Sketch a Day, Day 370

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I have a shirt that I’ve been wearing for about five years now. It’s one of my favorites, obviously. Sadly, it has a hole along the waistband where it’s rubbed against the seatbelt buckle in the car for years. Worn clean through. It’s probably time I retire the thing, but I have a hard time letting go.

Sketch a Day, Day 369

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Probably mostly true story. Granted, she didn’t tell me the girl I apparently ditched her for had herpes at the time. Oh, no, she waited until after we got married.

Not that it mattered much, since whoever that girl was, she ignored me and I don’t even remember her name now.

Also, I’m not good with subtext. It just becomes text with me, apparently.

Commissions

So, just for the heck of it, and because apparently I’ve got all the free time in the world (no, I don’t), I’ve decided to see if there’s any interest in commissions out there.

Anyway, here’s how it’d work: there will be a few different options, including size of paper (I’ve got 3″x5″ sketch cards I can use, 8.5″x11″ cardstock, and a rather larger size Bristol board at my disposal). On the sketch cards, I can manage either a simple single-panel comic or a single image of your choosing. On the 8.5″x11″ cardstock, I can do multiple-panel comics or a larger single image of two or three characters. On the Bristol board, multiple-panel comics or a single image with several characters is possible. Each black and white image would have grayscale shading, just like in my daily comics. Sorry, I can’t really do color stuff with pen and paper drawings. Pricing would be as follows:

Sketch Card, Single Image or Single-Panel Comic: $5 plus shipping and handling
Cardstock, Single Image: $10 plus S&H
Cardstock, Comic: $12 plus S&H
Bristol Board, Single Image: $15 plus S&H
Bristol Board, Comic: $20 plus S&H

Shipping costs will depend on your location; costs within the continental United States would obviously be lower than international shipping (since I live in the U.S.).

Now, if you wanted a digital commission, that could also be arranged, and there wouldn’t be any shipping costs involved. I could also manage to do color with a digital image. Prices for that would vary depending on number of characters, number of panels, etc.

Anyone who is interested can contact me at crookedhalo42 [at] yahoo.com to discuss rates, subject matter, etc.

Sketch a Day, Day 366

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Seriously, Thanksgiving Break screwed up my sleep schedule completely. I’m so tired when I get home in the afternoon, I end up taking a nap on the couch, which causes me to have trouble sleeping at night. Which in turn makes me tired the next day, so I end up taking a nap on the couch when I get home from work. And so on.

Sketch a Day, Day 365

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Three-hundred and sixty-five.

A year ago, I decided to start drawing regularly again. The original intention was that I’d draw something quickly – from rough sketch to finished product in less than half an hour.

Yeah, that lasted less than a month.

It went from simple sketches to comics, and I started doing things like shading.

It’s been a lot of fun, even if its been challenging to get a drawing done each day.

So yeah, a year. I’m looking forward to the next year, and I hope you’ll join me!

Sketch a Day, Day 364

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My wife makes this dish of mashed turnips and potatoes called rutmush (pronounced “root moose”). It’s a traditional Italian Swedish thing, apparently. I am not fond of it at all. The first Thanksgiving we had together, I thought it was just mashed potatoes. I was…wrong.