try it, i dare ya.
fire it up.
withoutbones.com is now alive.
if you spot any kinks, let me know. but, i think it works pretty well. clean, simple, organized. rule.
if you spot any kinks, let me know. but, i think it works pretty well. clean, simple, organized. rule.
i had a good title for this one but i forgot it (fog-got it?)
this was on ffffound.com:
this was on photoshop:
it's getting faster and easier. i should be done with it, but i got distracted and now i am going home.
if a company wanted to print this fog-hair all over a hat, they could sell it as a foghat.
ok. bye.
this was on photoshop:
it's getting faster and easier. i should be done with it, but i got distracted and now i am going home.
if a company wanted to print this fog-hair all over a hat, they could sell it as a foghat.
ok. bye.
VampireCactus_Round 2
*i removed these photos; voting is over.*
Vampire Cactus is up for voting again. He was an honorable mention/staff pick.
Sure to lose again, but would like to go out with a few votes at least. vote, please?
edit: turns out I have 3 entries in this derby. They are the only 3 I have ever submitted, so that's nice.
Other than the cactus one, there's also
Variations on a dream
Sonar
Vampire Cactus is up for voting again. He was an honorable mention/staff pick.
Sure to lose again, but would like to go out with a few votes at least. vote, please?
edit: turns out I have 3 entries in this derby. They are the only 3 I have ever submitted, so that's nice.
Other than the cactus one, there's also
Variations on a dream
Sonar
13 days later.
work slowed to a halt.
i've found that i'm not so great at drawing a pattern.
having to clone stamp and mask each piece of this in order to make them fit together. will take a while to finish, and I don't even want to think about the coloring yet.
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in other news, finished my 2nd t-shirt related freelance thing. will post images once they are printed.
i've found that i'm not so great at drawing a pattern.
having to clone stamp and mask each piece of this in order to make them fit together. will take a while to finish, and I don't even want to think about the coloring yet.
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in other news, finished my 2nd t-shirt related freelance thing. will post images once they are printed.
the idea just lives on
at work. next door a building, connected to ours on friday, is being ripped apart by a backhoe. it keeps making the building shake. they should probably ask us to vacate, but they haven't.
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started 3 submissions for a local skateboarding zine called Pink Crack last night. figured it was a good place to test out some of the ideas i have doodled but never developed. the buddha manga i've been reading has seeped the use of hatching and ziptone well into my brain. so i made a quick digital ziptone pattern and threw it on these. i think i'll use a higher resolution, fancier version on some upcoming pieces because its really effortless grayscale.
the first of the doodled, a ghost town and the memory of every mountain and cloud you have seen this year. also, a shell hole featuring a timeline of growth.
old idea, first time i've tried it on actual paper instead of in my mind. if i do these, i would want them under the pen name 'tracy jordache'. they are glorified traces (see: people magazines defaced at my house or the moby piece a month ago), and then modified. so that explains the tracy. on tracy, i want to slap 'jordan' at the end because i love tracy morgan. instead, i'll go for the other hot shoe of the 80s/90s, the jordache.
paul mccartney.
not an old idea, yet. its still fairly fresh in the way things i am currently making look.
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started 3 submissions for a local skateboarding zine called Pink Crack last night. figured it was a good place to test out some of the ideas i have doodled but never developed. the buddha manga i've been reading has seeped the use of hatching and ziptone well into my brain. so i made a quick digital ziptone pattern and threw it on these. i think i'll use a higher resolution, fancier version on some upcoming pieces because its really effortless grayscale.
the first of the doodled, a ghost town and the memory of every mountain and cloud you have seen this year. also, a shell hole featuring a timeline of growth.
old idea, first time i've tried it on actual paper instead of in my mind. if i do these, i would want them under the pen name 'tracy jordache'. they are glorified traces (see: people magazines defaced at my house or the moby piece a month ago), and then modified. so that explains the tracy. on tracy, i want to slap 'jordan' at the end because i love tracy morgan. instead, i'll go for the other hot shoe of the 80s/90s, the jordache.
paul mccartney.
not an old idea, yet. its still fairly fresh in the way things i am currently making look.
wanted*e
been spending more time than I'd like to in the movie theater. i don't really care for seeing movies in the theater unless its something that I really feel i need to see this instant and not wait til the DVD release. That would be the case for Batman and Wes Anderson movies.
anyways. I saw Wall*E on monday. totally adorable. i'd be fine with seeing it again. and I almost got my wish. went to see Wanted on wednesday. Hated the comic book, but was hearing from people at work that the movie was a lot of fun and such. I had the time to kill, so I went. As the trailers started rolling the first one was for some new CGI mouse movie. This was very weird to me. A G-rated trailer playing before an R rated movie. Then came the CGI dog trailer. Then the CGI chihuahua trailer. Then the CGI something else. I knew what was happening here. Then came the CGI short "Presto" which plays before Wall*E. I have never left my seat at the movies in order to complain or report problems, but I sort of had to. They were playing Wall*E in the Wanted theater. I assume this means the Wall*E theater was running the first reel of Wanted, but I really hope not.
Our Consolidated theater was recently bought by Regal theaters. And it has sucked hard since this buy out. I loved seeing stuff at the Consolidated theater. Everything was always right and smooth. Regal is like the plague. If I screwed up at my job as much as they do, I'd have been fired 10 times over.
