Getting the Ball Rolling

I thought I'd toss up a few of the pieces from my art room over at Dog Complex, as a way to get this blog rolling. In the days and months to come, I hope to add much more to the blog, in terms of sketches and comics, but this should help get things moving in that direction.



This image you see above was done for a t-shirt I was selling on my site. At the time, I still had the belief that I could sell merchandise on a webcomic site. This is something I later found to be totally wrong, as the number of people who actually buy merchandise hovers somewhere down around 1% of your readership, so for a site only pulling in a 1000 people a day, my orders equaled about 4 a year. I bought a few for myself and family, and had an order trickle in here or there, but that was pretty much it. I like the way the piece turned out, though I do feel that Sid looks a bit plastic. I also think I probably should have added strings to the guitar, even it were just 3 or 4, as it looks kind of strange.



Another from my "Dog Complex Springwear Collection," this was the shirt that actually got ordered a few times. I think it works well for Sid as a character, and really conveys his free spirit. What I don't like is that he has the same goofy smile on his face in each pose.



And the final shirt, which didn't sell either. This one would be a tough sell, even with a million readers a day, because wearing it would cause more than a few odd stares. If you're a guy and you have this shirt on, you most likely have pants on, implying that you are not a man. What guy wants to wear a shirt like that? If you are a woman and you have the shirt on, you're pretty much asking men to expose themselves to you.

I didn't think that one through very well.