God writing is so hard to do when you have only had 4 hours of hot restless sleep on a leather couch in the last 50 hours (now 7 hours of sleep in about 63) so I will brief. I’m typing this just to get some more information of what I’ve been spending my internet less summer of unemployment doing.Monster Noir started with a silly idea that popped into my head late at night. When this happens I am of the mindset to try and remember it and if it turns out to be dumb I just forget it. When Monster Noir happened I decided then and there to go with it even if it was stupid in the morning. It was something I thought would be cool, and be dammed if I was the only person who enjoyed it. This may have been because I was feeling confident in my art skills after the success of my J.R Goldberg/Eliza Double Homage Painting.
So for better or worse I started out just doing an simple acrylic painting of a squid faced monster man lighting a cigarette with his tentacle that people familiar with my glorious face may recognize it as an homage to my beard..
Sadly the quality was not up to the level I wanted and felt rather under pleased. Bugged by this I dived into a new fit of watching old detective and noir movies. Thus acquiring once again a fond affection of the way stories were told and loving the character archetypes. So two and two make four I decided to do a comic that follows a very classic pulp noir feel but with hideous beasts. So I doodled some more and created a awesome world that facilitated what I needed to tell a noir story but still held all the things I would need to keep me from getting board of drawing the same thing over and over again. Which is why I haven’t done any before. As I am just a budding artist there are limits to my ability. Things like exact renderings of the same thing over and over again are out side of my skill. Realistic landscapes and perspective are a pain and laborious endeavor and I don’t enjoy it. So don’t expect such things out of this comic. I’m a surrealist because realism is boring and stupid. Anyway I sort of lost where I was.
Right anyway like I said I’m still developing as an artist and art quality can change from panel to panel as you can see from these two pages below. The art isn’t great. But I would like to see some support in this endeavor of mine. I’m still doing it for me but knowing that I have an audience will really help me in getting off my lazy ass and do more pages in faster manner, and put some pressure on me to keep improving my art.
So I guess the whole purpose of this now very long blog post is for me to ask you all to comment on it. Criticize, compliment, or whatever.
