Cosmic Theatre Book Prototype

 

I'm going to be taking a class in making books by hand.  It's taught by Sibyl Rubottom at her studio print shop, Bay Park Press, an artist's co-op.  My goal is to create a prototype for my Cosmic Theatre book, plus I'm just interested in some of the more creative aspects of book creation.  This will give me a chance to actually hold a physical copy of my work in my hands and feel how it reads. I'm working on doing some supplementary art and writing to flesh out the book as a whole, adding things like "About the Author" and "Foreword" pages. Just those little extras that help introduce the book to the reader instead of having them go in cold.  Sibyl also teaches classes at the Athenaeum in La Jolla.  Maybe you know her Marty?

http://www.bayparkpress.com/
"Proprietors Sibyl Rubottom and Jim Machacek founded Bay Park Press in 2000 to foster the production of artists’ books and printmaking, and to promote interest in the letterpress printing process in San Diego."

Art Deco

I got roped into doing an "Art Deco" invite for a church group. Thought for sure there'd be some internet image with nice border that I could gank...but I didn't think too much of what I could find. The pride here comes from all the border elements--that's all me. And I haven't a clue how to do vectors in Pho Sho--I just fake it by making lines and rounded rectangles with the shape tool. I  hollow 'em out to my desired thickness and just started combining stuff....

So sad.

Commission

For the writer of the Demon capturing TROPHY story.

This is a novel called Dawn of the Infinity.

A starship with a troll doing the chief engineering.

 Horrible. The perspective just flat kicked my ass. I'd have to start over to get something I liked.
Maybe I could do like Tom, Lift parts and drop it into a new background

Still bugged but I'm done.

The ellipses arrangement was never solidly worked out.

They'll always bug the eye. The shadows on the inside of the circle. No reason for them to exist as cast shadows.

Made this so tough on myself. If I had started with the basics of ellipses drawn within rectangles, bisected in perspective, I would have had zero trouble.

My art brain needs work.

Instagram Leaves Me Out

They now have a Roku channel called Rokagram that lets me see people that use instagram exclusively. I'll probably pay the one time 5 buck fee for it.

I wanted to see all the Kali instagrams. She had so much fun at the time I went broke and completely out of touch. Doing Channel 101s, working for Disney doing the new Mickey shorts. Drinking booze.

This one photo from about 2 years ago. A library card. She's impressed by Marc Davis checking the book out. Look who else checked it out.

Next up, all of Ranjos Instagrams.

Or maybe Peter Csanadi

Muscles of the face flash play thing

Check out this expression maker., click APPLICATION-Click a muscle-Then click the far right tab, ACTION.
http://www.artnatomia.net/uk/artnatomy2014.html

Here's the look

Kind of cool.

I'm drawing everything with my left hand from now on

Dummy and Ugly.

Kind of like Goofus and Gallant. 

But I can't decide who does things right.

 I've decided Ugly is Goofus. Dummy is slow but he does right.
Inked with a Pilot rolling ball pen. With my right hand.

Drawing with your non-dominant hand

Jury duty makes you do strange things...like start writing and drawing with your off-hand. Interesting results. It's kind of crazy how your brain remaps neuro-muscular commands, i.e. it's not very good at it, initially. For the first few days, your arm is all over the place, but stick with it and things start to click... sort of. One of the hardest things to control are those deft, little strokes used for hatching and those controlled strokes used for strong contours. I'm actually going to keep with this..it is definitely the best way to break out of a rut. Makes drawing the same old thing a completely new, challenging experience. Here's a Hulk, sketched with my left hand in Krita (a fantastic free, open-source drawing program).

Following Tom C's lead. Doing art for Avis Newsletter

Larry, the fellow pictured, is quite a character. Always making me laugh. 

A regular Don Rickles. 

It will be interesting how many quotes people generate.

Another one is

"Everyone picks on Charlie Brown."

He's Charlie Brown. Surrounded by mean people.

 Larry above.

Final version was caused by the desire not to offend.
I'm so coarse.
The revised idea is probably going to be more fun.