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It’s only been 8 months, so I guess it’s not that bad. đ
Still going over on FB, and I’ve been stuck-as-fuck on my art, but how about this thing I made while in a bout of insomnia. I had some whiskey to keep me company.
These are all true…probably.
As always, click to embiggen for the I DRAW TOO SMALL bits.
Love,
benjamin
Still busy; have some more dick joke art
Jan. 29th, 2015 05:04 pmOriginally published at benchiladaland. You can comment here or there.
Between protesting Governor Rauner’s “right to work” bullshit–he’s at the I-Hotel today, so a hoard of people are going over to shout at him–and protesting Tasers, and going to City Council meetings–congrats, Aaron!–and volunteering at the Champaign County Humane Society, and helping more at home as Nadja makes Carnivale Debauche costumes and…look, we been busy.
I have no larger project right now, so have some more dick jokes.
Love,
benjamin
Here, have a weird dick joke
Jan. 27th, 2015 04:44 pmOriginally published at benchiladaland. You can comment here or there.
I’ve been busy, but I drew you something anyway.
If you’re “lucky,” there’ll be more on Thursday!
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I had this AIWA turntable to get rid of, since I need one with a USB jack:
Nadja and I are big fans of the barter system, and a gentleman offered two pieces of art:
They are, from left to right “Clever Worms Hiding in the Grass” and “Use Wisely But With Coconut.”
We thought that wasn’t a balanced deal, so Nadja threw in some of her pear ginger jam, which is fucking obscenely delicious.The fellow’s name is Shane Rodems; I love his stuff, and recommend his works very highly. They’re even cheap! Go buy something!
Nadja and I ride the bus a lot, even now that we have a car. After all, the CUMTD got us to the show on time, and their app garage means that you can pick from many programs to keep track of your bus via live GPS.
Now that The Wizard’s Lesson is completely finished, it’s time to move on to some one-shots before trying another large project.
We see plenty of different jackasses while riding, so I figure I’ll do a few
comics about the matters. Please to enjoy:
There will be more appearances from bus-holes, I promise. Twenty years of riding really builds up your knowledge of jackasses.
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Sometimes I worry that I’ve been listening to too much Goon Show [autoplay warning] and general British radio comedy. Then I remember what the Tick had to say about moderation:
“Always remember: less is less, more is more. More is better, and twice as much is good too. Not enough is bad, and too much is never enough except when it’s just about right.”
After I finish this folk tale comic, expect more one-shots and proper blog posts, some of which may not even have art! GASP! I’ve got a new camera–an Olympus XZ-2 that Nadja found for about 60% off–so I’ll be doing photos again as well.
Anyroad, here’s a nice splash page to click on and make huge and be all WHOA YOU FUCKED UP TZU CH’UN and next week? The whole thing rolls up and finishes, and then…the lesson?
Well. Glad he sorted THAT out for us.
Love,
benjamin
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Letâs just chat for a second before we get into todayâs comic, the heaviest one in the whole thing. After this we only have a few more days of postings left.
Anyroad, thereâs a chance that BIG HERO 6 is still playing in a theater near you.
Go goddamned see it.
Seriously, the movie is ridiculously good, and the trailer doesnât in any way express its complexities.
If you donât like it, IâllâŚdunno, maybe Iâll do something for you. And then Iâll tick the box next to your name that says âCOLD AND EMOTIONLESS.â
In related news, my latest bad movie watching was Gor. Oddly, I could only find a Spanish-language trailer for it.
If youâre not familiar with the world of GorâŚwell, itâs not entirely pleasant. Iâd say more on it, but Iâve refused to ever read any book in the series.
The movie managed to be both offensive and inoffensive. Itâs was mostly a standard 80âs sword-and-sorcery film, but with a lot more women tied up and treated like objects than one would expect. And hair. My god, Gor invented hairspray but not hairstyling.
RIGHT! On to the most troubling bit of The Wizardâs Lesson. After this, itâs only a tiny bit more to wrap things up, then on to our discussion about the lesson.
As always, click the pic to embiggen.
First, the last installment I posted:
And now…
So that happened.
Love,
benjamin
The Wizard’s Lesson: Babies change things
Dec. 16th, 2014 05:25 pmOriginally published at benchiladaland. You can comment here or there.
A chill page this week, but perhaps a bit ominous. I think it will take about three more postings to finish this bad boy off.
On the last day, I’ll give you a huge post with everything to date.
For now, please to enjoy wedded bliss:
Love,
benjamin
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It doesn’t matter much, though, since my ability to draw pretty ladies extends about as far as I can flick a boulder. I make do with “visual cues.” *koff*
Need a RECAP?
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Take Him To The Pit!
