Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in suryamol's LiveJournal:

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
6:02 am	I've been reading posts about how family and friends react to artists online. How they pimp out their friends' comics. I notice they comment on pages and do lots of nice supportive stuff. Self Pity Time: It's not the same for me. Every second I "waste" on the webcomic is another reason to get my eardrums pounded by screeching parents. Every picture I've drawn elicits one of those "Uhh Interesting" remarks. Asking a friend to read one of my comic pages is just like pulling teeth. Someone remarked that theyre only doing it to make me feel good about myself (nice). In fact that same person just remarked about how ugly one of my drawings was. I'm consistently being told that I'm really not very good at drawing and that I need to stop wasting my time on this. These are supposedly my closest friends and family. Not once have I heard any kind of compliment. This happen to anyone else? Weird part is...I still think I'm good and I still want to do it. But I guess that makes me Deluded. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 9th, 2006
12:28 am	UnSteady Eddie As if I needed another distraction! I finally put my comic online in ...voila...a webcomic format! It's at http://unsteadyeddie.comicgenesis.com. Full color. Full Crazy! Wahoo! (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 24th, 2005
1:47 am	Merry Christmas I hope everyone around the world is enjoying the Christmas holiday. I know that they aren't. There are people suffering such depths that I cannot even imagine, but somehow I was born in a situation where I get to be far richer and happier than the majority of people in the world. Yet I am consistently miserable and unhappy. Why? It's my own doing. Here is the world at my fingertips and I complain because of my own inaction. If Jesus knew that this is how I spend my life after He sacrificed His life for me, He'd be rolling over in His grave! Oh wait... I'm on a religious trip because I just watched the Chronic-Wha? I said the Chronic-Who? I said the Chronic-UGH-Les Of Narnia!! Am I the only one who saw that SNL skit? Anyway I looked over some really great Elfwood sites today. One of them I keep on hitting consistently, completely by chance. It's because the artist is just so amazing. It makes me feel like it never dawned on me that we could literally do anything we want with our art! I keep on being so standard. Gotta change it up. I just bought some new Trade paperbacks. I rarely go comic shopping, because I feel a lil uncomfortable at the store. But I watched the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and I really kinda liked it! Yes the dialogue was really awful and I'm sure it was a bad movie for many people. But that's not what I saw. I was just so happy to see these Victorian era characters teaming up, acting like superheros. It just was so damn, I dunno, Cool? Yes Cool. So I immediately set off to read Dorian Gray (the Oscar Wilde novel and not some stupid unheard of comic book). I revealed the reason for my interest to the cashier, after he said what a great book it was, and he winced like there was no tomorrow. So what if my desire to read isn't coming directly from a unrelenting desire to bathe in the indulgent aristocratic stylings of Wilde? At least I am reading the damn book! So yes, it was a great book. And the literary Gray looks nothing like the movie Gray. The movie Gray is a lil bit more of a cool customer too. But at least the literary Gray isn't so damn corny but they're both equivalently gay. ("I hoped I'd get to nail you one last time, but I didn't think it would be like this." as he stabs Mina Harker) Anyway the comic book was a good read. I didn't like the artist at first because his art didn't use even close to realistic proportions and the lines were all very thin, leading to a sort of messy looking impromptu style. But it began to grow on me as it was evidently a stylistic choice and the artist himself is quite skilled. The obvious stereotypes and language were very "old school" so it really did feel like a comic book from the 1890's. And thats the whole point. Like what if these writers were comic book artists, and not novel writers? This is what we'd have. Big Ups Allan Moore. Current Mood: content (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
12:24 am	Steady Eddie This summer I took a class with SVA taught by a Mr. Higgins who used to be an editor of some DC comic books. I always wanted to work on a comic book since that is pretty much the only art that I have really been exposed to. Yes, I am THAT classy. But boy was it Hard!! In order to finish my assignment, I had to call in sick from work and then pull 2 all-nighters. It's a shame that the book doesn't actually look like I worked that much on it but hey! I am a lazy person by nature and I was one of the only people there who was working fulltime then. Weird considering that most people there were at least a year older than me. Anyway, it left me quite appreciative of the kind of work that comic book people, artist and writers alike, have to do. THe genre doesn't get nearly enough respect! There are so many narrative quandaries to be solved in weaving a comic book tale. Hopefully with that in mind I will keep on doing this and do something really good one day. In the mean time, I uploaded the pages to my Elfwood account and hopefully it will be published soon enough. If anyone reads it, feel free to critique. I am curious what people think, negative or positive. Current Mood: curious (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 19th, 2005
