Let's Make This a Better Year

Yes I'm still doodling.  Not much lately, but see below.  

We are one month into a new year.  (It just astounds me how quickly time flies) and I'm still trying to get my barrings.  I've been spending some time working on launching greeting cards on Greeting Card Universe and gift/apparel stuff on Cafe Press.  Aside from the illustrations I've been trying to figure out how to develop the traffic and awareness and how each work.  So I've tweaked the way the blog looks, made changes to Twitter and Facebook.  I'm trying to get everything to work together.  I even went ahead and bought three domain names: BoonDawgoggle.com, BoonCartoons.com and OneGuyDrawing.net (yea you believe that the dot com for that one was taken)

I've been putting some emphasis on the cartooning side of my world to get some traction so it will start bringing in some money.  Yea money, sorry I'm not a purist that much.  I've made money doing it in the past, and a little extra cash now would be nice.

The other side of my world, the side I've not shared too much about, is getting off to an okay start, but because I got whacked by what are called charge backs I'm digging my way out of a hole.  My company just had its annual yearly KICK OFF rah-rah meeting.  I've been sick to my stomach all last year at how poorly I did, and was quite frankly embarrassed to be at the meeting.  I can't allow that to happen again it would just kill me.  But as in every year in the past, me and everyone I compete against start at zero

Cartoonist Can Beat A Machine

The investment business is my Bruce Wayne to my Boon cartoonist secret identity .  Something I've witnessed and anticipate to further be inevitable is software/robots will eventually make what I do as Bruce Wayne obsolete. It just follows one of the greatest truths in any endeavor,  gaps in information/time/skill will be exploited until the gap narrows to nil and this is exactly what computer trading has done and should of done.

I had a conversation with a neighbor, he works as a CFO in the tech/IT industry,  the other night, after seeing this 60 minutes piece on robots/software
 
and another piece on, a show who's name escapes me now, but similar premise robots/software replacing humans as pilots and soldiers. The use of machines and software to replace humans is only natural.  Which leaves humans at trying to figure out what they can do better than machines/software to assure job security.  And realized that cartooning was a safer industry than investment management, because creativity, as best I can tell can not be replicated by machines.

I advised my sons to both pursue some endeavors that could not be boiled down to repeatable processes that lead to a range of predictable outcomes. Because it is only those occupations that are safe from the machines.

But that all being said, so much of the traditional markets for cartoonist is drying up.  More and more papers are disappearing, magazines are dying, yet the use of cartoons and illustration on the internet should be expanding.  What has complicated the matter for me, is the market has gotten so huge and so diluted it is hard to identify where to go or how to approach it.    You can see below my new widgets for Greeting Card Universe and Cafepress.  I'm trying to create more traffic to raise exposure.  Of course in the long run it is all in an attempt to replace my dependence on Bruce Wayne.

Boondawgoggles Bourbon Shot Glass Bourbon Clarity One Guy Drawing

Boondawgoggles Bourbon Shot Glass Bourbon Clarity One Guy Drawing

Valentine's Day Cards

These four cards have been loaded to Greeting Card Universe for Valentine's Day.  They are awaiting approval but if you want one before they post to the store front let me know and I can request expedited approval.  Clink on my GREETING CARDS link below to be taken to the store.

Greeting Cards - One Guy Drawing

Store - Shirts, mugs, hats and stuff

Photoshop CS6 and Bamboo Test

So I took yesterday's doodle and pulled it into Photoshop CS6 that I'm testing, and with my new Bamboo change it to what you see at the right.  

There are a lot of things I didn't figure out, but feel like it was a pretty good test.

Greeting Cards - One Guy Drawing

Store - Shirts, mugs, hats and stuff

Google Search Provides Gag Idea

This started as one doddle of the dude in the far upper left corner, all alone.  I had no thoughts or intentions. Then I scribbled the other little dude who for some reason was prompted to ask a question.  I recognized I had a misspelling and it evolved from there.  I knew I was looking for sullen, and of course I was familiar with solemn, but when I did a google search on "sollum look" both sullen look and solemn look came up.  Since the definitions were almost opposite - sad and serious, respectively I figured that was a nice play on words and this is what you get.

Greeting Cards - One Guy Drawing

Store - Shirts, mugs, hats and stuff