Doodling

Trying to loosen up my sketching AND practice inking.

This got a little sloppy, but it was fun to do.

For Galea.

I’m frickin’ DEDICATED!

Played for about 3 hours today.

Strumming still sucks, but I’ve made most of the chords my bitch and, while I still mess up, the timekeeping is solidifying, which is good, I guess.

Been playing “Halleluia” by Leonard Cohen, ‘cuz a) it’s a nice song and b) there’s a bunch of F to G changes that make me crazy and c) it’s not the same pattern over and over, it changes. Infuriating, but fun.
And “Over The Rainbow”, just ‘cuz I love Bruddah Iz’s version of it. I’ve almost got that one down.
I’m doing basic strumming on it, not the freaky slaps and coolness he did. One day, I’ll be that good.
And, because it’s a necessity, “Oobie Doo, I Wanna Be Like You” because a) it’s the coolest (on par with Bear Necessities, which is a later goal of mine!) song from any Disney movie ever and (and that is because) b) it’s by the greatest, Mr. Louis Prima. It is just a fun ass song to play.

I’d love to learn more Louis… I might see what I can come up with.

Why am I telling you all this? I have no idea.
I’m just loving my ukuleles!

(There IS still a plan to make a (or several) cigar box ukes. I’ve also had an insane idea to make an electric one… out of something crazy. Can you tell I’m obsessed?)

Goodbye, Trash

So MangaStudio on a Mac doesn’t like it too much when you’ve got WAY too much stuff open.
Of course, being stubborn, I didn’t close the other stuff, I just kept going.
One of the things it doesn’t like is long, fast curves… hence the style in this pic.

I kinda dig it, actually. It’s a little simpler and more comic than my usual stuff. Prolly a good thing, as I’ve been getting sloppy.

Not that this ISN’T sloppy.

Anyway, in reference to the comic itself…

If you get it, you get it. If you don’t, PLEASE don’t worry about it. Just know that I finally did something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time and it feels REALLY good to have done it.

Owie!

My drawing sucks, too, by the way…

Why won’t my right hand behave?

Challenges are fun!

Happy Birthday, blah blah blah…

“Accept the things we cannot change…”

I recently had 5 teeth extracted from the bottom… not MY bottom. I didn’t get bit by a shark or a dog or something… the bottom jaw. Lower teeth. That’s what I should have said. 5 lower teeth were extracted.

And a denture put in. That’s right. 5 days before my 41st birthday and I now have dentures on the top and bottom. Not full ones, but still!

In an effort to make the best of it, I twatted that I thought that my hobo costume at Hallowe’en (And yes, Grifter, I MIGHT come out this Hallowe’en…) was going to be AWESOME!

Which led to the creation of a character in my head.

It was originally going to be “El Hobo Lobo” but it was pointed out to me that “LOCO” is “Crazy”, and “Lobo” is “Wolf”…

So it got changed to “El Hobo Loco”.

Then my friend, Patrick, named me “Don Hobo Loco”…

The Don Ho reference actually cracked me up for about 10 minutes straight, so the “Loco” was dropped.

I hate to say it, but there’s a very good chance that I may either perform at some point as “Don Hobo”

(note to self: Make sure you can sing with your dentures out.
Note to self addendum: Oh, yeah… I can’t sing with them IN, so…)

or put out an album called “El Hobo Loco” (don’t want Don Ho after my ass… that dude could kick my butt easy!) of all bizarre ukulele covers of inappropriate songs. Or maybe just my favorite songs… I haven’t decided.

I was also considering creating a new style of music: Punk Ukulele… right up until the point where I realized that it would be called “Puke”.
So now I’ll just try some punk music ON the ukulele.

I did think about making/getting made a low slung, longer necked cigar box uke, to get into the punk spirit…

then I remembered…

I’VE ONLY BEEN PLAYING FOR A WEEK AND I SUCK AT IT!

I tend to get ahead of myself…

(On another note, not that anyone’s reading this babble, if you’re trying to get in touch with me… um… leave a message here. My email is acting wonky and I want to try to… well, I don’t want to go into it here… but, yeah… it’s wonky, so I’m not answering it until I fix it.)

Well that sucked…

It wasn’t as bad as I was expecting (read: dreading), but it still sucks ass.

Ah, well… another opportunity to practice being Zen.

Speaking of practicing, the Ukulele playing is coming along. I’m much better than I thought I’d be after only a week or so.

I can almost play a song!

Y’all, playin’ an instrument is HARD!

(Just a note, I have no idea why people think vampires are sexy. I’ve had blood in my mouth all day and my breath is decidedly UNSEXY at the moment. Think about what someone who actually DRINKS the stuff smells like!

I’m just sayin’…)

(Addendum: The last parenthetical was NOT a tie-in to the title. Pure coincidence. I WISH I was that clever at 5am…)

Bummed…

Team Coco!

And a video!