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So, the comic artist, Tommy Castillo came by the Sequential department and gave us a (de)motivational speech about the comic industry and various things. Then he had us draw and treated us as if he were an editor, meaning he was blunt in the critiques and either told us we sucked or we were good. lol He never told me I was exceptionally bad or good when he spoke to me (he ranted at me more about using a mechanical pencil than my actual drawing skill), which is sort of a good thing...? I dunno, I ended up walking away less motivated instead of pumped. DX

It's funny since one of our professors came to a game developers meeting and talked about Sequential Art in video games, and that motivated the hell out of me. Then, the next day I heard that guy speak...I went from "FUCK YEAH, I'M GONNA DRAW" to "I just wanna take a nap and never wake up again...." Maybe it's because I didn't like Tommy's work as much (I honestly didn't know who he was until I googled him later that day), because he's not the first person to give me a harsh critique or the first person to say the comic industry is tough. I guess when the lectures are coming artists I look up to, I react differently. Anyway, I've been looking through sketchblogs by Christie (or Lychi on DA), Yi Lee, and Skottie Young and they got me out of my funk pretty fast. I fucking love those guys. LOVE, I tell you!!

My school has a couple of comic anthologies they publish every year, and one of the called Shojo Phonebook (it doesn't have that much shojo style stuff in it despite the name). I decided to try an enter this year. It'd be fun to see my comic in a published in something. I always have a story in mind, so now I'm just working out the characters.  Here's some random sketches of the main character, Duke. Me trying to figure out wtf his hair looks like. Thank God for Hairstylesdesign.com. The random notes you see are just various artists I planned to check out, notes about Duke's design, and the random phrase I'm considering putting on his t-shirt.

Finally figured out what sort of hair I wanted for the guy. Then I just started drawing him from different angles and his eye. Because I like his eye. 

 Then I just made a random doodle of Duke and another character in the story, who I'm thinking about naming Chase. He actually has no design yet. D: I came up with that crazy hair on a whim. They came out a little bit older than they actually are in the story, but I liked it so I left it that way.