F.F.A.C. week #5, or is it?

Jubilee of Generation X comic book

Most drawings are free-hand here, or if it delves into computer graphics arena, mouse-hand. THIS is a straight copy from a scanned in image, so I cannot take credit for it's wonderful delightfulness other than that I made use of Adobe Illustrator to translate it from Chris Baccahlo(sp) drawn art to M.C. vector art. I liked the design, so I re-drew it based on the professional comic artist's into a digital format that I can re-size and re-color, and anyway, it is a lot more complicated than scanning it in and pressing a button for those that do not know. A pen tool is used and I draw (trace) over the flat image just like a kid with tracing paper except I have more skill than a kid with tracing paper and I have to do it with a mouse and a computer monitor. Almost the same thing was done with the entry on June 16th here, I drew with the computer. Still, it was not my original design so I feel guilty. This was done in 2000, I think.

Morbius

Last of the "junk" from the early 1990's and hopefully the last of the irritating, "Is that eye skewed or is it just me?" posts. Call it my "popculture picasso" series, faces distorted. Anyway, i think it is important to see the old stuff and the new stuff, and not just the "best", or "perfect" stuff as it is just a matter of opinion. Some people aren't in total awe of my abstract stuff being that they, the viewer, are more objective in mindset, and others love my abstract stuff as they are more favored in subjective viewing and see no talent in simply portraying a face or a landscape, or a thing that anyone could do if they tryed. I like more original one-of-a-kind stuff myself (anyone can, of course, copy them after but they will be then taking the objective route, depicting an abstract objectively rather than subjectively. Does that make sense?) .
Tomorrow another (or the last) copy from pop culture/comic books and more original stuff next week. Maybe even an abstract drawing.

Joker, The

Not the best work, just really old work. Kind of looks to me like you could cut the face down the center and have two good half pictures of the Joker but connected side-by-side, looks sort of skewed. Left side of the image... Where's the hook pulling the mouth back in dis-similar proportion the the right side? Or is it just me? He has a weird face, it may be just me. He is rather ill-proportioned at the best of times.

Swamp Thing from 1993

I made this in '93. It might be nice to take it further with photoshop, see what comes out of it or from it after these 15 years.

And, where are his arms?
(George Carlin. I saw him perform live at UCSB on one of his college tours in 1992. I loved the comedy and the man. I am going to miss him.)

FFAC #4, or what can be created in 30 minutes

It is a happy turn of events that places big words in the middle of Janice Dickinson's "shocked" face; itwas SO totally planned... heh.
I always see many ways to continue the work but since I am not getting paid to work these to death or beyond and doing faces in marker pen is like asking for problems (unless I take them into Photoshop and blend the text and ink to a more wedded marriage or composition; a little blur here, a little smudge there) what you see is what I am putting out there for these once a week faces quickly sketched and fetched for your bemusement.

Big freaking spider-vehicle

Remember that hard-drive crash that wiped out my computer a ~decade ago? I mentioned it the 16th of June, right below? Well, I thought it wiped out the only copies I had of this 3D spider vehicle I made (and the original 3D Studio Max file I made it in) but I found it. I mean the 3D file, the shoddy jpgs were on a site I made and have not maintained in a while. I need to get work on that (http://www.ragedoll.com/), no reason it needs to be out there representing me and looking so amateur, or at least so ten years ago-neglected non-updated looking.

The Egg

Nothing to say, other than the egg could be shaded to be less 2-d and more 3-d with some additional work.

Cropped from original

This is a poor example, in my opinion, of a piece I started but did not get further on as i was told that it needed to be changed. Anyway what you have here is a skewed inked ~sketch and someday you will be enlightened to see the better iterations based on this trial image (which will not be square but nor was the original until I cropped it to post today), and maybe I will even complete this as a test and post this also...
Okay, I am 100% certain that I will post it someday, why not?
(the hand placement is wrong here, that's all I can tell you.)

Inse' Cure

This is what is written on the page opposite the image, or at least paraphrased as I am late in posting this; "Inse had a cure. It was a cure to all the illness of the world. But, Inse was just a small child and no one would listen to Inse anyway. Blah blah blah... Blah blah, blah... So, Inse with all her flaws saved the world for Inse. the end, story finished, good night. And, after all that Inse died, no one lives forever. So I guess, everyone died in the end too, it happens. Graveyards were invented with that in mind, it is not a new concept so do not act like it is some new thing. Inse was happy, she had the cure. Just not the cure for death it would seem. She had a happy life, a long life despite being so selfish that she saved the world for herself in the end. She was also kind of a geek and a doofus sometimes but she was okay with it. With a name like Inse, you learn to roll with the punches."

THIS is what happens when you cannot get your digital camera to work downloading images to your computer. I had some okay pic of my larger stuff I was going to put up here, carry me through the week but now I either start mid-week scanning in my to-do list of art I wish I would start on or finish or put up crazy stories for artwork, like above since it looks to me like a book cover.
"Inse- Cure", must have meant to put a ' but got a -. Crazy artist.

The Innocent

Fiddlesticks, man, this is from 2003? I was going to do this whole series back then called "Rage Doll Rips-it-off Comics", and this was to be the first page of a story about the Innocent (the guy in purple) and this story (as I said before) was to be part of a series but I never got beyond the first page of the first story. My hard-drive died the next day and all the work was lost. And, now I just don't have the time to find the time to waste making more.
Maybe that will change. Maybe I can trade the FFAC challenge to producing a page a week of the Innocent someday, followed by Rage Doll, then Glass Bag, Bone-Box Boy, Red Spot, Pop goes-the-Weasel, Wire Ant, The Trust, WWI Astronaut, and the rest.
Maybe the studio of Rage Doll can come back...
Dang, I wish I had time beyond the next 60 years to do it all in.
It is my birthday today.
Happy Birthday to me.

