A Good Customer

  I had the awesomest customer yesterday. I was drawin' Puff Daddy or P Diddy or Vincent Schiavelli with Sunglasses from a magazine and this ten foot tall black guy, about my age was just lovin on it. He decided he wanted to get drawn by me, so I did just that. While the sketch was taking place this guy was so full of good humor and love of life, he just livened up the whole stand. Halfway through the sketch the guy tells me he looks at cartoon blogs for inspiration also. He said he looks at the blog of the guy who did Ren and Stimpy, and I'm all "No kiddin! I go there to. That site is great." So, long story long, He was real cool and so were his friends. The thing happened that I always want to happen, but very seldomly does, and that's me doing a drawing from a magazine or something, somebody coming by and, being sufficiently impressed, decides to get drawn by me. It happens so seldomly, that when it does happen, it catches me off guard and I forget to enjoy it until the end. Usually, somebody will come up and be like, "Wow, that looks awesome! Let's get drawn by another artist." This fat paragraph is about over. Last thing I like to say is, good sir, if you find the blog, thanks for bein so cheerful. Keep drawin. Check out my links.

  And...Speaking of links. I'm adding a couple links. First, you gotta check out Uncle Eddie's Theory Corner. He has the craziest cartooniest oldesh man face you've ever seen. He does these little five to ten minute Youtube bits. He just explains his theories about art and music and stuff, and is delightfully expressive.

  The other spot is John K's blog. Most of you probably already been there, but if not, check it out. He's very intelligent and opinionated. He writes incessantly about the nitty-gritty elements of cartooning as an artform.

What's Ol' Aaron Been Up To?

  Here's a body I was pretty happy with. The face turned out good too, but I didn't get a picture of the kid. Aside from the wierd mistake in the shark's gums and the bad, hatchy texture of his body surface, I consider this a success.

  What an arm I gave that guy. It didn't look wierd to me at the time, but it looks way wierd now.

  This is the progress I've made on the Kobe that I originally posted only on the beastheads site. I don't think I'm gonna finish it because it has come to my attention that Kobe's neck juts out forward, which I totally didn't notice, and the mistake of putting his head where I put it would take too long to fix that it wouldn't be worth it to me. I guess this is the disadvantage of not painting digitally.

Grammy's BDay

This, the biggest group I did in a while.

  These are my awesome customers!!! Such a great bunch of friends with good senses of humor. If you find the blog, thanks guys . I had a lot of fun drawin you.

Chris Chua and Erica

  This is a commission for their anniversary or his birthday or somethin. She specified that she wanted to be a pillow with a cape and he a yellow snowflake.

Made Up Baseball Guy

book book

  I'm runnin out of books right quick, since we didn't print so many. If you'd like to order one, drop me an email at aphilby@gmail.com. The book is $5 plus $1 for postage, so that's $6. It contains fifty cartoons. So, like I said, send me an email. I'll reply in one of two ways. I'll either say something like "send me the money and I'll send you a book" or something like "Sorry. All out." So if you wanna do this, then lets do this. If it's too shady and unprofessional for you, hopefully we make more copies and maybe we'll set up a paypal thing and you can wait till then. Thanks for looking at my blog everybody. I'm going to be getting a computer as soon as I get that $600 in my bank account, and then I'll be postin like a crazy man.

this is just made up

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