Today at the Disney Store

Woman yelling at her daughter: For God's sake, you are 23 and you DO NOT need a Pooh stuffed animal.

Daughter: I want it and I'm buying it.

Woman: This is ridiculous.

Me: If it makes you feel any better, I'm 19 and I just bought a doll for myself.

All the other CMs: Yeah, you're never too old for Disney.

And the random guy in line with an entire Vinylmation box: To be honest, these are for me.

Here’s a rose someone left on the beach

Here’s another rose someone left on the beach

GUH 011... I think... I can't count. So after dying for the past week I did manage to finish this. ERICA'S REVENGE! Working on the new strip now and honestly I am so sick of drawing the inside of cars.... 

Updates and stuff

I'm so original. If you are wondering I only update the comic on the weekend. Why? Because not a whole lot of comic artists do and I find it easier to work on the strip those days. Anyway I'm currently busting through homework and job hunting to present these to you so tell your friends and your enemies to like us! 

Happy Easter from Growing Up Hobbit

Our two other cats Gus and Ebony 

Growing up Hobbit 010-Poor Erica

It really is a wonder Erica survived this trip....

Growing up Hobbit 009-Schwag Country

After a year of homeless and ridiculous life circumstance I returned to the comic world after a fun roadtrip with my girls. However we did not expect the amount of SCHWAG! It's a disease and infection that will kill us all! 

And yes if you are wondering there is a town called Yolo. 

Growing Up Hobbit 008-Bagel Ninja

Nostradamus and his evil bagel stealing ways. I was trying to do a more painted look

Growing Up Hobbit-Hoarding Complex

Oh hoarders you make me OCD

Growing Up Hobbit 006- Disneyland Conversion

After having a ridiculously stressful year my wookie and I decided to head south. Earlier that year my sister started working at Disneyland and my boyfriend had never been. He was slightly cynical (Disney=Evil empire) But they know how to do it right. My sister, her friend and boyfriend all work at Disneyland (well California Adventure)  and practically lived there beforehand. Either way he had a blast.

Growing Up Hobbit 005-Heels

Finally got my style down on this one

Growing Up Hobbit 004-Reboot the brain and art

I hate this one. I really really do. I had just started online school and was under tremendous amounts of stress. I lost whatever style I was going for at this juncture. I just made it simple to explain why I was shutting down. 

Growing Up Hobbit 003-Still working on it

I would like to say this is embarrassing  however this was a practice test once I had purchased my tablet. As you can see I still had trouble finding my style. 

A little about the story in this one. in 2009 a black cat showed up at my work a day before my birthday. A coworker proudly dubbed him "Nostradamus" and my boyfriend gladly brought him home and he was immediately part of the family. However a year later or so his asshole side was starting to override his awesome side (seriously he was learning to open doors and would play tag with me). Then one day he got out of the apartment and we couldn't find him for three days I spiraled into a massive depression. This was mostly a way to let loose my conflicting emotions about not having him around. 

Growing Up Hobbit-002 Violence we has it

The second strip obviously still done traditional method. One thing I love about digitally making comics now...I don't have to write out dialogue. My handwriting is awful. (This was at a time both my boyfriend and our room mate had a 3 month long marathon of Modern Warfare 2 or 3) I was literally having dreams of shooting people in a raid type situation. This was my way of releasing frustration. Original title "Games and Girlfriends" 

Growing Up Hobbit 001-Before Wacom

This is what spawned Growing up Hobbit. Original Title "New Age of Feminism" At this point I hadn't really found my style yet, or my most prized possession Wacom Intous tablet. This was done on normal notebook paper with a sharpie. It's not *that* bad but I will probably redraw this into the new style eventually. (As you can also see I have a bit of an issue with perspective as well) 

Welcome to Growing up Hobbit!

Hello Everyone! So after almost two years of trying to make this comic and going through hell to get the time do so, I have officially made a tumblr for it. Now please bear with me I have no idea what this tumblr nonsense is and will probably take a moment to try.

Growing Up Hobbit is a bit of semi-autobiographical comic of what it means to grow up while trying to keep the childlike wonder of youth. And by that I mean crazy stupid situations happen to me regularly and I like to draw out those situation and giggle like a maniac. This was the first title poster I did for the comic but I have refined my style since then. 

Warning occasionally there will be crude humor and language. If you don't like it now you won't like it later. I don't want to hear complaining about it. Or maybe I do. I for the most part try to keep it clean but life is dirty and so are we. Deal with it!

With that said lets begin!