Idea Por Un Sticker

And the big news of the day is that as of tomorrow I have a kickass apartment in Venice.

Steps to follow:

1. Learn to surf
2. Grow hair long, blonde
3. Get tan
4. Stop reading
5. Be about a foot and a half taller, personable

In other news here's an idea I had, for an owl sticker for sticking. Might look into getting some made.....

The Laddies!

So, I turned 25 today, which is upsetting at the most basic primal level of wanting to accomplish something before you turn 30. It's crunch-time now bitch.

To cheer myself up I doodled a band that is for legal purposes not in anyway related to the Fab Four.

Robot Doodle: The Beginening

This was a boredom doodle that took a long while to take hold, and which I'll probably finish tomorrow. Also, birthday, so, you know, a quarter century of good times.

Guess which one of these came along first....

Just A Biiiitt Fuuuuurther....

Ok, so still to do on this one would be, well, making the text not suck, but that might be a tomorrow assignment (realistically it won't be, I gots stuff to do). Anyway, the image is there, and Inkscape, MyPaint and Scribus have yielded up several of their delicious secrets in my progress this far....

Dude, Soviet poster artists had it great right?  'Cept for the Gulags.

Also, there must be a way to make these large enough to print someday but also small enough to view on the web.... Probably resizable, I'll have to check that one..

Updated:

Made the text slightly more cyrilified, still not really working. Might be worth further typography research. Eh, later.

I feel like this reads as the 'Do The Right Thing' text...

Updated Again

As soon as I get this all the way right I'm going to do another post for it, one with actual writing. Till then I'm just adding on...

More stuff soon...

Rowan Atkinson Is Also The Man

Ok, another primary sketch for lion king poster, and a resized version of the Scar one. Though I'm thinking now I might need to try doing a full body version of the Scar poster, and frankly these both feel pretty stiff....

Which one of these two I like more is pretty easy. I don't know why i wasn't incorporating a (faux, not supposed to really be stereoscopic) 3D element to begin with, considering that's how the "post-Millennials" (ugh) are going to remember it now,,,

Jeremy Irons Is The Fucking Man

So I've been improving my mastery (or basicstery, really, but that's not a word) of the mainstream open-source imaging softwares (GIMP being awesome for painting and all but my tablet screen being possibly wonky, time to branch out); meaning Inkscape, Scribus, and the various charting capabilities of Libreoffice. It is by the way, slow as hell going. My InDesign/Illustrator experience was marred by, well, let us say a youthful inability to sit still for two minutes and learn the environment. This is proving less trying this time around.
I've started giving myself prompts to design towards, one of which is doing some Lion King posters (because uh, it's there, I guess?). Here's a preliminary layout for one (two maybe color schemes)....

Obviously I'm not going with the right hand one, the ideal palette is in yellows and greens (I've always thought Scar's best scene is the fascist musical number, so we'll be grabbing our colors from that..), I just wanted to test Scribus's ability to shift colors.

Also, I really do like these two programs, so tutorials or walkthroughs are probably gonna happen, I just might want to get a tighter grip on them first.... 

I Didn't Do This

Nothing today, but here's some work to look at: Andrew G Schick and Massimo Carnivale. These are both, just, wowzers.


A drawing by Carnivale, based on the movie No Country For Old Men

Newsprint Cowboy

Whooo! Done with that cowboy commission! Here's the original line and also the color version...

Not Now Murray

Wow, not posting things really sneaks up on you. So, at the moment, considering a few things. The Neo-Futurists are adding our current president to their totally comprehensive wall of presidents, and holding a competition to select the winner. So.... think I'm entering that. Also, may be at Chicago Renegade Craft Fair the 11^th and 12^th, despite not having any crafts to sell. I think large scale paintings probably stand out. Well maybe, maybe not.

Also, that's supposed to be Bill Murray, in all his forms, National Lampoon through current. I seem to be seeing him in everything I watch for some reason.

Still feel like this

There we go, not exactly a finished thing, but it's enough for a doodle.

I've been thinking a lot about what level of finish I should be posting on this. I think my site works (or will work whenever I get the damn thing done) as a repository of actually finished work, and this can just be process and lots of crap. I'll filter everything afterwards.

I need to do some writing. It would be really nice to have a portable laptop, as opposed to my current one; which at five years old is positively geriatric.

Damn, I should put up some kind of drawing...

Honestly, I do not like this drawing. It's like I'm aping every overly precious fakey whimsical bullshit illustration I saw when I was at school.

Which wouldn't be a problem if I were a little better at it.

Damn.