Draw Like Crazy

I can't believe it! I actually sold art work on ebay. I didn't hoestly thing it would happen. I need to get more auctions up. I officially sold 4 cards out of 9 and I had 20 more to color and post!! I hope more people will be interested in my work!

it has been a while since I posted on live journal. I am working on a project called 100 Art Cards. my goal is to do 100 art cards and sell them all so I can raise money to move into a new apartment. Otherwise I will be doing all my drawings on the street curb. lol

I am trying to raise as much as I can between now and September 1st. I had some problems when I was supposed to be living with a 2 roommates and one backed out so I couldn't afford the place anymore so now I am trying to figure out how to make this thing work so I don't have to be homeless woo hoo!!

Anyway the 100 art cards includes commissions o if anyone were interested in commissioning me as well I can do that to and you will be added to the collection.

these are the completed cards so far:

You know back in the day I was a small girl. I could wear chidrens clothes cause I was so short and petite. I weighed in today at 238 pounds though. Not the petite person I use to be you could say. I think I lost a little though cause I could swear I was like 242 a few weeks ago.

I don't know I get tired for being over weight. it is annoying. About a year ago I lost 50 pounds and was down to 200. I gained 38 back over the school year cause it was hard as hell to shop and eat right considering I couldn't continue my previous diet do to not having a car, not knowing anything about this place I am living in and simpley not being able to get out and enjoy my regular fun activities. Dover, NJ sucks!!

Before I got here I was doing kickboxing and westeling, asthanga yoga, rollerskating and dancing on a regular at different places and with friends in my home town. But in Dover I am sedentary cause I don't know anything about this place and most of the natives here speak english.

I miss salsa dancing and belly dancing and african dance lessons with my friend vanessa. I am going insane.

I got some aerobics videos. I picked up a 2 hour ashtanga yoga video 2. it covers the first series. I miss going to the classes. Since I got my new house I can work out confortabley around here. So I want to start back. I use to do it once a week but I was thinking if I did it 3 days a week on my off days and started walking to work it could really make a difference in how I look and feel and my clothes fit.

I guess we will just see what happens I want to finish loosing weight and start feeling like myself for a change.

Start Date: August 15, 2006
Starting Weight: 242 lbs
Last Week: 242 lbs
This Week: 238 lbs
Loss: 4 lbs (4 lbs total)

Goal Weight: 200 lbs

Hvae you ever felt like you wanted to just take over someone elses life. Just be a totaly different person all together in fact. Thats me. At least for today. I keep asking myself why I do alot of the bullshit I do. People ask me to do a job and I simpley decide not to do it or maybe as I am working on it is feels like utter torcher, But I don't want to disappoint them.

it is like this everyday. It is like I can't find enjoyment in life sometimes. I mean I love art and love to create and love to draw but sometimes the ideas won't come and when they do come I rethink them and realize I could have done a way better job than this. I could have made it amazing.

I think of alot of the stuff I sit and have set aside in my life and then I start asking myself why in the hell did I do that to myself I could have done that and more. I love to sing but I never sing on stage, I love photography but I don't even carry my camera around anymore. I love to write but I quit writing because fucking college burned me the hell out. I like to remember all the good and bad things that have happened to me but I stoped keeping a journal so I can remenice. I love having a boyfriend and being in love but I keep choosing to be in relationships that are virtually impossible to maintain for any length of timecause they are either unhealthy or the person lives or has moved 1000 miles away. I like sewing and crochette but I thikn to myserlf why do that whenI can be doing art and then i don't even do Art I just sit there. I like to dance but I don't go dancing.

All these amazing things I love yet I continue to put my life on hold like I am always waiting for something to happen that will lead to an unexplainable series of evens that will cause every thing to magically fall into place.

Good example. I have been working on the idea for Quitestorm for some years now yet why is it that I am just now starting to put it down on paper and desogn characters for it.

WHat makes it so bad is I have been blind to my behaviors for so long that it is like they are becoming habits. I am so tired of feeling like I have nothing to live for. like nothing matters. Like I don't care. People think I am drivin but I really am not. If I were I would have gotten out of this rut a really long time ago. Starting with not bothering to move back into my moms house some 5 or 6 years ago. It is like I have been procrastinating on living. You know the average person might procrastinate on doing homework for a few hours but I am that strange case there I wait till I know it will be literally impossible to complete a task before even begining. Like the jerk off that Writes there term paper one hour before it is due and then wonders how in the hell they actually failed.

I was talking to this chick afua. The is really cool you should check out her art.

http://www.pbase.com/lakotasioux/art
http://red-blue.blogspot.com/

and everytime I talk to her I actually feel bad for beig me cause she starts to represent everything I think I should have been but never got the guts and go and just be. like she sings and auditions for parts and she draws comics and she is a model and a photographer. Not saying I want to be her it is just when we talk we think so much alike and it reminds me of when I was younger. You know before something happened to me to take my will and my fire away. you know how people get when they are sheltered way more than they need to be and they get told no one to many times. One of to things happens. They lash out and run away or they just start giving up. I think I am the one that gave up. You just don't knwo how much I love to sing. I wanted to be a musician way before I became an artist. and then one day the parental figure says no you can't go sing and so I reserved the voice for singing in the shower. I always wanted to be an animator which ment I would have to actually leave the state and go out and start seeking out my destiney and then I was told no again and I just stayed and was unhappy. It is like I have spent so many years doing what I was told that now I am like way behind. Like the 2 year old who's parents never tried to get him to speak or read to him so by the time he was 5 he had no words to speak with so they put him in the slow class to catch up with everyone else. Thst is a good representaion of me.

