Subcutaneous Hematoma Wayne

WHA BAM

2011-11-18T18:23:00.000-08:00

It doesn't look quite right because I drew the face and arm separately. I'll fix it. It's the pink man versus the green man. It's not a political statement, I just have an affinity for olive-skinned people. Probably because I am one.

Attempt?

2011-11-18T13:53:00.001-08:00

I AM THE BAT

2011-11-13T08:43:00.000-08:00

Fun With Markers

2011-11-11T19:30:00.000-08:00

Making text is surprisingly fun, but extensive and painstaking. and not just crazy all over the place text, but also really refined text. Although I haven't done that in a long time. I forgot how much fun being "in the zone" can be for artists. My name's for my website I'm building.

Lazy Microphone

2011-11-08T19:51:00.000-08:00

I took a few liberties with the anatomy, so remember the name of the game: I don't want to hear it.
THE DIVA. A character from an animation I'm doing. I ran out of room like it is my old habit to. Just imagine her with bitchin' shoes.

A... Character... Design?

2011-11-07T21:54:00.000-08:00

No really. I need to be more creative. This is the G-Man from that story. HA HA! Who wears white suits unless you're in Miami? Well, ok, I didn't have any black or grey markers, and I thought a red suit would be a little too "let's beat the concept into the audience's heads like it's a zombie apocalypse and I'm the lone survivor!" I think I made his skin too dark. Whatevs. One thing's for certain- I sure do love three-quarter profile!

Character Face

2011-11-07T11:10:00.000-08:00

This character probably looks too much like me, but whatever, really. Everything I draw from my head looks like me. Even the cars and the trees.

Well He Looks Like A Winner

2011-11-07T10:55:00.000-08:00

I love Krav Maga. Lets me burn off some aggression. But seriously, it's not enough! So I draw people getting the face knocked right off their heads. It's the best.

My Spirit Animal

2011-11-07T10:50:00.000-08:00

It's a puma.

Meet Me At The Door By The Carving

2011-11-06T13:02:00.000-08:00

Listening to Ba Bop Bye Ya and I came up with a story

2011-11-06T12:45:00.000-08:00

Samples for a Potential Client

2011-10-17T14:20:00.000-07:00

Get It Over With Already

2011-10-04T21:24:00.000-07:00

Hey, at least I'm drawing again. Drawing SOMETHING.

Cool WIP

2011-10-03T20:05:00.000-07:00

Yes, that's a family guy reference AND a literal title. Ha ha. I came up with this idea today. Grannie doesn't need Red Riding Hood to save her.

2011-10-02T18:33:00.000-07:00

Something to show to get a possible volunteer job so I can spruce up my resume.

What A Maroon

2011-07-04T15:22:00.001-07:00

My ink pens are dying, RAAR RAAR RAAR!!! I just ordered something called Sailor Disposable Fountain Pens. They're like BUTTAH.

Conehead

2011-05-15T17:15:00.000-07:00

That's right, folks. I'm a CCS alumni. I graduated on Thursday. Also, today, I discovered the textured brush in Photoshop!

So Apparently, That Was A Bad Choice

2011-05-15T11:57:00.000-07:00

Here's the final of the cover. I took out the "the." Also, I changed the font without Dave Chow's oversight. Mistake? Probably. I'm not good with type. D: There's still time to fix it!

Here's my plan: Create a literal comic book to hand out at comic con. Include in it 3 stories: this story, and two smaller ones (probably 2-5 pages) of completely different things and styles! My brother showed me a website of useable unpublished and published scripts that I will draw from. Just gotta find a script I like. (or maybe one I totally hate, just to get the experience) Along with those 3 stories, I will include an artist bio and process work at the end. And then... here's the kicker... a fake ad on the back cover, like they had for those radioactive wristwatches in the 1940's comic books. It'll be SO FLIPPIN' COOL.

I'm thinking get it printed at El Greko, like Tyler did. There's one five minutes from my house. Oh no! NOW YOU HAVE A GENERAL IDEA OF WHERE I LIVE!!

In conclusion:

Business Card?

2011-04-11T09:15:00.000-07:00

One of eleven mock-ups, but I think this one is somewhat charming. Don't be a snob.

More Stuff

2011-04-10T14:04:00.000-07:00

Poster Entry: I made the quality really low so I could load it quickly.

New comic cover in progress: I am awesome.

I now have a brand new HUGE iMac that I've been working on. It's a lot more convenient and I'm glad I have it. BEST OF ALL: I have a tablet I can draw with. It has pressure sensitivity and it fits the monitor! 'Cause, seriously, trying to get a tablet pen for the Cintiqs is like pulling teeth. It's fucking asinine. That little thief, whoever they are, is a dick. I don't hate drawing in Photoshop with the lasso tool and gradients, but painting with a tablet is so much faster! So yeah, my first ever computer is awesome. I am learning Flash, Ben Halstead taught me the basics and now I'm experimenting. I need to remember to bake him cookies...

