Goped Seven: Work In Progress

 

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Jarvis and Deanna Milne are two of the best folks I know(Which probably isn't saying much considering the company I keep).  Every year they throw a party focused around a motorized scooter, and every year I draw a flyer for that party. 

They always focus on this helmeted fella, and I try to get a bit more epic each year. but this year they took me to Lola, so I really tried to out do myself.

I'm really only into art for the free dinners anyways.

On Your Command: Work In Progress

 

I've been sitting on this composition since before the move, so it's doubly frustrating that I can't color it now.  

That and I'm actually learning how to draw hands for real now a days.

Angelishit: Work In Progress

Draw your own conclusions with this one.  I just know that I did a good job on the poop splatter.

Which is not the first time I've said that.  Probably not the last.

Octonaut: Work In Progress

Piece number three from Experimental Animation lectures.  I've never been able to watch a teacher as he talked.

In ninth grade I had a teacher stop the class to yell at me for drawing:  "You better make it big in cartoons, because you're failing at social studies."

He's dead now.

Anyways here's an octopus guy with some stuff happening.

Salami Swami: Work In Progress

 

Another piece from my sketchbook during a lecture inflated to something usable.  

Moving to San Francisco, my R.Crumb influences show a bit more than I notice sometimes, which isn't necesarily bad.  

If only I could find some big assed girls to pose for me.

Finished piece here: Sun God June 18th 2010

500 Days Of Summer: Work In Progress

I really like exaggerating and strecthing forms.   It's a bad habit, but being in art school and having to measure every line before you make it gets tedious.  That and it's easy.

I did this the night after I saw 500 Days Of Summer.  Obviously I'm not pulling anything visual from the movie, but undeniably it was the impetus for the drawing.

Man, that girl was a jerk.

Work In Progress

I have a crummy computer, and I have an especially crummy computer for a 3d animation student.  However, I've been inking some pieces in illustrator for the past few weeks with hopes of access to a computer that could run photoshop to color them.

It doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon, and I'm tired of sitting on these.  Art has a very short shelf life of fondness in my brain.  So, I'm releasing them into the wild, with the work in progress tag.  

Once I get some dough, I'll update the links in vivid, mind altering, color.

Serious, like you won't believe it type of color.

One day.

Oh, and don't be too hard on the compositions, I like to add jaw dropping text after mind dropping color, so there's large chunks of negative space where they would be.

In the meantime, I always take pity donations.

Dr. Sketchy San Francisco: Featuring "The Diamond Daggers"

After much deliberation, and a sizable glass of bourbon,  I finally made it to Dr. Sketchy in SF.  I had a lot of doubts, considering how much I love the Cleveland group.  

I should have gone sooner!  Like most things in San Francisco, it's not nearly as much fun without my friends, but it accomplished what attracted me to Dr Sketchy in the first place.  

 Drawings supposed to be fun!  I think in a lot of ways I've forgotten that this semester, and I needed the breather.

 

Not to mention, I can't say I've ever had the opportunity to draw bearded ladies.

A Stick Figure In Perspective: Week One

This semester is all about the figure, figure drawing alongside figure modeling (in clay). It's the perfect time to hold myself to the fire, and finally learn to draw. The Academy Of Art offers a free life drawing workshop almost every day, so I'm hitting every one I can.

I thought it would be fun to follow openly.

I'm not posting every workshop I attend, just the highlights. Just enough to show progress (hopefully), and to silence anyone that thinks this is some sort of mystical gift.

I'm going to do this every week, using my Saturday figure drawing class as the bumpers, and showing the highlights in between.

I've got a lot of work to do.

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