overkill?

I've been gearing up to take my art in a direction.  this has involved the purchase of all kinds of new hardware and software.  learning the rudiments of these things will take months, and i'm guessing that mastering them will take the rest of my life.

meanwhile, I've been trying to learn the fundamentals of music.  to aid me in this I purchased a *VERY* inexpensive printer/scanner.  I need it to print out music that I compose.

anyway, as part of setting it up I had to do some test printing and test scanning.  I was shocked/surprised at how quickly this low end product scanned and printed, and how good the quality of its printed image is.

this makes me wonder if  I've gone in the wrong direction ... I might have been able to do what I wanted in a simpler and easier way.  alas, there's no going back.

I think it's time to make some coffee and mull things over!

one for ...

... the road.

i wanted to get this picture finished and posted before year's end, lest ye forget that i not only make crummy music, but that i also make crummy cartoons.

this is not a finished piece of art, but rather a piece of inspirational/concept art.  here's how it came to be:

i had hit a proverbial roadblock on a project i've been working on in my personal life, and i also was experiencing some technical difficulties that were preventing me from moving forward in new directions that i am going in with my art.  while waiting for these problems to be resolved i decided it would best to do *something*, so i decided to back peddle and produce a piece of art using my traditional methods.

the art was created to help me with a bit of writer's block that i've been experiencing, and it features two characters that were not originally planned to be together.  the image was loosely based on an abandoned idea.

once i completed the pencils on this piece it tore down the creative block, and i started coming up with all kinds of story lines (which all come with new sets of problems that need to be resolved).

at first i was unhappy that i didn't have time to properly render this picture in full color, but as i worked with it i realized that such would have been overkill.  this image works best if you don't over-think it ... there's a lot that doesn't make sense, but that's okay; it wasn't meant to be a finished work of art.  it's purpose was to help inspire and motivate me.

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