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You’ve got nothing to fear, I’m here

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One Punch Man and the Subterranean King in pixels and animated. Took me some time but it was pretty awesome to do.

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Any words of wisdom for aspiring artists? Like... People that wanna be as fabulous as you and your art?

I would say don’t give up even if you don’t think you’re very good now.

PRACTICE everyday, even if you draw a smiley face, over time that will create a habit and drawing will get easier.

use reference, don’t be afraid to draw from a photo or another drawing, I wanted to be able to draw EVERYTHING from memory and that’s just not possible. Disney animators drew from live reference all the time, it’s not something to be ashamed of.

Focus on you and your improvement, do not let yourself get bitter if another artist you follow is getting miles ahead of you, learn what you can from their work and apply it to yours.

Even if you don’t like a certain piece , upload it anyway, it’s a good way to build your portfolio.

Do not make art for anyone else’s approval but your own, do not make art for the notes and attention, that’s a slippery road down a wrong path.

copying,tracing are ok for practice but stealing someone else’s work and calling it your own is not ok.

You don’t need a wacom tablet, photoshop or copics to make good art. Also do not invest in any of these if you do not use them regularly either, it can end up being a huge waste of money , especially if you don’t end up liking it. try cheaper alternatives first and when your skills develop enough move on to bigger badder supplies.

Drawing is not easy, it can be super frustrating at times and you might get bad art block too, you have to be able to overcome the worst. I had horrible art block for about 3 years and I’m finally getting over it, it stunted my abilities because I believe I would have had more tuned skills if I had used those years to constantly practice, I am making up for that now.

LEARN THE BASICS. Perspective, rule of thirds, composition , values and all that art 101 stuff. you will not get very far without learning the fundamentals, your art might look alright but there will always be something off is you don’t learn these things, they are super important and I cannot stress that enough. DON’T BE LT.SURGE’s RAICHU !!!

umm and that’s all I can think off right now, but basically practice everyday and keep going , someone out there will like it.

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… Was a friend

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This is a webcomic for a contest and I could really use the prize money for parental and student loans so please at least read it. But if you want to help more, reblog and rate the comic!

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What happens when my friend gives me Spongebob stickers.

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For Every Artist Who's Struggling with Themselves

This entire month I was meditating upon something really important and I learned something that really helped me with my own struggles. 

I honestly hope this helped! Hope you have a wonderful day and if not I hope the next day is much much MUCH better!

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AMY POEHLER: Great people do things before they’re ready

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Ok so I’ve been quiet about this for some time now, and I thought I should break that silence and make this public. (Hey other people are posting art PSA’s, this ain’t new)

We are Artists, We are many

Being a artist on Tumblr alone isnt easy. There are millions of other people  doing the exact same thing you’re doing. Amongst all of them you can be overlooked so easily. Now I am familiar with all those PSAs about not worrying about being popular and loving your own art. Thats all well and good, no ones debating that. But we artist want to share our art with the world. We want to show everyone what we can do.

The Wall

When we receive praise and love for our work, thats the best feeling in the world for us. We all have friends, fellow artists or not, that support us. But here on Tumblr, your art might not get pushed out into the crowd. For myself as an example, I get a 1 reblog for every 10 likes on something. And this is only including when I originally post it. When art post is liked, no one else sees it. Likes stay hidden and don’t appear on others dashes. (And yes, some blog themes do show likes, this I am aware)

Likes are good, but Reblogs do a lot more

When someone reblogs your art, a whole new set of people get to see it. Most of them are people who have never seen your stuff before. For example, whenever Carbines Official WIldstar Tumblr reblogs my Wildstar art, I get bombarded with likes, reblogs even follows! But before that, when I post it in the first place, not much happens. Dont get me wrong, I’m grateful I get anything, but feedback and notoriety is what keeps an artist like me going, and many others as well. Now I may understand that sometimes something someone draws isn’t your cup of tea, that’s alright! But even if you show a little interest, a reblog does a world of difference.

Support your friends, Support those who care

I know this is all sounding a little preachy, but it’s something I needed to get off my chest. There are no complaints, there are no orders, just a call out from all us artists. From the big and professional, to the small and unseen. We all want to share our art with the world, and it can all begin with a reblog.

( I dont think I need to say that everyone should reblog this, it goes without saying no?)

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This was just another comic I did when I felt that my prestigious magnet school was destroying me emotionally and taking family time away. I love school, but gosh, there are bound to be flaws in such an externally-controlled system. This was also a part of my Silver Medal winning portfolio for the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

And I’m currently writing a dystopian novel very loosely based on this! 

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Welcome everyone to the very first update of Alice and the Nightmare!! This update is 7 pages long so click here to start and keep on going! Updates every Sunday, Monday, and Thursday so be sure to check back for a new page tomorrow. I hope you enjoy it and where the adventure goes! 

Big thank you to Hiveworks for helping put the site together and just being wonderful in general!

Alright everyone, here we go!

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My school's second magazine issue is out (lol, although very late) and it includes some awesome art and writing! My award-winning comic, Walking on Air 2: The Four Year Wars is also featured on there! Give it a read!

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My Scholastic Award-winning comic's cover, Walking on Air 2: The Four Year Wars is in the front my school district's Board of Education page! I'm also getting an interview done soon too! It'll be up on the site sometime next month!