Oh mygod you don't know how wild and unruley I really want to be but I hold it back just so other people can feel comfortable I am a sane reliable human being. I hate being in dover cause for the first time in my life I am in a totaly uncontrolable environment. I don't know how to navigate the area or for that matter how to really get out and explorewithout a car or other people around me to do it with so I sit in the house all the time.untill I have to go to work. I think the one thing I miss most about home was doing out and dancing and rolllerskating with friends and hanging with my boys doing art. But the thing I miss least that drove me to want to get the hell out of dodge was the constant torcher of my home life. My fam was driving me nuts. and now they drive me nuts from afar. I am like the animal they set free in the forest after nursing it back to health. Only they didn;t think about the fact that I have absolutely no idea where I am or if I can survive.

HOw do I fix myself. How do I get back time wasted. The answer is I can't but can I make up for it. can I catch up to where I honestly should be? I am not sure anymore.

New Comic strip!1

I really want to customize my live journal so that I can showcase my work and like build it to look the way I want. Only problem is, I don't know ho wto. So if anyone out there can direct me down the right path i will love you forever.

You know trying to get commisions on line sucks. I always end up with people that say they really wish they couls get one done but they have no money. So today I think I will rant about it. It really pisses me off. This guy commissioned me to draw his girlfriend as a cartoon characture and the other day he says to me take your time I don't have the money right now anyway. I mean what the hell is up with that?


mean what is the secret to getting peple to pay money for your hard labored art work. I remember back in the day when I worked at the ammusement park drawing caricatures this guy walks up and I was like let me draw you cause I wasn't busy and so I drew him. The only catch in those situations is that they can't keep the drawing unless they pay for it. After I am done the guy looks at the drawing snd is like wow that is great and it didn't take you that long you should let me keep it. I said no you have to buy it. He was like what are you going to do with it if I don't and i was liek throw it away. Then he was like then you may as well give it to me it's not like was hard for you to do you drew it in like 5 minute anyway. The moral to the story? It is like people think that if doing the drawing was to easy then why should they buy it.

Another exapmle is there was this guy there that was like the worst artist in the whole park. he was slow and most people hated what he did. but some days he managed to make way more money that anyone else did. I never really got that. Did they buy it out of pity? Do I need to dumb down my art work to make people want to actually buy it? I can't even begin to understand it. Whyu do people take artists so lightly it boggles my mind. If anyone has the anwers can they tell me.

Things have been cool these days. i had a sketch jam with my friend afua the other day. We are going toput together a sketch book together. Wrok on my personal book is going sloa I how it turns out nice but I have so much to scann anyway. that is it here is rogue colored.

I just uploaded a crap load of new art to DA if anyone wants to see it. in the mean time here are some samples.

God I swear I can stand stupid idiots. There is this guy on DA that was harassing me. It started out as simple stupid responses and I would ask him what he was talking about cause they made absolutely no since at all. And finally I sent him a not asking him to stop and do you know he went through one of my new deviations and posted nasty comments behind all the things I wrote to my friends. I got so pissed I didn't know what to do. So I asked a few people what to do including my friend Dmario ( http://dmario.deviantart.com/ ) and he told me to send a complaint to the help desk.

So I did. then he told me to look at his activity log and I wasn't the only person this guy was harassing. Apparently he was doing it to other artists on DA. More specifically African american artists.

He was saying thing like white women need to be raped and that I was a N***a and just all this horrible stuff and it was really starting to upset me. I mean I have never gotten hateful comments like that on DA. It was so uncalled for. Anyway I am really glad cause DA banned and removed him account very promptly. If you want to see some of the rude comments they are still up on DA. http://www.deviantart.com/view/35864710/

Anyway I have some new art up. It has been a while since I colored anything so it felt really nice to do this one.

Things are really freaking crazy right now. I am flat broke. I have been working on a commissioned job for this company stirred water studios on this book called Hey Sophie. It is going to be like 2 weeks before I get paid though and it really sucks. The delay means allot of bills are going to be late this month and there is nothing I can do about it.


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Anyway I am opening up for commission if anyone is interested in helping me pay my past due bills. Leave a message here if yo are interested.

Caricature: $10 per head. B/W

$20 per head. Color.
Add full body +$5, add Background +$10

Sample:

	50 cent 50 cent		julia roberts julia roberts
	ozzy and sharon ozzy and sharon		brad pit brad pit
	50 cent 50 cent

Note than means that if you would like more than one person in a picture you pay per person.

Commission fan art and characters:
$10 per character no BG. B/W
$20 dollars per character. Color
Add Background +$10

Sample:

anime girl anime girl	inuyasha inyasha and kagome	mainasha mainasha	mainasha mainasha

The prices above do not include shipping and handling.

For those of that don't want a caricature drawn, but think it would be cool if you had your face on you favorite cartoon or movie character. ( ex. You dressed as a star wars character) I can do that as well. The price will be the same as a regular character commission.


Matting and framing:
For an additional small fee I will matte or frame you commission so that you can hag it on the wall the minute it is received. cost will vary based on the size of the matte.


(Note: For any caricature or character drawing featuring yourself you must provide large decent quality photos. If images are to small, blurry, or you have on things like glasses and hats I can not draw an image that actually looks like you due to the low quality. )

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COMING SOON!!

Drawlikecrazy summer sketchbook:

This book is a compilation of both finished and unfinished works completed During my first year at the Joe Kubert school.

MoonFall:

Graphic novel about the coming of the end of the world. Including short stories from a variety of fresh young talent.

Moonfall the comic:

I will be publishing a 30 page comic book featuring sketches and pinups from the making of this book.