I've been making a few comics for fun as you can probably tell from previous blog posts. I've been looking at a bunch of web comics lately and realized there isn't much out there that really makes me laugh. My sense of humor is stupid, but not that stupid...so I decided to make my own comics with my "taste" of funny.
Cause and effect. Life's brilliant way of making things interesting. It's in the physics, look it up!
And now, I present to you, the loverly prettiful pictures I drew.
My good comrade, Stephanie, is currently teaching a silk screening class at WORKS IN PROGRESS NYC
I'm totally looking forward to screen printing again, I loved doing it in college and I'm sure I'm going to love it all over again this Saturday.
I decided to go with a robot theme, since that is what I would wear on my shirt naturally, hopefully if others are interested I'll sell a few.
Here's my process of coming up with my ROBOT SILKSCREEN MADNESS.
It all started with the idea of a robot getting shot from behind:
Here are some explosions I tried out...
this one looks like Jesus rays
this one looks more like hair...
A little too cartoony for my taste, but just right for the occasion.
Here's what it looks like together:
BOOM! Robot Exploding!
I showed my buddy Colin who has been my critic and partner since high school. He's brilliant at taking my simple ideas and turning them into awesome ones.
Conquistador firing squad.
Short Stocky Robot
Long Lanky Robot
Top Heavy Robot
That poor robot native never knew what hit him...
Merciless.
Even with all that, Colin thought it could use more... "...a dead robot on the floor is a must, and pieces of dead robots strewn all over, slag and oil everywhere." I wish I had more time to finish up that amazing image. I started on one of the dead robots, but I know to make this really work, it needs to be ridiculous.
Yeah, I'm influenced by German Expressionism.
That's what I got for now. Unfortunately, Saturday's lesson is only going to be working with one color. I can't wait till I can start playing with more COLORS again.
Oil paint, I would use you more if you didn't take so damn long to set up and work with. Maybe when I move out of New York and have more time to myself I will once again use you. Wrestling bears...how god damn original. The painting has a very soft children's book feel to it, since I wanted to be a children's book illustrator at one point at FIT. Maybe I'll do more of these style of paintings down the line to build a solid portfolio.
My spacing/composition sucks so damn much. Need to give more head space to this little guy. I guess it's back to drawing frames for me. Perspective was kinda fun, but a total pain in the ass as well. If you look real close you can find some discrepancies here and there, but I'm still pretty happy with how it turned out. My humor is equivalent to a boring school teacher from elementary school as you can clearly tell from the text. Whatever, I thought it was cute.
My sister and I sat down again to come up with these drawings. We got into an argument about something stupid just now, until we resolve our differences, our collaborations will come to a short halt. Sad.
When I was at my previous job doing internet marketing, I had these cool co-workers that I bonded with pretty early on. I met them tonight after not seeing them for while and made them these FRED the Shark watercolor paintings. FRED was our personal mascot (our champion through dark times) who happened to be a rubber toy shark. I brought him to life with a voice that was sort of raspy and southern sounding (I don't know its just something that came up naturally). I ended up making a bunch of drawings of FRED for my co-workers. They enjoyed them immensely, and I decided that I would make an extra special reunion edition for them.
Here is FRED in all his glory:
FRED based off of the 1931 classic Fritz Lang film, M.
FRED as a Roman Emperor, who could ask for a better dictatorship?
It's always good to have a picture to refer to when constructing this little bad boy.
Then I papier mache the exterior giving the general mold of the creature using Claycrete.
All you do is add water! Super simple and great quality.
This is still a really messy process, so make sure you have some disposable surface to cover your table when working with this stuff! It took about a day for it to harden and dry completely. It'll probably take longer if the weather is humid, try to keep it in a dry warm place.
I used AMACO Sculptamold after the Claycrete paper mache finished drying to give it a smoother finish.
The cool thing about Sculptamold is that once it dries and hardens you could actually sand it down. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to sand down for a smooth surface since I only thought of making my costume three days before Halloween.
Damn it Giger, stop making things that looks like a penis!
Nathalie, my wonderful costume designing girlfriend, helped me with the shirt. She's very very good with details, particularly on the logo patch and blood.
I whipped out my Iwata Eclipse air brush to give the creature it's first coat of paint.
The airbrush is very efficient in getting into all the nooks and crannies than with your typical paint brush. I mixed some fluid acrylics that were designed for airbrushes to get a fleshy color. I mixed white, red, yellow, and a drop of blue. It didn't have to be perfect, since the finishing layers were going to be with regular paint brushes and heavy body acrylic paint.
Looks like a freshly baked loaf of bread.
This is how it looked after mixing and painting with a paint brush.
I painted the teeth on a separate piece of cardboard and later installed it from the inside of the cardboard frame.
I forget the last time I've been to the dentist.
Mixing all different kinds of flesh colors helps this papier mache chestburster come to life. Looks absolutely gross!
But something is missing...
I feel like I'm missing something...
Oh yeah!
Blood. Lots and lots of blood.
This is how it looked like when assembled. It took a lot of duct tape, and a piece of string to keep that papier mache prop supported on my chest.
MY RIBS!!
It was a hit at the Halloween parade, particularly with African American and Hispanic women... there is something about large phallic symbols that just get 'em going, they're so weird...
