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My Desk Today

Last night I finished separations for a four-color silkscreen of the Octopicecream drawing.

Sorry about the shadow; it is sunny today in Brooklyn. :0

Valentine’s Day!

The old-school way, with construction paper cutouts.

I labored over this for a few days with an exacto. Just about everything is cut paper except for most of the lettering (the “Rocking Roll” is cut paper, though!) and Becky’s tattoos. I got that fab shiny paper for her hotpants and award dildo from an origami paper set I had. :D (For those of you unawares, she has a dildo trophy because she is hosting the Porn Awards in “Life of Vice.”)

And while it did not scan particularly well, I also used a silver pen (Becky’s tee-shirt, my snakebites, the “i” in Rocking Roll), a blue glitter pen (Robin’s eyes), and some neon pink paper (the hearts above “stud of the year”). Tee hee.

SHAG rug

I actually had THREE sketches to post related to this, but my scanner is being a WANKER so I guess we’re stuck with just ONE.

This is for fashion class and the assignment was to do a sketch inspired by a movie (we had a list of about five to choose from, I did “Barbarella”) and include an outfit or accessory from reference (catsuit).

Here, a mod sixties-ish character is supposed to be rolling around all over a fur rug/blanket/whatever since there was a lot of FUR in “Barbarella.” Her entire spaceship is wall-to-wall fur covering…man, the late 60’s: wtf. Amirite?

your daily dose of ta-tas

ballpoint, PS, drawn from a SuicideGirls pin-up :0

i HATE the wild west

So, for Fashion Illustration class (which by the way is yet another course with a misleading title from SVA, as the class is actually not about designing clothes but is just another general Illustration class — so far not a bad class, but seriously, fuck you SVA coursebook with your abundance of false advertising), we had to pick two words from a hat (an adjective and a “character”) to do an illustration on. First I picked “punk” and I was like “YESSS THIS WILL BE SO EASY” but then I picked “cowhand” and was like “UGHHHHHH.” Because there are few things I despise more than the wild west / cowboys / John Wayne / fringed jackets / Country Music / etc. So this was immediately a major bummer for me and I tried thinking about how to get around drawing the “cowboy” part.

We actually had to start out with ten sketches which I can’t be arsed to scan because my sketching style is messy and boring. So, after critique these were the two ideas everyone seemed to like:

The first was just a general sketch of a cowgirl but with various body modifications (piercings, tattoos of Wild West iconography) against a general desert background. Originally she was not giving the middle finger (and tbh I don’t really like her giving the middle finger because I think it’s corny) but it was suggested that if I do go with this one I need to make her body language more “punk” somehow.

I spent well over an hour redoing this sketch (for inexplicable reasons I couldn’t seem to draw the middle finger right — which is strange because it is definitely not my first time drawing one), and went to click “Save As.” When I clicked it, a dialogue box popped up asking if I wanted to save over cowgirlpinup.jpg or whatever, and I was like, “Ohh, no, I want to save as a layered file, I must have clicked regular ‘Save’ instead of ‘Save As.'” So, assuming I had clicked “Save”, I clicked “No” in the dialogue box…only to have the file close and LOSE EVERYTHING. I had clicked “Close”, not “Save” (when I was really trying to click “Save As” in the first place.) UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Anyway I spent the next twenty minutes throwing a temper tantrum and punching my $700 tablet (bright of me) and throwing the pen and generally being immature. Traditional Art: 1, Digital Art: 0.

So anyway, I had to redo THE WHOLE FUCKIN’ THING and it did not come out quite as well as the first one although it did go a bit faster.

The more highbrow idea that was popular with the class went something like this:

(Re-enactment of thought process)

1. Okay, so, let’s think more carefully about the definition of a “cowhand.” A cowhand herds cows, right?
2. So if a regular cowhand herds cows, how would a “punk cowhand” do things differently? Well, a punk generally goes against conformity and the mainstream, so perhaps the punk cowhand would lead cows astray.
3. If we set the punk cowhand in an urban setting, perhaps he is “herding” conformists away from the mainstream?

