I'm Stray, or Jeff if you want to get familiar. I'm an artist, music maker, aspiring writer, goofball, geek, nerd, and dork. I design graphics for t-shirts for money.
This blog is mainly for my own artwork. I also make daily confessions and daily music posts. Art posted in my blog is mine unless otherwise noted.Other places you can find me on the internet:
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Procrastinating. Ran out of old art to post, so here’s a picture of me looking like I stole a cookie or something. I never know what to do in pictures. I still haven’t figured out what my best angle is. Anyway, I’m going to eat some food, catch up on Modern Family on Hulu, finish that Brock Samson piece, then I’ll be back to waste some time with you tumblr, ol buddy, ol pal.
Just chillin, shootin lasers out my eyes. Pew! Pew! I was casually defeating a supervillain that was just off-screen, no biggie.
Memories. Hanging out in the student store in AI circa a long time ago, with people who make me look very tall. On the left, my pal Horacio, who everyone says looks like Wolverine, which sends him into a berserker rage. To my right, Oscar… who I miss dearly, he dropped off the face of the earth. OSCAR WHERE ARE YOU?! Get a goddam facebook like a normal person! To Oscar’s right, Jennifer. I didn’t get to know Jenn very well, her being a girl and all.
The skinny brown person is me of course. Wearing my younger brother’s Star Wars shirt, cause what’s he gonna do about it?
Me during a fake photo shoot… or a FAUXto shoot. Har har har!
Another school days photo. This was from a series of photos a classmate took of me for his project. I bet he got an F.
I know I’m not pretty enough to warrant all these photo posts, but whatcha gonna do about it? *shrug*
Hi Tumblr!
Things I’m doing lately…
-working on t-shirt designs
-developing a live-action web series with a friend
-working on scripts for graphic novels
-working on an animated short with some friends
-working on an EP
-and of course posting original content daily on my blog
Trying to prioritize so I don’t end up working on a million things but not finishing any of them. I love tumblr, and I love you tumblr friends. I’m not going to call you “followers” because that just seems weird and creepy. I started off just wanting to have an art blog, but I decided I wanted my blog to sorta be like the experience of having me as a friend in real life. Sharing personal anecdotes, talking about music all the time, and being a goofball in general. Thanks for all the attention thus far, my fragile ego definitely appreciates it.
With the daily confessions, daily music posts, and now the daily answer doodles I’m giving myself a lot of work, haha. I think I’ll do a bunch of them tomorrow and queue them to give myself time to work on my other projects. Speaking of Daily Confessions… looks like it’s about that time again, hmm, let’s see…
HAY GUYZZZ!!!
Thanks for all the kind words yesterday.
Random thoughts:
-I don’t like little dogs. They sneak up on me and lick my hand and it scares the crap out of me and I bang my elbow against the window sill. Yes I’m talking about YOU “Chip”, I don’t care if you’re my mom’s dog, if you sneak up on me again we got PRAHLUMS!
-I keep looking at other people’s art and thinking “Dammit, I need to make some art that’s actually good.”
-I’m in the mood for some samurai action tonight, maybe I’ll watch Zatoichi, or Reign of Assassins, or both.
-WHEN THE HELL ARE THEY GOING TO RUN A NEW EPISODE OF YOUNG JUSTICE?!?! I NEED MORE!!!
-Some of you asked me some questions I have no idea how I’m going to answer with drawings, which is cool, forces me to think outside the box.
-How did the Brock Sampson piece start getting notes all of a sudden? I didn’t notice anybody reblog it or anything. But anyway, that’s cool, thanks.
I didn’t mean to infer that the basics are just going to disappear, they’ll probably still be prevalent, but I think obviously there are going to be things decades from now that doesn’t sound like anything we’ve heard today, just like there are things now that nobody could’ve imagined. There are already an increasing amount of artists that don’t conform to those structures and conventions. But who knows, right? The future isn’t always that easy to predict. Innovation is crazy that way.
So of course right as I’m about to save my progress Photoshop wants to crash. OF COURSE! It was looking so good and I was almost done! :( My own dumb fault for not saving more often. So annoyed right now though, I hate having to start over. Going to go for a walk then get back to work, maybe it’ll look better the 2nd time around.
Technology, I really hate you sometimes.
edit: I’ve been tagging pictures of me as “my dumb face”. I decided to click the tag and I’m glad to find out I’m not the only person on Tumblr who thinks their face is dumb. I love you my dumb-faced brothers and sisters.
Hello you lovely handful of people who actually pay attention to me. No daily posts tonight, I’m not feeling so hot. My head is all achey. Dumb idiot head.
To make it up for it though tomorrow I’ll do DOUBLE daily posts.
…maybe.
HELLO THERE NEW FOLLOWERS! THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING!
I don’t want to toot my own horn but… YOU ARE FOLLOWING THE BEST BLOG IN THE HISTORY OF BLOGS!!! No not really, but I hope you enjoy the posts.
I thought I’d take this opportunity to share some useless facts about myself, since I haven’t really done that yet, if you care…
REAL name: Jeff (some friends call me “Jeffy Weffy”)
“thestray”? A nickname I started using in highschool, it’s just a way of saying I like doing my own thing
From: Los Angeles, born and raised
Born: June 1st, 1984
School: Went to the Art Institute of California, studied animation
What I do: Strugglin artist, aspiring writer/creator of comics and cartoons. I also make music for fun.
