Plans to move

Blogger has been a cool tool to use, lots of ease of customization, making posts, and even getting my own domain name here. But frankly this place has gone nowhere

Afraid that this has gotten old and I've been meaning to make another website where I could actually get viable follows and responses. I was thinking of making my new domain to be on Tumblr, going to convert my wretneck.tumblr.com into my website.

I won't close this down until I fully have my other site ready to go. But I will like to make the time today to say Goodbye to this place now. But I will cancel my domain name here for now. I'll post when Wretneck.com becomes that place.

Undertale inspired Sprites 1 - 14

     

Click on the sprites to see these talented people's work

            

Inktober 10 - 12 (out of time)

The only story I have is my book isn't filled yet, and there are so many drawings I want to get done

Inktober dump 03 - 09

#Inktober #3, #Drawlloween #1- #Ghost

"There’s nothing to do after death, and life is too short to waste on regret"

Blue flames not included

Art by Matt “Wretneck” Billingsley (2015)

#Inktober #4/#Drawlloween #3- #Goblin

"A few things here, take something there. Greedy goblins don’t know that life’s not fair"

Keep your hands to yourself

Art by Matt “Wretneck” Billingsley (2015)

#InkTober 2015 #5- #Undertale

"Everyone has fallen into darkness, made mistakes and became a stranger. With hope in your heart and a soul filled with kindness, our journey has started to become someone greater"

Undertale didn’t easily become my favorite, which is why this has become the one game I tell everyone they need to play

Art by Matt “Wretneck” Billingsley (2015)

#inktober 2015 #6- #Skulker

"A series of bad choices and honest mistakes, time to reflect and take a break"

The guy had it tough, made worse by a heel-turned hero

Art by Matt “Wretneck” Billingsley (2015)

#InkTober 2015 #7: #Pepper

“Tired of working a part-time job while my art become slob. Pick up where I fell, making art to sell”

And to celebrate this laziness, here’s a drawing where the only ink on it is the color… pencils were feeling left out

Art by Matt “Wretneck” Billingsley (2015

#InkTober/#Drawlloween 2015 #8- #Vampire

“The night is a dangerous place to be careless and rude. Anger not those who are in a bad mood”

Shut up, up there! Can’t a creature of the night be allowed to work!?

Art by Matt “Wretneck” Billingsley (2015)

#Inktober 2015 #9: #Goth

“Is the spotlight something we torture ourselves to achieve in fear of fading into the dark? Maybe subjecting to tragedy is how each of us will find our unique mark!”

Suddenly memories started flooding in… mostly of Jr. High… Oh dear

I don’t think Gothic Hazel is here to stay. Nothing spoils such character like playing it ironically… but once I make her comic series, will some people know that this could have been a Hazel that could have been, given what she will go through

Fun fact- when coloring this image, I found a pack of pens that I bought a long time ago and never used. So when I remembered my unnoticed* goth phase, I thought of limiting myself based on the colors I had available for this picture; when I didn’t have my colored pencil sets.

Most Goths would get it

*(Unnoticed as in I didn’t have anyone to share it with and didn’t do anything big like dye my hair or got piercings, just like dark things and contemplated what life was going to have for me. Sad to tell my younger self that life is harder than imagined, but what work I did to get here had made me stronger and even more determined)

Art by Matt “Wretneck” Billingsley (2015)

Hazel's Mug coming soon

Anyone remember my mug I made a while back? Well, I propose making a mug where instead of Wret, it’s Hazel

Just imagine this face on a white background and fill it with coffee. Be releasing it at Furry Unlocked next weekend, price varying on production cost

Hazel is trademarked and created by Matt “Wretneck” Billingsley (2015)

Inktober 2015 1 & 2, and Drawlloween

#Inktober‬ 2015 #1- #‎messenger‬

"The air is cold, leaves have fallen. 

The ground frozen, the sky darkens. 

The wolves are howling, the dead have risen. 

And thus the haunting shall begin"

And anyone not celebrating will be visited by ghosts

#InkTober‬ & #Drawlloween‬ #2- #Lucy‬, #‎Devil‬

"Broken Hearts and Tearing Eyes are susceptible to the Devil's Vice"

Been dying to draw this evil darling again!

What Can I do With Patreon?