10:50 pm	Elfwood=Ennoying! It's like every other day that Elfwood completely discombobulates for one geeky reason or another. I don't want to complain about Elfwood itself because I think it's a great site that provides a fine service to all fantasy-lovas. BUt GEEZ can you start working correctly? I already lost comments from the massacre from a few weeks ago and here we go again after about a week of normal functioning. How completely annoying. Current Mood: bitchy (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 13th, 2005
5:39 pm	How I feel so undermotivated to do the artwork and the writing that I always swear up and down that I enjoy doing. I know that my current job as an underpaid unchallenged corporate jockey isn't what I want to do. And I thought I knew that writing and art is what really calls me out...but then wouldn't I want to actually do it when I had the time? Baaaah life is confusing (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 5th, 2004
4:25 am	Im Sellin' Out!! Take a good look at this! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=2290686391 (Comment on this)
Friday, September 3rd, 2004
1:20 am	Politics- GOod Lord What is it Good for? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! I have been trying to keep abreast of the political events going on in our sweet home America. Indeed, I have become educated. As of this moment, the Republican National Convention and the NYPD have ceremoniously ended their stranglehold on my precious city with a surprisingly nice speech by George Bush. Suddenly, the man I often referred to as "brainless idiot with a cowboy complex" has become "thoughtful self-reflective cowboy on a mission". Yes he has finally transformed into the cowboy he longed to be. I am not a republican, nor can I truly be called a democrat. I am probably more towards the Green Party or perhaps a Party that is just so awesome that it hasn't been invented yet. Obviously, presented with the choice between Republican and Democrat, someone in my boat would choose DEMOCRAT...Right? But for God's sake, the more I hear about Kerry, the more disenchanted I become. In his own speeches he continually reiterates how he is NOT a flipflopper and that he has continuously laid out his platform clearly. But if that is so, than how come I don't really know what he stands for. THen I hear about how he DID vote for the Iraq war, which was the dumbest move ever and the main reason I am stupefied by the stupidity of government. If he did that, then how is he any better than Bush. But apparently, as president he would move US troops out of Iraq faster than you can say "Vote 2004 Sucks". Excuse me but if you wage war on a country under the banner of human rights and nuclear disarmament, you can't just leave! Especially when one of those banners was just a figment of the republican imagination. The other banner, well it just seemed like a convenient way to pander to a few bleeding heart libs. What's done is done, but we must stay the course. Bush seems like he is going to do it. At the same time, Bush is also the one giving tax breaks to billionaires, ruining the environment, having a history of running smear campaigns and also the one most likely to lead us into another pointless, security-undermining, imperialistic illegal war. But what is Kerry going to do? I DONT KNOW. Help me. (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 25th, 2004
1:22 am	Let's Get This Party Started On this Saturday night... All I read about is LIVEJOURNAL this and LIVEJOURNAL that. I felt like such a loser, not really being a part of this whole LIVEJOURNAL thang. Now I'm not a loser anymore, since I've conformed and assimilated myself into this world. How exciting! So why am I up on Saturday night AND not out clubbing and displaying raunchy behavior. Well as I mentioned before, I was a loser up until a few minutes ago (when I joined LJ). I've been restless all day with a million aspirations streaming through my head. I feel tortured in a way, with so many things I should do and not actually doing any of them. This is how it often goes with my type : The unfocused and underacheiving leftist pseudo-intellectual. I have about 4 business ideas I want to start up right now, with no idea what it takes to even start a business. I have about 8 art projects I want to do too, but, yes, I have not even glanced at a piece of paper today. Here you see, lies the difference between the rich & famous yet semi-talented people who will leave some sort of impression on the masses, and ME. Damn, I should have just gone to that birthday party like I was sposedta. If you haven't noticed, this post is steeped in self-pity. I can't offer you anything else today but I will try again tomorrow. Check out my elfwood site. Some might say it is a bit scarce, but see my intention was really to make it a manageable size. :-D Well I do have a Mod's Choice. THat oughta mean something right? Current Mood: curious Current Music: Burn- Usher (Comment on this)