2014 Plans and updates its Jowy Shenanigans for the 21/12/13

Christmas Is approaching ever faster guys: faint: and I tend to slow down a little to take it nice and easy before I get back in too my busy routine.  Last weekends journal was pointless if I am honest but enough about the past lets look forward to the future

Biggest Update of this month I have finished my job for the holidays. The boss has been very pleasant to work with and the skills I have gained in indesign and illustrator give my business more leeway in future work.. I am going to research In to other creative job or opportunity so when I have to leave the job I have another place to go
Its not going to be a cake walk and does mean spending a few hours looking online for paid work over the break but I am willing to sacrifice some of my much earned free time in order to achieve this goal and be generally more happy about professional working environments. 

There’s going to be a lot of planning before the New Year kicks in as well

The biggest things I want to aim for next year is to go to two or at least one of the big brony conventions in the U.S. EVERFREE OR BRONYCON (maybe even get to vendor there which would be awesome).

Other big goals on my list include expanding the jowbean brand with joining sites like WLF welovefine and working for IDW as I did do a comic cover that appeared in the art galley special of MLP two months ago. 

On top of this I want to return to my own projects that I have put on hiatus since BUCKcon this year. One being the ambitious graphic novel that my dads writing called Humanise.com and my Jowy web comic that is in collab with a friend not on DA. this means that this blog will get used much more next year if i keep to my word.

I am aiming very high for 2014 folks but I believe that with my unique diverse talent anything is possible now, even animation. Got to keep going up not down.

 have a very Merry Christmas and happy awesome new year

heres an amazing musical artist who,s getting me in to the festive mood =D

LATERS :)

u only had one

I am still here just over on tumblr and DA short update 14/12/13

Its been a good week and a half since I last update on this blog which I apologise for but I recently discovered the fun of tumblr and being uploading a lot of my roughs and sketches to there as a sort of archive for my ideas pony and non pony related of Crouse.

I am still in my graphic design job, which has become a little bit more enjoyably but come New Year or before then I am looking for a better-paid creative job

 I should be thankful to the director at the company  for keeping me on for this long but for the long-term of jowybean as a business I need to find a better-secured position if I want to aim higher.

I still have a lot of commissions on my DA to crack on with.

Christmas Is approaching ever faster and I tend to slow down a little to take it nice and easy before I get back in too my busy routine again. That’s why there’s been no Illustration Friday or sketch dumps on here for this month because I am getting used to tumblr and I want to be a lazy man.

That’s why I am ending this post now before I yap on and end typing for another hour or something

checkout my sketch tumblr http://jowybean.tumblr.com/

If there’s not another post before Christmas I wish you all a merry Christmas and a cheer to an awesome new year which I have a feeling next year for Jowy will be awesome ....I CAN FEEL IT.   

LATERS

Missed Illustration Friday submission and tiny update

Hello everyone i wanted to do a quick post because i missed last weeks Illustration Friday submission which was on the theme of shadows 

this was going to be a dramatic contrasted illustration when i started.

Since last week i have started working longer hours at the graphic design job and doing brony commissions which have taken up a lot of my time so i may miss a few IF challenges to make my life that little bit more easy to manage otherwise i could end up burning myself out  before the end of the year and that would be a disaster.

So much to do in so little time.

until next post LATERS :)

Jowy Shenanigans updates 28/11/13

Been a good couple of days since the last update but making time for it tonight.

Hello everybody last Saturday was a busy and productive day because it was the Crafty Muthas i had mentioned once or twice about. Un like the UK pony con Buck I did not make a lot of money but still broke even with the equipment and tools i needed to sell my various works but i exchanged contacts with a lot of people (some I knew from years ago old friends really) who were interested in my caricature cartoon work i started doing recently. And i sold off a lot of my old art from when i was 9 and 10 as that was received really well. I was utterly surprised at how many young adorable kids were bronies too i had one young girl there throw a lot of 1p coins on my table for a pinkie Pie and Princess Luna print which just made my day. And just talking to them about Best pony was marvellous and made me realize that there are lots of kids who love ponies as well as us crazy obsessed adult fans. Couple other things to say about the event, I have been invited to three other potential events this December to show case and sell my art, which is exciting. Some of it is for charity. I still have quite a few commissions to do online but I hope a lot of the people who took my cards will come back for a cartoon I want to keep myself as busy as possible over Christmas I tend to get lazy near the end of the year.

