Komik Strip Kartoonz: Sometimes, ya' just gotta.........go for it.

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My name is Tim Winstead and I've been drawing cartoons of one sort or the other for as long as I can recall. No formal training whatsoever and even less listened to advice just provided more of a reason for me to try and realize my goal of cartooning for a living, albeit....life itself did pose some hurdles...... which I stumbled over countless times. I still don't 'toon for a living, but strangely enough I have been very fortunate to encounter certain people who have left an indelible impression on me. First and foremost is Phil Yeh, a highly creative person with volumes of very colorful and imaginative illustrations and experiences that very few will ever know. This profoundly creative man has enough energy to light up a stadium and the kind of commitment to a craft that is rare by today's standards and it's HIS commitment to our craft ,which is a quality I have always admired.
I have also 'met' some other great artists as well via social networking. Off the top is a highly talented graphic artist, who by day .....dons the guise of a school teacher, Mr. Johnny Hamm. The work this man can produce is exceptional and though we have never met...I have known him for quite a long time.The kind of art he produces is unlike the mainstream stuff we all see. I call him a mixed media maestro. I am blown away by the composition of his work. Now, we shift to another exceptional cartoonist, Mr. Coleman York, who is the creator of HUGO comics. Outstanding in his own right, he has always struck me as someone of class and style. A very humble attitude mixed in with a little sage advice and a bit of ' We all gotta look out for one another' persona.Then there is Karl Zorowski, who is a devout priest....and a very exceptional person and..... just so happens to be the creator of ' Church Mice'. I have never met Karl, but he is another of the great people I know from the message board I mentioned earlier. And last but not least, there is Andrew Bos, who employs his cartoons in ways I hadn't seen before. A huge talent, of which I hope to see more of. In between all of the tiny little, gaps in my life, which are way way too many to try and list here....one thing has ALWAYS been a constant. That is I love to draw cartoons. Always have....always will, and chances are I may NEVER make a living drawing cartoons, but one thing is sure.....I will ALWAYS love my drawing cartoons and even though my life didn't exactly play out as planned, I'm very grateful that it took the direction it did. My life in ' toons has been....creative. But then again....aren't we ALL creative in our own way ? Please feel free to visit any time and should you have a question about cartoons/cartooning, or any of the topics you've seen on this blog.... please let me know at otb666tw@gmail.com and Ill post your question with an answer. If I can't answer it. I'll find somebody who can. If you have a topic of your own, I'll be more than happy to post it, and see what kind of responses we get. That's pretty much the crux of this blog. My aim is to provide a forum for anything and everything 'toon. Thanks and come back often.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Sometimes, ya' just gotta.........go for it.

Hey everybody...or should I say the one or two of you who follow this blog. Good thing it wasn't set up to be a money maker or I'd be selling pencils from a tin can instead. Today's short but sweet blog entry comes on the heels of my most recent post. As of now, I am still having some issues with the posting of my hand-drawns, but the digi's are in abundance. Go figure. Anyway, in light of this...I'd just like to give a quick shout out to Johnny Hamm and Coleman York for their tips towards the use of digital art in all of it's forms....as a means to create when hand drawing isn't getting it and creativity is stymied by ideas zero, zero and zero. I'm a long way from digi-tooning the kind of pics I believe I can make, but.......and this may be hard to take for most of you, but having to rely solely on the mouse on my laptop as an only means to "draw" has actually disciplined me in ways I never would have foreseen and it has helped me broaden my understanding of what I can do when left with little choice. That, I think has made me a better cartoonist.I sure as hell know it's made me a more patient one. So, with that....if you'd kindly look to your right, my latest facebook posting is here in all of it's experimental glory.