I've been keeping busy drawing a lot of things, I've just been lazy when it comes to scanning; more stuff is coming soon, you can bet on that. 

One day I suddenly had this urge to draw my original superhero, the first one I ever created as a kid: Captain Steel.  This happens to me every so often, wanting to draw him; its interesting to think about actually.  No matter what is going on in my life, no matter what kind of art kick I'm on--I always come back to ol' Cap.  I drew a few different ones but this is the only one I decided to color.  Anyway, I've babbled enough; enjoy!

Click on the image to see the rough pencils!

So, nowadays i tend to get my practice in by drawing the people around me; an old artists trick but one that totally works.  I used to do it off and on but these days it keeps me grounded and, to be honest, is a lot of fun (it's also helped pass the time on long subway rides in ways you can't imagine).

So yeah, thats what I do.  Sometimes I share them, sometimes I dont.  Sometimes i give them to the subject I'm drawing, MOST times I don't.

But today?  Oh man, today couldn't be helped.

When i got on the local "A" train tonight I immediately noticed this good looking girl sitting and eating chips and immediately thought "That would be fun to draw".  So I did.  Of course, in the interest of not coming off like a staring creep; I've got my own little technique down so i can look but not stare and still get what I need to draw the picture.

I apologize if it's a little blurry, I took the picture in a hurry.  Let me explain: as I was drawing I noticed the passenger next to me trying to get my attention.  i removed my headphones and turned to her and she said "Excuse me, but does she know you are drawing her?"  At this moment everything kinda just slows to a stop for me.  Quite frankly, I was a bit embarrassed.

I look at the girl i was drawing a see her looking at me too, so my only response was "Well, she does now."

Everyone has a laugh.  The person who "called me out" says they want to see it, the subject of my drawing remarks the same.  I laugh such a nervous laugh, I'm flustered practically but I say "Okay-uh-I'll show you-let-let me just finish up" or something like that.  It's amazing that it wasn't even that long ago yet I can't remember all the exact details.

Anyway, I clean it up a bit, sign it and hand it to her.  She laughs.  I can't tell if she was embarrassed or not but she points out that i drew her in mid-chew.

So what happened next, you may be asking?

Nothing.

She kept admiring it (at least I hope so) and i put my book away and did abso-freaking-lutley NOTHING.  I could have talked to this girl; lord knows i already had an "in"--and I'm not even talking about it in a "I can hit on this girl" sort of way, we could have just talked.  Hell, the least I could have done was ask her if she liked it, right?

But not me.  I was scared/nervous/whatever you want to call it and I just couldn't work up the freaking nerve.

*sigh*

At least, once she got off, she knocked on the window and thanked me; that was cool.

Whoever you are, you truly were beautiful; it's a shame I was too much of a coward to say "hi"

Thank him at his funeral

Gwen Wu continues her tour of the West-side Club distric of Mad City...

Hey there,

So, I go to therapy about 3 times a week in order to help battle my addiction; I've been going for almost a month now and it's been an invaluable tool for me.  It's not only been a great help-with regards to my problem-but I've met some great and interesting people along the way too.  Some who, hopefully-once it's all over-I could possibly call friends.  There's something about being in a room full of fuck-ups like myself that have just made the whole process easier to swallow.

Of course, it wasn't easy at first; being naturally shy and all.  I spent the first few sessions drawing the people there (it's something i do alot more often now; it's good practice as most artists will tell you.) and here is one of the earlier ones:

Actually, this is the finished version of the sketch itself.  She's in my group and she seemed to have alot on her mind and I wanted to capture that.  Later on, I colored it in and printed out a copy of it to give to her the next time I saw her and that is what you see above.  She seemed to enjoy that, so that was cool.  

This was a couple of days later, the big guy on the bottom was a good chance for me to draw a bigger-sized person which was a nice excersize for me.   Heres a couple more:

And finally, heres something I did today.  There's something of a funny story to this one; you see, there's three girsl in our group and they're all very good looking ladies (and cool people as well) but there's this complete creepo there who obviously doesnt care about being there and thinks he's above it all and doesnt have a problem.  Today, he just kept staring at them with the dumbest looks I've ever seen a single human being ever make.  He was staring at their crotches, or their clevage and one of the girls actually said out loud "you're a creep.  You're creepy" but he just didnt get it because he barely speaks english but we were laughing at him because he didnt get it and was just a big douche.

Anyway, here it is; I call it: The Ladies and The Creep

I got a little creative with it when i decided to color it in.  I'm trying to experiment a little here and there; at the end of the day I'm more of a penciler than a colorist but I still dabble here and there.

Anyway, i hope you all enjoyed.

As promised here's our newest attempt at a podcast; after our last go-round we decided to try something else and this is what we came up with. 

Hope you enjoy; any and all feedback is welcome.

The Farkin' News Episode 1