As promised here are the 6 Christmas card designs I was selling art crafty Muthas
and will be selling this christmas online.

 SEASON 4 OF FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC STARTED and it did not disappoint) I joined in on a live stream of the two parter episode as it was such a big deal for a lot of fans including me i had a little interview on the stream near the end of it which in UK time was about 2:55 I think. It was called Brony Bash and you can check it out on you tube (if you really want to). It was a long long stream and I joined the tail end of it. I competed my title card for the part 1the next day (Sunday) and managed to get a recording of the process.

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I started a Tumblr right now I use it to archive my sketches, ideas and anything else.

Its got a silly name as well I always think way too big when I start new online profiles but I know that’s not how online creasrtivty works in this day and age. I have so many ideas to bring to life that I have lost my ability to get bored or lazy.

Until Next Post Laters 

Illustration Friday submission : Thanks Tails Bus

(heavy sigh) It saddens me a little when i have some really great visual ideas for finished pieces but due to life,work unexpected showcase events and the potential annoyance i lost a great sheet of observation studies. it never becomes the reality i see in my imagination. This is still in sketch mode i never got it done to a standard i am happy with. but i want to keep this content consistent each week even if it means sacrificing perfectionism  a little to keep these ideas flowing and going.

This weeks theme was.....Tails (if you can tell)

i know have the crafty Muthas fair this weekend to look forward to wish me luck and i  will see you all LATERs in the next post ;).

unexpected Jowy Shenanigans updates 17/11/13

This has come up at just the last minute and is going to make my week that little bit busier. My good old university BCU has invited me to a showcase-networking event on Tuesday where I could really spread the world of Jowybean around lol and exchange contacts with other businesses. There’s over 100 attendees going to it and some of us are getting a table so I need to prepare for it fast. I have my table booked but I need to gather together a proper portfolio for the event.

Crafty Muthas fair this Saturday coming (23^rd nov) I am still going to. I believe these two separate events could make or break my freelance business but this year has being mostly exploring and taking risks and so far it’s all paid off really well.

Sneak Peek at my new Illustration Friday submission that i plan to have done by wednesday

 

I usually do not show my super sketchy sketches because of my perfectionate mind but these are drawings based on my own characters who i have grown to adore and enjoy drawing more . Not as much as ponies but i am making space in my busy creative life to doodle them at least

until next Post LATERS ;)

Illustration Friday submission : Wind annoying Act

only managed to get a good rough tonal sketch done this time......... doh dart 

This Weeks theme was Energy

Unlike my last few submissions the only connection to the theme would be the old man with a wind turbine for a head. I was going with the idea of motion and movement and used some of my favourite poses from the last few newspapers I have collected as reference 

 Never expect anybody to get my deep ideas just appreciate the quirkiness and experimentation in my style.

Until next Post Laters   

Jowy Shenanigans 13/11/13 some new updates of sorts

I find myself getting up late on my days off from work because of how cold and damp its getting outside in the UK. I just want to stay in my bed for another 10 minutes but old man winter wind sends his cold air right up my back and wakes me up rudely.

About the Graphic design job……yeah… it may be temporary until Christmas and I do not want to put any information or twitter rants out there. Lets just say its been a good experience and I have improved on my design skills since I started there 8or 9 weeks ago. But come next year it would be best for me to find a better graphic design studio.

