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its monday*SIGH*. meet the " monday "sniper....This short week is already takin longer than Id like it to. Hope yours goes smoother

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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In the teens! TGIF!! Hope everyone has a fun weekend. ( come on Thanksgiving! )

Better to do SOMETHING imperfectly than to do NOTHING flawlessly. -Robert Schuller

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Double Post!
It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference. -W. Mitchell

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Almost outta the 20's.

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." Elbert Hubbard

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Double Post. Thanks Sandra for the help with topics :)

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - Harry Truman

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runnin out of things to draw. I came across this grand blog by Maly Siri http://pinup-doodles.blogspot.com/. I would love to have that kinda control with a pencil. Heres me tryin to quickly capture one of her drawings.. an obvious FAIL

It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. - Phyllis Battome

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Double post

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back. - Anonymous

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Gettin an early start today.

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."--George Eliott

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Tiring weekend.... good thing Ive got monday to look forward to.....
Im gettin to old for this shiz

Hope everyones weekend was good!

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. Robert Hughes

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Double Post

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Double Post!! Seeing as I may not post this weekend and want to make sure I hit that 300 mark before the end o year.

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"TGIF"

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. - Soren Kierkegaard

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Loose and quick today

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. -Joshua J. Marine

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My friend "red belly" ( he has to be my friend now ) gave me a very cool brush pen that I felt would imbue me with magical powers of drawing like him . ( yes I used the word imbue in a sentence..you can make fun of me) Tyson is quite the pro with thos things...

Me on the other hand ...Ive used a cintiq for inkin for so long that I wish they would put a control z on this thing.. Here some playin the brush pen and ball point. ONWARD!!

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.- Epictetus

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"Bay City Derby Gnome"

Who knows whats goinon in my head lately...

"Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." Josh Billings

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Modays are bad enough when its warm...figured Id build me a battle bot to protect me today

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us". --Helen Keller

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"Dont feed the bears"

Something that I need to work on ( my round shape ) and gettin to that 300th post

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance." H. Jackson Brown

36 to go...

I dunno if I will be able to hit that 300 by the end o the year unless I figure a couple o days of double posts....we'll see.

Anyways seems like Halloween gets all the drawing attention so I figured I would at least do one Thanksgiving pic before I got back to some monsters. Christmas is already in the stores...Poor Thanksgiving

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.Thornton Wilder

Follow ol' Rafiki...

...he'll show you da way! Quickie tonite.
Figure I would see if I could reach 300 post by the end of the year... wish me luck

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran

Gonna try and be better...

Last month was pretty weak sauce..although i did do some animations... Huzzah

Theres so many things I want to learn and so little time to really get my mind clear. Im runnin around like a chicken with my head cutoff. ( Im havin fun though and thats what counts. )

So todays post mainly consist of some ball point pen drawing. ( The gestures were me tryin to be a bit more conservative and mindful of my lines. ) The ships were, well basically not my cup o tea , so i figured needed to stretch some outside my comfort zone. Also with pen touched up in photoshop so I could hide how lame they were. And of couse a cartoony lady with a lil bit of color. One day I will learn to properly color something. For now I will continue to fake it til I make it. Hope to have some anims for you soon. Thanks for lookin and keep on keepin on!
It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one. - H. C. Payne

Slippin in one more Oct Post

Man it depresses me that I didnt do more drawing this month...So had to try and do one more before it passes me by. Man time is flyin by.

So a tiny bit of animation. Wanted to test myself with something more subtle in movement. So decided on a small take. ( Figure I will start off with smaller test and work my way up to the fancier ones. Try and do it by the numbers) This was tougher for me than I thought it would be. Of course it was a straight ahead with no planning which was prolly why Iwas havin a rough go.

And next some colorin type stuff. ( Yes another holloween pic! ) Check your candy good this year cause you could get some belly button lint!

Thanks for lookin and happy holloween!

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
--Vince Lombardi

Almost a month of nothing???

And my favorite month at that!! ( Not just because my bday is this weekend ;) Sad isnt it....

October is usually my fun draw month. Well I had a hard time tryin to get myself to animate but finally got some. Hopefully I can get some momentum and continue doin small test.

I used this rig here: Spiderbot Rig
Created by this awesome guy here: Ali Tezel

Also a small halloween pic whoot!!!!!! Let see if I can get back on the postin wagon. Thanks for lookin and keep on keepin on

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

DailySketch -- Day 61

Welp here it is. The last of the madness for a while. It was really fun and I commend those who do this for even longer. I will post more often than I had in the past but do want to mix in some anims so... Anyways thanks to everyone who followed and gave the encouragin words. Meant alot and help me feel like I grew.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.Albert Einstein

DailySketch -- Day 60

Funny... as soon as I started to get back into shape, I realised cheeseburger man isnt a good role model for me.

If we all did the things we are capable of,we would astound ourselves. --Thomas Edison

DailySketch -- Day 59

"Down goes monday!!!"

There was a couple of times I got knocked down today. Monday came out swinging, but ended up wearing him self down. Id like to thank my beautiful wife Anne , everyone who visits this blog , and the man up above for this victory... ;)

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.Doug Firebaugh

DailySketch -- Day 58

Guess sometimes I just have to tempt fate...

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.--Bernard M. Baruch

DailySketch -- Day 57

Dont even know where I was goin with this one..Hope everyone is havin a good weekend!

If you don't know where you are going,you'll end up some place else.--Yogi Berra

DailySketch -- Day 56

Cuttin it real close tonite.... See what did i tell you? I'm winding down.... let the count down begin

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
--Elbert Hubbard

DailySketch -- Day 55

"That's not a knife..."

I think I have about 5 more days left in me before I move on to gettin other stuff on this blog. An even two months isnt too shabby for me.

The future depends on what we do in the present. - Mahatma Gandhi

DailySketch -- Day 54

"Why so serious?"

Eventually ( as my wife pointed out ....) I need to start posting animationss.

Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.--Thomas Fuller

DailySketch -- Day 53

"Up, Up , and Awaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!"

Thanks everyone for the motivational kindness, means a bunch.

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.--Hamerton

DailySketch -- Day 52

"Engines full ahead!!!"

Easy to say when Monday is behind you....

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

DailySketch -- Day 51

Monday cometh.....

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
--Dale Carnegie

DailySketch -- Day 50

50 days.....crazy. So now its time to get into shape other than round .. physically. Lets see if I can balance the two. Hope everyone is havin a nice weekend

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
--Norman Vincent Peale