I got hired by the U of I about 4 months ago. The job is pretty good but is keeping me busy. I will try to post more though now that I may have a more steady schedule.most of these are fairly recent in the grand scheme of things. some of you may recognize page one from an idiothead from college (a long time ago now). the shakespeare caricatures were part of a project the rare books library hired me to do for their shakespeare's birthday celebration but alas none were used.

alive. no internet. not really doing much except being lazy. trying to finish up a lot of comics so that i can really get into my next big comic project. hope to kickstart something. my life is mostly terror and eating.

i donated a drawing to this wonderful project. i hope people will support it enough so that it succeeds. https://www.facebook.com/thenaiveproject

here is a drawing i did at the request of my older brother. i only managed to get it done on monday so it was technically done before the election but i didn't get it uploaded until he already lost but here is mitt zombie to go with the earlier john mccain and barack obama zombies i did back in 2008.

no job, no money, no internet

here is some art for my other blog done as a group thing with wes and willis the two topics were comic book characters you think need a cartoon and favorite cancelled cartoon show characters (or at least ones you really liked) my comic(s) i chose were howard the duck, dr. strange and quasar and i drew two characters from pirates of dark water (which sadly is not as good as i remember) also working on other things but without the internet or money it may take a while to get them on this blog

sorry about the lack of art updates. i have some art but need to scan it and am waiting on finishing up some other arts to post a larger amount of arts.
besides that i wrecked my convertible. because apparently they do not like hitting telephone poles at 30 miles an hour (i hydroplaned on some snow). i purchased a crown vic as a replacement vehicle and apparently it doesn't like to continue running when i stop at stop signs/lights.
just found out for sure that i have to retake two classes from this past semester. one of which i was perfectly okay with retaking. i got a c minus in it(which apparently doesn't count as a c) but that was a c minus i worked my ass off to receive. the other one was weirder. i turned in work whose average grade was a b minus (most of them were c plusses though) and ended up getting a d plus. now i did have a couple of f's(two things my computer wouldn't save and two in progress assignments that were not as optional as they claimed to be) but apparently those were not the deciding factor in the final grade. apparently i didn't show enough progress or development. which makes no sense considering my grades were all around a C+.
how does average work over an extended period of time (ie a semester) result in a sub average grade for that period of time?
best wishes to all and one of these days i won't suck so much at the art
robula

apparently i missed a batch

hey apparently i missed uploading a batch of sketches to this blog.

sketch dump

you ever feel like all your skills are fading away, your brain is melting and quite possibly you are past your prime (at mid twenties). cause that is how i feel most of the time. i am questioning online grad school (even though it is supposed to be for comic books). anyways sketch dump.

couple of weeks.

here are my sketches for my sketch blog from the past couple of weeks. i am really pleased with the creeper and demon and kind of pleased with the nuklon (especially the rocks) and metamorpho. i also just bought a convertible last week.
best robula

more sketches

i hope to add color to some of these recent sketches. i am trying to learn how to do that with more skill. here is a sketch of the question (for the batman list) and mary marvel for the jla list. vic sage as the question is one of the best characters.
robula
ps i have been writing some stuff and hopefully this is getting me excited enough to actually make some comics in the not to distant future (or at least some comics pages)

finished with semester 1 of online grad school

i have finished up semester 1 of online grad school and am trying to play catch up for my sketch blog. here are some sketches from the previous couple of weeks. they are from the batman list jim gordan, harvey bullock, and renee montoya and from the jla list hawkman, hawkgirl and captain marvel. i plan on making colored versions of all of these. the colors and some of the inks have been done in manga studio (hawkman, gordan, bullock) the other three(cap marvel, montoya, and hawkgirl were inked by hand)
robula

the past month

this past month (at least month's worth of sketches) are late primarily because for the past three weeks i have been battling being sick or sick ish. i had the flu one week and then was getting over that and thought i had beaten it and up jumps some sort of cold/sore throat strep like thingy. i also had two birthdays to celebrate in my family, a wedding anniversary, easter, and i have been trying to focus on grad school so as not to fail out of online illustration. i also saw an advanced screening of thor in 3d which i would recommend except the 3d part which caused fights scenes to be indecipherable, caused the depth of scene to be missing or look completely fake and all in all was done poorly. also there was a definite lack completely of balder the brave.
anyways here are my late sketches. they are catwoman(batman list), captain atom(jla list), firestorm(jla list) ra's al ghul (batman list) blue devil (jla list) talia al ghul (batman list) zsasz (batman list) and the atom (jla list). several of these were done with thumbnails and then being blown up and traced. the captain atom is entirely in sharpie liquid pencil and part of firestorm is as well.
sorry about my inability to do anything in a timely manner.
best
robulas