Tom Ray

It's just hard to be patient when I'm so used to the instant results I have been having there.

I've been posting on there for two years, I don't know why this is happening now?

It did all start with a message that said your account was marked as suspicious.

All the message said was "we reviewed your account and you now have access again". No explanation of what happened or anything.

Gotta try something new. If I ever do get access back I want to make sure I'm not so dependent on just one thing.

Judy Robb is a Wisconsin-based painter who is inspired by history and the stories behind it. Judy's background also includes technology and running a honey business with her husband. Judy also has a lot of interesting stories behind her artistic pursuits including going out west to become a photographer and while working on a documentary about biker culture she met Rusty Dennis who was played by Cher in the movie Mask. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Judy Robb's Website https://www.judyrobb.com Judy's Honey business https://vandehoney.com Judy Robb on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vandehoney Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

I was working on a song the other day and was kind of stressing out about it. I didn't know if it was any good or if anyone would even like it. I also was hoping to get it ready to release in the next week. Then I thought to myself why am I even doing this? Why do I create things? I know I have the need but why? Why do I or any of us do it? I actually want to know? I don't have an answer. I decided to just think about it out loud in this video. Maybe to get out of this funk that I just put my mind in by having this thought. Plus, at the end of the video, 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

I feel creepy contacting the people directly but I don't want them to think I'm ignoring their orders.

I feel like people have been ignoring stop signs more and more.

I know it won't work but I can't help trying things.

In this clip from the Art Podcast, artist and YouTuber Ben Walker Storey tells me about how he dealt with the anxiety of promoting his artwork using video. And also how these videos turned into a series about drawing goths from the 80s. How the idea came about for the drawing goths series that you're doing? It's weird because it started like this very definitive spark moment of not knowing what the hell is going on in the world with the pandemic. So that was a very global thing that everybody was going through and then for me, I had been seeking help for some mental health issues. I thought I had ADHD basically.  Things were kind of getting kind worse as far as being able to keep track of my life and my projects. Just jumping from one thing to another without even realizing I had left what I was working on and all of a sudden I'm in another room. And I was kind of going off sometimes and barking at people like strangers for no good reason you know? It just wasn't good....

All very disorienting since I'm still not sure what happened.

The worst part is that I don't even have a support number to call to find out what was going on with my account to begin with.

Caroline Lee is a podcaster based in England who in the past few years has started learning illustration and graphic design. I have actually known Caroline and her husband Dave Lee for many years from their podcast The Bugcast.  So I was really happy when Caroline had agreed to be on the show to talk about her new venture to learn illustration to expand her career. Plus, it's always nice to talk to them! We discuss all the online drawing prompts and lessons she's been taking and her experience from using a tablet to trying to figure out vector programs like Adobe Illustrator. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Caroline Lee on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theinstamoo Caroline Lee and Dave Lee's podcast The Bugcast https://thebugcast.org Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

I don't remember biting it yesterday. Could I have done it in my sleep?

Eh. It happens. Oddly, it makes me think of trying to create more things.

I'm always fascinated by the random conversations that are had while working on something. BTW if you want to learn more about his tabletop game Hivernation he made this video https://youtu.be/k66a6K09Opk

Sometimes when I think about the creative process it actually blocks me up.

Ben Walker-Storey is an Illustrator and a YouTuber who also publishes coloring books and different types of low content books on Amazon. This is the second time I've had Ben on the show. This time I wanted to ask him about a new drawing video series he created called "Let's draw goths". A fun series where he finds old photos of goths in high school and draws pictures of them which he has also turned into one of his coloring books. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Ben Walker-Storey's website http://benwalkerart.com Ben Walker-Storey YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/benwalkerstorey Ben Walker-Storey on Instagram http://instagram.com/benwalkerstorey You can also listen to my previous interview with Ben https://www.tomrayswebsite.com/2019/02/s04-episode-7-ben-walker-storey-print.html Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

I kinda want my theory of that to be true now.

Then we just kept turning things off and on all day.

Another look at some of the retro/vintage items I sold online including puzzles, an ET VHS tape and some illustrated children's books including a version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer that was illustrated by Richard Scarry . Plus, at the end of the video, 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 Here are Some illustrations by Richard Scarry from the  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer book. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer book cover from 1958 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer title page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa from 1958 And of course the classic inside cover from the Simon and Schuster editions of Little Golden Books.  

Years of comic book collecting made it seem so wrong to do.

Turning his drawings into chat emotes - Tom Ray's Art Podcast Clip On an episode of the art podcast , I learn how artist Scott C. Hamilton creates his own chat emotes for his Twitch channel. You create emoticons, how is this process done?  So when I first started on Twitch you don't get emotes you just get your channel but then they enable people to subscribe to your channel and give you bits which are a penny each.  so people donate a thousand bits, that's ten dollars. Which happens often. Then you get a little emote for your channel they can use if they're subscribed and they pop up in the chat.  I've got one that's like "Yo!" and I've got another one like "Yay!" Scott's Twitch emotes promo I started drawing them for myself and then other people saw me doing it in my chat and people I played games with and said "hey can you draw me some emotes?" and kind of snowballed from there. Now I do quite a bit of it.  How does one...

I remember Trent Reznor released like 28 versions of the song Head like a hole once.

I know people who have bought their childhood homes but never someone who bought a friend's childhood home.

But hey it has a full tank of gas!

Scott C. Hamilton is a self-taught illustrator and caricature artist living in Massachusetts. He started his caricature art career while working a comic book booth at a convention. He's been doing live drawing streams on his Twitch channel and is also a member of the National Caricaturist Network. Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Links Scott C. Hamilton's website http://www.hamiltoons.com Scott C. Hamilton on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Hamiltoons Scott C. Hamilton on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hamiltoons Support the show! Check out the vintage pop-culture items available in my eBay Store https://ebay.to/2vMYStC

YouTube Link:  https://youtu.be/mBCL0RajwXg I'm continuing to look at the old cartoons that I did . Right now I'm gonna look at the very first short series run that I did of a cartoon about my son Dexter called "Action! It figures". How the cartoon got started This series was back in like 2003 I think. My son Dexter and I had been watching old Huckleberry Hound cartoons by Hanna Barbera  that I had on DVD because I love those things! So this flash cartoon series is supposed to be in that style.  Edited the audio and storyboards I went online and I found a library from a site called Sounddogs and downloaded the free low-quality versions of cartoon-type background music. So the audio on this has kind of a hiss to it because I downloaded really low-quality audio for the music, which is too bad because by this time I had figured out how to record the voices properly for my cartoons.  This cartoon was going to be a three-part series and each episode was a little over a ...

It was very confusing.

I just now figured out he sent me that because it's April fool's day.