To Be Fair, The Last Time I Moved Across The Country I Didn't Post For A Year

Hello! So, for those of you who didn't know, I moved back to Chicago! What?! That's right. After close to five years in NYC, I'm back home in Chicago. I'm not gonna lie, I already miss NY, but it's good to be back and close to family. Anyway, for those of you on my holiday card mailing list you should have received a postcard with my and John's new address. If I somehow missed you or you are not on the mailing list and would like to be, shoot me a message on Facebook with your address and I'll send one your way. Now that that is out of the way here are some process pictures along with the final card design (sans address for obvious reasons).

Here are some of the original rough sketches from my sketchbook. Pretty sure I drew these while I was on the train in NYC. 

Back in Chicago I got to work on the final drawing.

Inked.

Process shot. Gotta have some tea.

Sneak Preview shot for twitter (@Saturn2169)

All colored with inks and scanned in.

Final! Background and some cleanup done in Photosherp.

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted. I do have some stuff I'm working on now, so I should have some more fun stuff to post soon.

A Year In Review

Today it has been exactly a year since the last time I have updated my blog. Much has changed in the past year and you will agree that I have many excuses for not updating sooner. Okay, maybe not that many. Okay, so there is no real reason that I've not updated sooner aside from my own laziness. But I suppose better late than never. Plus, since I've waited a whole year exactly, it makes it feel all dramatic and shit. Anyways, without further ado, my year in review...

So we moved into this cool new place in Lincoln Square (Chicago).

Four months later we moved out.

And by September we were living in New York City!

We live in this tiny room in some man's house in Jamaica, Queens.

I have to put on pants to walk to the bathroom.

In October I got appendicitis and had to get my appendix taken out.

I started drawing a daily comic in the beginning of 2012.

Most of them were about how I wanted to quit my job or how tired I was.

So I stopped after two and a half months.

And just this past week I quit my job at Target...

Or so I thought. I don't really feel like telling the whole story here, but basically they begged me to stay. So now I'll only be working two days a week and no more 4 am shifts. I'll have a set schedule so I can work on my art more and start looking for other jobs. Thanks Target!

Here's the Christmas card I made and sent out this past year.

This is the rough sketch from my sketch book.

The inked version.

Painting the floor.

Finished painting.

Final version after a couple edits in Photoshop.

And now a couple sketches. Nothing special.

And of course a naked chick. Of course.

So there you are. That's basically what I've been up to since April 15, 2011. I have some exciting things coming up. I don't want to post anything about it just yet, but I have a project I'm starting work on, plus I'll be working on my portfolio full time for the next two weeks before I start working again. You'll see me soon. I promise. For realsies this time.