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I have two mini-comics that I started and finished around December/the beginning of 2013 that I'm pretty proud of. I am looking into printing both of them pretty soon. I am also in the process of working on yet another mini-comic, so expect that pretty soon.

I would like your opinions, good and bad. Mind you, there are a lot of things I can already see need changes. Both of these comics are just my first go-arounds at creating mini-comics. I still have a lot to learn.

Anyway, you can read both Pebbles. and The Silence. right over here.

This is too dang awesome!

Here's something I drew back in 2006 of The All American Rejects (I was about 12):
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Here's two drawings from just a week ago:
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"Shitty" are you kidding? Those are great, especially that Overlord one. Man, that one is cool.

Sometimes the best costumes are the ones made fully from your own resources and not from things you bought like the cardboard and stuff. Plus, you really show your dedication because people can tell you put a lot of work into it. My cousins make Monster Hunter cosplays every year fully out of cardboard like that and they are way cooler than most of the real expensive realistic-looking stuff.

Holy guacamole! These are killer!



Thank ya, thank ya! *bows*

Good lord, this is amazing. Your hair and forehead are so well done. I applaud you.

Oh and I'm not sure if this counts, but here was me as "The Boss" as a part of a colorguard show I did back in 2009 in high school in a performance we called "The Office"

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Okay, now I know with comics and geeking out comes conventions and cosplaying. I want to see some serious costumes and cosplaying going on in here! Show me last year's Halloween costume, what you wore to Comic-Con, or just some character you walk around in as everyday.

Here are a few of mine:

This is my most current one that I just finished last week that I will be wearing to Mizuumi-Con on the 23rd. I am Sam Shakusky from Moonrise Kingdom:
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I had never seen The Mayor of Halloweentown from Nightmare Before Christmas done before, so I decided to make a costume myself a few years ago. I ended up winning a few awards at this huge Halloween Bash with it:
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Here I am DJ Lance Rock from Yo Gabba Gabba! with a fellow DJ friend of mine, Deadmau5 at San Japan:
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And of course, here's me in that ironic banana suit riding a crazy insect bicycle at Luminaria:
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I know I've posted on this thread before, but I had to put this one on here.

This photo pretty much sums up my life.

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I enjoy the various styles on comicfury. Sometimes it seems like most the comics I see on tumblr or other places have this same sort of style and they only differ by the content and the humor.

My style, personally, just evolved from many years of drawing myself and finally it reached this point where I felt like it would make a good comic for the public. I like simple and graphic stuff and not things with tons of color. I think my "style" was also developed by time. I would doodle comics very quickly, so the way I draw my webcomic today is basically something I can draw and color quickly but it still look like I took a long time to do so.

My comic is pretty much a journal of my life and how I see things and sometimes the things I come up with are things I really wouldn't want my family to see, so I post it on tumblr or here where they don't necessarily see it. I post the more "G" rated things on my facebook Awkward Shelby like page since most of my young and old family and family friends are there.

My grandfather was an amazing cartoonist. He did caricatures of all of his buddies and lieutenants when he was in the army, so I have tons of those drawings. He got offered a job with Hallmark but turned it down because he would have had to move. He had a stroke about three years ago and can no longer draw because he doesn't have use of his right hand.

Every time I draw, I think of him. I always load up on my recent work when I go and visit him because he loves seeing my stuff. I suppose he is the one that inspires me to keep drawing everyday until I can no longer do it.

Considering my comic, Awkward Shelby basically is a journal of my life, I'll post something from that.

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Well, I really just do it for my fans. I could care less about the money. Since I pay nothing to this website, getting money basically for advertising it and putting my comics on shirts and posters isn't too bad.

I actually have a store with District Lines.

It's a free company, but you have to email them your stuff for them to consider opening a store for you. You get 15% of all proceeds and you don't have to buy back any inventory because they make each product as it is ordered.

I seriously love any version of Angels We Have Heard on High

and of course, John Lennon's Happy XMAS (War is Over)


I also like The Almost's version of Little Drummer Boy

Apart from Awkward Shelby, the quirky strip-type comic that I base on my life, I started a more serious comic that actually has a plot and chapters called, This Is Your Life. It's in a black and white style and draw much differently than Awkward Shelby.

The comic is split into different chapters, or parts rather. It revolves around the use of Switchfoot lyrics to tell unique, separate short stories of people and the struggles they face in life. Each part starts a new person, new life, new story and a new song to tell of their journey. I wanted this comic to be very poetic and make you think. I didn't want it to be like anything I've ever seen before.

I originally started this comic during the summer just as something to fulfill my time and kind of fell away from it midsummer. I just now found it in my room and decided I would keep it going. I only have part one done so far. As for the second part being done, I can't guarantee a specific schedule as it is being inked right now. Hopefully I'll have some stuff done by the time all of Chapter One is on the site.

Anywho, check it out! It's a step in the opposite direction of what I normally do, but I think y'all will enjoy it.

As a child, we all possess the ability to draw, the imagination, the will to do so. Picasso even said himself, that we were all artists when we were children. The problem is just remaining one when we grow up.



I've been drawing since I was a kid. I know when I was a kid, a lot of things just came easier and I would draw tons and tons endlessly with ideas and an imagination I can no longer fathom. There have been a few dry periods in my life where I just couldn't seem to create anything worth keeping. Sometimes I just didn't want to make anything or didn't have the drive to. Somewhere within all of us is still that wild four year old wielding his crayons and scribbling across stacks of paper the dinosaurs, spacemen, fairytale princesses, and knights that our minds come up with.

I think for beginning artists now, the best advice I could give is to recreate your childhood. Look into your soul and see the innocence you once had and utilize that to recreate the hurt and love and loss you feel today in your much older years. Going back to your roots is important, so break out the crayons and color pencils and draw and draw and draw until your fingers bleed. Draw everything you see, copy everything you see in your mind and in front of you. Don't ever stop. Even when you don't feel like drawing... draw! When you feel like drawing, draw! When you're hungry, draw your food! And so on...

Draw until it becomes second nature. Draw and paint and write until it becomes a sixth sense that many people obtain once they have lost their luster as a kid.

My process is probably not the most interesting or unusual, but it's sufficient. Since my webcomic does not necessarily have a "plot" and is more of a strip, I carry around a small journal and write random things in it. Like if I went to the beach today, I would write down funny things I heard/said, things that could be made into a silly scenario, etc. Typically if I have an interesting day, I can fill up a whole page of random notes which then are later turned into a strip.

Of course, The Adventures of JONAS!. The style is unique and definitely keeps me interested.

Other than that, the only other one I really keep up with is Not Since You since the story is interesting and the way it is done is different.