Early Days
My first post, feels like it should be monumental and important. It should carry gravity and importance. But really I think it is going to be more like the first page of a sketchbook; messy and random.
My wife and I decided to really start going after our dreams and this website was the next step in the progression for me, towards being a full time artist and story teller. Do I know anything about building a website? What a strange question, of course I don’t. Why would I let that stop me? No one will see this until I launch the site in about a month(I hope). But I am going to try and mold myself into this schedule, a weekly blog, a weekly web comic for Lu and Dag, and site maintenance, and so on and so on. If you know me that will sound laughable, and if you don’t I will explain. I detest schedules. I feel the chains of time are wound so tightly as it is, to add more always feels like a burden. But, that is the cost of the dream. One of the costs at least.
Lu & Dag, they are my creation, a nod to Bill Watterson and his work, a mix in of a childhood story that I think was created to keep me busy and out of the way, celtic myth and by extension mythology in general. I want to and plan to tell all sorts of stories with them as well as their supporting cast. Yaga and her pet house Baby, Mori and her friend Bo the crow. I am sure I will add a few more but that was where I started and so I will continue.
The site, right the site….Where was I? Oh, I want this to be my place to share work, to tell a story, experiment with different art styles, and have a place where I can also sell some things; stickers, prints, t-shirts, maybe originals eventually. I do have social media links in the top corner, click and follow, but also subscribe here on the site. I didn’t like the restrictions on the socials, or their never stable terms of service. So I will house most of the content here with bits and pieces on the socials.
What else? I should mention my influences I suppose. When I was much younger my great grandmother introduced me to Calvin and Hobbes. She was so incredibly important in my life that the introduction to a precocious little boy and his stuffed tiger was nothing short of a bolt of lightning to my imagination. So Luvy and Bill Watterson are for sure first on the list. I read Savage Sword of Conan comics like they were my job as a pre-teen, any and all Marvel and DC that I could get my hands on and every cartoon I could watch from the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon to Exo-Squad to Unicorn Warriors Eternal. I have many influences I guess you could say.
I still watch cartoons, I still read comics and I have no intention of ever stopping.
Yep, like I said, messy, maybe a bit disorganized but just like a sketchbook; it has to start somewhere. If you sit around and wait until you have the perfect thing, wait until you know just the right words, or your pencil makes the perfect line then you will have wasted the resource you can’t ever get back. What was I saying about the chains being wound tightly?
Guy
