“Hi, I am currently living in New York City working in science as well as attending graduate school for a Masters in Business Administration in Manhattan. I was actually born in New York but moved to the Midwest at a young age and grew up there before boomeranging back to the Big Apple. A lot of my Midwest mannerisms come out from time to time, so it’s hard for me to cosplay as a pure-bred New Yorkan. I am unapologetically social, for better or for worse, as I am always that one guy who has to talk to every stranger at the party. Come say hi to me whenever you’re in the city. A little unrelated, but I ran the New York Marathon once and I like to brag about that whenever I get the chance, haha.” “I absolutely adore art. I love looking at all kinds of pieces whenever I get a chance, and love seeing different styles and expressions. Art that really excites me are ones with loud colors with unique and bold designs. As a consequence, I believe I was naturally drawn to cartoons, animation, and comics when I was younger. Cartoons and comics married art with storytelling and created a medium that truly entranced me. Growing up I would try to replicate this magic by doodling silly pencil-drawn comics at school. Creating any world or fantasy with just a number 2 pencil is what really got me into art.” “It’s tough to pinpoint a theme but I guess I would say it would be an absurdity in the everyday. I think the best laughs are when you dissect the humor out of something in your life, and crank it to 110%. It’s a little therapeutic because it reminds me that there’s a laugh in anything you see, do, or experience. But above all, I draw what makes me laugh and what I think my friends would laugh at.” “My comics always start with the joke. I actually have a huge list of jokes/ideas I constantly update on my phone. Whenever I think of something funny, I will jot down a quick concept so I won’t forget it. Because of this, there’s definitely a backlog of ideas since I write down more than I have time to draw. From there it depends on what I want to draw or work on. I originally used my comics as an outlet to improve my art. So I would think along the lines of ‘I want to draw a guy or a girl’ or ‘I want to work on shading and lighting’. At that point I would take a look into my list and see which joke would fit best for what I was trying to work on. Of course, if there was something I thought was super funny, I would draw it right away.” Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Please use high-res photos without watermarks Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB.
