The final piece is a two-color screen print with embossing we created for Bottleneck Gallery’s  new exhibition I Love You Man. Laura wanted to do a piece based on the friendship between Fry and Bender from Futurama. What better way to express a friendship between two guys than to create an old-timey beer!

The exhibition will be up from May 10th- May 26th 2013. Opening reception tonight at 7pm.

Bottleneck Gallery
60 Broadway
Brooklyn NY 11249

 Further details here.

As for EyeHeartUs (aka Laura G + me), all the improvement by SOI must have helped since our sales practically doubled over last year. I dunno if it was the crowd the attracted or the presentation or just us , but most other tablers I talked to seamed to be doing better as well. We’re definitely looking forward to another year of SOI at the helm. Overall I had lots of fun. Seems like we comics festivals are the only time we get to see half our friends nowadays. It was great to see and meet so many creative people and discover their work.

Speaking of new work. Two of my comics debuted at MoCCA Fest: my new mini Who Wants Meat? and the comic I contributed to the second Three Armed Squid anthology. You can check out photos of both along with other snapshots from the weekend.

MOCCA2013We’ve got a bunch of new stuff like black t-shirts and ladies t-shirts plus a mini comic I just finished. Don’t forget to stop by table D106, just two spot away, and check out Three Armed Squid. I have a comic in their latest anthology, making its debut universal at MoCCA!

Hope to see you there.

MoCCA ARTS FESTIVAL 2013
11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
@ The 69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Ave, New York NY 10010 (map)
Table D104

Tickets: Advanced $12, At Door $15

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Scanned Version

Hey people. here’s my entry piece for Mail Me Art 3, an art show where artists paint and draw on envelopes and mail them to the gallery.

In progress

Animated giffy of the painting process

Lucy Liu makes for a decent paint palette.

I just posted a new comic up on Bear Brains about the power of stubble. This is the first comic I’ve drawn with Manga Studio 5. Loving all the new features, especially the improved brush tool.

I started doing live Google+ Hangouts to broadcast my art creation process, and a new Youtube channel so you can anyone can watch the recordings after the fact.

I’ll try to give notice on social media before I start live broadcasts so you all can tune in. So follow me on Facebook and Twitter etc to get notified/

As for the first video…

“Nutz Butta: Digital Inking in Manga Studio – pt 2″ http://n8br.us/nutzbuttaink2

Yes I know, the first video is “part 2″. I recorded part 1 before I started doing the broadcast, so it’s still on my hard drive until I edit it.

In this video I’m inking a comic that I’m contribution to the next issue of the  Three Armed Squid.

I’m inking digitally over scanned pencil sketches i drew earlier (the red under drawing). I’m using Manga Studio‘s vector pen tool with a custom tip shape. The magenta lines that i turn on and off periodically represent the vector paths of the en strokes. Notice how easy it is for me to erase the parts of pen strokes that overlap each other.

Had lots of fun drawing things this year. Hope you all enjoyed it cuz I’m never drawing again after 2012.

…just kidding. I hope to do 13 times as many drawings next year!

Are you hard pressed fora halloween costume this year? Well, if you haven’t considered dressing as a cute, fanged bear you should start now. I made this free printable bear mask so you can scare the bajeesus out of your honey jar.