mvbramley.art
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https://mvbramley.art
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I've been trying to get rid of it for at least five years, because I don't like paying a monthly fee for a program that gets worse with every update, but I still need it for the 10% of what I do where its virtually irreplaceable and for clients who insist on receiving the work in Adobe file formats.
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When I left that job, I gifted everyone who worked there a copy of that document and they were all very appreciative.
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Nah, like most mall cops, he was a power-tripping thug. He threatened me more than once starting the day I met him. I eventually got my back by following him around writing a detailed account of his ridiculous behaviour and then pinning it to the wall next to where he ate lunch every day.
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Truth. I used to work with this one Mall Cop who was given the title of 'Store Detective' and immediately let that go to his head. I once saw him sneaking around Borders in stealth mode while the store sound system played the James Bond theme tune. God I wish my phone had a video camera back then...
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British food being bad is an outdated concept. Hipsters fixed it. Its not like Denver, they've learned to season and everything.
London is legitimately one of the best food cities I've been to, both for variety and baseline quality.
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How many Cybertruck recalls are there going to be before I stop seeing these twats everywhere?
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Are we finally getting 'Columbo is a Mass Murderer'?
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Me neither, but it seemed smart, right?
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Did you buy in a tax advantaged account like a Roth IRA? You can invest up to 7k a year and you can withdraw that initial investment without a penalty.
Or so I hear, from my actually smart wife (who actually understands money).
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Ah... well...
Same question for the other gameshow then!
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I always wondered about this, I know you won, but am I right in thinking they edited it so that someone else won the game? Am I misremembering?
If so, did you both get paid, or is someone else out there telling people that they didn't go home with the money that the TV told people they got?
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I HAVE A GLUTEN ALLERGY!
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Glad you noticed. I stuck as close to the photo reference as possible.
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Even the best teacher I ever had in school was terrible about comics. The older I get, the more ignorant that seems to me. Even in their simplest forms, comics encourage literacy.
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Like a tasteful wallpaper design with repeating little tanks?
Yes. I think that's doable.
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I'll throw in $20 if you let me spray paint it.
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That's called Quantum Machine Gun Theory. I'm not sure if anyone really believes in it. It reminds me of that 'what if everyone else is secretly robots' idea that everyone has as a kid, in that you can't prove or disprove it.
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Nicola Tesla revealing his death was faked and he's been surviving on science-fueled immortality magic for the last 80 years would be one of the least absurd news stories this month.
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(I know about The Prestige, it's the long-living Tesla I'm confused by.)
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Eh?
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Huh. I had wondered why literally nobody from home bothered to check in with me.
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Remember how at the end of that show, after all of that nihilistic rumination, Rust looks up at the stars and says that line about how light was actually winning over darkness?
Probably a load of bollocks, right?
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Smooth Yoda is a great actor and still mad sexy and all that, but when I see him in a period piece it just takes me out of it. That's a face that only really fits in a post-botox world.
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Our approach to drawing a crushed goomba is very similar, as evidenced by this 2012 doodle.
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I think it's the deliberate goal of most news outlets and social media algorithms, to keep us scared, keep us engaged, keep us refreshing the page and perpetuating the miserable cycle. I don't think we're evolved for this.
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There are numerous places in the world that couldn't solve issues of poverty because of a lack of wealth. America actually is very rich and so creates these issues artificially to gain more wealth. Poverty here isn't a result of the country being poor, it's a result of the country being rich.
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By calling America a poor country, I'd only be obscuring the fact that it has enough money to solve all of these problems several times over. The fact that America is a very rich country is what makes this all so cruel.
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This is absurd.
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Those aren't mutually exclusive concepts. Just because many people live in poverty here and have to pay more in healthcare taxes than people in countries with free healthcare (before getting further bled dry by insurance companies), doesn't mean the US government doesn't hold a lot of wealth.
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This reminds me of the comics creator who died because he was $50 short on the price of his insulin. This country is one of the only places this rich where this still happens.
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Old school answering machines being used in anything that's been made in a year that starts with the number 2.
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If I did, it would arrive a hell of a lot sooner with a hell of a lot more indeliberately paradoxical stuff in it.
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I have a weird fear that if I ever complete and release this project, if the work is in any way impressive to people or strikes them as beyond my capabilites, then it may just look like I resorted to using AI to make it. I didn't, wouldn't and won't.
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Right now I'm sitting on a small stack of mostly un-shared comics I've been developing, none of which particularly look like 'my work'. The main purpose of this project has been to push myself, learn to work in different styles and figure out what I really want my future work to look like.
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Sometimes you learn a new thing, sometimes you experiment with a new medium, sometimes you get a new piece of software or you get really inspired by something new. Experimentation is why many of my favourite artists have reinvented themselves over and over again.
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Before that in my gallery work, I was doing a lot of painterly portraits, generally realistic head shots. This started in around 2017. I was deliberately trying to break away from the very flat, very comic-booky style I'd been working in for years. It was because I was bored.
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I'd been trying to improve my understanding of perspective since I was a child, but one day I made a more serious effort to learn and it clicked. My art changed overnight.
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I taught myself how to draw and paint and I'm still always learning. In 2019 I went from being able to blag drawing backgrounds with a rudimentary understanding of perspective to being able to draw entire cities in scale. What changed was that I read a book called 'Perspective for Comic Artists'.