MEANINGLESS

“Meaningless” is a zine that I have been working on this last past year. It’s going to feature a couple of comic short stories, as well as a plethora of random drawings and sketches.

“Meaningless” is essentially a recurring existential crisis that I am constantly going through in my life. It questions my art, their purpose, and my own purpose in this world. Are all these stories and drawings just meaningless dribble from someone of no importance? Or is there purpose? Do the drawings and stories act as metaphors or are they representations of milestones in my life? Rehashed childhood monster drawings, stories that may have no end, intimate conversations between a half man half cockroach and a robot, based drawings, and depressing self portraits. Being meaningless gives these works a purpose, if they were anything less they wouldn’t exist. I am meaningless and meaningless is I.

Here is one example of "Meaningless"

Let's Try This Again

I'm definitely going to start posting in this blog again. After my shift tonight I'm going to upgrade the look of this bad boy, and post a little bit about the show I had this past weekend. More art things are going to be posted as well as some of my thoughts on the works. It's best that I start talking about my work more because I feel like it's a huge part of it that I'm constantly leaving out.

One love,
sharke

Boom

SOCIETY6

I finally broke down and made a Society6 account. It's a great way to spread my art on the web, and also as a way to allow people to purchase some sweet prints. I work hard on everything I create so if even you take your time just to take a look at some of the things I've been creating, I thank you.

Here's the link,

www.society6.com/alexSHARKE

HELLYEAH.

Updates, updates, updates...

I’ve been on a good creative streak lately. I don’t really know what started it, but I’m beginning to feel inspired to create more often. The only thing that is really inhibiting me is my financial situation. OSAP takes a week’s, sometimes more, worth of pay, and on top of that I’ve got a hefty cell phone bill and a girlfriend to boot. I spent what was left in my checking account on four Copic markers in order to make this…

My friend Brent has already decided to order a copy of the print. I don’t think I plan on selling the original to people. My scanner does a pretty great job, and it’s easier to correct the little mistakes I make with Photoshop. If someone is willing to pay more for the original then I would most likely do it, but the originals are in no way compositionally thought out. That’s what Photoshop is for in my mind. Making prints also allows anyone to own one, and are super cheap for people as well. I don’t have the heart to charge someone thirty dollars for an 8.5x11 glossy print that literally cost me two dollars. Even when I had “Issues with…” in galleries, I felt weird putting a two hundred dollar price tag on them even though that was the lowest we were allowed to charge for prints (they were two by three feet).

It also feels great to be writing again. Sorry for any spelling and grammar mistakes. I am horrible trust me. I’d like to think that my narrative style makes up for the lack of everything else, vocabulary included. Production is in full force right now Alex Sharke style. I went through a huge lull over the wintertime. Didn’t feel like writing, didn’t feel like photographing, drawing, painting, anything that involved creativity really. I went into a Netflix induced hibernation, but I’m glad that it’s starting to come to end now. The only thing that I really need to get rolling on is the comic that I have been working on and off again for the last month. Here’s a page…

Not much and it’s for a completely different storyline from the one that I plan on releasing first. Skullboy. An alter ego that I came up with while traveling through Europe, and that has become a voice through some of the dark times I’ve had to endure this last year. If I can get my shit together and actually hash a twenty to thirty page book, I think it would be great for me. It’s a little time consuming especially when it’s mostly going to be hand drawn and with a Photoshop post-production. Photoshop is still a big learning curve for me, editing photos is one thing, but creating something from nothing in Photoshop is a whole other world. I thought about taking some classes but I really can’t afford it. I’m starting to ramble on so I might as well stop here.

Adios for those who are reading, if anyone is…

NEW BLOG

This is my new blog.

I'm going to do my best to update this blog as much as I can. I have a tumblr and all that jazz, but it seems like tumblr has become an image based blog, and very few people actually write anything. This is where I will unleash a fury words onto the very few people that will be reading this. This is my new outlet that I will try to take advantage of..

Here's a drawing in the meantime...