This is an audio-visual representation of a sad yet all too common story: A robot that falls in love with the sea, only to have the high salt-content of the water render it a hopeless reverie. The shark-tooth punctures to it’s exo-skeleton does not help the matter much either. Audio by James Antonson.
Another little movie here mixing more super-cool music by James Antonson and some photos I’ve taken. This one has sort of a Sci-Fi theme (I’d had a star-warsy scrawl at the end but it needed to be removed as the humor had waned). These are good warms up for the next looming (and frightening) Delroy Owens Poet Engineers project.
sci-fi
The cable network Boomerang has recently been airing episodes of the show Challenenge of the Superfriends which originally aired in 1978-1979. I can still recall the anticipation I had on saturday morning as 7:30 approached and the best half hour of the week would ensue (and the feeling of despondency when all that goodness was over). The villians were so badass: Black Manta, Lex Luthor, Gorilla Grodd, Bizarro and the Priscilla Rich – The Cheetah! who I had an early crush on (see picture – hubba hubba). The plots of the episodes were completely far out as well. Seeing some of these episodes I realize now how influential they were to my young mind.
Lesson learned: You have to find all the little bits you love to do in an illo, and then do pieces with nothing but those parts. That’s the plan at least.
Documentation of a day trip to and fro okemo vermont (departure time 4:30am). The return trip was in the midst of an intense blizzard. A sign on one of the chairlift stations said “Ride it like you stole it”. That about sums it up.
Inspired by Jon Keegan’s ‘Barely Conscious Drawing’ post from below… the red pencil is getting more playing time as of late.
I seem to remember coming across this on the web years ago, but there is a movement to preserve the out of print drawing instruction books created by illustrator Andrew loomis. This website has the entirety of several of his books scanned in for your browsing. Some very good core-drawing skills, ala How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way.
http://www.saveloomis.org/
Man. I have been a HUGE fan of Craig Mullins’ artwork since I first played Marathon, the classic FPS on my Mac back in college. He did all of the most influential cocnept art for Bungie’s games. His website is a must-see, loaded with his amazing digital paintings. I haven’t seen a whole lot of illustrators’ tutorials around recently, which I think is a shame, since they are so valuable. I found a few tutorials Craig Mullins did on the web, and they are fascinating:
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/7731
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/7840
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/974
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/7863
