that’s entirely fun, I’ll be attending a day of Penny Arcade Expo.

Those rules..

Now for the ones that I’ll be selling at I’ll be hitting up Lunacon for the first time ever. This isn’t under my name, so you’ll just have to hunt me down by finding the hats.

Anime Boston, not under my own table again, but with the support of a fellow artist friend. You’ll be looking for the table with the animal eared hats, I’ll be sleeping back there.

Remember me?

Of course you do, and now this adorable little dead dog is ready for order through Patch Together. Set to be 12 inches tall, with super soft neck poof, how can you say no?

Currently at a $24.95 pre order discount, PT’s method of ordering means you WILL NOT BE CHARGED until it’s ready to ship.

I’ve always believed this world has a strange sense of humor, somethings more entertaining than others. The other night I went out on a trip to buy two things, more soda of the non-HFC variety, and beer.

The later is much easier to find, the first not so much. There are only two places that carry my favorite Pepsi Throwback nearby. However on this day, the world wanted to have a laugh at our expense. In the vast soda isle, instead of the usual stack of bright blue boxes, we found some extra diet Pepsi and this..

A sweet potato.

To top that off, the while checking out at the second store, the first item listed on the fellow in front of us in line was, you guessed  it, one sweet potato.

I know my advice tends to run in the negative here, your art sucks, stop whining, get over it.

But I always like to reiterate the positive aspect of art to people that read. You are an artist, you do what not everyone can, you create. As such, you will run into people that will try to tell you what art is or isn’t, they might try to tell you that if your drawings don’t have some deep metaphysical meaning, it’s crap, not worth doing.

Don’t listen to them. Art CAN and should have meaning, but everyone in awhile, there’s no harm is just drawing whatever silly crap turns up in your head. It’s not any less of an expression, you aren’t any less of an artist.

Not everyone can be a Bansky all the time, some of us like to just revert back to the happy four year olds with a new box of crayons.

Carry on.

One new digital picture added to the mix.

Plus a few new item added to the store, some ACEO original paintings along with some large originals.

For Christmas one year, a good friend gave me a coloring book. Mind you, this was during my free roaming years in college as an art student. I was thrilled by this book, like no other gift that year could top. This book was in it’s most primal form, terrible.

You can tell whoever was in charge of it, had no idea what kids like, or what kids should even be coloring. Some stories are common, innocent things that one can pass over, until you come across ‘The story of Pocahontas’. Of the not Disney variety. While my brain is still wrapping itself around why they picked that over say, Snow White or Sleeping Beauty, I gave up thinking all together by the time the next story comes up.

Hercules and the Amazons.

Really? Really.

Have a scan of John Smith, who looks to be related to Lucky, from the Lucky Charms cereal box. Thanks Jen, thanks a lot.

I caught this news on Deviantart, the site I currently use for the creation of prints, it’s quite good news.

So, if you wanted to nab a print from me, consider now a good time, as you can load up and save on shipping. The timing is good too, with all sorts of silly holidays around the corner.

News article about this sale: http://news.deviantart.com/article/97515/

Another day, another..something. Nothing too amazing on the art front, but a potential new toy needs some helpful support.

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