...Been working on the logo for my "Zombie Dinner Party" project. I have been working on the two girls (Meana and Vices) inbetween my small son's school stuff and in-transition career stuff ("Go, Promatch, go!"), and I should have something here soon.

cobbled together from 4 scans

...this is just a cobbled together scanning of one piece scanned four ways on a small scanner, fit together like a intricate jigsaw. I will have to go to Kinkos to get a proper complete scan so I can make prints or lithos or whatever of this and sell the limited run of posters. (original art is 14" by 17") Then I can point at this and reply, "This is what I was working on in 2010. No particular month, the whole year." It will be between us chickens that it was more like two years.
That was a joke...It was only one year.

They are right, we do need a font specifically for Sarcasm.

"Ah, well. Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame, set at gas mark egg on your face."

*Hot* Zombie Dinner Party

Of course, I need to have the others side by side to compare and contrast and gaze upon so I can say, "Yes, this is quite fine and on we go to the next part" or, "No, this is quite really, really wrong now that I see them all together as a set and I must go back to the drawing board, I could never pronounce this as the better work I have done." Like, the space between the frame and the logo and frame- dead space, or OH OH, how I forgot to put a drop shadow behind the frame!! It may just be me but the logo looks too stark, not flashy and worked out enough (but zombies are not really polished shiny folks). Still... a stylistic slime pool to frame the text on top would not hurt to try, some like colored organs and vittles sparsely paced. ...two birds w/ one stone- my dead space at the top sides of the golden frame...slime on the wall! Zombies are most probably not tidy eaters.

(pre-lim) Zombie Dinner Party, part 1 0f 4

Sorry my program crashed after rendering this test image. I had planned on a slightly bigger sample, and to work on the hair to bring it out more for the example here tonight, but I am beat. Miss Hella Lane, Master Greg Gory, and Mister Blud Marks will follow in due course.

mosiac-in-progress

It is nothing personal, it is strictly romance.
[I subbed romance where business would go, you see?]

I had to up the levels because the non-photographic blue pencil was not scanning well, of course as that is what it is suppose to do...not scan. the image is a lot more harsh than it looks in person.

Happy 16th of June

Sorry, I had not posted anything in a while, so I thought I should but most of what I have made won't fit on my scanner so I am posting something I started working on this week, It is not completed by any measure but...Anyway, "Happy June 16th to me!"

judge not, lest you be judged

Saw Sorority Row, Where The Wild Things Are, Lovely Bones, and The Box one after the other, trying to rest before I fall and get killed. Then I fell and I did not get killed, so I regreted having wasted an afternoon watching Where The Wild Things Are, and The Box on DVD.

3d samples, part thr33

1997-2000

3d sample, part 2wo

3D samples, part 0ne

1997-2000

Weirdos!!

Introduction by Gahan Wilson, from The Big Book Of Weirdos:

"...if you can spot the right Weirdo you can make a fortune (Henry Ford), find salvation (Georges Gurdjieff), or experience the absolute tops in literature (Fyoder Dostoyevsky), art (Vincent van Gogh), or theater (Sarah Bernhardt). Without Weirdos to lead the way, in fact we all would still be wrapped in the rotting hides of animals, crouching around fires in caves, and dying miserably of old age at around sixteen years old. Actually, we wouldn't be anywhere near that well off, because the fire wouldn't be there if some Weirdo hadn't been nutty enough to think of lighting one indoors, and we'd still be shivering in our bare flesh if another Weirdo hadn't been perverted enough to try to wear an animal instead of just gulping it down.

The truth is, you have to be pretty weird to invent a light bulb or create surrealism or put together the FBI, and if you think your totally unweird Uncle Fred could come up with "The Tell-tale Heart" or "Swan Lake" or "Plan Nine from Outer Space," think again. He's probably never even heard of them."

"Google Me."

The commercial for some wrestling show has the audio of the guy saying, "GOOGLE ME!"
So I did, I googled myself. I am #5 on the list of links. A few years ago, I was #1.

(I want to thank my son's girlfriend for all her help, and tell her my son has good taste in being with her. [He is six at this time, and to tell the truth, the concept of a girlfriend is to him, a girl who is a friend and he has many but no one that serious. He has crushes, and I will have to discover if that is abnormal or not for his age. At least he has no desire to wed his mother. He plans on marrying the girl who gives him extra toys in his happy meal. He is cute and gets free stuff, but he is no sl_t. {...now I wonder if I have crossed some line in trying to be funny...} Anyway, I thank my son's gf because I want to remember to welcome and show investment in any person who enters his life and brings him happiness, so I am thanking her right now as a strategic first strike years before the fact because that is how I do things, maybe.] I also wish to thank his (yet to-be-met) second mother for her patience and love and her dogs, because my son loves dogs.)

naught is personal

This art-blog is not personal (or at least the original intent was that).

This has never been my place to gripe about bosses or co-workers, or write a personal journal and up-date the public to my intimate thoughts and feelings.

I don't want people to be confused by my personal rant about how this is all not personal, nothing personal is meant by my getting up close and personal with this non-personal triade...

It is not personal; like the skull image I made above (and below). I made that May 1993, for an assignment in U/D Drawing, the theme was "Pollution." I don't have any personal skull-centric bias, I am not goth or emo or death-driven. I just like to make art and sometimes it can be concided that I am pretty good at it, by some people.

Don't make something personal that is not. Look at the big picture.

Seriously, look. It is pretty nice and took an acceptable time to make, and was not done lickety quick (a week it took). I wish my scan bed was big enough to get the whole thing so it would not appear clipped at the top, the bottom, and the left side

[Blog Text Theme: fictional, functional, "not targeted at you at all"]

odd job

Back in 1993, I had the job of assisting, for six months until I graduated from UCSB, at taking groups through a rope course/an obstacle course where we taught them teamwork, and assisted them in learning to communicate and problem-solve as a team. A lot of things linger from that time in my life, but the one I recall most vividly today is that without support, someone is going to fall. And, people don't rise by being isolated.

more sketches on the sly

go to http://www.ragedoll.com/ ["Daddy's lil' ten-year old placeholder"] to see what the needy mon' looks like in color.

Sadly the others were lost in a hard-drive crash in the early 21st century.

from little sketches come...

...I like the sketch better.

It has been nearly 8 years since I made this, so I know I can do better. Plus, I had to make it on the sly in Illustrator during my lunch. I just wanted to get it done to a point, then {sigh} I moved on to the next thing.