Fashion part one

I keep using the same song quotes and it's pissing me off!! Arrrgghhh!!! Here's part one of the fashion illustration assignment. I'm at a disadvantage with this one because I'm not very good at this sort of "decorative" drawing style. With that said, this turned out SO much better than I thought it would.

The face was traced, the rest is mine. Seriously. 100% out of my head. What I like to do sometimes, instead of "copying" or even putting reference in front of me, is to just stare at other drawings for such a long time in the hopes that I will somehow magically "absorb" the techniques contained therein. Obviously this is retarded and it almost never works, but I keep doing it, since it DOES work on rare occasions like this one. It just takes a long time for things to sink in to my mental image bank/photographic memory.

It's a monumental big-screen kiss/It's so deep it's meaningless.

And now, at last, The Good. (Scroll down for The Bad & The Ugly)

Update part 2

Now some random crappy sketches.

Update part 1

Here's the editorial assignment, which I never posted. (Probably because it SUCKS and everyone else's was better. ;p)

The problem of this new scheme is answering obscene phone calls.

YAAAARRRGGHHH!!!! I am updating this from the school because I still can't do it from my dorm. >:( <--(angry face) So here are parts 2 & 3 of the narrative...enjoy! :p

"And if all else fails, I am the prince of Wales!"

Part one of the narrative assigment...MAN, I had a hell of a time uploading this. Firewalls suck. Back to work now, I guess. :s

I try to get my head clear / I push things out through my mouth and get refilled through my ears.

Yet another update...oh god, I just can't seem to stop!

Tried out collage for my narrative assignment; has a very Eric Carle feel to it. I have never done ANYTHING like this before and I think it turned out really well. (I made the textures using my grey Prismacolour markers with pencil crayon layered on top. Now most of the markers are dried out. :( ) With that being said, I don't think I'll do my final this way. I want to use a combination of collage and drawn images.

Tim Harrington Is The Queen Of France! (All of the drawings in this picture are actually really old, from sketchbook 7, but I thought they were good enough to make something out of.)

Inspired by the first collage, I did this one, which has nothing to do with anything whatsoever. It does look very much like that flower I drew ages ago, however. I dunno what it is with me and bubble gum.

"The smell of cigarettes reminds me of your breath. Maybe that is why I can't quit smoking."

Say hello to your favourite crazy Brits (and bug-eyed Yankee, Seth), in their first page actually drawn in the UK. Hooray! (It goes without saying that I will post the proper scanned version of this at some point. ;p)

O yeah, that is an eyeball. Yes it is gross. So is the dead pigeon. Sorry. I never said this was a family friendly comic. *blush* c_c

The landing party missed its check-in call. They're coming late, or not at all.

And now, some CD covers. Did these for CDs I made for Other Paul. As you can see, I cheaped out on the Fall covers and just did cartoony inversions of the 458489 A & B-Sides covers. And despite this, I still really like them! Well, obviously I do, or else I wouldn't be posting them here...

Apparently Les Savy Fav are playing in London on Saturday! Holy shit! I sure wish I could go to that. :( Did I mention their new album is amazing? It is. From totally out of left-field. It knocked me on my ass the way Go Forth SHOULD have done. (OMG ELAINE, LET IT GO, ALREADY) And I'm all depressed and homesick and stuff, so I really needed something like this to cheer me up. It's like my old musical heroes have come through for me again. *tears of joy*

Won't you come and meet us in the present tense?

Another semi-weekly update. Top: A rough for my "narrative" assignment, wherein we have to do children's book illustrations. Now I have to say I'm very confused about this. On Thursday we were shown examples of contemporary children's book illustrations on the slide projector. They were...well, they were pretty ugly, to be honest. They look nothing like the children's books *I* remember reading as a child. Ok, I'm going to stop talking now before I say something offensive.

Anyway, rather than doing a veritable ton of research, like most people seem to, I usually just get an image in my head, like my fox dude there, and run with it. I hope this is okay. :( I'm not opposed to doing research, I'm just saying that I can't pinpoint what my drawing was inspired by and I'm not sure I can show evidence of it. But I'll try.

The second picture is the collage I made during our collage workshop on Friday. It is supposed to be based on the Camus novel The Fall, or La Chute, which is of course where the gruppe got their name. I did this because we had to choose from a list of proverbs to base our works on. I chose "There is always pride before a fall" because that sums up the Camus novel pretty well. Also, if I understood it correctly, at the end of the novel the main character drowns himself in the river. The blue paper scraps are supposed to represent the river.

Unfortunately, nobody got it and I was actually sort of insulted - the reason being that we're always being told not to be so literal, to think more about visual metaphors, underlying themes, etc. So I do that and nobody cares...oh well...that's MY problem, innit? Paul liked my collage, at least. (Not THE Paul...my friend Paul who I sit with in class...who I will hereinafter refer to as Other Paul) He said something to me like "It looks like you've been preparing for this moment for a long time" (meaning I hardly ever do collage and don't have much of a clue how to go about it, but still turned out with a pretty good image).

If you're lookin' for an answer, you better know why.

A random comic strip I drew of an actual conversation which took place between Paul and I. It's not supposed to be funny, either. Also, for some reason, I am represented by the big monster with the horns, and he's the little one with the pointy ears...it should probably be the other way around, but whatever. I want to do more of these at some point, using the same characters...stay tuned!

99% of non-smokers die.

It's early in the morning, and it's "Independent Study" day (meaning not very many people are here), so I managed to snag a computer with a scanner here at the school! Ha! So have some sketchbook pages!

"I wanna tell you about my hometown / It's a dusty old jewel in the south Puget Sound..."

Behold - DKTR Faustus in colour. Wow, this drawing is so old. The colouring's not brilliant either, but it will have to do because I've been working on it for over a week. ;p So neh!

THE YOUNG THE FACELESS AND THE CODES

Happy October. Here's some new drawing-y things; hope you enjoy.

Finally managed to find a lightbox and a T-square yesterday, so I should be getting back into drawing Printheads soon. (The fact that this blog has a masthead saying Printheads is a pretty strong incentive. XD)