Punix-GT 2-6-2012

Musing Time! I’m a guitarist, a comic artist, a bassist, a Step-Dad, a brother, a son, and an uncle. I’m a plating operator, a former cart-pusher, and a former professional piano-mover. A gamer and a computer enthusiast. I’m a Christian and a middle ground Conservative (although my political views are usually kept to myself anyways). I’m a lover and a randomtiviter. I’m an anime enthusiast, with a particular liking towards complex story-lines.  I’m a geek and a nerd, but also a former jock (which still exists from time to time). I’m an American, but definitely a Texan.

But the one thing I want to point out is that I’m a Brony. I’m a normal everyday heterosexual guy, and I have taken a liking to this particular show known as My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic whose original demographic used to be for little 5 year old girls, but has gained an immense fanbase for young men like myself. For the most part, I’ve kept it mostly hidden since most of my friends usually raise an eyebrow on this. Converting won’t avail much either. In fact, I’m not going to try to convert anyone. But one thing that I have learned from this show is tolerance. Yeah, I’ll most likely get made fun of at work for wearing a brony shirt, but its hard to take them seriously anyways. However, I’m making it known that I love My Little Pony (gosh, it almost sounds like I’m coming out of the closet…except without all the homosexuality of it all).

I’m not expecting you guys to go out and watch the first couple of episodes on youtube or anything, just know that we exist.

A giant thanks to Aerel (Laurel Smith) for the coloring of this comic! ^___^ Also, there are some new wallpapers added to the Wallpaper section that she specifically made to go with this comic!

Also! I’m posting this comic on http://bronies.memebase.com so I welcome you guys to vote and get others to vote to get it on the front page! ^_^ No pressure

With love and tolerance,

~Benji Deptula

Rant? What’s the point? Too much I want to say, but it’s been said by everyone else.

Punix-GT 9/26/2011 Staring Contest

So this wasn’t exactly a hilarious comic, but a cute play on words, and deep thoughts.

I’ve always had a fascination with stars for as long as I can remember, looking at them, stared at the moon, solar and lunar eclipses, always tried to make sure I got to see the Perseid Meteor shower every year. I may not have memorized the whole star maps, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be a total fan of the universe. I’m incredibly ready for space-travel and colonizing the moon/mars, even though we’re not quite at that technological point yet and I’m sure there are also millions of other people who have the same thought as I.

Whether or not there are any alien life, it doesn’t matter to me, although the thought of sharing the universe is rather appealing to me. I enjoy looking at the stars and the complexity of our scientific world, even the complex structure of something we all know as the periodical table. Its hard to imagine that those elements just so happen to exist. Its just another ponder-able thought.

Punix-GT 9/4/2011 Passing By

Holy Crap! I can do rants now! Ok, I’ve always had the ability to do rants, I just didn’t know how to do it until now.

Sorry for the intense delay for the comic. Its been a couple of months I’m aware. So that you understand that I haven’t had the ability to finish any of the comics, you’d have to understand that these past several months were focused on other priorities that involves family and finances. Its been very rough but I think its starting to settle down now.

As for the comic, I figure I would start using the rant space to focus on the comic itself with thoughts and discussion on the topic or the drawing itself.

This comic didn’t quite come out the way I wanted it to. Primarily due to the fact that the conversation bubble of Trevor’s was supposed to be bigger and blank until the bottom. However, it would have covered up too much space in the rest of the comic strip itself. I was trying to prevent it from making it look like Trevor was a mime and that was not my intention. I do think my comics are looking better as I feel I’m getting a little more proficient with gimp. Coloring is taking longer though due to more details in my drawings. I suppose this is part of the evolution of my comics, but it can be a little overwhelming at times.  But that will not stop me from making more comics. In all honesty, I’ll probably be doing this comic for a while.

I have also decided to do some side projects lately. I’m making some attempt to create some video game music remixes to submit to http://www.ocremix.org but it’ll be a little bit daunting due to the complexity of some of these music programs that are available. I’ve also been working on some individual drawings whether anatomically,  inanimate, or landscaping to help further with some minor issues with my creations. Proportions are still a bit challenging although not as much as it used to be. Backgrounds are becoming a bit more complex. I’ll also be trying to work with perspective angles. I’ll still have my unique style of faces, but will be trying to be more realistic with the rest of the comic.  And you may have noticed that I don’t have very many females on my strip. I won’t lie, I can’t draw females very well as their center of balance is a bit different than males. With my side projects, I hope that that will help fix this issue.

I do apologize for the lack of comics lately, but hopefully I’ll be able to spend some more time coloring them and become faster and proficient with Gimp.

Benji out…

Punix-GT 6/14/2011 Neodymium

Punix-GT 7-23-2010

Punix-GT 7-4-2010 Realization