Hello Folks!
I have updated my sketchbook page with some new scribbles AND have added the archives back in so you can look at all the old stuff we've all forgotten about. Yay!!!

I have a few, proper, drawing projects planned, but in an effort not to scare my muse away, I'm going to be taking my time with them.

I also have some new, bigger, better, prettier hair clips for sale in the shop, so check them out. 

I'm happy to say that since this sketchbook entry, back in January, I am actually feeling much more energetic and creative. (I've also gotten a haircut I like, so the weird hair sketches have subsided.)

I am actually trying out the new delayed post thing, so I'm not sure how I'm feeling today, generally things are going well. Spring and put the spring back in my step. I feel like myself in a way I haven't in too many years. I don't know if you'll be seeing more art, or just better quality, but I guarantee that at least some of it will be less mopey. 

More Sketchbook fun for youz 

I finally found some time to scan in my sketches for the last few months. I've been busy busy busy, but am starting to get caught up with myself. 

The zine fair, last week, was a blast. It's so much more fun it is to peddle your wares, when you are not trying to live off of the proceeds! That whole desperate need driven resentment was missing. I met some great folks and even got buy some awesome stuff. It was a great time.

I'll try and post a little more often, as creativity is creeping back into my everyday life. Again, so much more fun when you are not trying to live off of the proceeds. 

I'm also gradually adding original art pieces into my shop. So keep an eye out for the one's you like. 

Have you been missing Skullyflower?
Well here's your chance to get a fix.

I'll have a table at the Rochester Zine Fair!! Woooo Hoooo!

Happening this
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
March 18th, from 11 to 5 at the

Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.,
Rochester, NY 14608

Come on down and see all the creative DYI stuff going on in Rochester.

I recently realized that I have been shaming myself for years for not being able to keep up with the art students and full-time designers on my live journal friends list. I now realize that I actually have a somewhat demanding career in web development. I have skills that pay the bills, something many incredibly talented artists do not have.

I tried having a smaller job, something simple, something mindless, but the truth is that I like using my mind and solving problems and frankly it pays better.

I've tried getting serious about the art and my muse ran off somewhere that's more fun.

So, I will no longer be measuring me myself by that unreasonable yard stick. This is the closest thing to a new years resolution you will get out of me.

I make art and comics because it's fun and I can't help myself, but I don't have to be good at it. So there!

Enjoy my scribbles.

He looks tired, doesn't he?

It's because he's been busy whomping us all on the rear all year. Hopefully he's done.

A great weight has been lifted from my mind. I accepted a web developer job. I now know where my money will be coming from, and that there will be enough of it. 2 luxuries that have eluded me for the past 4 years.

Most artists never get this. I'm lucky to have technical knowhow. I actually prefer to make my living scripting/coding websites. It's a little like solving puzzles all day.

I love to draw, but only when I can do or not do whatever I want, and I am horrible at sales and marketing. I won't draw what you want, and I can't convince you to pay me well for what I will draw, which means I'm useless to the world as an artist.

Fear not! This job does not mean the end of Skullyflower. Really! I can't help myself. I actually learned web development so that I could self publish. Skullyflower was born during a period of stable, full time employment, so this may even mean more and better work to come — eventually, that is, once I get the hang of the new routine.

There's a new Comics Rehab Rip-off comic, but I'm not even going to bother posting it here. I'm hoping to feel more inspired before Tuesday.

Skullyflower Ornaments!

These one of a kind, double sided, felt and button ornaments make the perfect gift for those weird friends and relatives who won't stop putting skulls on their tree.

Almost too late for Christmas!

This exercise has been good for me. It's never convenient anymore to sit down and do a comic. I've been getting progressively more blocked and was starting to give up before I said yes to this little 4 week challenge -- and now look at me!

We are looking to have it keep going, if anyone wants to start our 4 weeks, of every four days, comics posting fun, right now, we're cool with it. Just do the weird tumbler ask thing including your email address.

Again this is what this exercise if for: to keep me working through the garbage.
AND it's working, because I have a funner one set for tomorrow. Sammy and Syd will be back to hopefully make you giggle.

Well, at least I am making comics...

I definitely wouldn't be otherwise. It feels like typing with stiff hands, but it's happening.
See what the other rehabbers are up to...

Comic Rehab Rip Off has begun!

See the others here.

Anyway. I'm going to be drawing some comics. My online pal, Colin Tedford convinced me to join in on another Comics Rehab Ripoff which hasn't started yet. I'm so anxious that I won't be able to keep up that I'm scribbling out little comics left and right. No empty promises this time.

The Student Debt Crisis that has been going on, quietly for decades....

Occupy Student Debt is a tumblr with an overwhelming flow of people drowning in student debt, some for decades. I "followed" it for a day, but couldn't handle the sheer mass of it all streaming past all day every day. So much suffering.

It's no accident that young people are tricked into all of this "good debt" at the beginning of their adult lives.

• People who are in debt need steady work. People who need steady work are good for capitalism.


• People who are accustomed to being in debt, live beyond their means, and buy things that they wouldn't buy otherwise, which is good for capitalism.


• People who are in debt pay lots of money (often 100% or more of the original amount loaned over time) to banks which is good for capitalism.


• Capitalism is a few people making lots of money by doing nothing but having money and taking a slight risk, while the rest of us toil and worry and work jobs that we hate, to be able to live inside or feed ourselves.

Happy Halloween

I had a great time being a crazy person on Saturday. Why am I such a freak? I have no idea, but boy it's fun. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to dress crazy for Halloween. I'd do it all day every day if I could. (Yes, I was that weird kid in high school, but I was also senior class vice president, too!)

I've been scribbling a bit, but haven't scanned and it's not going to happen tonight.

Still struggling to get finances under control, and if there's one thing that I've learned in the last few years is my muse cannot penetrate the money worries. So don't expect much out of me. I will post anything that slips through, though.

There is still creepy-fun stuff in my shop. There is creepy-fun stuff in my shop all year round, in fact.

What is it? Well I don't know. Perhaps a wish bone from a witch doctor.

http://www.ted.com/talks/sunni_brown.html

Having fun watching scary movies this October. Sunday, it was Trick R' Treat which is one of my favorites.

They speak for themselves:


I fixed most of the problems with my website's halloween theme which I posted about over the weekend. If you saw it broken, you should look again. It may still evolve.
Please note: I'm lazy about catering to I.E.'s quirks and anti-social behavior, so for the full effect, use firefox or some other compliant browser.

ALSO: new/old amazing product:
The monster button pack is now available as a magnet pack! You could have my silly monsters all over your metallic whiteboard at work!


Silly Monsters EVERYWHERE!
SkullyFlower Creepy-Sweet monster magnets are great for home office or gifts. 7 unique designs! They are dark and creepy, but a little cheerful too. 1 inch button style magnets. $5.00.

Yay! it's October, which means it's Halloweeners time!
I always have to dress the website up for Halloween:

I've been obsessed about getting the website and web shop skinned all pretty. Everything else has been on hold. I'm such a weirdo. I mean, like who is even going to see it?

I keep trying to get back to drawing my usual spooky and or silly stuff, but I've been feeling vaguely under the weather for weeks. My brain just isn't working properly.

Halloween Tattoo Flash

Something commissioned by Brandon Holcombe who works out of Lucky Lotus, here in Rochester.