Big thing next Saturday

I am vendoring at the local craft fair Crafty Muthas Sat23rd in my local church. Preparation has been underway for the fair since last week all my prints and Xmas cards I designed have arrived and will be uploaded after the fair and yes some of them are pony related so stay tuned for those beauties. I am throwing in some BUCK prints and prints of my old art that got me started on the path to illustration). I have such an amazing story on how I got started as a young artist but I should save that for another day not enough energy to type it all out today lol also I am not a big head or Trixie lol.

little preview of the prints and cards i have reday for the fair the cards will be uploaded after or before the event have to see

Usually I would be going to the big comic con up in Leeds called Thought Bubble but to save time and money for my U.S con plans for next year. I am missing it this year a little sad :( about it obviously. But I have a bright creative future ahead: excited: and want to keep the distractions to a minimum if possible I still have not touched GTA 5 in weeks or caught up with my YouTube subscriptions. :nuu: :stupidme: 

I started livestreaming recently and I plan to do more in the coming weeks. My first experience was very positive, did not shut up for a whole three hours I love to talk sometimes folks if you know this blog you understand what I mean.

Because of all these shenanigans I have postponed the development on my Jowy web comic and Humanise.com, :no: which I am a little disappointed to stop But I have to concentrate on the markets I am currently involved in to break into something then nothing. Please still support and check out the projects on my DA account we will return to them soon enough it's not dead. :phew:
Plus I am making the effort with illustration Friday again so you can always see my :crazy: zany illustration style there.

have a cute pony  

Since starting my job at UK Print and media i have wanted to get back in to the habit of studying from life aka my journey to work. And the metro newspapers as there are so many helpful interesting references to use for practising realism these are three of the studies i have done in the last eight weeks third one i am least satisfied with but live and learn as Crush 40 say XD (only some will get that joke)

Until next Post LATERS ; )

Illustration Friday Submission: Street Secret Unlocked

This Weeks theme is.... Secret

As a previous full time gamer (when i was a teenager) .Secrets in platform games were always a win in my books whether it was bonus points or just a new puzzle to tackle always kept me occupied for longer in the world i was playing Rayman was the first game series i saw this happening. 

Like last weeks and future submissions the image is a mixture of real life studies from different  media with my crazy zany juxtaposing imagination.

get used to this style its staying :)

i hope to refine my digital painting skills in the future challenges i still have a very rough style when it comes to digital art usually.  

The value layer before I use overlay for the colour

until next post LATERS folks 

Jowy Shenanigans 3/11/13 big update

CHECK IT OUT  J A NEW UPDATE 

Busy month ahead folks not just because of my new graphic design job with UK Print and Media. Biggest thing i am doing is vendoring at the local craft fair Crafty Muthas Sat23rd in my local church. Preparation has been underway for the fair this weekend I even have created some exclusive Christmas cards for the event. Also been Putting together the prints i will be selling (even throwing in some BUCK prints and prints of my old art that got me started on the path to illustration). I have such an amazing story on how I got started as a young artist but I should save that for another day not enough energy to type it all out today lol.

Usually I would be going to the big comic con up in Leeds called Thought Bubble but to save time and money for my U.S con plans for next year. I am missing it this year a little sad :( about it obviously. But I have a bright creative future ahead :excited: and want to keep the distractions to a minimum if possible I still have not touched GTA 5 in weeks or caught up with my YouTube subscriptions. :nuu: :stupidme: 

I started livestreaming recently and I plan to do more in the coming weeks. My first experience was very positive, did not shut up for a whole t

Because of all these shenanigans I have postponed the development on my Jowy web comic and Humanise.com, :no: which I am a little disappointed to stop But I have to concentrate on the markets I am currently involved in to break into something then nothing. Please still support and check out the projects on my DA account we will return to them soon enough it's not dead. :phew:
Plus I am making the effort with illustration Friday again so you can always see my :crazy: zany illustration style there.

Meme is now cannon in brony Fandom ROFL

 Season 4 of ponies is starting around the same weekend exciting stuff so do not surprised to see the occasional pony drawing uploaded to FB the fandom is going to explode all over the internet and I will be helping in the spread XD. Just kidding …..OR AM I :evillaugh:

Jowy highlights  and doodles from last two weeks ;)

Jowy is like dr Who his design changes every few months lol

hands stupid but a decent sketch at least. 

 Anyway jowy has more art to create so I will bid you all a Good Day.

anybody who gets that reference well done have a Cookie =D

 until next Journal entry LATERS ;) :peace:

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Twiiter: https://twitter.com/JowyBean

Livestream http://www.livestream.com/jowybean?t=251618

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Illustration Friday submission Saxy beast 31/10/13

This week’s theme was… Creatures

I had started to listen to a lot of Jazz at the start of last weekend and i wanted to incorporate that theme in to the piece somehow. It’s also a lot less refined then I would have liked it to be but that’s a sacrifice you have to make when you’re busy at real work.

