Ink-tober Days: Run For Your Life!

Welp, in order to keep the 'pace', here's our next Inktober drawing. Not my best work ever, but certainly a 'runner-up'.  (Bet you're tired of me 'running my mouth', so let's make a 'dash' right into our drawing.)

I bet you're wondering what the title has to do with anything. Obviously you've never broke the right vase. If you don't save that one vase, then you really do need to run for your life!

Keep on keepin' on!

Ink-tober Days: Long Waits

So, I looked at the topics I had to choose from, and my bank of rough drafts in varying stages, and thought: "Hmmm, 'long'.... what could I do to demonstrate long?" The obvious answer was commercial breaks.

Okay, so it's a bit of a "stretch".

You know what the ironic thing is though? In case you can't tell from the back of his head as I can, that's Shorty. (If you catch the irony, you are awesome; you get a gold star, a hug, and a cookie.)

Anyway, this time around I decided to add a hint of color (because I don't like shading, as I mentioned here. But, who am I kidding? I've got a month of inking ahead of  me; sooner or later, I'm gonna half to shade.) Don't worry, I promise on my reputation I used colored inks. This image was not added to or taken from digitally in any way. That's my Inktober guarantee.

This particular image means a lot to me, because both the image on the TV screen and the picture on the wall are miniature reproductions of works I did in Elementary school. And that fish bears resemblance to the one my best friend in the world gave me for my birthday; like, a decade ago.

Alrighty. Remember, there's nothing wrong with taking a break once in a while. so long as you keep on keepin' on!

Ink-tober Days: Divided, we "Fall"

Heehee. Get it?

Anyhow, story-time. I was invited to participate in the 2017 Inktober initiative. Which means that not only will I actually be posting a bit more (oops), but also that for the month, I will be just posting the inked image. Absolutely no digital editing this month. It also should be noted that I only intend to do a half-marathon, as the kids call it. The idea is that every other day you'll get something from me based of one of the two prompts from the two days. Just enough to push me, and still give me room to tend to my life duties. Hopefully I can keep up. But even more-so important, here's hoping my talents and abilities broaden (as we can all benefit from that!). But if not, I have a feeling at least I'll get some joy out of this. 

That being said, today's drawing is a nice start, hey? With a prompt like "Divided" and a brain like mine..... well, you get the "picture". In my expert opinion, childish bickering seems to be the root of all contention, and one of the biggest ways to cause a divide between anyone. Family, co-workers, the best of friends, even. And to passers-by, it can look a little silly, ridiculous, confusing and just sad. Like, I'm not even sure who broke the shovel here, guys. Did that start the fight, or was it the "breaking point"?

Oh yeah, one last thing. I don't think you've met Kimberly yet. See the little girl with the adorable tongue? Yeah, that's her. Promise she's not always this immature. In fact, I was quite surprised to see her behaving this way, myself. She does like to see things go her way though, but who doesn't? I guarantee as time goes on we'll see some of her better days.

Alright guys; stay strong, and keep on keepin' on!

Nothing is Ever Just Black and White

        One of the most stressful things about this blog, as time goes on, has to be coming up with something original to say about the works I post on here. Provide some kind of way to justify posting what I post, some great big tie-in to life or current events, or some lengthy and deep metaphor -so it seems like I know what I'm doing. You can see how it starts to get a little taxing. There's also a standard of excellence I've set for the work I post. These combine with being busy, and a bunch of other silly excuses and before you know it, I've only posted once in the last seven months! So today I say; "phooey to the rules I've set for no reason!" Because if rules are holding you back from achieving your goals, they aren't rules at all! I believe the word is 'limitation'. That said, here's a post that doesn't meet my personal expectations for what is blog worthy, but is still awesome.One of my biggest achievements actually, because I have never been much for shading.

 Unfortunately, it appears I can't break all my limitations in one post. Just look at that beautifully deep and lengthy metaphor. Isn't life wonderful? So, until next time; Remember who you are, and keep on keepin' on!  

From Hero to There-o

  About four months before this blog started up, I had the idea to peer into the subconscious of our dear Creecher's in what I called the 'Dream Collection' , and I drew a draft of the work below, along with the piece featured in 'Second Post', and was fully ready to draw more. Unfortunately, the idea ended up put to the side when my location changed, and this drawing stayed untouched, until now.
  So, here it is, looking great, and you know.... I still don't know who's dreaming; Mark, or Alexa?

Summer days!

Hot off the editing process, this beauty. The shading was a nightmare, especially that sunset, but it was so worth it! I first drew this in the last few months of school. Wishful thinking, I suppose. It took two tries drawing and editing to get it to it's current state of absolute perfection. Lots of work, but it's my creation, my baby. I couldn't give up on it.
I think my other favorite thing about this one is that adorable crab in the bottom left corner.

You may notice this

Yeah, I changed the look of the blog. Nothing major, it's just a little more personalized, with a 'Brady-bunch'-esque drawing filling up the background, similar to this one:

All of the characters you see before you have made previous appearances in my drawings. Excluding one..... and a half. Not all have previously appeared on my Blog though, but this is to change that.  

Mommy's hugs, just what the Doctor ordered

Happy Mother's Day Mothers!
 I'm fairly confident I speak for the entire population of the world when I say that we all love you, even if we don't show it twenty-four/seven like we oughta. You rock!
To my Mom, I just want to say that although this gift isn't exactly tangible, it's from the bottom of my heart. I wouldn't be the same guy if I didn't have Mommy's hugs, and this is my way of saying thanks. You've been my inspiration, guidance, and so much more.
Hey, all you people who aren't mothers, I gotta question for ya. Have you hugged your Mom today?

P.S. I hope you peoples don't mind. Because this was such a simple drawing, I decided to experiment. I think it makes it look nice, however, they won't all look like this in the future.

The Armor of God

Hi, dedicated readers! And the rest of you too. I've been trying to do an armor of God picture since General Conference last year, which proved a challenge when I realized helmets would prove impractical. Anyhow, this one is by far my best work. My main aids for this picture were Ephesians 6, and We are all Enlisted. Don't trust Scripture Power, it's not entirely accurate.

Just a side note, I decided to change the pupil style. I think this looks nicer, don't hurt me.

You guys are so lucky...

Well, here it is, the first thing posted on here that wasn't in progress before my blog started, you guys oughta feel really privileged. I really like how this one turned out. This work also holds the title for the longest time any of my work has been edited in on the computer. I hope you think it was worth it, I sure do.

Updated, new as of April sixth 2015. Alexa, Mark, Jeff, Jake, Sylvia, Susan, Tenea, Shorty, Linda, Kyle, Emillee, Tyler, me, Ray, Jayden