Another Stab

2011-02-02T14:16:00.000-08:00

I'm SOOOOOOO re-doing this.
This is a half-assed job that I was working on, literally, to the last minute. (as is custom!)

In a week and a half, I expect to have the entire comic finished, printed, and mocked up ready for sending to potential jobs. It's only thirteen pages. Not bad. I'm gonna do it, and I'm letting everyone know I'm gonna do it so I'll do it!!

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA!!

2010-12-01T12:58:00.000-08:00

A comic page from that comic I'm doing for senior studio. I hate it. And now my stab at color:

PLEASE SHOOT ME NOW.

Random Black Man

2010-12-01T12:48:00.000-08:00

A marker sketch I liked. I'm gonna re-do it and make it AWESOME. I even got a book on marker rendering. It should be in in a few days.

Semester Almost Over

2010-11-17T08:18:00.000-08:00

My bike I mentioned earlier got totaled when someone hit me. With their car. While I was on the bike. Five days after I got the bike. So that was a short bike stint. Also, that Photoshop that I bought I returned because I really don't have a use for it.My dad "helped" me to figure this out.
I have some stuff from this semester that I don't hate entirely:

and

And I am making a comic in senior studio (for which I am behind as usual) that I almost don't hate. Other people seem to like it. I might post it later.
Other than that, when this semester is over I have one more left.

Cera, Naked

2010-08-03T14:57:00.001-07:00

BIKE BIKE BIKE

2010-08-01T19:31:00.001-07:00

I just bought a bike from Meijers! I'm going to use it to go to work everyday now.

PHOTOSHOPPE

2010-07-31T17:15:00.001-07:00

I just bought an older version of photoshop for myself! Happy!

Gabe's New Joint

2010-07-28T09:44:00.000-07:00

Still fueled by my bizzare obsession with parkour and masks as evidenced in this fifteen minute sketch with markers:

PF Flyers Are The Shiznit

2010-07-21T06:56:00.000-07:00

A project from my summer class which I hate. But that's ok, because this shoe pattern design came out better than I expected.

They All Have Unibrows

2010-07-21T06:28:00.000-07:00

From last semester's class, character design.
I was given a short bio for Enrico Muri and had to design his grand visage! What a vision he is! I decided to take his story further and create additional characters, his nephews and neice.
Enrico lives with his parents, and he is going to recieve a large inheritance soon, BUT ONLY IF he proves himself to his mother by completing the Annual Circumnavular Airship Race. If he finishes, he recieves his mother's estate. His sister is also vying for the estate. She sends her sons and daughter to stow away on her brother's airship, in hopes that the children will sabotage Enrico's efforts. Hilarity ensues. Eventually, the children actually help their uncle win the race, insead of hidering him. (After all, Uncle 'Rico is the coolest!)
I added the second part. I thought it was appropriate.
Today is my 21 birthday. I have to work at Kroger.

Quick Life Drawings

2010-07-18T09:50:00.000-07:00

The Sculptress NA NA NA NA NA NA!

2010-07-03T13:58:00.000-07:00

I HAVE NO MORE PAINTING PROGRAM. My trial for SAI painter expired. So now I guess I'm GOING MANUAL, WEEOO!! I should go for photoshop elements.

This is the sculptress, for whom I have made up a story. She is an up and coming artist who has just won a major award for her sculpture. She gets contacted by the North Wind who wants her to sculpt a statue of him in one month. But the sculpture has to be made of air (because that's the only thing the north wind can take with him) and so the sculptress dispairs because she has no idea how to accomplish this task. And that's as far as I've gotten. I don't think I'll continue it... sadness!

2010-06-16T08:04:00.000-07:00

From my Conceptual Figure class last semester. We had to do one hundred figures for one week. The next week was hands, the next, feet, and the next, heads. I liked this assignment a lot, actually. I'm now SUPER BUMMED OUT that my Traditional Comics class was cancelled. I went to my first class of Fashion and Lifestyle Illustration and I am severely dissapointed, even though my hopes were not very high to begin with. SUPER BUMMED OUT. But I will do my best anyway and get a goddam A+.

Page Two

2010-06-10T12:06:00.001-07:00

Page 2 of that book I'm working off and on. A little crooked but you get the damn idea.

Summer Class Change

2010-06-10T11:59:00.001-07:00

My Traditional Comics class was cancelled (noooooooooooo!!) so now I'm signed up for Fashion and Lifestyle Illustration because it was the ony other illustration course I have not yet taken. I like fashion a lot, but I am in no way uber-feminine, which I suspect the whole class is. ARVELL JONES, YOU STABBED ME TO DEATH A THOUSAND TIMES!! I was really looking forward to that class...

