#andrew j.

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I'm back! I'm home from the CMPC and unpacked and relaxing. It was the first time I was a vendor at a con and I gotta say it wasn't what I expected but I still enjoyed every minute of it and I hope to do it again. My booth, this year, was themed around the idea of the Saturday evening post and each of these was super fun to draw. Let me know what you think.

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Alright here's a sketch of Nightmare Moon, I drew this as part of an exercise to get used to drawing ponies in the canon style, and not my own. I'm going to be doing work for the Crystal Mountain Pony Con in Salt Lake City this year, and I may have a booth as well I'll give you all more info as I get it. Thanks for sticking around.

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Happy 2018 everyone! I hope you all have a great year. I want to thank you all for all the support and sticking with me during this long hiatus. I want to let you all know that new art is coming, I have been drawing a lot and a lot of it has been personal, a good chunk of which I don’t feel like I should share. I’ve had a rough year, like many others, with personal struggles, losses and failures, but it also had its positive points, so I have hope that this year will be even better. I wish you all the best, and know that I’m not dead yet just bruised slightly bloody. So I’m going to got to bed and sleep like my favorite little doggo here. Goodnight and have a happy new year!

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Thank you all so much!! We hit and past 300 followers in a day and that is awesome. You guys are awesome and knowing that you guys like what I do really helps me get motivated to do better, thank you. So as thanks to you all here is drawing of me, in my comic style, with Evan. We are both excited that we reached this milestone and we hope to create much more art by the time we reach the next one. Thank you all again this is awesome.

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Alright so this was the piece I was working on on the snow picture it was originally going to be monochromatic and the color was going to be brushed on coffee from the cup I was drinking in the picture. But once I started I couldn't stop and the picture ended up taking drawing sessions over the span of a couple of days and needless to say I started using more that coffee for color. This is watercolor, prismacolor pencils and a little coffee it was fun and finally I felt it was done yesterday and I immediately went into the image for the 300 followers we already past it that milestone but it's almost done. I can't think of more to say but thank you. Thanks to all of you it's been rough for me for a while and I think ya getting better. Thanks for all the feedback and sticking with me.

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Ok I'm alive, and still drawing. I've been working of stories and I hope to start uploading some comics soon. I've been applying to universities to, hopefully, finally finish my illustration degree. Thanks to all of you fallowers, for sticking with me. Here's a drawing of my character Evan to hold you over until some of my bigger pieces are done. Thank you all again.

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Alright here is another quick update to show you what else I've been doing. I've discovered the joy of book binding the top images are of my more traditional books the second is a shot showing off the book box the third are my "changeable spine" accordion bound where you can remove the spine from the back and put it on the front or remove it all together and the last one is the necronomicon. It took over $600 USD just for the paper alone and just about a weeks worth of time to bind it I'm going to work on illustrating and writing it over the next year or so, or I might turn it into a convention book and have other artists draw in it because I already want to redo it in a more historically accurate interpretation. Enjoy!