I think the teleplay turned out alot funnier than the comic anyway.
Soon.
-Ryan.
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John Kricfalusi has always been my biggest hero. When he looks at cartoons he views them as an artform. An artist wouldn't arbitrarily arrange elements when creating a painting. And the same goes for cartoonists. Here are a couple of things I've learned over time from John K.'s blog which have really helped my drawings improve.
Eyebrow wrinkles: I can't understand it! Such simple details immediately began making my cartoons look better! These are not the same as eyebrows, rather, these form the character's flesh in which the eyebrows rest upon. These lines should not necessarily be parallel to the eyebrows, but should still flow with them.
Construction: Learning to use construction properly is the most important thing I've ever learned! We've all seen people use basic shapes to draw characters. You've probably used this method. I certainly have most of my life! The key, however, lies not only in sketching out the basic shapes, but using those basic shapes to wrap your character's features around. For instance, first you draw the basic shape of the cranium.
Next, add center lines, as GUIDES for your facial features.
Now comes the important part.
When you are adding in your features you do not just rest them upon your guide lines. The lines help you to see the sphere in which the facial features follow. You wrap ALL FACIAL FEATURES around the head - flowing along with your guide lines. This not only includes eyes, nose, mouth, etc., but wrinkles, creases, bones, and cheeks as well. If you can learn to do this your cartoons WILL look better! And remember! This applies to other forms too! With the body, limbs, and even trees and landscapes: Details wrap around, flowing with the form!
When doing this it is important to remember that brows, cheeks, eyes, etc. are all individual SOLID FORMS which WRAP around the form of the head!
Here is the head cleaned up a bit:
And the whole character:
In the second one here I added a couple subtle lines above the eyeballs to better emphasize that the forms above the eyes are in fact solid forms, though of course, these photos are terrible. I will be able to actually scan a few drawings shortly to better explain.
John Kricfalusi has alot of helpful and insightful knowledge on cartooning and animation on his blog, which is updated almost daily! John K. is the creator of my favorite cartoon of all time The Ren & Stimpy Show. Check out his blog linked to the right and learn something!
-Ryan.

MY NEIGHBOR IS A PSYCHOPATH!
A long time ago, eons ago, in fact, I began crafting this story about two boys named Tom and Sid.
This is Sid.
The comics will revolve around their unlikely friendship, and the terrible things that happen to them.
The following page is from the first book I'm working on about these characters. Though the whole thing is nicely sketched out already, I took a bit of a break about halfway through the final drawings to take a break from trying to draw well. However, I'll be picking it back up now to finish the rest.

I've also been writing the second book, the script for which I recently found had to be nearly twice as long as the story I'd originally planned for it. I may soon be posting sketches for that book.
This is just some artwork I recently made. It's not really for either book, but it's still a really cool image. Someone wondered aloud if this was cover artwork. Perhaps.

Thanks for stopping by. More soon!
-Ryan.
Soon enough, I'll actually have some artwork and notes worth posting here. Long ago, in the days of 2008 I became determined to make this site an information hub for an ongoing work in progress called My Neighbor Is A Psychopath. I then abandoned it for nearly a year. Well, in my absence I worked on my cartooning style and eventually got a lot of writing and artwork done for that project. I then became a much better cartoonist than I had previously been, and did some even cooler artwork. If you were ever actually interested in an information hub on a comic book of mine, well now you'll actually get one. Consider this the first post of the rest of my life. I've done some thinking. I've done some maturing. But more importantly, I've done some work. And folks, you are going to get a glimpse of this work within the week. Oh yes. Taste the newness.
-Ryan.
My first Niz book is, in fact, written at this point. I've begun the writing on the second book in the meantime.
Thursday and the portion of Friday before I sit down to work with Tyler on his comic will be spent sketching out the layout of each page, and until I get off of work tomorrow I'll be thinking of how I can beef up the story a bit more, as I'm almost positive it currently lies short of the twenty-four page goal I'm shooting for.
As for Tyler's comic, the work for that, as I said, begins this friday, which says that this one isn't just something we talk about- like the last one (He was talking about working on a different comic together last year, but the idea was obviously abandoned). He sounds more into this one, and I must say, the concept has potential. I should think so, I guess, being the one who suggested that the story would make a neat comic book in the first place.
For reasons I haven't fully explained to myself yet, I am abandoning my xanga page for a while to become better aquainted with this miserable thing. It'll be great perhaps.
Speaking of great, I finally saw the sequels to Clerks and the Jackass Movie today and it was a great experience. So, if you still haven't seen these movies I strongly urge you to rush to the video store nearest you, and pick those up immediately. Though some of you really ought to check out the original Clerks as well. Yes. I'm talking about you. Well... Go on.
And until that future, ZOOG.
-π(y)aN.0