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[2003-11-09 14:46:16 +0000 UTC]
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Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Happy birthday! I hope you'll have a nice day! ^^
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Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hey, do you upload here anymore? And if not, anywhere else we could see your work?
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If only we had a sack of potatoes...Β
If only...
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Hi Gravy;
I apologize for bothering you an for the long wall of text blog post. I wanted to ask you; there was an illustration you had up a while back that had this butler like character or something like that that had sort of like those "polite/formal" snooty; stuck up look on their face.
I liked the lines you had the for the closed eyes and the mouth/lips all perked up or something like that that gave it an excellent exaggerated expression to it that I'd really love to come and emulate for myself soon.Β
Do correct me if I'm wrong, I remember you did have something like that. I decided to try working on a short story and exercising my presentation skills now and try to get something really good going with my writing skills post grad now to at least maybe add to my catalogue and help me get back into grad school for the time being. I've taken a liking to traditional inking lately and might consider going with digital later to help both each other out hollistically as a whole and try to progressively keep trying to go from there with different art history theories and stuff. I've done digital before, but not as refined and clean as your illustrations that I've seen over the years.
tl;dr Do you think you could direct me to something like that illustration of that butler with the snooty looking expression in your catalogue I could model off of or an expression sheet that you use with something similar that I could use to practice with? Basically, something similar like that.
I want to continue to expand my art/drawing skills like how I see your work and would like to continue expanding my skill sets now that I'm back in school again for a masters in a different area now. I do want to be able to transpose other styles and stuff in real life to things I can be able to work with and emulate other kinds of things for presentation quality and value so that I can keep myself busy and challenge myself even more as always.
Also, if you have any good books or tutorials/videos online from school I could check out that you can refer me to, I'd really appreciate it very much. Or anything in the current that you can recommend if you still come across stuff today that you'd think would be excellent learning material so that I can work on it for myself. I'm very open to lots of stuff since I'm used to it having been in research and academia over the years, so anything that you've grown and worked with and feel would be best for me would definitely be ideal.
And, if you could give me some pointers on the illustration coloring and presentation that you've done before? I'd really appreciate it. I really love the color presentations you've done over the years and the various textures you've given them along with the quirky cartoony style you tend to employ with your work and would really love to continue to employ and emulate that skillset and try to progress and present something different that's yet to have been done relative to my experience. The variety you have is amazing and would love to keep expanding my skill sets over time, at least to show I am able to keep growing and trying new things no matter what. I don't like doing the same thing over and over, it gets tiring.
Anything to help keep it simple and help me keep practicing and busy, I'd really appreciate so that I can find a comfort point to start with and find my way thru to challenge myself with different things over time from there on and grow from there.
Sorry for the tall order and going all Bakuman on you lol, I know it's a bit of a loaded question to ask, but I'd really appreciate it very much and thank you for always being a cool sport as always if you get the time to do so later. Thanks alot man.
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Would it kill you to at least reupload the picture of Janine in a bikini?
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That was like, 15 years ago dude. It's gone. Ashes in the wind.
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Happy Birthday, good sir! You are an inspiration 
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Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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