The three young girls or sisters are copied from a newspaper I collect regularly. i tend to hold on to them  for great visual reference its a way to observe life while letting my crazy world blossom.

also heres the sketch i did before the final speed painting above.

until next post LATERS folks ;)

Illustration Friday submission: Fire Tangle Fighter

My early submission to Illustration Friday 

Theme this week Entangled

i also tried ponying up the theme as well. 

I had a crack at my old promarker pens for these piece (i used to use them for my university development when i was discovering the importance of value).  Now that i have found my voice or vision in my work I really do want to start learning about traditional media in a lot more depth. Its not going to be easy as I specialize in digital a lot. But I am willing to take that risk and move up a level in my career.

until next post LATERS   

Jowy Shenanigans 19/10/13 big update

As my dad would sarcastically say “Hello you o,rrible lot” and welcome to another update on the world of Jowybean let me bring you up to speed with what’s happening in my busy consistent creative life.

Number one the job at the graphic Design sinage company UK Print and Media is going extremely well. So far no complaints at all, my boss Akeel (who I have become real good friends) with has been very firm with the tasks that need doing with in the week and i have found myself surprisingly enjoying the programs Indesign and Illustrator. Really makes you think about the level of professional quality in your work and art. Graphics is not something I have touched or paid attention too since college which was four years ago so it’s a nice breath of fresh air to be doing it again with a better mindset.

Next month there’s going to be a local 2-day handmade craft fair in my town called Crafty Muthas. Now the name obviously implies that its targeted at one particular audience (as there’s a lot of craft fairs in England that are similar to this). I emailed them a brief description about me and my products I was going to sell, my DA gallery links and talked about the whole MLP brony thing. Two days later they emailed back saying they had a space free on one of the two days for me which is cool I would personally like too do both days but the fair is very popular with creative mothers that its only right that it should be broken down in to two days to give all vendors a chance.

I am going to be bringing most of my work I brought to the showcase event I attended two months ago to Crafty Muthas. But since it’s near to Christmas I am going to be creating some new Xmas cards both pony and non-pony to sell there started work on two last week.

Third no shocker too some of you, still doing pony art and commissions its very additive fun. I am slowly getting a good income from this not as much as my real job of course but still all this money will go towards my planed trip to the US pony cons next year or Comic Con depends how productive I am in the next few months. Considering I have hardly touched any of GTA 5 in the last 4 weeks proves that laziness and boredom are becoming less coherent as they used to be.

I started livesteraming recently and I plan to do more in the coming weeks. My first experience was very positive, did not shut up for a whole three hours I love to talk sometimes folks if you know this blog you understand what I mean.

Because of all these shenanigans I have postponed the development on my Jowy web comic and Humanise.com, which I am a little disappointed to stop But I have to concentrate on the markets I am currently involved in to break into something then nothing. Please still support and check out the projects on my DA account we will return to them soon enough it’s not dead.

Plus I am making the effort with illustration Friday again so you can always see my crazy zany illustration style there.

   

I apologize if this comes off as egotistical and pride fall but I personally believe that I should get paid for my art from now on what ever type it is that’s why I do not accept any requests that much on DA its just very time consuming and I have to make a living off my talents at some point friends.

Wow this post has taken me literacy over half an hour to write I will bid you a fare well  and good day and let you enjoy a small galley of my recent art from last few weeks

 first week I helped Akeel design a welcome home banner for his cousins son who with his wife just had an adorable baby girl and were coming home from the hospital. One thing lead to another after I meet Akeels cousin and I ended up being commissioned to do a caricature of them both together with their baby from one photo. =D 

Stupidly I forgot their names but they loved it I herd so that’s the important thing.

Trevor inspired LOL

Girls are fun to draw XD 

style inspired a bit by the amazing Becky Dreistadt

                  Getting back i the groove of studying 
             life from newspapers and my work commute  

LATERS and Peace ; )