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Hooray!  Something I actually feel good about putting on the internet.

A sketch of one of the main characters from my story.  Messing around with colors and whatnot.  Most of these look like girl scouts, unfortunately.  But I liked how the last one turned out.

Oh my gog I love this scene!!!! And the clip from the “original episode” is just the icing on the cake.

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dresdencodak:

doggedlyjo:

dresdencodak:

Fair enough. I assume you mean when I started Dresden Codak? I’ll break down the honest-to-goodness process of the early comics:

1. Draw comics in mechanical pencil on the back of my statistics homework (never turned in) and then ink on top of that with a micron pen.
2. Sneak into the Honors College study room (from which I was expelled for poor grades) and use their scanner.
3. Use a mouse and a bootleg copy of Photoshop 7 to color the pages.
4. Upload it to my site, which at the time was flat HTML that I’d written from scratch.

And that’s it!

reblogging this for the reminder that grades and a college degree are by no means the be-all end-all of life. 

There’s some truth to this. I’d like to share some further biographical information:

I’m a college dropout. In 2006 I left school after a little over four years because I kept changing majors (physics, anthropology, computer science, then art) and it had reached a point where it was difficult for me to afford to keep going to school (I was paying my own way with various jobs).

The reason I had kept changing majors was because I was terrified that I’d picked the “wrong” career, with most of those academic decisions based around what careers seemed prestigious. I wanted to be an engineer because I liked the idea of being an engineer, then a programmer because I liked the idea of being a programmer, but I was never happy doing any of these things, and it showed. I’d always been groomed to be a good student, and for most of my career I was good at doing what I was told.

I’d always been creative, doing little projects on the side. I wrote a sci-fi novel when I was 19 (never shared it), some poems in physics class, and even some fake news stories about Popeye before I was kicked off the university paper. I also made films with friends for many years. I was told these were “good hobbies,” that once I became a respected and financially stable engineer/programmer/scientist, that I could then do what made me happy on the side. A nervous breakdown during my college career, however, made it clear that “waiting to be happy” was a psychologically unstable strategy. I couldn’t wait for someone else to grant me permission to do what I wanted with my life.

So, in 2005, during a statistics class that I would eventually fail, I started drawing Dresden Codak. I hadn’t seriously drawn in many years, but it’s something you don’t totally lose. They were pretty bad drawings, but I didn’t care. I enjoyed it and decided that doing what I really liked to do now was better than hoping I could do it later. I wasn’t looking for a career at the time, I just realized how much I loved making comics and knew that I should do whatever I could to keep making them. It took about a year for me to decided that being a cartoonist was what I really wanted. I changed my major to art briefly, but eventually accepted that paying for a degree wasn’t something that was going to help me at that point.

After that, in 2006, I took a chance and dropped out. I worked an office job full time during the day while drawing Dresden Codak full time at night. I slept about 3 hours a night, but it didn’t matter. I was doing what I wanted, and it kept me going. Then, toward the end of 2007 I found out, through Topatoco, that I had enough readers to justify selling some merchandise. To my genuine surprise, as soon as we put the store up, I was making more money than my office job (which I promptly quit). From there I packed up, moved out of Alabama and never looked back.

Dresden Codak has been my full-time job ever since. It’s let me travel the country and meet amazing people while making a pretty comfortable living, but most importantly I get to do what I enjoy more than anything else. Ever since, I make all of my life decisions based on maximizing what I really want to do, and so far it’s served me well.

Don’t interpret this as an anti-education/college story or anything like that. I just think often we expect success if we do X, Y and Z, when in reality such a thing can’t be reliably handed to you by an authority. Start doing what you want to do now, because life’s far too short to wait around to be happy.

(i’m biting the shit out of my lip right now trying not to tear up at work)

I don’t really know how to say what I’m feeling, but I want the few people who read my tumblr or will in the future to know that this is exactly how I’ve felt about my life/calling/whatever for the last four years.  And I was too scared to do anything about it, and then it just got worse, and lately I’ve been scared that there’s nothing I can do about it anymore— that it’s just too late.  But seeing that somebody else has been there… like, *right* there… is very encouraging :)

techsgtjenn:

sageoflogic:

zeico:

kaalashnikov:

dervlaaarghhh:

batched:

whaddup, my name is Blenderdick Custardbath

Benchthis Chunkybap. Well.

Brodyquest Thundermunch <3

Beezlebub Bandersnatch

Benchthis Lumberlatch

Backitup Thundercats oh fuck yeah

Benadryl Humperdinck

blein:

sO my friend’s dog died and she lives in new york city and so she had to take it to the vet by the subway and she put the dead dog in the suitcase on the subway and it was a pretty big dog and some dude saw that she was struggling with the suitcase so he asked if she needed help with it and he said do you mind me asking what’s in it and she didnt want to say a dead dog so shE SAID IT WAS A BUNCH OF LAPTOPS SO HE TOOK THE SUITCASE AND RAN AND I JUST 

… D: … D: …

…

D:

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fuckyeahfeminists:

poptech:

And the highest paid public employee in your state is…

WTF.

Christ on a bike. This is insane.

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emikomaxwell:

Finally got to go out to the woods again! I missed my archery buddies! And there is nothing like the silent moment of pure calm and concentration before letting the arrow fly. Beautiful day, and not a bad shot either.

Awesome!!

andromedamedrexia:

strugglingtobeheard:

basedempoweredethnicwoman:

thevitalquietlife:

keep-calm-stay-healthy:

calliopes-bane:

atticusatticus:

sunshinekindlyhere:

I will never shop at that store ever!!!

i thought this was a joke but 

no

and even if it were

it still wouldn’t matter

A COUPLE SECONDS AGO I WAS WEARING MY A&F SWEATSHIRT

NOT ANYMORE

shitty company, hope all this bad publicity  makes it go down in the shitter

Spreading this like wildfire - never liked them to begin with.

They also got sued for hiring white people over people of colour.

^^^ well duh cause good looking cool people are only white

A and F - Satan’s clothing store.

Never shopped there to begin with. A) overpriced 2) sucky clothes and most importantly D) did nobody realize this was a shit-awful company a long time ago? Like we just now realized this? It took this terrible quote from assface up there to “wake everyone up” or whatever?

Sorry, I got a bit incensed there. I am actually glad this is happening. It’s ok if it’s belated. Spread the word, don’t buy this stuff.

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gameandgraphics:

Jeremy Hobbs is a graphic designer / illustrator who runs the Ribbon Black site, a blog full of fake videogames designed by him. The ones I’m showing you today are from one of my favourite projects, a collection of Adventure Time Famicom games.

Don’t forget to check also his Tumblr site, and his entry to Famicase Exhibition 2013.

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