John Kricfalusi's Blog and the Inspiration it Provides

For those of you that don't know yet, John Kricfalusi has a new blog he's been posting to for a little while now. Most people know John as the creator of "Ren N' Stimpy," but some also know his work from Spumco, including "George Liquor" and "Ripping Friends."

As any animation fan who grew up in the 80s and 90s will tell you, RnS was a huge influence on me. That's not to say my drawings look like Ren N' Stimpy much, but just from the aspect of humor, and the overall feel of the cartoon. It's something I still draw from to this day in my comic strip.

John is a throwback for sure, in that he feels that cartoons today are crap (which they are) and that the life is gone from most, if not all of them (which it is.) He constantly preaches old school, and invites people to go back and watch cartoons from the 40s, which blow away modern animation in almost every sense of the word.

I had dreams of becoming an animator growing up, but frankly lacked the talent. I know just enough to make my drawings not look like they were drawn by a blind monkey with the shakes, but not enough to bring motion to my work. Yet when I watched cartoons like Ren N' Stimpy, I felt as though that was what I wanted to do for a living. Years later, I find myself testing videogames for a living, and though I enjoy my job very much, every break I find myself hunched over a piece of copy paper, doodling away.

So when I stumbled upon Mr. Kricfalusi's blog and read what he had to say, I yet again felt inspired to put up my own blog and begin sharing more of my artwork. People have seen my comic strip in the past, but now I'm going to start sharing my other work with you. Understand that this will run the line from the good, to the not so good, to the downright ugly. A professor in art school told me that the average person has 100,000 bad drawings in them, and the sooner you get those out of the way, the sooner you'll be drawing what you want to draw. I won't be holding back, so you'll be seeing some of the 100,000 for sure, but I also hope that from time to time you'll get to see one or two that fall out of that 100,000 range.

This blog would not have gone up, had it not been for Mr. Kricfalusi's blog getting me excited again, so I thank for him for that.

Now let's see where this ride takes me.