Bleh!
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Kicked in the balls!
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Some son of a bitch opened a can of spammy virus on my comments board and now I’m picking up the pieces; the old site’s been cut to ribbons. I will rebuild and I WILL BE MIGHTY! What a lousy day.
44 Pickup
Thursday, June 7th, 2007This represents all content from all the posts, pre-crash. Enjoy. -dZ
Mechanical Bull
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Well I tell ya, what with all this redecorating and all this hustle and bustle, I’m exhausted. In fact, I haven’t worked this hard since I rode the mechanical bull in front of Knob Hill Farms back in ‘85. For only a quarter I was treated to the thunderous character-building bucks and kicks that only a robot-rodeo could provide. I always felt sorry for those kids bouncing around in the inflatable castle, or those saps riding around in the merry-go-space-ship. Those silly fools were never prepared to face the spinning torrent of life. Mechanical bull life.
These days it’s been a duel agenda; I’ve been holding on and staying focused. On the Misanthropia front, all is well. After a rousing flogging by my editor, I hit the drawing board and re-invigorated book one with some additional pages and some edited text.
Simultaneously, I’ve also been adding some newness to my portfolio. It’s nothing profound, but I’ve been wanting to diversify and show some dynamism.
So that’s my story, but before I saunter off you can check out two pages that didn’t make the portfolio cut. It’s not that I’m not proud of them, there just wasn’t any real context for them among my other work… and they sort of go nowhere. I’ll colour them in the future but until then, enjoy.
I’m off to the farm to brave the bull.
Metamorpho says NO!
Thursday, June 14th, 2007I decided to do a technical exercise I haven’t done in a while, something simple in description but difficult in practice. What you do is take a piece of artwork and try to reproduce it. The only rule is that you have to reproduce the compositional essence (arrangement of figures, basic colors, etc). It’s a way of getting into another artists shoes and seeing how your respective styles and techniques solve problems.
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For my subject I picked the cover of this comic, “Justice League of America” issue 42, vol.1, February 1966, © DC Comics. Story by Gardner Fox and art by Mike Sekowsky & Frank Giacoia. I liked the layout and the inclusion of a bizarre B-side Silver Age character, in other words I thought it had a lot of personality. As an aside, Metamorpho was actually popular for a while, if you don’t believe me read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorpho
Anyway, here’s mine, click on the thumbnail to bigefy it.
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