Tom Ray

Hopefully, we'll be able to hang out together in real life sometime.

One of the construction guys was there and said "It's getting there" I didn't really have a response.

Posting things is kind of my zen thinking time.

Bruce and Vox Henderson are musicians living in Michigan. They have been making music for years. They decided to start vlogging about their process and also run a Facebook group for musicians to talk and share their work. They also just released an album called Sugar Fit. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Bruce and Vox's website https://www.prejippie.com Bruce and Vox's Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/DIYrockstar Blooming Prejippie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bloomingprejippie Bourgeoisie Paper Jam on Bandcamp https://bourgeoisiepaperjam.bandcamp.com/album/sugar-fit Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

Why does it think I only need these as news alerts?

Sometimes the things I buy to sell online I wish I could keep. This large Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle is one of them. Plus, at the end of the video, I draw my daily autobiographical webcomic. This is a video of my daily life since I decided to sell collectibles and pop-culture items I collect on eBay to help support my art career instead of taking on freelance work. More vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Music in this video by my band Lorenzo's Music, listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q

Turns out it was a muscle on my right shoulder blade causing it.

In this clip from the podcast, iPad illustrator Raheem Nelson talks about making travel journals and children's book artwork. From the interview: It's been maybe a few years gap between my last book which was about travel paintings and the next. I took this amazing trip to Europe, my first trip to Europe actually. I started in London and then I went to Paris, Barcelona, and then on the tail end Portugal. So I've got all these photos I've taken and paintings that I made while I was there. I wanted to make more paintings and just kind of compile it into a book and then do journal entries for it too.  Do you add written stuff next to it? How do you lay it out how do you plan it?  So how I plan it is it always starts with the photo reference and then from there I go back to look at anything I wrote while I was there. I usually journal when I go to different places just to record everything. Then the photos go along with that I'm using the photo reference to create. I...

  How we came up with our band name Lorenzo's Music? In this clip from an interview I did on Tha Bloc Report Podcast , I answer the question everyone always asks about my band Lorenzo's Music ...  Q: Where did the band name come from? Because I'm thinking Lorenzo Music. And then I'm thinking, Garfield. Yes, you are actually correct! That's where it came from.  And then the apostrophe "S" was added because we were afraid of getting sued so it was to confuse people. And what people used to think is it was like the movie Lorenzo's Oil. But it's been so long now, and more people are farther away from that movie that we don't get that reference as much anymore. People are starting to figure out the Garfield connection again.  So the story of how we came up with our band name? Essentially what happened was, I came home one night when our drummer Rob and I first got the idea for the band it was back when Nick at Nite used to actually play much old...

I couldn't get it for like an hour.

I knew so many people that used to wear that scent back then.

Specifically the old Saturday morning cartoons-based ones I used to get when I was a kid.

Raheem Nelson is an artist based in New Haven, CT. Raheem has a BFA in Cartooning and is now working exclusively on my iPad. Raheem has been creating paintings, travel journals, and children's books. Raheem also has found work doing timelapse drawings for companies. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Raheem Nelson's Website http://www.raheemnelson.com Raheem Nelson on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/raheemnelsonart Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

One of the reasons I get these books is because of the illustrations so I love when I learn things about them.

I don't know why I let them pile up like that these days.

In this clip from the art podcast, fantasy illustrator Neal Tse talks about using a Kanban method to manage his time between life and art projects. You can check out the full episode here -  Neal Tse: Fantasy Illustrator - Tom Ray's Art Podcast What are some of the things that you're in the process of doing artistically these days? I always have a huge backlog of project ideas so just coming out of project management mindset I use MeisterTask which is a kanban board setup. That's where you have your backlog and then you have currently working on, and then complete.  So you take the task and kind of move it across those different columns. It's a way to stay focused.  Any time I have a random idea for a project I'll throw it in the backlog and after each project, I kind of reassess what my priorities are going to be. Constantly reprioritizing that stack just based on what the current needs are like if it's a client commission the deadline is coming up or I rea...

I'm sure I'll be able to get to it tomorrow.

I didn't. But it would have been just typical!

I swear there's more. I should really create a document of what I do for next time.

