My Hack/Slash Sketch Cards

Here are all my cards from 5finity's Hack/Slash Sketch Card Set. The first two are my Artist Exclusive returns and I have two more blank Artist Exclusives cards if anyone is interested in buying them.

Till I Collapse

Cause sometimes you feel tired,

feel weak, and when you feel weak,
you feel like you wanna just give up.

But you gotta search within you,
you gotta find that inner strength
and just pull that shit out of you
and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter,
no matter how bad you wanna
just fall flat on your face and collapse.


I will not fall,
I will stand tall


This is your moment
and every single minute you spend trying to hold onto it
cause you may never get it again.
So while you’re in it try to get as much shit as you can
and when your run is over just admit when its at its end.
Cause I'm at the end of my wits with half this shit that gets in.


These are just some of the lyrics from a really cool song, called “Till I collapse” by Eminem & Nate Dogg.

I find these words to be inspiring.
I listen to this song a lot when I am running.
Or dealing with petty shit from people that need to shut the hell up.
To those people I say “Get a FUCKING life”! Stay out of mine.
SO, anyways If you haven't heard this song, you should totally check it out.

Go sell crazy someplace else

I am too busy for drama.
I am an adult, and we are not in high school.
So why then do I have to put up with the crazy drama shit?

You know what? I freakin DON'T!


As you, all know I have been dealing with some shit all week, that I originally allowed to piss me off.

But NOT anymore- I'm taking the HIGH road.FYI
I work a full time job, I am a parent of two kids, I volunteer at the soup kitchen for my church on the weekends, I help out my mother who lives alone during the week/weekend and my son also plays on a competitive soccer team in the off season of H.S.
So basically I am freakin busy. ALL THE TIME.
I barely have the time to work on my relathioship with my sportsman.


Did I mention that with my lupus the last thing in the world I need is stress.
It is horribly bad for my health.

You know stress can kill a person.

That is why I try and make time to blog, it helps to remove stress from my life.
It is totally for health purposes.
You know everyone has their "thing", to help them cope in life. Well this is mine.


What I won’t make time for is freakin drama-crazies.


If I have any free time, it will be spent on something well deserving of my time.


Now I have prayed on this “issue of craziness” all week.


And the conclusion I have come to is that I just need to remove myself from the “crazy”.


That is the best thing, the most adult thing to do for myself and my family.


Believe it or not we are good people.


And


We do not deserve to have any added stress to our lives.

I also wanted to thank all of my kickass blog friends who have been super supportive this week.

You guys are awesome.

I owe you one.

Spider-Man Pin-up

Here is a Spider-Man commission I did for a friend's nephew.

Cover of Rolling Stone

I remember when I was growing up there was this song by Dr. Hook. It was called “The cover of Rolling Stone”. Anyone? Anyone?

Ever heard that one? Well I L o v e d it.

 Dr. Hook had some pretty freakin awesome songs.

Anyways, I used to get Rolling Stone magazine when I lived in California. I used to read/look thru them all the time.

I also used to collect certain ones that I thought had kickass covers that might be worth something down the road.

I always thought Rolling Stone was a pretty hip magazine.

Then for whatever reason, I just quit reading and collecting them.

Then recently I was digging thru an old boxes of shit in my garage from my younger days ( I was looking for old photos) whatever, and during my search found some old love letters (we will just save that one for another time) so as I was searching, I came across a Rolling Stone that had saved long ago. It was the Red Hot Chilie Peppers almost naked on the front mag.

Now for that time, being ½ naked on the front of a cover was a big freakin deal. I guess you have to roll with the times or you get left behind. and damn nudity sells!

So out of curiousity, I recently looked on the net to see what other wild and crazy covers for Rolling Stone there have been over the years. Here are some I found.

 So do any of YOU currently read Rolling Stone? Do you have any fav's? I would love to know.

Enjoy.

Recent Illustrations for a thrilling suspense story magazine

I really enjoyed pen and ink, and pure Black and White without gray tones, but the art director asked me to add some shading, and make things softer. Anyway, I love suspense novels, and feel happy about some of the illustrations I did for this project.

Photoshop brush -- Leaves and grass

Yes using a brush to create quick effects is CHEAP, but sometimes you'll need it. 

Just use brushes wisely.

These little brushes are also from Blur's good brush (credit to: Xueguo Yang site) I wish I had more free time to translate the whole set to English.

Download the brush here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/chlddm

Again, switch to your "SMUDGE TOOL" to use these brushes!!!