a little break for a photo op.

i am busy inking BurnBeetle two, and needed a break from all the fiery action so i decided to explore a dream crossover idea...maybe i will make another one page dream scene.
like mummymobster and Klaw go to the mall.

HI

Its December and we are getting close to the end of the year, and this blog is getting close to its 300 hundredth post. For me that seems completely ridiculous, as I cant believe I have stuck with my "art" blog for so long. My usual modus operandi is to get excited about something and slowly wane out of it. Yahoo for me, Yahoo for art!
so whats your favorite post of the year?
and what should be the 300th post be?




if you leave a comment I will give you a prize...of some sort.

second wind

hi, so yesterday i got totally beat by the workday, when it was finally over i was exhausted. but that allowed me to just sit back and relax and do nothing, so thats exactly what i did. nothing. And this morning i woke up refreshed and ready to get beat on again.

digital color & frustration

So, being an artist is complete self-inflicted torture, it reminds me of a thought i heard about unrequited love, "..its like banging your head against a wall thats not really there." the frustration one feels is beyond my talent as a writer to describe, its wholly disintegrative of one's self esteem. i am unsure if the frustration is a result of doubt or its the reverse. but those two are as thick as thieves in the ebb.
i drew and colored this goblin image yesterday and already i completely dislike it, i am tempted to erase it, but then half of this post title wouldn't make sense. its hard to understand this mentality, like you are always on the cusp of the flow. so near the breakthrough, you just can't wait. as an artist you constantly have these little blocks and breakthroughs, you think i would be used to it, but i doubt one ever gets used to it. no wonder why van gogh ate his paint.

still alive.

hi.

this is what i see all too often, which is a good thing.

skaleto!

small drawing of skaleto!

LOOK OUT FATE!

anyways, i am still hard at work.
i will post again soon.

the more you know...

...the more you realize how messed up this world is, or rather the fantastically terrible things people do.

216 "a series of drawings without explanation."

relativity

215 "a series of drawings without explanation."

the monstrator.

post 213- " hiatus"

hi,

i am now on hiatus, laughable i know, but true none the less. i will return shortly... lets say next saturday with more info.

-gil

new post. the "baron bones"

hey faithful friends,

this strange guy sitting down is named Baron Bones, and he sits upon his chair of patience.

i will post a colored version soon.

i apologize for lack of posts but i am busy away working on nuetro-knights!

209- "well sprite"

hi all,
so i was looking through a grimm's fairy tale book, thinking i should illustrate one for practice, and because it might just be neat. the one i found that was short enough and piqued my imagination was about a well sprite. the short tale is pretty incoherent, and has a quite dissapointing end, just the way i like my stories! but, i am determined to stay on the task at hand, the comic.
so i settled for just drawing the sprite.

208- "drawing, eyes, profile."

hi,
so i have this old used drawing anatomy book from like the 30's, its one of my favorite drawing books. i got it at a used book store in berkeley a couple of years ago. it has a really bland, boring cover, which i will post someday.
i was thinking about the intimacy of drawing today, how gratifying it is, the sound, feel and smell of it, the paper, which can vary i know, and the pencil. i was simply using a standard writing pencil for this, as the lack of contrast can testify. lately i have been working on the layout and format of my comic and doing some digital art, and these are fine examples of creativity, but for myself drawing is better. it is as close as i get to free expression, minus the anxiety about showing it to someone, or the thought it might be seen again.

so, today pre and post dinner, i decided to draw. i pulled out my old timey drawing book, which sits next to bridgeman on the shelf, a treasured gift from a friend, got my board, paper and pencil. then i open to a random page, and begin the time honored artistic practice of copying an old masters. then i decided to see how drawing from life is different.
i not being rich, have to draw from myself, and use my camera on my phone to take a picture of my eye. now as i write this i realize that a photo is not from life, i guess i should have got the mirror!

in the photo above you can see my progression, i started in the top left, then went to the top right and back down to the bottom left and then right again. with the small neutro-knight logo being the last drawing made. the faces is profile were copies of the given material, and look better in person, as all the contrast is washed out, as well as the linework, but oh well, not important. in the upmost right corner is a copy of the book's eyeball diagram, which led to all this.
(sidenote: its funny how one image or drawing can lead to some much more. see: this agnes' drawing.)
so, i drew this small diagram, and thought to myself, if this still holds up, i dont know what i really meant by "holding up", but i decided to apply it, and so i photographed my eye and drew from it, as close to the diagram as i could.

above, the eye on the left is a more representational drawing, read: taking more time, and the following one on the right is broken down, with less care in modeling and tone. it is more line as volume. i am sorry if the photo is not hi-res, but i figured no one really wanted to be bothered with huge images. the line as volume approach is of greater similarity to the 1930's diagram, a simply line drawing. with intent on communicating the lesson and not being bogged down with rendering. which i have always found to be a trap, rendering that is. to simplify in line is divine.
below, you see more of this approach, a more rendered photo-reference drawing on the left with time taken to tone and model, followed by it again taken with a simplified approach.

the lesson, or point to all this...
is to draw.

207- "ad"

here is a burn beetle comic ad.
yup.

two, oh, five!- "yet another mock cover"

yep, here is the cover of NDVR COMIX PRESENTS # 64.
a heart wrenching tale of unrequited love and scorn.

dos, zero, quarto "crummyer."

today fell apart.


this drawing is dedicated to my friend omar, for understanding a crummy day.

202- "clobberfella, get it?"

so, check it out.
andrew carnage-hall
john d. clobberfella

201- "eh."

well, so i've had this image in my head since last year, as
usual the execution fell short.
so, eh.