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Thursday, September 29, 2011
More High School Art
If I ever make it as far as i'd like, I'll use this as a Handlers cover, Guest Artist: my 17 year old self!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
More high school art
Poster for High School play.
I remember pouring over my Burne Hogarth for the face, and all the hands show my immersion in the work of Will Eisner. I used a crow quill pen for this one. I present it here for your amusement.
High School play poster
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Dumb Tree-Thing that's been hanging around.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Sidewalk chalk art festival. Autumn art thing.
Rain rain go away, it didn't. But everyone turned out anyway. I think it rained last year too. Used chalk pastels on this one.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
03 The Astonishing Adventures of the Handlers
now available on Drive-Thru Comics!
For what it's worth, finally finished this doozy! Learned a LOT. In the process. Now onto some FINE ART and some more work in the HELLAS-sphere!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Handlers#3 pages
Im pretty happy with this output really, wish I could speed it up. Still writing and lettering.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Friday, September 09, 2011
Hearts Concept
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Monday, September 05, 2011
Friday, September 02, 2011
Derivan Liquid Pencil
I'll be using some of this next term, I bought it to try it out. It's expensive. I want to justify spending the money and use it up. I've used it in three drawings so far and it's like thick acrylic ink with a really inconsistent flow and crappy length of line, basically a very serious constraint to butt heads with. I'm attracted to it because it promises (not sure if it delivers!) a chance to speed up laying in all that tone for that fine, soft modeled look. At least it will be a cool underlayer for a longer drawing...I'm going to go draw with it right now...
http://www.derivan.com.au/pages/liquid-pencil.html
02 The Astonishing Adventures of the Handlers
02 The Astonishing Adventures of the Handlers: 02 The Astonishing Adventures of the Handlers
Handlers 01 NOW on Drive Thru Comics!
'01 The Astonishin g Adventures of the Handlers' is now live for sale on DriveThruC omics.com
Thursday, September 01, 2011
For what it's worth I've been dabbling and banging on a guitar for about twenty years off and on. This is the first time I have made anything public of this sort in quite some time, for obvious reasons once you start listening to it. Funky, clunky and junky. Funny thing about music, it's a lot harder to forgive than the fleeting glimpse of a visual image. It's really easy to take things too seriously. This leads to either censoring the voice and/or creative output or assaulting unsuspecting ears and making people fear delivering an honest critique and dimming the paragon of character and smartness you may be in their eyes...in this case I'm sure I'm not my own worse critic...I've always found I can forgive the change in tempo, the off-key slant, the garbled vocal quality, the drop-outs and plosives, the muffled jangling crinkles of my crap a hell of a lot easier than other people may. I guess I've decided that it's a legitimate part of my creative output, and has been for some time so I might as well "own it" so to speak. WARNING: if you have sensitive ears and listening habits this may not be for you!
This is the last song I've recorded, it's from 2009 I really haven't written any other music for myself since then but I dream about it. "Enemies of Man" is the title of the demon. "Jaganatha" is the title of the project, and "Backdrop" is the title of the song.