November, New stuff, More work

Sorry I've been gone for so long.  I recently landed a job at a retail chain and they are keeping me busy (that and they're a pretty cool bunch of people to work with!)  I recently decided to compound my workload by participating in this year's NaNoWrimo; for my readers who write, feel free to google it or to check out the site here.  I've also decided to dive back into my webcomic Fight Life.  With over 12 weeks of plotting done, it's the layouts, pencilling, inking, scanning and lettering (and finding the time and energy to do it all!) that's going to be the challenge.

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INKTOBER: It's a wrap

Well this is it.  October 31st, the last day of the month long Inktober challenge.  Even though I've had some great feedback for my pieces, I feel like I didn't push myself to the way I did last year.  Mainly because so much of my energy was spent working through my grief and just trying to sort myself out.  All in all it was still fun.  Time to see what the rest of the holiday season has in store!

"Wanna know how I got these scars?"

Samhain - The spirit of Halloween

Team Cthulu

Darth Bane

Young Monk

RAPHAEL

Pretty face

Halloween Card/Let me in

Skull



HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

INKTOBER IS UPON US Pt. 2

Anybody enjoying Inktober as much as I am? I got a few inquiries as what it was, so I thought I'd use this blog to elaborate. Inktober is essentially a drawing challenge wherein every October, artists all over the world do one ink drawing a day the entire month, going 31/31 ( I'm more than halfway through and I've only missed one day!) Anyone can do InkTober, just pick up a pen and start drawing. When you post, just throw it up with the hashtag inktober or inktober2014.  SIMPLE AS THAT :D  

ENSLAVER

SKETCH DUMP

TOBI

ZUKO

OC_Jimbe (c) Ryan Scales

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The past can and DOES destroy

I really wish I had something to write for you guys. Something profound or motivational...but the truth is there really isn't much going on. The job search sucks balls and there isn't much that can be done...I just do what I know right now, and that staying at the drawing board, dropping my info off where I can and HOPING someone likes what I do enough to offer me work...feels like this dream of my is on life support.  When I was 17 I wanted to attend the Kubert School. For an artist who wanted to go into comics or animation or any type of design, this was definitely one of the places to be.  To me it would have been nirvana. The mountain top.  Instead I let my parents, particularly my father, intimidate me into attending a 'regular' four year school. Even now that he's dead I still hate him for that. I hate myself even more for being such a coward at the time...It's hard not to forget the past when you realize the choice you made then is slowly destroying you now. Now that you've all had quick peek into my head and heart, here's some new art:

Dragon with a helmet

Enterprise Fitness Logo (Commissioned piece)

OC_Angel Blade

FIGHT LIFE (Coming Soon)

FIGHT LIFE 02

CLOUD DRAGON

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ART JOURNAL: OCTOBER

This past Friday attending a poetry slam with a friend in Charlotte. It's the third one I've been to and once again they all ripped it down.  I have a few verbal scribbles posted here (VERY early posts) but it's not something I really have a flare for; all the same these ladies and gentlemen continue to nudge me ever closer to writing again.

Still having issues finding steady gigs, manage to pay my rent, phone AND lights all by the skin of my teeth. Hopefully I can this UPS position and get a little breathing room.  That's pretty much where I am in life.

I spent all of last month painting, a means coping with the loss of my mother, I produced at least 20 and what you see below will be the last, at until I scrape enough together to buy a few more canvases.  These piece will soon be on sale at Fine Art America along with other artists.

EXPLORATION (20 x 16)

FORM VII (16 x 20)

SQUARES (10 x 8)

WIND IN THE GRASS (10 x 8)

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INKTOBER IS UPON US!

October is here, or as so many artist are calling it, INKTOBER!  I practice my inking all year round but this month gives me thirty-on days to really put my foot in it!

No clue what I was doing with this dress.

Draculette

Halloween Warm up

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It was a rough week of job hunting for me.  I was supposed to meet my prospective employer for lunch but we were forced to reschedule.  I'm really anxious for this job as it will involve teaching individuals how to paint.  In our last phone Kimie encouraged me to continue building my body of work.  I'm still new to painting so a part of this is just trying new stuff,  I'm starting to like where it's going though.

ROOTS (11 x 14) - $90

BLIZZARD (11 X 14) -$90

TWIST (11 x 14) - $90

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Trying not to hold back/Sequentials

Since I can't afford therapy I'm fighting my depression the best way I can.  I've some pretty good weapons to use; good friends, facebook groups, google hangouts (feel free to hit me up).  But I still have to find work.  My rent's coming up and I'm late with my lights, and I don't know what else to do except fill out applications and keep putting my shit out and hoping something snags.  It's still difficult because there's always one or two people that think they can get over on you plus I live in a part of the country where people give little to no fuck about art; where people will praise your work, but pity or look down on you for not having a 'regular job' (quite a mix), in short I live in an environment where regularly feel the urge to punch a wall with my face.

Thus endeth the opening rant.

There are times where I feel like my art is too reserved, like I hold back and don't attack the page the way I should; in the back of my head I'm thinking: "Someone could see this, they may want it, but the technique is off, they'll pick someone else."  This train of thought has plagued me for much of my adult life.  I know the nuts and bolts of illustration like the back of my hand.  But that intangible has always eluded me, that "UMPH!" That I see in the artists I appreciate, where the visuals just break their foot off in your ass.  So here's where things take a turn. Philosophically anyway. In this blog I'm including my most recent sequentials.  The next few posts will have my latest commission and few sketches I've been hiding away.

Stay tuned.

STATIC Samples pg. 1

STATIC Samples pg. 2

STATIC Samples pg 3

 

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Deciding to keep it One Hundred

When I started this blog my initial purpose was to write reviews for the comics I read. I wanted to give reader a quick glimpse of what my life was like as a fanboy. Somehow I wound up moving away from that, and so I spent the last year or so maintaining this sites integrity by posting my artwork.  Recently I've undergone some experiences that have forced me to take very hard look at myself as an individual.  How I perceive myself and how I perceive and approach the creation of my artwork, particularly my painting.

As a result I have chosen to get back to my roots, not just as a comic book fan but as an artist. It is now my intent to use this blog not just as a source of information or a platform for viewing my work. Starting today I will use it to remind myself why I chose this path. Why I spend hours of my day collecting reference, reading, digging through my crates thumbing throug issues I've read ten times or more. Why I chose to create rather than manufacture or sale or package or market. Why I shake my head at my friends who slave away (and I do mean slave) at a 12 hour workshift, get a 30 minute lunch break and the only time they spend at home is the 8 hours or less when they're sleeping. Some of my friends are about that life and as Katt Williams once put it, "By all means get your paper, boo boo". But I used to be really hesitant to tell people that I’m a freelance artist, because usually what I do isn’t viewed as ‘work’ the way most people define it. But the more I think about it, the more I realize it’s no different than what some of these corporate drones do. I am essentially paid a fair wage to do what whatever my assignment requires, the only difference being I don’t have to wear a leash--sorry, tie and sell off my humanity bit by bit in hopes of joining the 1%.

Stay tuned.

--Ryan Scales

September 2014

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