I decided to get myself a Patreon since I am fully incapable to have a job in real life due to the aspect of being in person, and always being dragged into doing something that anyone can do and is nothing special to me. I have always done art and art is the best thing I can do.

My only concern is when setting this thing up it becomes a matter of what I give to the people to make it worth their investment. If it were me, I would just give what I can for the sake of seeing artists succeed. I have to make this place work to a benefit to where people are getting their money's worth, but I fear that I might end up taking something away from my friends and supporters; and I can't allow that to happen.

I can't make a living doing anything but art, haven't made a living making art yet, and I am most unhappy when I am not making art!
So now I am going to ask and take note of what I can do earn your investments. I am working on making sure there are things I don't take away that I have been giving before- development photos, Streams, videos, final art pieces w/ watermarks; which I have to remind SOME FOLKS are placed as a means to keep people online from just taking my artwork and uploading it as their own again, in the same sense I started doing it in support of the friends who felt forced to watermark their pieces for the very reason.

I only plan to do things that don't cross my code- IE nothing pornographic and in sexually bad taste, no hate art, no racism or bigotry of any kind, no art that is directly nor intentionally made for demeaning of one's gender, sexuality, identification, etc (note- Pin ups aren't demeaning and sometimes can be done in tasteful manors)

What are some things I can do to make it worth your investment?

if you are interested in supporting my patreon now-
https://www.patreon.com/wretneck?ty=h

Halloween Banner and Gif version

PNG

GIF

Weasyl Banner

Wret's mug (for a mug)

Art by Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley ©2015

Getting back into the habit of drawing the favored Wret. Got the idea that I will get a custom coffee mug made for work, so I drew this up and will print it along with my logo on it.

getting the right spirit to be an artist again, commission art and portfolio projects already in the works now that I got this done

Ziltoid the Omniscient (8-bit)

Pixel art of the week, a fan art tribute to one of my favorite musicians Devin Townsend of his intergalactic nerd, Ziltoid. This character has brought a lot of laughter into my life; I just wish he had his own tv series.

8-bit for your pleasure.

Ziltoid is created by and a trademark of Devin Townsend©2007

Art by Matt “Wretneck” Billingsley©2015

Midna and Minecraft

I need to post here better than I have. Here I have a Midna drawing I did as a gift for Krudman for his birthday; hint the cupcake with a candle. And below is some more Pixel weapons I did recently, this time I did it with the theme of Minecraft

also I am now starting to make the habit of watermarking my artwork. Even though art thieves will try to remove them, it will make them harder and the earliest posts will prove these are mind. Not to say my biggest reasons are, but mostly my friends and fellow artists are getting their artwork stolen and without watermarks, so I'm adding mine to help support the community of artists who do it now; if I was smarter, I would have raised my commission prices, too.

Art by Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley©2015

Sean and Jean, a thank you piece for James and Sarah

Final on the piece I was making for my friends (whether they want it or not, nyuck nyuck nyuck).

Some characters I made up on a cold-sweat night, their names are Sean and Jean; best friends since they were kids.

-Sean: the shy and hesitant one. Most of his time he's locked himself away listening to music and doodling in a notebook, asking "what to do?". His happiest moments are when he's outside with his friend Jean. Favorite Music among friends is Metal, but prefers more calm and melodic songs.

-Jean: The extrovert friend who loves the outside. Never afraid to speak honestly, for better or for worse, and prefers to be with friends. It's through her does Sean have any interaction with people, and always works her way to include him every time. Also shares the same musical interest with Sean

My friends will be getting the original piece without the watermarks and on the back of a Reese's Puffs cereal box

Thank You for helping me out!

See my friend James's work at http://manofgifs.deviantart.com/

See my friend Sarah's work at http://farcypenguin.deviantart.com/

Characters and Art by Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley ©2015

Pixel Matt and Wret- Banner GIF, and Logo Update

Made this for my recent page over on Weasyl.com, a quaint little site for anthro and furry art without having the porn shoved into your face; also a community who is there for the sake of art. Just features my own Logo and 16 bit sprites of Me and Wret with the awesome pencil of might.

Kind of caught in a Pixel Art and GIF rut for a while now, can't tell if I'll ever get over it

here is the recent update I made for my logo. For being a comic artist, I've been doing my best to make it as comic-book-ish I can, but seem to hit a wall in the digital world. Going to try again