Tyger Tyger

I've been drawing a lot of tigers lately. Here's one of them. No references used, 'cause that's just how I roll.

Inked while listening to Ege Bamyasi by Can, which...seems appropriate, somehow.

Following Lost Prophets

"Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets..." An exercise in composition and Photoshop colouring...in other words, an exercise in PATIENCE!! (Although this actually didn't take as long as I had anticipated...hmm!)

Don't know if it's finished yet, though...the background texture irritates me. (And, sorry for the JPEG artifacts - I swear it doesn't look like that on my harddrive. Curse you, Blogger!!)

Vicious & Malicious

High school students with animal heads...ooh, scary, kids...

I wanna be purely evil

I don't know when/if I will get this finished (I always have such grandiose ideas for blog posts that never see completion), so here's the sketch - an attempt to design some of Jeremy's classmates. Not bad I s'pose - though I might move them a bit closer together in the final, and rearrange the background a little...

Power

It's Jeremy (because I'm attempting to work on That Comic again) in a pose stolen from the back cover of Power, the final Q & Not U album. He's supposed to be 17, I have no idea if I've succeeded in making him look that young.

And then I went to a barbecue and did some life drawing. There was a one-eyed dog there named Scruffy, who sat still long enough for this one drawing. Yeah, I did try a few sketches while she was moving around, but none of 'em really worked...

Left! ...No, your other left!

I'm alive!

I just forgot how to draw, that's all. So let's re-start with this...

And, um...

...Yeah.

As usual, your guess is as good as mine. I don't know if I like this or not, it was mostly an excuse to get myself to finish a piece. And practice painting - what better way to do THAT than with a drawing I'm not particularly attached to? So if I screw up, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, I GUESS this is some sort of Pascal Le Gras/Claus Castenskiold/Fall-inspired piece.

BONUS: Some random life drawing from May that I found on my camera! (Still having enormous problems drawing faces, hips and legs, as you can see)

world's largest foot FTW

Richard Stance

Hmm...so yeah, I haven't updated in a while. I'm VERY uninspired lately. Here's a drawing of a guy I call Richard (and yeah, he looks exactly the same as all my other characters...right now anyway) He was in my first comic in a band called the Dead Layaways - sort of. This version is like a combination of two of the guys in the Dead Layaways. I am thinking of re-doing this comic as part of Unhinged - a comic within a comic, if you will.

This was a SUPER fast sketch - I do these types of drawings all the time but they are rarely worth displaying. See, I can't get any sort of movement or energy into my drawings UNLESS I'm doing them super-fast. This is the kind of direction I want my drawings to go in, eventually - that and the Frenz painting.

It sounds like the Frenz painting didn't even make it into the exhibition - I also couldn't make it to the opening. Long story. This was the straw that broke the camel's back - I'm so angry about it that I decided to go home a week earlier. (Other stuff has been bothering me too, none of which need be discussed here) I'm finished classes anyway, with absolutely nothing to do but sit around and watch "Let's Play" videos on Youtube...occasionally making quick drawings like this.

Sorry for the rant; I swear I'll get over it...

Fish One Final

Update: Here's the final film! WOO!



(Music: "Fish One" by Colin Newman)

Frenz

Whoa!! What the heck is that?

(It's this, actually:)

Years ago, Paul asked me if I would paint such a thing for him and I've only just now gotten around to it. So, I've finally done it! An honest-to-god painting that I love! Yes, it is made from hastily patching scraps of paper together because I forgot to nick some large paper from the uni. It's held together with backing made from duct tape and Skymag pages. (No, really!)