Stick Figure Sketchblog & Webcomic Creator @ Stewped.com

Around seven years ago I was inking a comic with nib and ink while simultaneously screwing around on the interweb. Probably g-chatting with someone. I’ve since stopped doing that. I had been putting the nib holder into my mouth to chat, like holding a cigarette between my teeth, then grabbing the holder and going back to work.

Eventually I got into a bit of a hurry and moved to grab the holder out of my mouth too quickly. The ink on the nib was still wet and the nib went straight into my thumb.

Some of these nibs are a lot sharper than they look and, much like a tattoo, it bled quite a bit. However, once the scab cleared up this little black dot was left under my skin.

Any time I’m writing or drawing I see this dot and think of all the fun I used to have when drawing. Need to get that feeling back.

How long have I had this silly website? Since high school? I’m thinking ’98 or ’99. It only took a decade-plus, but I finally set up an email address: aj(at)stewped(dot)com
I am so excited.

On Friday I made an ass of myself and spilled crumbs all over the floor of my office. There isn’t a working vacuum at work, so I swept up as best as I could. I couldn’t get all of the crumbs, but knowing there are ants in walls I let Nature take its course.

When I arrived on Monday, the my new servants had moved ALL of the crumbs against this spot on the wall. Note how they also collected the little punch holes from a paper hole-punch that were also on the floor.

I worked my little butt off on a thesaurus entry tonight, but it was just taking much too long and I can’t stay up any later. In lieu of a comic, I hope you can be satisfied with a picture of my art table. And the awesome lamp that I made. On the wall there are printouts of the Comic Strip Artist’s Kit.

On the table you can see the finished artwork for About.

I like the new TMBG album Join Us.

It is enjoyable.

In America you, if you want to live in something that doesn’t have people above or below you, but possibly next to you, you have to pay an exorbitant fee for the privilege to waste an obscene amount of water keeping grass green. Grass that you don’t even need. If you don’t keep your grass green or if you don’t pay your exorbitant fee each month(or year), you can be fined another exorbitant fee. Also, you might even have your house taken away from you. Which you paid for.

America is awesome.

So I scanned my checkbook register for you. The Exorbitant Fee is highlighted for you viewing pleasure. As is my thoughts on said fee.

I’m having a sketchbook pro 2011 problem.

Either a) I don’t understand what I’m doing; or b) the program doesn’t behave the way I expect it to behave. Possibly c) all of the above.
Hitting ‘save’ after making a custom brush doesn’t seem to actually save the brush. It just closes the brush properties window. The same as if I clicked the X in the top right corner of the window. Is that all it does? I was hoping it would save my brush, so that if I messed with it later I couldreset it by clicking the reset button and go back to the settings I previously saved.

It does not behave that way. The image I’ve attached is screenshots of the actual brush properties window and the exact order I’ve been doing those steps in.

What am I doing wrong?

A wall. I painted a wall.

I got to go to APE-CON with Urban Myth Studios as their in-house letterer a couple weeks ago. This was because I AM their in-house letterer! Boy, howdy! In the spirit of comics I drew these two guys from Marvel Comics. Wolverine and Thor as stick(ish) figures. I have a Nightcrawler posted over on deviantArt, so you’ll have to go over there to view it. That site just has more of the stuff you’ve already seen here. Re-posted comics and such. As my scanner bought a farm several months ago, I took the best pictures I could with my phone and altered them in Photoshop in order to make them look better. You will notice that I have failed. A new scanner is on the way, but I’ve heard mixed things about it. The scanner will be bigger than the one I owned before, so that is a plus.

While at the convention I got to meet the famed creator of Hip Flask and Elephantmen, Richard Starkings! It was great. He look at the lettering I did for the Urban Myth guys and said that most of it was good, except for a few dumb mistakes. Which I should have caught. Here’s a page I lettered that he enjoyed as the SFX were good. The last panel has a bad tail in it which I will be correcting soon so it can be placed into my portfolio. If the majority of my lettering work is good, the only question left is, “how do I get a job doing that?!”

In case you didn’t notice, I put up a word between able and abnormal. That word is abnegation. There is also a RSS feed for you if you like. The site still looks like boring horses, but I’ll get around to that at some point. I just want to get some drawings done for now. And as I’m writing this, I am in the middle of sketching the next AIR comic.