Zoo Weekend

City Park

The Rock and the Whirlpool

The sea-monster Charybdis, which I guess I’m picturing as a kind of angry anemone, and the rocky island where Scylla lives. The inspiration was red-figure pottery and 60’s children’s book art. From a book-like object I’m making about Odysseus, who, it turns out, was pretty much a really big jerk. Needs a lot of work, as usual. Meanwhile, I think maybe I’m pretty close to being done with the 4th draft of my artist’s statement, although who knows – I have the talent with words that Nixon had with improv comedy. Which is to say, of course, zilch.

Martian Rainforest

Future Style of Lawn Care Robot

Um, so I guess the title of this post is the title of the sketch, although the title could also be “Moonbot Mowing His Moon Yard.” Which I guess is mostly the same title, so, whatever. Anyway, if it wasn’t late I’d fix the fourteen things about the sketch that wandered away from the original image I had in my head, but it is late, so I won’t fix ‘em tonight, and really probably won’t ever fix ‘em, ’cause there are many other things I’ve gotta draw, and mistaken drawings are good for thinking about, at least, in a self-teaching sort of way.

Moonbase

Okay, this was supposed to be a drawing called “Megabase Lunatron,” but now it’s a drawing called “Moon Crystal.” What happened was, the crystal was going to be a crooked-style Fullerine dome, but then I couldn’t crowd in all the dumb little rovers and space workers and moon trucks I’d planned on drawing, so I drew it like it was a couple of folks out for a sort of outing. With, of course, their space dog and a future kind of digital camera, which will be bulkier than the modern kind. Again, I was going for a crummy chipboard look, like this thing was a linocut, cut with the dullest possible gouges and then printed with cheap sticky ink on the back of a newsprint pad. I guess, in fact, I could just do it that way instead of on the computer…but, whatever, maybe later, if and when there’s actual extra time laying about. Thing is, lino doesn’t feel as natural anymore as a Wacom tablet, so I’d have to relearn some muscle memory or something. Not that drawing’s ever natural. Anyhow, gotta go and take a break from the internets.

Airport

So, I guess, in addition to triangles, wrinkles, and hats, I like drawing airports. Plus, I think I remember I saw a woodcut a while back of some whole other subject that was printed in heavy black ink on dirty gray chipboard. So I guess I was thinking of how that looked, and thinking I could maybe steal the look for a Flash sketchbook thing. Plus, you know, the busy-ness of Richard Scarry books was always a fun and mind-expanding thing. Anyway, that’s all for now, gotta go back to work.