Entries from June 2008 ↓

Freaks N Squeeks review

What Did I Learn? FNS has anthropomorphic mice that live in a little boys bedroom. The mice go through the day to day life that we humans do, with dating and popular culture being the focus. The latest storyline focuses heavily on the emotional drama of dating. Since I’m an artist, I always examine the [...]

New posting schedule…

The way things are working out, the Frog Pond updates M-W-F. Comic Fencing updates every Friday morning and offers up a traditional webcomic review by me (and a few others.) That means that I should probably post the reviews I do here at ArtPatient on a weekend day. Now, the way my schedule works – [...]

Swamp Thang

I was musing about the Swamp Thing comic the other day. I don’t know if I ever (or will ever) understand what a beautiful girl is doing hanging out with some kind of werd swamp critter that doesn’t even talk Maybe that’s the point. No one is supposed to understand it, so it’s sort of [...]

About ArtPatient or Being Smart About Art

I have this driving need to improve as an artist and as a person in general. I cannot rest on my heels for too long because there is always something needing improving. I bought the ArtPatient domain name so I would have someplace to act as a portfolio and to have a reason to create [...]

Plans and Processes afoot!

So far, so good. I’ve added all the little plugins I wanted and turned them on. Each one you enable has the potential to bring down the site, so you have to be careful. The site has not crashed! Now that the processes have been covered, let’s talk about the plans: I have to go [...]

Hello folks!

This may be a surprise to some of you. I’ve moved over to a wordpress installation for the wealth of features available. Going forward, ArtPatient.com will focus on webcomic reviews and have more of my personal artwork to display. I’ll try to set it up so you can get RSS feeds for just the kinds [...]

The Pen Mouse

I was working on some comic updates and found myself really wishing for a pen instead of a mouse. How much more fluid could working with computers be if you could simply just use a pen? Then I could just write on the desk or trace a sketch into the computer while using different brushes, [...]