PhilipJeanPierre

It's 2014 and you know what that means…which new sex tape will make TMZ top 10, which twerking video will appall America next, and yep, comic book con schedules.  I am only doing two this year and staying in my backyard.

Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Fri, Sat & Sun, April 18 – 20, 2014
Washington, DC

Baltimore Convention Center
Fri, Sat & Sun, Sept. 5-7, 2014
Baltimore, MD

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of nerds and geekdom. And onto this, theMan-Kracken!, destined to sit upon the land of Baltimore—the greatest city on earth?. It is I, the artist, who alone can tell thee of tales of geek, expensive booze and cheap cake. Join me for days of high adventure!

Does that not sound awesome!

Anyway! I am doing the Baltimore Comic Convention on September 7-8. I will have a table and will be selling my art, prints and doing sketches.

So if you have proper protection feel free to come to Baltimore.

Bring the kids, from here on out there be nerds.

Information on the convention can be found here:
http://www.baltimorecomiccon.com/

Earlier this week. I did a fairly large image dump of new work most of it was done Jan and Feb. The major difference is that I am crazy motivated due in no small part to Francis Vallejo fvallejo.deviantart.com/.

I picked up the inking demo/instructional video he did through The  Art Department: theartdepartment.org/downloads…

It was good advice, a discussion on art and using ink, the tools and what you should look for and think wile working. The best part it also eaches you to illustrate with ink, not ink someone else. I love inkers but as an illustrator this video and the approach it taught me to my work, was incredible. A lot of y resistance came from my fear of ruining a piece because of bad inking. A valid one to be sure but I was so terrified I was shooting myself in my foot.  

No, he is not paying me unless you count the education.

Yeah I am overly excited and its been a long time since I could say that.

Honestly something clicked and since I looked at that video I am  illustrating and with ink and using ink without fear. Its a sickness. It’s a 28-DAYS LATER style sickness. A lot of the new stuff is my inking. Is it good? I look at it and cry but I keep pushing which is what we are supposed to do. I don’t know if in my old age, knowledge is getting through but I am not afraid of inking my work. If I fuck it up AND I WILL, then crap that sucks but it doesn’t hold me back. I say screw it and move on and do better.

So this  new work is me trying to get there. I still need patience and as crappy as my inks are I am seeing something what that is I don’t know, but hell like Wesley Snipes says, "Even the sun shines on a dogs ass once."

Here’s to some more sunshine.

News of Awesomeness can be told: My guest spot on Glutenfree the webcomic is out look & tell me I suck...glutenfreecomic.com/?p=574

They wanted someone who could do a noir-ish feel for it and I had fun. Learned a lot of stuff that I am applying to the larger format comic style

An artist does not create what he sees, he interprets what he sees. This perception comes thanks to our lovers, haters, and everything in between. Becasue of them, inspite of them, it allows us to show everyone what we believe to be true. I beleive art is true.