Good morning!

At long last ... it's finally finished ... and here it is!!

In celebration of my one year anniversary here on Patreon, I'm ridiculously excited to have this video to share with you all, Captain and Tenille's 'Love Will Keep Us Together'.

I brought 5 ukuleles and every t-shirt I own into the studio and was filmed in front of a green screen (that's how we got all those pretty colors) as I recorded the song. The end result looks so slick that it almost looks like I lip-synced after the fact, but everything you see in the video is from the actual recording session. 

I would record a track, change into a different t-shirt, record another track, and so on. If I recall correctly, I wound up putting down 8 different uke tracks and and 14 vocal tracks. And yes, even the solo was recorded in costume. I'll just leave it at that until you see the video.

I've loved this record since I was a kid, the arrangement is insanely great and it was so much fun figuring out how to play all those parts on the uke. When mixing the recording, I wanted to try to have a similar sound to the record, so we did things with effects to try to make some of the ukes sound like tack pianos and even tried to cop the synthesizer sound in the solo (I think we got pretty close).

This thing was a HUGE undertaking, a little over two months in the making, and I leaned heavily on Kris Magyarits, Bob Schachner and all the amazing folks at Alkemy X in Philadelphia. I'm a tough taskmaster, but they really worked and worked on it with me until it delivered the goods.

So, Happy One Year Anniversary to all of my patrons here on Patreon. A year ago, even attempting a video like this would have been a pipe dream, just another idea I'd get and think "damn, it would be really cool if I could do that". All of your support has allowed me to make some of those ideas reality. Thank you. I'm so grateful. 

Let's start year two! In fact, I'll have a big announcement about that tomorrow.

- Jim

Today's post was a bit of an ordeal to write, which is why there wasn't a post last week. (I'll endeavor to get another post up by the end of the week.) In it, I write about an incredibly intense experience I had with a game that I wrote to force men to have an embodied experience of sexism.

This week's Speed Drawing is a little bit different.  I was asked by a client to draw a cartoon based on a three word prompt. Apparently, he has asked other artists to draw the same three word prompt and was collecting the art. The three word prompt was Rocket, Baby and Jesus.  This is my take on those three words which reminds me somewhat of a vintage album cover.  Anyway enjoy the process and please share this Patreon with your friends if you are enjoying my work.

Thanks for all your support. You guys are wonderful!

Len

Today's post is about a Eurogame that I've been enjoying playing, and would enjoy an awful lot more were it not for the lack of female representation and the TERRIBLY sexist art for those few factions that are gendered as female. I figured it's been a while since I've done a redraw, so why not redraw something that has been top of mind.