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HEROES CON BLOG POST UPDATE
Well, as you can see, Friday’s strip is still being displayed on the site today. That’s because that little buffer I had was only for three days while I prepared for Heroes Con this past weekend. I didn’t get home until close to 1:15am last night and had to be at work by 7:30am today – so I will do my best to post something up this afternoon when I get home.
As a special bonus this week, there probably won’t be any Capes & Babes strip up as I need to build that buffer up again – but as a bonus to all of you, every day (starting this afternoon), I will post some of my favorite commission sketches I did over the weekend. So… instead of getting three black & white strips, EVERY DAY this week, you will get a FULL-COLOR cartoon posted here!
For everyone that came out to see me this weekend, than you SOOOOOOO much! I will write up a much more detailed Heroes Con 2010 review later on when I post the first commission up later on today.
Thanks so much, you guys!
-Chris
On Wednesday, Wes Molebash posted a question on his blog about what makes an artist tick or what holds an artist back. I posted the following but on reflection, I thought it would be a good blog post myself so I am re-posting it here as well since I am currently at Heroes Con right now and I think the subject matter fits quite nicely.
Here is my original post:
Before I begin, you need to know some very important background information about me. I am a professional graphic and web designer but I have always cartooned or drew in some kind of fashion… I did some caricaturing work in high school and college, had some freelance illustration gigs here and there, worked for a newspaper as a graphic artist & occasionally did some illustrations for them.
As a web designer, I have two books published by New Riders that I helped co-write, design and illustrate. I even created a promotional webcomic strip for a tech-related web site that’s still on-going.
For the most part, I was happy – I was providing a decent living for my wife and growing family but every now and then, I would feel like I was wasting my artistic talents and that thought would eat at me for a long while until I immersed myself in the next deadline project and I would forget about those feelings.
Then I attended Baltimore Comicon 2006.
Understand, I had attended every Baltimore show since it started. I looked forward to that con every year because it was the only one in my area and it always seemed to re-charge my artistic batteries and get me drawing and cartooning all over again. I loved walking around and hanging out in Artist Alley. I especially loved meeting new artists I hadn’t met the year before and buying their mini-comic sketchbooks. It always seemed to be a huge rush for me.
Until that particular con.
Suddenly, in the middle of the con, I realized I no longer wanted to walk the convention floor and LOOK AT art and TALK TO artists. I remember it clear as day. There was this feeling of