From there kinda came the idea of punk kid + herd of businessmen, and then that progressed into the businessmen having cow heads. Initially I just set the punk kid standing amidst the crowd of cow-headed businessmen, but everybody had a problem with that so in this version he has been transported to standing atop Wall Street Bull (“Charging Bull”, as I learned is its proper name), pegging the cowsuits with a slingshot. The two most “punk” weapons I could think of were either spray paint (not really a weapon) or  a slingshot.

I drew this from the Google Maps street-view of the Bull, which had a weird warped curve to it (I think because of how they use those 360° cameras or whatever) but that was what I was going for anyway. Obviously this is the more intellectual and technically challenging illustration to pull off, but secretly I want to do the first one, because I am shallow. :/

Moral: Save as you go and don’t trust the SVA coursebook, it lies.

Sketches

Fashiony flapper girl and, uh, angel girl? I don’t even know what I’m drawing sometimes.

xoxo

Bachelorelle Title Page

THE MOST HELLISH SEMESTER OF MY LIFE IS OVER AAAAAAAH

I am so happy, I am like a very uncharacteristic little ray of sunshine….

Ok so for silkscreen, we were supposed to hand in our finished book but mine is nowhere near what I consider to be “finished”…so I was like, “ehhhhh, maybe I’ll draw a makeshift cover real fast.” And luckily it was one of those beautiful days where you sketch something in ten minutes and it’s totally usable. *thumbsup* So I printed this in a hurry, and at first it was just going to be a print for the version I’m handing in to get graded, but then I realized it would make a fine title page (like, within the real cover)…yes, a fine title page indeed.

I also took the time to scan the Searat Postcards (are you sick of seeing these yet? I am) on the large format scanner at school.

I tried to scan the eight-color paper doll from the Bachelorelle book but it wouldn’t fit in the school scanner, so I gave up. I guess some things are best left as a nice, exclusive surprise for the people buying the physical book….

Also I saw the Triplets of Belleville tonight and it BLEW MY FUCKING MIND D:

Hot Babes and Gooey Messes

TONGUES HAVE BEEN WAGGING over Simora K.’s recent choice in beau. The Martian softcore porn starlet has been spotted all over town knee-deep in a blue blob monster known as “Glurpb.” Glurpb, with whom she recently filmed a short softcore scene, is a thousand-eyed Blopud from the neighboring moon of Phobos. Sources close to Simora have confirmed that her relationship with Glurpb started out on-camera, but rapidly blossomed into something more.

“I don’t see what the big deal is,” an agitated Simora told MARZ✩STARZ reporters on Tuesday, as they waylaid her between errands, Glurpb in tow. “So what if we’re not a conventional couple. We both have needs, and we fulfill those needs for each other. If you don’t like it then you can just f— off.” [While present, Glurpb was unavailable for comment, as the Blopud species is unable to articulate sounds beyond gurgling and plopping.]

Interested voyeurs will be able to see Simora and Glurpb’s now infamous scene together next month, as part of the forthcoming adult-entertainment release, “Buxom Babes and Gooey Messes.”

 

Order in Which This Piece Came into Being:

1. “What do I feel like drawing today? Well, let’s do the old standby: A hot, topless chick with an unrealistically perky rack.”
2. “This needs something. She needs to be enmeshed in a giant, sticky, gooey blue blob monster with a lot of eyeballs staring up her bloomers.”
3. “Well, shit, people are going to think I’m really fucked up for drawing blob-monster porn. Guess I better make up a story to explain myself.”

Fun fact: Blopud = Blob + Puddle.

 

A Blurry Preview of Searat Chipboard Postcards

Here is an early preview of the Searat postcards (silkscreen on chipboard) that will be part of my sexy book. I have a crappy copy that I have been carrying around and here it is jammed into my small scanner, which it does not really fit in. Sorry. A better copy will be posted…maybe, someday. They will also be for sale…probably, someday sooner.

The back looks like this…I did it a bit on the fly, I wish I had planned better. :[ That strange stain…I think it’s emulsion? I wasn’t eating chips over my work, I promise. Remember: Planning is everything.

*This post brought to you because I am procrastinating on a five-page paper for European Animation class.