Thursday, February 28, 2008

Ich werde wirklich erschrocken... (this is a big rant guys)


"The Goddess of the Crescent Moon" -By: Christopher Taylor
"Glenn Sueznin-2008" -By: Christopher Taylor
"Point-and-Shoot" -By: Christopher Taylor
(Note: I realize his body is outta proportion. I'll probably fix if its colored)

"Nyomi- Relic Hunting Days" By- Christopher Taylor







I guess when it all comes down to it, figuring out if your really going to make it in life with what you want to do or your passion, is a hard realization. Ever since stopping NEO|ARK, because of bad reviews, mixed messages, and as I can't forget the total ham and cheese sandwich handing of a critique I recieved at the Phoenix Anime Convention in November 2006 by some of TOKYOPOP's editors, I've had this small voice inside telling me "You'll never get anywhere, you'll fail, fly back to New Jersey where you'll stay for the rest of your life serving the youth of tomorrow in their drug infested, kicking over trash cans, robbing and beating elderly people, lighting and blowing things up for "fun", sitting at their mom's house doing nothing for the rest of our lives lifestyle while working at whatever rat infested grocery store or Best Buy or Staples they decide to put up next. And I've fought hard against this thinking. I've thrown myself at any or every job whether or not I've had experience or not, or if I know the program like the back of my hand or whether a bit of training would help me become better. However every company seems to think I'm not worth it. I've spent countless of days and times searching for work, applying, practicing so that I'll be ready for whatever they try to hit me with, going in there and talking with them, explaining to them that despite what handicaps I might face, I want the job and I will learn and grow with the job. But still...nadda. Nothing to call for except some extra art, some 3D work that ranges from bad crap to O.K. animation, and things like that. I want in something. Drawing is life for me. Even forcing myself to stop, somehow I'll always find a way of picking up a pencil and sketching down things. I cannot see myself doing anything else. Anything, not customer service (not anymore), or computers and electronics (tho I probably wouldn't mind for a middle job or something), not food services (never again). I don't know what or how to get this across to the people not hiring me or giving me a shot, because I'll say it now. I am a force to be reckoned with. I've been push down before many time, and gawd-damn it, I'll rise again. So you can throw bills at me for stupid crap, past employers can continue being dicks to me for no reason and trying to weasel money outta me for no good agenda because some way I'll earn money and one day I'll be able to hold onto it instead of paying on loans or whatever stupid ish pops up, Ex-girlfriends that suck, STILL SUCK, because present girlfriend is hella better in so many ways. Friends that run off that I thought had a close bond, don't have to contact me, its ok, because my real friends have stuck with me through everything, and are still here with me now, tho 4000 miles away, and for whatever reason ever, I'll always have my Family, tho sometimes I might come off as a failure in some ways, I know that my determination shines through, and make them proud.


I hate bad dreams.....I hate jobs that don't tell you why your not being hired, or what's wrong with certain submissions handed into them. If they have the time to review it, they have the time to tell you what's wrong so that you can improve. I hate people who say they're there for you, but then just go away, tho the varrious forms of communication in this day and age, and I hate girls that cheat on guys, or treat the good guys like crap for no good damn reason, then try to keep them on a leash to statisfy their own selfish emotions only to drop them like their nothing, like a mom leaving her newborn baby in the trash. Seriously...life today...what is wrong with you people.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Xbox 360 is dead, nothing left to do now but draw!



"Against the WILD platypus" - By: Christopher Taylor

SO I'm sitting here since 7:something in the morning cause I can't sleep. I've been in such a blah mood every since my Xbox 360 got the red ring of death. Reviving it with the "towel" trick as so boasted online, revived it for a couple of minutes. Damn you Xbox 360 Dashboard update....At least I got to talk to my best friend for a couple of hours. But now that line of communication is cut cause of the box going down.

P2 (Pandora's Paradox) now has 11 colored pages finished, when I hit 14, I've gotta start drawing out the rest of the pages. American comic books hold anywhere from 22-30 something pages. German are damn well near 48! Wow. For one book!? Thats pretty cool. From what you saw last time, there have been nothing more then just trying to improve what the original story pages were. However, thats why page 14 is important! The original that I drew up, I got to page 10 and stopped for a bit. Now those 10 pages were extended to 14. Thats a pretty big jump as the first 2 pages were extended to like 5. Better opening, better breakdown of who the main character is and her personallity, and better visual presentation of what happened to her on a certain page. I'm just gonna have to think good, of what I want to happen from this point on, cause there will be no more of my old pages guiding me like how NEO|ARK has.

I'm really looking forward to cracking out the rest of the pages and translating them into German. I think that'll be fun to see something of mine in a different language text.

Heute, es ist Regen, so ob es regnet oder schneit, Ich kann die stadt gehen und ein neu buch kaufen. :0 Oder.....ein Wii....hmmm...

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

I've got a headache....or starting a cold ~____~;;

"Pandora and the Caterpillar" - By: Christopher Taylor
"Pandora riding Frog" - By: Christopher Taylor


"Pandora's Model Sheet" - By: Christopher Taylor



I hate waking up in the morning and the first distinguishable feeling/mood is groggy or grumpy. Makes me feel like old man status will hit me before 30. Especially how my legs and some other joints has been hurting me for a while now. Not cool, not cool at all. I need my wrist to draw damn it!

Pandora's Paradox now has 5 revamped and colored pages. Looking back on the orignal speed-thru comic I made and comparing them to the ones now is like, "eh, what were you thinkin' bro?" Eh, its my blog, I'll show a example...




The first version of (what was) page 2 "Awaken by a strange voice"
The new version of the same page (now page 6)


Yea...told you so.

Look for more Pandora's Paradox updates soon! First things first.....TOAST!! I'm hungry!

Keep it sketchy!

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

I've finally got it working!


"He's Still got it " By: Christopher Taylor 2006

"He's Still got it" By: Christopher Taylor 2007

I haven't done too much drawing for illustration in the past couple of days, because I finally got my X-Box 360 running again. So the fun and ideas are flowing. Playing Blue Dragon finally is awesome, and replaying Sonic the Hedgehog (even with the long ass loading screens) has been missed. But the GF and I are heavily into Splinter Cell Double Agent. What drawing wise I have been doing, is 14 comic pages sketched and awaiting color. Which comic...you'll have to find out later.


OH, and for the sake of any person moving outside the USA, a power brick bought from the country your going to to power the Xbox from the country your from, will work. Period. Travel Save.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

SUPERBOWL SUN- umm....Monday??

"Daniella- Before and After" By: Christopher Taylor
"Paradox Travelers" - By: Christopher Taylor

Well its SUPERBOWL Sunday and here I'll be watching the game at 00:00 am Montag morgen while my friends in the past watch the game at the normal issued time of 6:00pm. Still, its fun to be Futureboy. This morning finally managed to pull a good drawing out from my hand. It seems like the slump I just shook off is inching its way back into existence. I must find a way to stop it for good. I'm in a dilemma tho. I want to start a story, I just don't know which one!? Pandora or The Lancer girls....Lancer girls or Pandora. I should just shut up and start both, but I don't think I'd be able to devote equal amount of time to the two. Also I don't want one stories problems to rub off on the other.

Tonight, while stuffing face with pizza and chicken-wings galore, I will decide.....or somehow make a vote thingy if I can get people to read this :P