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Do it wrong.

Cartoonists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, we all get the same questions. And we all have boring, stock answers like ‘draw every day’ or ‘practice a lot’. Sometimes it’s because we don’t know what we did right. But the real reason is that every bit of advice we give you has an expiration date. The world of art is always changing. The things people like, the way those things are distributed and sold is always changing. By the time you put in all that practice to get good at what someone else told you is the way things are done, they aren’t done that way any more. The only sure way to become great at what you do is to break the rules. Not for the sake of being a rebel, but so that you can make something only you can make, in a way only you can make it. If you do something wrong well enough, it becomes the new right. So here are 5 steps in the right way to do it wrong.

STEP 1: Practice

To become a good artist:

Focus on making perfect art. Don’t show weakness. Use the tools that everyone else recommends. If you can’t draw hands, put them in pockets. If you can’t draw feet, crop them off the page. If you’re not very good at an instrument, play something easier. If you’re not knowledgable in a subject, write about something else.

To become a great artist:

Just make a bunch of crappy art. Do things wrong. Trust me, even the art you think is great, give it a few years and you’ll think it’s crap. So you might as well shoot for the moon. Grab tools that no one else has ever even imagined using, and see what happens. Draw everyone on horses even though you know the legs are going to come out all weird. Perform that long, flowery monologue you know you’re going to forget the words to. Film that science fiction epic even though the only creature effects you can afford are sticking Halloween stuff on your cat. Doing things you know you can’t do well so that you can do them later is the whole idea behind exercise.

STEP 2: Taking criticism

To become a good artist:

Show your only your best work to people you trust. Enjoy the praise, and ignore the haters.

To become a great artist:

Share your work with everyone, even the jerks. Put it online, show it to strangers. Show them the stuff you’re proud of, and the stuff you’re not sure of. When you show just your average art, people have nothing to say, so they just give you empty praise. But show them something that can be improved, and they’ll tell you about it. The stuff they tell you is gold. Don’t just be disappointed, write that crap on a post-it and put it above your desk. Think about it when you work. Each and every one of them gave you a free mini art lesson.  If they were dicks about it, that makes them a bad teacher, it doesn’t make you a bad artist. There’s a very good chance that they are wrong. But thinking about what they said, and why you disagree with it, helps turn that problem into a technique. Sifting through critiques is like panning for gold. Sift through the muck of poor wording and trolls to your own little takeaways. Write it on a post-it note and put it above your desk. Think about it while you draw. Use it.

STEP 3: Improving

To become a good artist:

Did you try something new and get a bad reaction? Oh no! Listen to the advice people give you and take that element out of your work. Make something people like.

To become a great artist:

Did you try something new and got a bad reaction? Awesome. There are two reasons that people say negative things about your art: because they see something worth improving, or because you’ve somehow struck a chord. Either way, you made them feel something. Figure out how you did it, and how best to use that skill. Did something you did make someone angry? If you offended or hurt someone, you now know how to avoid doing that in the future. But if you made someone feel something about the story or characters, you now have a skill that you can hone and use as a tool at a better point in the story. To make people angry, sad, happy, uncomfortable, or in any way emotional when looking at your work is a skill that few have because we’re so used to beating it out of our work. Many people compensate for this by adding shock value. You can learn to do it with emotion.

STEP 4: Dealing with rejection

To become a good artist:

Find out where art like yours is being published. Submit to them! Rejected? That’s too bad! Try again! Send them your new stuff every year! Never give up! One of these years, it will all work out!

To become a great artist:

Getting rejected is great! When you get a rejection letter, you aren’t losing a job, you’re gaining one. Finding a venue and an audience is now up to you, which is great, because if you’re successful, you’ll be the one getting rich from your work. All of those places were created because someone needed a new place to put a different kind of work. You’re now in the same boat.

STEP 5: Building a career

To become a good artist:

After a lot of practice and study, take all the advice people have given you, follow their lead. Make something you know will be successful, put it in all the right venues.

To become a great artist:

Do it wrong. Don’t do it right just because of all the people around you who say ‘that’s not art,’ ‘that’s not music, ‘there’s no money in that,’ ‘it’s not a real book unless it’s in print,’ etc.  Some of those people will be your heroes. Every generation hates the next generation’s music. Every generation of artists thinks the next generation are hacks. Following the leader is a good way to make art that pleases people in the moment, but doing something that breaks all of the rules is the way be the leader and make something historic. Tell a story only you can tell in a way only you can tell it. When you see a piece of new technology, a piece of ancient technology, an interesting bit of trash on the street and think ‘I could put art on that’, then put art on that. You’ll be reaching new people in places no one else is even trying. There’s no money in ANYTHING until someone puts something great on it. When someone tells you you’re doing it wrong, that’s your clue that you’re doing something that could change all of the rules, and a few decades from now, your style will be the one someone’s drilling into a beginner’s head, and that beginner will be coming to you for advice. Feel free to tell them what you did right, but be sure to also tell them: Do it wrong.

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Ha ha seriously tho.

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By Sean Li Wong, ‘14

McNair students find out that Thursday, Feb. 13, is a snow day:

Students patiently wait for the call:

JCBOE announces that there will be school tomorrow (even though they also agree that travel conditions are hazardous):

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