Eight Hells
Reincarnation
As always, click the pic to embiggen.
I’ve also included my latest Artisan Pony, which is one of my more unfortunate ones. I intentionally started drawing from the back of the neck, which led to some, whatchamacallits…birth defects. Submissions always welcome, click the pony for details.
The Wizard’s Lesson has rounded the last curve and is entering the final straightaway, to use pony terminology. I figure that by the end of the next two weeks, it will be finished. I’ll make a post with the entirety of the work as the last entry for it.
Anybody have suggestions/requests on what to draw next, beyond my “Grammar Nazis” comic and “the benchilada tarot?”
Love,
benjamin
8 Levels of Hell for poor Tzu Ch’un
Dec. 2nd, 2014 06:00 pmOriginally published at benchiladaland. You can comment here or there.
S’up, kids?
I’m tired of waiting until the last minute to do the actual writy-bit of my entries, so I’m actually writing this the night before.
I haven’t been sticking to my Ten Minutes A Day rule with my art, justifying the many hours I spend on them anyway as being justified. This is bullshit, amirite*?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m having fun with the Artisan Pony Project and the fabulous guest artists that I’ve gotten so far, but I feel like I’ve been dropping-out of the one-page-funny comics, focusing perhaps too much on being Srs with my art. Starting again tonight, ten minutes every day.
I should also get back to a story or two that I was briefly working on. And the dishes. Nadja‘s sleeping, though, so I shouldn’t do the latter right now. Our bedroom and kitchen are only separated by a curtain.
We have been having preposterous amounts of fun lately, including the great success that was the Kung Fu and Kasseroles Party. Great friends, and casseroles and covered dishes were consumed in large quantities.
Here are trailers for the movies that ran all night:
Living Room TV:
The Magnificent Butcher (Sammo Hung at his best), The Tai Chi Master (A 90s Wire-Fu classic), 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Because Gordon Liu).
Laptop in Library:
Duel of the Tough twice (good fights, a film by Godfrey Ho) and The Holy Flame of the Martial World (a truly WUT film in so many ways).
Netbook Opposite the Toilet:
The Fearless Hyena on repeat (a personal favorite, my first Chan kung fu film).
Anyroad, welcome to the SECOND most bizarre part of The Wizard’s Lesson:
Need a RECAP?
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
As always, click to embiggen:
See, that wasn’t so bad, was it?
Love,
benjamin âgreater-than-zero chance of current intoxicationâ sTone
* Apparently this word bugs some people. They can go screw.
** This comic leaves copyright on December 2, 2024
Ponies and the Tarot
Nov. 20th, 2014 05:05 pmOriginally published at benchiladaland. You can comment here or there.
Yeah, I’m a few days behind. I’ve been busy.
I’ve been having far too much fun already with my Artisan Ponies project on Tumblr. If you’ve been following my art for long, you know that animals are NOT my forte, but that somehow my horses always look…unique.
I’m starting the next Wizard’s Lesson tonight–a two page splash–and I’ll do my damnedest to have it up for Tuesday. For now, we have:
The Wizard’s Lesson Part One
Next Pages
The Next Page
The Lastest So Far
First VERY preliminary sketches for the Tarot deck I’m going to do have started. Don’t worry, I won’t be crossing any streams, and will finish The Wizard’s Lesson before continuing.
In other news, Nadja and I are working next week on our online sales model. We should have it up soon and you can buy terribly fun things from us.
For now, peace out motherfuckers.
Love,
benjamin
REMINDER: The pony and tarot sketches leave copyright November 20, 2014.
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âInterestingâ fact: unless Iâm working on a piece thatâs 100% planned-out and ready, I donât keep track of which color I use on various parts of drawings.
As such, when I have something like The Wizardâs Lesson, colors on everything change unless I can remember from the last time I drew.
For example, I know that King Yama, Lord of the Underworld, should have a face red with righteous fury, so I draw it like that…then forgot which pencil I used. Glad I don’t have to draw him again. 
I think that the color of Tzu Châunâs astral self is âgreen bice,â but donât quote me on that, because that would be a stupid thing to quote me about.
Why would you even do that? Quote me on a color?
I thought I knew you.
Oh, by the way, our “Fuck Civility” buttons are now up on our Etsy shop. Support Steven Salaita, kids, by expressing your own first-amendment rights:
In any event, please have some looks back and today’s art:
The Wizard’s Lesson First Part
The Wizard’s Lesson Gore Begins
The Wizard’s Lesson Gore Continues
Love,
benjamin
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If last week’s part of The Wizard’s Lesson by P’u Sung Ling didn’t have enough violence or blood for you, then please accept this next helping:
Next week we begin our visit of hell, kids!
I like drawing.