Neal Tse is an artist living in Indiana. He is a Fantasy Illustrator and has done artwork that ranges the realm of science fiction and fantasy genres. Neal also started live-streaming his drawing and painting process on the Twitch video platform. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Neal Tse's Website - https://nealtse.com Neal Tse on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/nealtse Neal Tse on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nealtse Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC Podcast Music by my band Lorenzo's Music , listen on Spotify https://spoti.fi/2JJF39Q

I just got them because I thought the artwork looked cool.

The upside is still that I'm not paying for it during construction. But I'm not using it anyway, I just look at it.

In this clip from the podcast, illustrator Shannon Wang talks about how she found inspiration over the past year using the Sktchy app. You can check out the full episode here - Shannon Wang: Illustrator, Painter and Tattoos Tom Ray's Art Podcast So you draw portraits do you have people that you actually model them for are you making them up in your head? There's an app called Sktchy that I found pretty close to the shutdown.  It's an app, you can post pictures of your artwork, you can also post pictures of yourself to be drawn by other artists. It's more about portraits than it is anything else on there and that was always something that I had a hard time with.  They offer classes to learn how to draw. You could take a whole class on learning how to draw an ear or nose or eyes or whichever! So I just kind of went all-in on that on quarantine and was just drawing and drawing and drawing and drawing.  If you look at my pictures kind of pre-March last year, March 2020, y...

I was even more amazed that I still had a cassette player to play it on.

I was originally going to take it to the dealership but I felt like that would have seemed so silly.

  I found a bunch of folders on a disc of old Flash-animated cartoons that I did like over ten years ago. This is the third one I made. This cartoon was called Lorenzo's Mutation and it was hand-drawn and inked then scanned into flash to film it. It also was going to include music by my band Lorenzo's Music . I was going to make a whole weekly series out of it and each episode would unfold in 30-second releases. But for some reason, this is the only one I ever made and never even released it! In this video, I watch the video and go through the original flash animation software files to look at how I made it. Plus, at the end of the video, my daily autobiographical webcomic . Link on my YouTube Channel:  https://youtu.be/kzc1yj8nBO4

Now it's like where did they go? Why did they leave?

This time I smelled wood then in another area WD-40.

Shannon Wang is an artist living in Maryland. After college Shannon worked for the Discovery Channel making larger-than-life window displays and later started a business called Shop 53, an all women run Tattoo & Art Studio. And during the shutdown, this past year became obsessed with drawing portraits inspired by an app called sktchy . Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Shannon Wang's Website http://shannonwang.com Shop 53 Tattoo & Art Studio website https://www.shop53tattoostudio.com Shannon Wang on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shannonwangart Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

It was one of those brief moments where you just process something you don't expect wondering how you're supposed to react.

I didn't invent video streaming, what do I know?

I can't be the only person that happens to right?

I found a bunch of folders on one of my external hard drives of old animations that I did like over 10 years ago. Previously I watched the first one that I made here . This time I want to talk about the second one that I did . I was reading more animation books and stuff during this time trying to teach myself animation. For this one, I got a little bit more ambitious.  Suddenly I was trying to make like a huge production for this one!  I not only had a song that I was working on with my band Lorenzo's Music that I wanted to use for this but I decided I wanted to try and make this cartoon idea a series.  So this was the intro cartoon of this series, it was a music video.  I didn't even really have a storyline! All I had was an idea but I started making it anyway. I made some characters, I had a concept and I assumed that basically, I would figure it out as I went along. At the time I was really into the animated series Batman Beyond so a lot of the styles in this a...

It's one of those situations where too much time had gone by to ask again so we've been trying to figure out a way forever.

It's great when you get moments to hang out now and then these days. Here's is a photo of what he was doing. @triangulad0r

Link on my YouTube Channel:  https://youtu.be/lKuQqAG4kIw I found a bunch of folders on a disc of old flash animation cartoons that I did like over ten years ago. I started with the first one in a previous video and now I'm going to look at the second one that I did that was a bit more of an ambitious project and idea I tried to do. This cartoon was called Lorenzo's Mutation and it was hand-drawn and inked then scanned into flash to film it. It also was going to include music by my band Lorenzo's Music. In this video, I watch the video and go through the original flash animation software files to look at how I made it. Plus, at the end of the video, I draw my daily autobiographical webcomic .