It’s time for a new challenge for this month, and I really want to shift gears and get into storytelling. One of my favorite ways is through worldbuilding, and I have a game I used to play with my students to help get the creative juices flowing for characters and worlds! Bring on the Dice Challenge! Watch the video to see how to use the dice for this exercise and feel free to use the same numbers I roll throughout this challenge, or roll for yourself!

I used to be the artist who thought I was the best, then got to college and realized I was surrounded by people just as good or better. I went from being the biggest fish in the pond to the ocean and it was overwhelming. It sucked because I was too proud to think I needed to improve. I thought offers would just come to me. But they went to my peers instead, and I couldn't understand why. The worst part? People would see my work and say "wow, you should be famous" while I knew I hadn't actually achieved anything. That praise felt like a slap in the face. But then I became a professor and saw the need firsthand. Students telling me "No one has ever taught this before," "I've never been able to understand this before," "Why has no other professor taught me this?" They were stuck exactly where I used to be. Which led me to teaching sequential art and visual storytelling full-time, growing to 123k followers on TikTok in 5 months with educational content, building a 1.2k person community, and writing and publishing multiple comic issues professionally—including developing my own comic that people are invested in and want to purchase. Want to know more? Comment YES and I'll send you the details.

I tend to hate talking about myself but you guys need to know me better to know if the 90-Day Comic Creator course is the right fit for you so here we go... I'm 35 and here's my accomplishments: • 123k TikTok followers in 5 months creating educational art content • 1.6k people in this awesome community since August where I share free courses, content, resources, and feedback whenever asked • Professor at a Nashville-based private art college where students asked the school to add MORE of my classes (it’s cool seeing that on almost every student survey at the end of each quarter not gonna lie) • Created a walkthrough comic book exhibit for the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky, as well as a comic for an exhibit in the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida • Designed characters, created panel layout, drew all thumbnails, pencils, inks, colors, lettering and finally published multiple comic issues with other authors including Meredith Finch (I fanboyed hard working with her and her husband David Finch. Legends.) • Now developing my own comic series that people message me wanting to purchase • People messaging me for commission work that I have to turn down because I'm too busy focusing on Skool, my students, and contract work Next up: Helping 20 comic artists create and publish their first issue in 90 days. Click here to apply

First time sharing my work here! I’ve been drawing every day for over 400 days! Sometimes it’s been 8 minutes sometimes it’s been over an hour. My next major goal is to find MY mannequin of the human form something I can draw in any pose from imagination. I will also be switching primarily to traditional art. Started this week with a character that has been my favorite since child hood I still remember buying my first comic I was 6 years old and it was a multi bundle issue that included Spectacular Spider-Man #229 (still have it) when Peter stepped down when MJ was pregnant and Ben Reilly took up the mantle of Spider-Man.

I think this is an important topic for both rookies and pros. Speed is a key component of hitting a deadline and ease of use and access for digital has never been better BUT Paying the bills and saving for the future is very important. Digital artist won’t be able to sell the original pages of their work. Which is a big trade off Francis Manapul has a YouTube video in which his agent estimated his original art from his work on the flash would have been worth over 100k. But it was done all digital and he had none of it to sell. Because of that and social media content which it seems traditional content gets more attentions, I’m planning on transitioning to mostly traditional work overall. Has anyone else given this deep thought?