This week’s entry, for “homage”…
I was listening to the song “Back to Black” on the subway and thought that it was a very pulp, noir kind of song and sentiment, which immediatley made me think of those great pulpy detective story covers of the 1940s and 1950s. I’m doing another one of these based on a Warren Zevon song and may do more…
Medium: Pen & Ink, digital text
Here’s my entry for this week’s Illustration Friday, subject “Pet Peeves”:
Okay, this takes some explaining. Ever since I was little, 5 or maybe, it has bothered the everloving crap out of me when people pronounce “whore” and “horror” the same. I’m sure it’s a result of having a Southern family and being raised with that dialect, and if I’d been raised in England or something I’d think I (current me) talk like a hillbilly. Which my mother would on some points agree with, considering I apparently say “crayon” like ‘a hill person’.
Thanks for the show of support, Ma!
Medium: Ink on vellum, digital color. I say “cran” as in ‘cranberry’. Shut up.
Hello there, fellas. Should you ever attempt to land a couple of girls half your age in the sack, these tried and true line (in order) are 100%, no-doubt-about-it, guaranteed NOT to work. Trust me, you will never get girls to look more horrified and disgusted while verbally praying for a boyfriend to show up!
1) “Did you have a good pee?”
2) “So, do you like Bon Jovi?”
3) “No, wait…Poison?”
4) “No, no, I got it…NEIL DIAMOND.”
Hope you had just as good a St. Patrick’s Day as I had…
I’ve discovered that I seem to do a lot of likenesses and portraits in my work and would like to expand on that a little– because, among other things, you can get pretty good magazine work if you can come up with a good likeness in a not “totally copied from a photograph” kind of way. So, in this vein, I have a few plans for semi-iconic/religious portraits of celebrities and other”icons”. The first one will be Bettie Page as St. Mary Magdalene:
One of the major parallels that made me associate the two (besides the obvious “sinner converted to religion” angle) is that Mary Magdalene, during her conversion, wandered the wilderness clad only in her hair (as the painting depicts); I feel that one of Bettie Page’s true trademarks was her unique hairstyle. I’m going to start on this soon, as it’s Spring Break and I have nothing else to do, so we’ll see how it works out!
I have buttons for sale! Woohoo!
Based off my inexplicably popular “Strangelove” print (seriously what is WRONG with you people?!) they’re 1.25 inches and cost $2.00. Free shipping! Put ‘em on your hats! Your bags! Buy two and wear them as earrings! Proclaim your love of flayed skull romance everywhere you go!
You can contact me with various shipping/payment details, though Paypal would probably be easiest for everyone.
Wow wow wow. I have to say that life is going pretty awesomely for me right now (except for the fact that I fell down the stairs of my building this afternoon and royally bruised up my back). I’ve submitted everything for the senior non-thesis show, so all my anxiety etc over that is gone, and not a moment too soon, either, since I was having dreams about being killed in a variety of ways: lethal injection, watching people I know get executed by firing squad, going on death marches, being interned at Auschwitz- and one in which my teeth were bashed out with a pipe. I figure that if a dream in which you lose your teeth means you’re anxious, dreaming you’re getting them bashed in with a pipe means you’re REALLY anxious.
Man, and I wonder why my work turns out so morbid.
Paracinema’s issue 2 looks really awesome and I am so happy about it. If you want a copy, go to www.paracinema.net and order one there, or find out where it’s being sold in ‘real’ stores. People seem to really be responding well to the cover and again, I’m really happy and proud over it. Dylan and Christine, the editors, are off to Fear Fest in Dallas over the next couple of days and were kind enough to bring along some of my promotional hoo-ha. I’ve even possibly gotten a pretty big commission due to the cover– nothing’s final so I don’t want to say a lot, but I’m really psyched and optimistic about how my life seems to be going at the moment.
As long as it isn’t going down the stairs wrong-side up again. Jeez Laweez that hurt.
Too busy, stressed, tired, and 1000 other things to really write much, o it’s BULLET POINT TIME!
I’ll write more when I have a chance to breathe…
