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I haven't updated my DeviantArt in a long time (even though I've uploaded a cartoon or two in the past few months). But considering that I apparently have fans, I figured I owed it to you guys to let you know how I've been.

I spent the past 5 months living in Guatemala, and now for the almost two weeks I've been living in a homeless shelter in Port Charlotte, Florida.

When I was in Guatemala I painted this ( Polfud - No Estacionar by ChromeDragonfly) on the door of the bodega I rented. My girlfriend and I put a hell of a lot of time, money, and hard labor into that bodega. We really cleaned it up and we had gotten most of our equipment in and then we ran out of money.

We were planning on escaping to Austin Texas to live and find jobs, but that didn't really seem practical. We didn't really have anyone we could crash with once we got there. I have one friend in Austin who lives in his truck with his dog and delivers pizza for a living. So that wouldn't be a very comfortable living situation...

Then we were going to move to Orlando, but that fell though literally the day we arrived in Florida. WTF, right? So we made our way to Port Charlotte hoping to crash with someone we know, but alas, we're here at the Charlotte County Homeless Coalition.

But a part of me wouldn't have had it any other way, though. ;)
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Yesterday I was going through my old sketchbooks and I rediscovered these old characters of mine I came up with in high school: Liz Gamba and Omnibus

Liz Gamba was a teenage girl who had her arms amputated following a public transportation accident, and was able to get super high-tech robot prothesis on the condition that she dedicate her life to crime fighting.

Yeah, this is shit I came up with in 2002 when I came up with the character. I was 14. lol

Omnibus by ChromeDragonfly

Omnibus was a giant golden robot made from a... bus. Omnibus I came up with in 2003. Omni and Liz were partners in crime fighting. Looking back on this, I think I should make some kind of webcomic about this. I really hate webcomics though. I f*cking hate making them.
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I'm going to try to use Deviantart more. I logged in yesterday to upload some old stuff from the past year that I was actually surprised never made it onto this site yet. My amputee cartoon seems to be getting quite the attention here! Haha, now I remember why I used dA as my escape when I was in high school: because no matter how sick, perturbed, or abnormal your ideas are, you'll still be among your own kind here. There's plenty of artists here who draw some beautiful work depicting sexy mutilated or mutated women. I feel... at home.

Several months ago when I was still a student at UCC I tried to draw one new thing, every day, and upload it to tumblr. I drew mostly lampreys. Sometimes I drew other prehistoric-looking fish. Occasionally I drew that mysterious redheaded girl I always draw (I think she kind of looks like my girlfriend; actually, she kind of looks like one of my old exes too). But I digress.

Also, cutencreepy.net is dead. I just tried to go to the URL of my old tumblr and apparently the URL already expired. I would renew it, I have the money to, but I don't know what I would put there. Oh, and my old webhost fucked me over back in March anyway. I've just lost so much interest in creating or maintaining websites over the past year.

The "Cute N Creepy" name still lives on though. A friend from work told me that is an awesome name, and I should totally keep it. He knows the movie industry, he used to work in it. I keep my animations on a YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/cutencree… and I have a Facebook like page for it www.facebook.com/cutencreepydo….

Every time I'm "in the fuckin' zone" working on a new animated cartoon, that passion lasts me a good week, and then I just lose interest in my work and think "well that's stupid", and move on to something else. I have this long cartoon in the works that I recorded the dialogue with Ray for back in 2009, it's barely a quarter finished at this point. The sound is all there, the animation is just kind of dead in its tracks. There's another Ray-based cartoon I'm working on. It's real short, only about 80% finished, real simple. Can't motivate myself to finish. It seems like all the things I actually finish and get out there are dumb Cartoon Hangover type shit.
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I need to go hiking again. The last time I hiked was late last August, when Natley and I went to the Paulinskill Viaduct. Before that... I think it was sometime in early spring, in the Watchung res, and before that... it was an urban spelunking trip to an abandoned bank.

Shit... I want to go back to Utah more and more, the more time goes by.

I keep telling myself, once I get my associates, I'm buying a camper van and driving out to Utah, and living there for an indefinite ammount of time.
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Hey! I kinda went AWOL from dA and the rest of society in September until, well, now... but don't worry! I'm back and I really am better than ever! And I have a shitload of new art I have to upload this summer! Yay!
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