My good friend Keef Yourick told me he was going to check out my blog to see my latest sketch and I realized — I hadn’t posted anything in three weeks. Yikes! Below is something I did just this morning:

Hi, all. I’m back! And it’s only been, what? About ten months? Wow.

I’ve decided to get back on the horse and finish what I tried to start back in 2006: a self-published comic-book about a super-powered hero called The Victory Streak. The story needs a complete re-write, and until that’s done I’m not going to have any finished pages to post. I thought you might be interested in some previews, though. The one below is of the series’ titular protagonist, in full “costume.”

By the way, I’m going to be making a few changes to the blog. First, I’m going to be deleting just about all of the prior posts and comments. I’m not an editorial writer or a philosopher, and I no longer want to write any more “dear diary” entries either. I’m an artist striving to learn his craft and reach a level of proficiency that allows me to create personally satisfying and comercially viable output. This blog, therefore, will be solely dedicated to those efforts.

Second, I’m going to attempt to install a platform called “ComicPress,” which is a WordPress plug-in designed for publishing webcomics.

Finally, I’m going to disable the e-mail notifications, because they’re not necessary and had ceased working consistently anyway. People who really want automatic notifications can subscribe to the blog using RSS or similar options.

I consider posting drawings in this blog to be part of my learning process, and therefore I’m going to cease apologizing for the quality of the drawings. It’s been said that it takes 1,000 bad drawings to get to a good one. If you don’t want to watch as I plow through those 1,000 drawings, this isn’t the place for you to be. If you’re interested in watching an artist’s growth and development from amateur to (hopefully) pro, you’re in the right place.

I’ve set a goal of drawing at least an hour per day (hopefully more than that on the weekends) and will post at least three sketches or finished drawings per week. When I’ve finished the script for the first issue ofThe Victory Streak, I’ll have pages to draw and will post each one as it is finished.

Until then, I hope you enjoy the character sketches and previews like the one below. As always, I welcome your comments and critiques.