Status: Alone Single ;)
Orientation: Straight. Sorry fellas!
Films I love: anything Pixar, Miyazaki, Michel Gondry, Satoshi Kon, Mike Judge, Edgar Wright, Chris Nolan, Adam McKay, Studio 4C, DC Animated movies, westerns, martial arts, I also really love watching laughably awful films.
Shows I love: The Life & Times of Tim, Delocated, Curb Your Enthusiasm, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Adventure Time, Futurama, Conan O’Brien, Eastbound & Down, Fringe, Misfits, Regular Show, anything Genndy Tartakovsky does…
Music I love: The Color Turning, Sigur Ros, Mum, Radiohead, Lykke Li, Mars Volta, Crystal Catles, Battles, Anthallo, Blood Brothers, Daft Punk, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Hot Chip, Metronomy, Phoenix, and of course you can always check out my daily music posts.
Books/Comics I love: The Walking Dead, Invincible, World War Z, DMZ, Ex Machina, Blankets, Ender’s Game, Hellboy, BPRD, Epileptic, Rant, American Born Chinese, Y The Last Man, Fables, Earthboy Jacobus, Blood Music, Darwin’s Radio, The Stolen Child. Marvel comics fan, and occasionally DC too.
Celebrity crushes: Natalie Portman, Rashida Jones, Cristina Hendricks, Olivia Thirlby, Tina Fey, Emmy Rossum, Kristin Kreuk, Lykke Li, Kat Dennings, Norah Jones, Sarah Shahi, Nasim Pedrad, Abby Elliot, Ellen Wong.
Pet Peeves: When people use words incorrectly, I literally explode. Overused slang words, “swag” is starting to irritate me. It also bothers me how negative, jaded and cynical my generation is in general. Lighten the hell up, WORLD!
Bad habits: touching my mouth a lot, lying when the truth is just going to take way too much time to explain, self-deprecation, avoiding eye contact, going to the library and learning random skills from books then never practicing them and eventually forgetting them (graphology, hypnosis, card tricks, etc).
Anything I left out that you’d like to know?
You’re like WHOA, that guy is SEXY! Am I right? Calm your loins! I’m not here to amuse your nether regions.
Looks as though I may be internet-less for an indefinite amount of days, and I just wanted to let you know because I know how important I am to your life right now. Don’t fret. I mean, you can fret a little bit, but ya know, don’t get carried away with the fretting, keep it at moderate fret levels, because I’ll be back before you know it.
In the mean time, you’ll have to find another way to occupy yourselves. I don’t want you sitting there, refreshing my blog sleeplessly, that’s not healthy. Find a good book, watch a season of your favorite tv show on Netflix, take up competitive crocheting, whatever passes the time.
I will also sorta kinda miss you… in a way, I guess. But it’ll also be an opportunity for me to get some more things done without the constant distraction of Tumblr, and when I say “some more things done” I mean “caught up on Mad Men”. Maybe I’ll squeeze some art out during the short internet hiatus.
For the record I think you’re sexy too ;)
OMG LOOK AT THE PIMPLE ON MY NOSE! I’M HIDEOUS! *weeps*
Sometimes I make these weird videos where I just talk and make faces, then take stills from the video for drawing reference. I’ve come to the realization that I like my face, whether or not it’s good-looking I think it’s a fun expressive face.
Speaking of my face, the yesterday I was out running errands, and I was at a cross walk, and this young dude approaches me, and he gets right up in my little sphere of personal space that I don’t like strangers to be in, I’m on edge, guys typically don’t invade each others space unless they intend a confrontation, so I’m mentally preparing to punch this strange invader in the face if need be, he smiles and says “What’s up?” in that kind of way someone who knows you says, so now I’m wondering if I know this person from somewhere. I’m like “…Hey?” Then he offers his hand, I shake it, but then realize he’s going in for one of those hand shake hug combos, and he pats me on the back. I didn’t really reciprocate though, so he says, in an unmistakenly homosexual affectation “You d’nt hug me back!” and I was like “Oh… I don’t… hug people.” The light changed, and I went on my merry way. I’m going to go ahead and add this to my repertoire of being hit on by a gay guy anecdotes. If I was some other dude, who was gay, I’d be so jealous of me, cause my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, unfortunately for them though I’m like “Get off my lawn!”
By the way. Internet is back. Daily posts shall resume today! Hooray! You’re so happy!
I saw this weird dirty old stuffed bear sitting on a chair outside of a candy store.
Magic happened.
Jealous ladieees? (No, of course you’re not)
300. That’s a lot right? I have no frame of reference, but that seems like a lot. For me. Maybe… too much. I can’t have 300 whole human people knowing how much of a dork I am. Forget everything I’ve blogged up to this point.
Hello there.
I’m Stray, a serious, classy, gentleman. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to stare wistfully out of my window and ponder the mysteries of the universe. As per usual.
What I really mean to say, is thank you for the follow. All 300 of you. Except Jorge. Jorge, you owe me your life, so obviously I never have to thank you for forever. Anyway, you’re all beautiful people with good taste in blogs obviously.