So, Wanted was boring and not good to me. The first 30-40 minutes are enjoyable because it really has fun being a movie. Anytime you see a guy smack another guy with a keyboard, and the keys and one of his teeth fly in slow motion to spell out "fuck you" for the audience, you know they are having fun. and then the second after that, they stop having fun. for an hour and a half.
got a free ticket out of the experience tho. so, i'll either get to see Hellboy II or Batman II for free. That's a ray of light in the shit colored sky that is Regal theaters.
happy ID4.
anyways. I saw Wall*E on monday. totally adorable. i'd be fine with seeing it again. and I almost got my wish. went to see Wanted on wednesday. Hated the comic book, but was hearing from people at work that the movie was a lot of fun and such. I had the time to kill, so I went. As the trailers started rolling the first one was for some new CGI mouse movie. This was very weird to me. A G-rated trailer playing before an R rated movie. Then came the CGI dog trailer. Then the CGI chihuahua trailer. Then the CGI something else. I knew what was happening here. Then came the CGI short "Presto" which plays before Wall*E. I have never left my seat at the movies in order to complain or report problems, but I sort of had to. They were playing Wall*E in the Wanted theater. I assume this means the Wall*E theater was running the first reel of Wanted, but I really hope not.
Our Consolidated theater was recently bought by Regal theaters. And it has sucked hard since this buy out. I loved seeing stuff at the Consolidated theater. Everything was always right and smooth. Regal is like the plague. If I screwed up at my job as much as they do, I'd have been fired 10 times over.
So, Wanted was boring and not good to me. The first 30-40 minutes are enjoyable because it really has fun being a movie. Anytime you see a guy smack another guy with a keyboard, and the keys and one of his teeth fly in slow motion to spell out "fuck you" for the audience, you know they are having fun. and then the second after that, they stop having fun. for an hour and a half.
got a free ticket out of the experience tho. so, i'll either get to see Hellboy II or Batman II for free. That's a ray of light in the shit colored sky that is Regal theaters.
happy ID4.
habits
Last Wednesday, June 18th
Anna Mercury (#2 of 5), Ex Machina (#37), Local (#12 of 12), Rasl (#2), Wolverine (#66), Pocket Full of Rain (Previously untranslated early works of Jason)
And Yesterday, via Amazon, June 23rd
Buddha Vol. 1: Kapilavastu, Buddha Vol. 2: The Four Encounters, Dororo Vol. 1
I figured it was time to try out some more manga. I've read Akira and some of Nausicaa, so it was time to try out the "Manga God"/"Godfather of Manga" Osamu Tezuka.
Anna Mercury (#2 of 5), Ex Machina (#37), Local (#12 of 12), Rasl (#2), Wolverine (#66), Pocket Full of Rain (Previously untranslated early works of Jason)
And Yesterday, via Amazon, June 23rd
Buddha Vol. 1: Kapilavastu, Buddha Vol. 2: The Four Encounters, Dororo Vol. 1
I figured it was time to try out some more manga. I've read Akira and some of Nausicaa, so it was time to try out the "Manga God"/"Godfather of Manga" Osamu Tezuka.
hypothesis, color, evening 1
went ahead and drew this and began coloring. going alright so far, I think. the unlit windows strike me as an interesting castle turret shape. burkert comes from burkhart (German and Dutch: from the medieval personal name Burkhard, composed of the elements burg ‘fort’, ‘castle’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’). castles. some things are blanket super hard, and you don't even plan for them. i planned for lit windows and I got unlit castles.
hypothesis: where you hide, 2008; pencil & digi
hypothesis: where you hide, 2008; pencil & digi
8x5=40
Been slacking. Here's some digital sketches of some personal pieces I am working on. Also have 2 freelance things, so these may take this week and next to finish.
The penultimate piece in the 40 series, titled "the onion" in my sketchbook. I posted a sketch of this a couple weeks (a month?) ago, but it has changed since then. It's now 8x5, with an alternate drawing that repeats 40 times. As seen here:
The actual "onion" drawing is the one thats different. I think it would be mainly shown as the single panel, but when possible, as all 40. Close-up of the onion:
Possible layer effect to be applied to the clouds. The way they look in the previous 2 sketches will look ugly once all that foghair is colored. Just something:
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Since it is way easier to draw (no repeating pattern), this is the actual next piece I am working on:
Similar to the beach house piece in that this is also an old idea that I am finally getting around to doing.
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New Girl Talk CD is nuts.
The penultimate piece in the 40 series, titled "the onion" in my sketchbook. I posted a sketch of this a couple weeks (a month?) ago, but it has changed since then. It's now 8x5, with an alternate drawing that repeats 40 times. As seen here:
The actual "onion" drawing is the one thats different. I think it would be mainly shown as the single panel, but when possible, as all 40. Close-up of the onion:
Possible layer effect to be applied to the clouds. The way they look in the previous 2 sketches will look ugly once all that foghair is colored. Just something:
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Since it is way easier to draw (no repeating pattern), this is the actual next piece I am working on:
Similar to the beach house piece in that this is also an old idea that I am finally getting around to doing.
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New Girl Talk CD is nuts.
Honorable Mention
Just found out about this today via Email.
Vamp. Cactus is Honorably Mentioned.
I think what happens next is there a competition of all the honorable mentions for a give time frame, and some of these can not slip through the cracks again.
Pretty neat.
Vamp. Cactus is Honorably Mentioned.
I think what happens next is there a competition of all the honorable mentions for a give time frame, and some of these can not slip through the cracks again.
Pretty neat.