FFAC #3, Monday's post on Friday

I picked up the wrong pen w/ the Summer Glau image when I started but I think it worked out in the end.

Wish I had more...

Just a lark. Probably much more inspirational in color, or as the follow-up (contrasting color to the positive space in the negative space which will make a very strange pinwheel), or something more in the negative space giving depth and/or dimension.
[Didn't Zooey Deschanel just look so spectacular in that last two scenes of the Happening, the bathroom scene and then after that, on the street? What is special is that she does not say one word but you totally just have to smile. I'm a loon I guess, I like it when girls make me smile w/o saying a word.]
Maybe next week I'll post the continuation of the piece from yesterday, the blue loopy thingie?

Continued from yesterday; v.2

~68% incomplete (or ~32% complete), for your knowledge, is the state of this in-progress piece.

-If anyone has contact with the actress Julia Stiles, or Zooey Deschanel, or Uma Thurman, please pass that on. I am sure that they will be impressed suitably and thank you for the information. Also, assure them that they need not take great pains in contacting me in turn, I am very easy to find right here through this blog and I welcome their future involvement in my life. That being, one of an artiste and single parent.

secret art, an overdrawn reveal v.1

The sketch, followed by the 35% complete which is trailed by the 50% to ?% done piece friday.

Wagers of Sin

The concept was originally that as bad as Hell gets talked up, there might just be a worse place. Like, where do the toilets flush to, where does the sewage go? The idea was that the sewers of Hell must go to someplace worse than where they came from, and that being "Sub-Heck" where the three figures above accidentally wind up after a slightly atrocious and slightly comical turn of bad luck on an average day at work in the sewers of Heck/Hell/Dis, or whatever you may call it. Our Wicked wagers, work stiffs from the sulferous depths find themselves neck deep in deep doo-doo and very shortly after in a whole new world that puts 'Heck' into perspective (but in a light-hearted funny way, as everyone knows eternal damnation is nothing but a fun, fun, fun until daddy takes the t-bird away. Serously).
It is not quite Peanuts, and not quite Calvin and Hobbes, and thankfully it is not Zippy the Pin-head, but it might be sometimes funny as sewage is never to rarely mentioned or a big factor in the concept and never ever seen.
Maybe never mentioned at all, how about the guys just discover the wages of sin are really quite... wicked but funny?

FFAC #2

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Ugh...
Why 'Ugh'? Because we all see things differently. The FFAC means to me two drawings a week of people I may or may not be completely enthused over and the major thing is that it is 2 drawings a week I might not draw otherwise. Here is how the conversation goes in my headspace, "Get off your duff, draw those two drawings and it can be less than polished perfection but draw or you are due to buy the compatriots a free lunch on your dime (and your dime is in the red most weeks) so put the marker to paper, have fun scribbling and filling your old found-art art sketch book of international-but-outdated-law textbook and watch if it does not turn a sow's ear to a silk purse by getting easier and simpler (and better) each week. Go on, watch the repetition burn artist scars into your colossol head." Or something like that. So I do not beat myself too much if Zooey does not look like "Zooey", I just want to draw two pictures a week I might not otherwise cram into my schedule, and maybe a year from now get a free lunch when the commish' quits (He has quit sodas, starbucks, picking his nose, etc. in the time I've known him and then one day you come by and he is sipping down a iced mocha latte chasing his slurpee and diet coke. I have never caught him picking his nose but I am not too sure he ever started after he was out of diapers or to begin with. He is very fastidious about his clean-ness, doubtful he'd pick his nose. Forget I mentioned it, I just know he reads my blog to check up on me, so I am sassing him).
Plus I have two empty sketchbook at home stuffed w/ printouts of starlets and actresses I wanted to draw but never found the time. I figure if I can produce two quick sketchy drawings a week, I must be able to then someday produce one polished print (in my free time outside of the 40 hours a week I produce polished work, at work where I get paid to do that) a week instead of two deranged quick scribbles or doodles in grey.

Last for Animal Week...

...Unless I decide to post the panda drawings sometime in the future.
(Special secret: There is fire in the peacock painting, also. It is reflected in the eye of the bird, you just cannot see it in my lousy 10+ year old photo.)
I had planned to put fire in every animal painting I made, so far you have seen just two.
I think I painted this in Atlanta, so that makes it 1993-94 as date of creation.

Not a rhino

I sold this one in 1995 for $25. I was young. I didn't know the value of oil paintings of peacocks back then, you live and you learn.
Don't be a schmuck, we all make mistakes.
And, $25 was a lot back then, we were happy to be having $25 back then.

More funny (looking) animals

The second eagle is landing. Tomorrow, a peacock!

Eagle One, do you copy?

One of two eagle drawings (but not copied or traced, just good photo hand/eye transferance using DaVinci's or some old master's technique).
So to answer for Eagle One, "No, I do not copy."

FFAC # 1.1

FFAC #1

When I go to scan the images in... my home scanner says "Options not set."
AND... I was going to install PS CS3 but I never got to it... So I have to wait until 3 pm when the movers get my computer at work delivered. (Not 10 am like they promised.)
I'll be back, later.
Going to go play infinity mode on DEAD RISING while waiting for 3 to roll around.