No Church in the Wild

The world is under control of the King. Some say he's only a man, some say he's more. Some say he's the Anti-Christ, yet others say he's the Second Coming. Regardless, the entirety of the world is under his rule, and his only rule? There are no rules. All notions of civilization, law, order, religion, and morality or gone. The world as we knew it is no more, we now live in the Wild. But in a godless existence where humanity is slave to its deepest of carnal desires, does desire become god? And with a new god comes a new religion that may threaten the rule of the Wild. 

(a concept inspired by Kanye West & Jay-Z's No Church in the Wild feat. Frank Ocean)

Productivity ~part deux~

I like to pretend I'm counting money... but I'm not.

(I'm labeling stacks of fabric swatches)

We have a lot of flies. A LOT.

My dad is my boss. He looks like that.

This is inevitably what I end up doing at work.

Productivity (aka Bored at Work)

So, I was sitting there trying not to fall asleep and my co-worker was like, "Draw something on my cup." So I did. Then I was like, wait, I have a pen and paper. DONE!

Adele

Quick sketch of another one of my favorite musical artists. I was scared of making her face too narrow so I might've made it too wide. Also, I was having a hard time deciding if I was going to try to do shadow or not (harsh black and white would've looked weird and I always have the worst time with hatching and what not). Anyway, I think the purpose of the exercise is paying off, it does look like Adele and her face is obviously different from the pic of Florence I drew a while back. 

Well, sorry for the lateness. Work is a life sucker. Later.

Getting Through the Rough Patch

So, there's this thing about artists and having super high expectations for themselves and then being super disappointed when they don't meet them. It's hard... but watch this.

This doesn't only apply to story tellers, but every type of creator. Part of the reason I created this blog was for this purpose and I'm totally slipping. I have work and it sucks and I get home and I'm tired and on the weekend I just wanna hang with my friends or rest. But I'm an artists, and I need to create art. So I will. Expect to see more from me.

Later.

Florence (face study)

So, two interesting things you should know about Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine: she is awesome in concert (and seeing as that hers was the first and only concert I have yet to attend, opinion is extremely valuable) and that she and I share the same birthday.

So, I wanted to practice faces. I figured a good exercise would be to draw from a picture of someone and try to capture the uniqueness of their features in the simplified line form of comic drawing.

Florence has a lot of lines in her face around her cheeks and mouth, even when she's not smiling. These age her in real life so I knew they would do so more if I copied them completely. I tried to minimize them without totally getting rid of them, and I think I did alright. Tom Lyle might disagree, he would advise to avoid doing anything that makes a woman look like a man, or old, or like an old man.

But yeah, more later. Later.

Late again... again...

Okay, sorry guys. I'm slacking, I know. I WILL do something this week and I wanna say I will give you a double dose... maybe even triple, but I won't promise you things I can guarantee. I will guarantee something though. Soon. Don't loose your faith in me....

Thanks. Later.