From Richard Avedon's "In The American West"

Yesterday I took out some art books as references to draw from. It's hard finding somebody sitting still long enough to draw them. On my way over to the 42nd street library, I did a sketch of a sleeping girl on the ferry:



However, the weather's so cold that I don't want to go out unless I need to. This limits my choice of models to...my roommates.

So I took out two books on Richard Avedon. He's a photographer, and you're always warned not to work from photographs. But his photos are very detailed, black and white, and printed big. My thinking was they'd be very suitable for drawing from.

I also took out a copy of Disney's Pinnochio on VHS. Don't tell anybody, but nostalgia only goes so far...the backgrounds are beautiful, but who watches a movie for the backgrounds? The characters are very, very dull.

This is from a photo of Debbie McClendon, a 16 year old carnival worker. My first attempt was a little too doe-eyed.



This was my second attempt at the same photo:

Ever more requests

These are some more drawings I made for the "good" *ahem* "people" um of GameFAQs. These were pencil sketches built up from basic shapes, clothed/furred, and inked. I think the last time I bothered to go through so much trouble was for my Howling Black comic, still unfinished. However, I've gotten a lot faster at it.

I enrolled in CUNY for art courses this March. I'm really excited about it!



DR583V3 wanted a giant pitbull fighting a roided up badger.



User Cosmic requested "A turtle dressed up in a cliche'd detective's outfit."

Humanizing Design

This isn't actually by me, I just found it pretty funny.



This was the front page of the Home section of the Staten Island Advance yesterday.

The article is about how home appliances are being designed in a more user friendly manner. However, the cold, angular kitchen they used to illustrate "Humanizing Design" almost looks like an editorial cartoon. There's absolutely nothing cozy or human about it! Even the typeface on the headline is cold and angular. Wonderful irony there.

A teddy bear being chased through a field by Conan O'Brian while flaming pieces of toast fly overhead.

As requested by KiddotheKid, on GameFAQs

Even more GameFAQs Requests

My drawing request topic on GameFAQs.com got some more posts from the kids and weirdos over there.

Applepieman3 suggested I draw "a woman with large breast lifting weights, but the weights aren't normal weights, they are large pieces of ham."



DrFail asked me to draw him, but I have no idea what he looks like, so I drew JD from "Scrubs" instead. He doesn't have a beard because I hate the beard he has this season and I'm going to pretend it doesn't exist.



Punisher1 held true to the Internet's unsavory reputation and asked for a naked Smurfette.



SecuROM_ asked for some "anime-style" characters.



I don't really hate anime...that much.

A bunch of other people asked for stuff, but I decided to be lazy and ignore them. Maybe I'll get to them later.

EDIT: Friend and MrZopo both wanted me to draw them, and they got what-for. MrZopo in particular is proof that I occasionally watch anime, since I drew him based off of my weak remembering of Mr.Popo (how did he EVER get past the censors?) from DragonBall Z.

More GameFAQs Requests

My topic on GameFAQs.com continued with more requests from the hordes of geeks and teenage boys who populate the site.

ExRacerJames wanted a sad hotdog caught between a very angry mustard and ketchup.



Porobin Hood wanted a "hyena-dude built like a linebacker staring down a hedgehog girl with a look like 'you're food :3'". I think he MIGHT be a furry, but then again he didn't specify that the hedgehog girl be slutty and naughty.



Fenrir the Wolf was a wiseass and wanted me to draw fried milk...but I delivered.

Notes

These are some sketches and notes from my real life. I went to a meeting for SICOLAB, which is a Staten Island arts collective made up of people who are mostly 100x better than me and have grants and exhibits and shows.