Love,
benjamin
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Are you wondering what all of this âbenjamin being attacked by lettersâ was all about?
I doubt it, but if you look below youâll find that the last page pulls a Clarissa and explains it all:
On January 30, 2005, I first used the term âThings I Canât Drawâ on LiveJournal, regarding The Day I Saw An Unidenfitied Flying Object, a story for some class that I drew when I was in about 2nd or 3rd grade.
On January 2, 2006, I did my first entire page of TICD, because I was bored near a pen and a sheet of printer paper. I had so much fun, and that coffee-maker still looks good…but wtf laptop?
Now, in October 2014, itâs time to retire the title.
Thing I Canât Draw belong to the ages.
Welcome to This Is How I Draw.
Sure, itâs taken eight years for me to accept it completely, but I can draw; I simply have a very unique style. It takes me far longer than you would thinkâI can draw, but itâs difficultâand thatâs totally fine, because I love the fuck out of doing it. Iâve been getting better as time goes on, and can easily finish things in one night that used to take me two or three.
The Wizardâs Lesson is a great example of this, and I have a page already uploaded and ready to post on Thursday. I start another tonight and may even have it ready for the same post.
The moral of the story is that you can all stop telling me that I really can draw, because Iâve finally acknowledged it. The next person who derides my derision can go screw. 
Now, if youâll excuse me, these bastards arenât going to fold themselves:
Love,
benjamin sTone
REMINDER: The works pictured above leave copyright on October 14, 2024.
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Hey kids!
As some of you may know, my brain doesn’t always get words right. It’s always been a problem with my gray matter, but the older I get, the more my brain misfires and makes me sound like I’m having a stroke.
I don’t always keep track of them, but I’m starting to, and I’m going to start drawing as many of them as I can. The first one was a misfire while talking to Nadja about a recipe I was going to make with a number of onions, which aren’t Nadja’s stomach’s favorite if they’re not very cooked. I was asking about a change I could make.
Please enjoy my first I Don’t Words Talk Right:
Doing a completed drawing every few days isn’t exactly #Inktober, but #Drawtober works just fine with me.
Tomorrow you might have the horrifyingly blood-soaked very strange next bit of The Wizard’s Lesson as well as a bit about the best new horror movie I’ve seen in ages.
Love,
benjamin
Who’d crystallize YOUR onions any day….
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Hey kids!
As some of you may know, my brain doesn’t always get words right. It’s always been a problem with my gray matter, but the older I get, the more my brain misfires and makes me sound like I’m having a stroke.
I don’t always keep track of them, but I’m starting to, and I’m going to start drawing as many of them as I can. The first one was a misfire while talking to Nadja about a recipe I was going to make with a number of onions, which aren’t Nadja’s stomach’s favorite if they’re not very cooked. I was asking about a change I could make.
Please enjoy my first I Don’t Words Talk Right:
Doing a completed drawing every few days isn’t exactly #Inktober, but #Drawtober works just fine with me.
Tomorrow you might have the next chapter of The Wizard’s Lesson, as well as a bit about the best new horror movie I’ve seen in ages.
Love,
benjamin
Who’d crystallize your onions ANY day….
I’m getting concerned
Sep. 25th, 2014 08:59 pmOriginally published at benchiladaland. You can comment here or there.
I don’t even understand.
I mean, attacking me with one letter wasn’t enough, I had to have another chucked at me? I was even told to stand under the G because it’s not as sharp!
Hrm.
I was minding my own business…
Sep. 24th, 2014 09:33 pmOriginally published at benchiladaland. You can comment here or there.
What the hell just happened?
benjamin
Searching for meaning
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FACTS:
We will be at Made-Fest next weekend, both Saturday the 27th and Sunday the 28th. There’s a FB page here.
We’ll be on the east side of the vendor area, up against the wall of the Highdive.
We’ll be sharing our booth with artist Sophie McMahon, who is awesome.
You will come buy our things.
There will be a mini-comic with this as its cover:
For more awesome things to do in Champaign-Urbana all the time, visit my Ladybee von Robot‘s AWESOME local events webpage, Nothing to Do in C-U. If you know of a local event that’s coming up, let us know!
Love,
benjamin
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FACTS:
We will be at Made-Fest next weekend, both Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st. There’s a FB page here.
We’ll be on the east side of the vendor area, up against the wall of the Highdive.
We’ll be sharing our booth with artist Sophie McMahon, who is awesome.
You will come buy our things.
There will be a mini-comic with this as its cover:
For more awesome things to do in Champaign-Urbana all the time, visit my Ladybee von Robot‘s AWESOME local events webpage, Nothing to Do in C-U, with a frontpage update tomorrow.
Love,
benjamin