This Book I'm Working On

2010-06-03T07:59:00.001-07:00

Page 1 and 2 of a book made COMPLETELY FROM FABRIC!! Pain in my ass. Stars my little twin cousins, Henry and Sophia.

Sorry for the horrible scan.

Big Teeth Man FUNNY

2010-06-02T09:02:00.000-07:00

2010-05-28T10:23:00.000-07:00

Some homework from last semester.

Gabriel and Jana Sketches

2010-05-25T15:36:00.000-07:00

I did a digital painting of two of my characters! Whee!

Juicy McJazz Junk

2010-05-24T09:03:00.000-07:00

Another awesome song to add to my own personal soundtrack:

Conservative Ravioli Is Sick of Your Liberal Shenanegans

2010-05-21T10:37:00.000-07:00

MSpaint is the hottest new old thing. I have declared it so.

...thoth this ith Thoth

2010-05-19T09:48:00.000-07:00

A quick sketch of the Egyptian god Thoth, done with SAI painter. SAI painter is a free cheapie program and it works like a free cheapie program! I hate it, but it's all I've got right now!

Junior Year Is Over

2010-05-11T17:11:00.000-07:00

This commercial is AWESOME.

Surreal

2009-08-16T16:31:00.000-07:00

I had a very surreal day today. I thought I should write it down so I can come back to it later for inspiration or whatever.

First I had a thought of the constrution on M-14, what if the lanes kept narrowing down until there were no more lanes left? Everyone would be stuck. And I thought, even if they put up signs saying that there would be a bottleneck and eventual blockade, people would still wait until the last minute to cut in front of me. This speaks badly of me also, because I would be sitting there too.

The second thing was when I came home and there were a few dozen blue post-its all over the floor. Like someone sneezed them.

hooplah.

Holy Cyan Jumpsuit, Batman!

2009-07-31T13:55:00.000-07:00

Yes, I bought one. BEWARE!!

Thought I should post, haven't in over a month now.

Don't have any drawings to post because I feel like the old folks on the proposed social healthcare plan: nothing to be salvaged.

I work about 35 hours a week and am raking in the MOOLAH but unfortunately it is the only human contact I get. So please call me and we can do lunch. I REALLY want to see Bruno or District 9, so call me and we can do that too.

REALLY.

I have lost ten pounds already, and I plan to lose twenty more. Then I will be buff. Then I will become a cat burgular and make national news for terrorizing the fancy people of Ann Arbor. (But they really deserve it because they're all snobby snob bastards.) And during the school year, I'll steal from the wealty in Detroit but find there are no wealthy people in Detroit and commute to Birmingham or Grosse Pointe instead. But don't tell anyone or I'll have to kill you. It's been a lifelong dream of mine. (To kill you.)

But I've got to do laundry, so ttyl!

2009-06-03T12:59:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of a shepard in Ramallah. Shepards in Palestine go pretty much anywhere. This here is in a neighborhood. In Bethlehem, a city that is surrounded by the separation wall, shepards cannot go out to fields so they lead their herds around empty lots in the city. In Jordan, Bedouins can be seen everywhere too. (Well, where we were anyway.) Some bedouins have camels, even! But the whole area is really westernized. The whole romanticising of Arabia is a bunch of crap.

dies

2009-06-03T12:27:00.000-07:00

OH MYLANTA I JUST DIED. You cannot COMPREHEND the extent of my joy right now. YOU CANNOT.

Anyways, I'm baking za'tar bread right now. If it comes out ok, I'll host an event where I make some and feed all you people at school.

And I'm still negelecting art right now.

The Futile Pit Scatters the Maintained Pope.

2009-05-25T17:51:00.000-07:00

I found this wonderful thing! I thought to myself,'I need a random word generator to help spark ideas,' so I typed into Google "Random Word Generator." LO AND BEHOLD there's a website that generates random words of varying occurrence, random phrases, sentences, and even random paragraphs! Algebraic! But I won't tell YOU where to find such a mystical font of knowledge, because you poopy-faces steal all my ideas! So don't you dare go to http://watchout4snakes.com/CreativityTools/Main/Main.aspx to facilitate your evil ways! Instead, watch this YouTube video:

By the way! That was the very least of all my most amazing ideas! So even if you take my ideas for your own, I have other ways I will keep myself busy for the summer. But I'm not telling you!! XP Poopy-faced lozer-pants!!
And my job will keep me busy while supplying me with sweet, sweet disposable income! I got a job at the local Kroger as a cashier. Not flashy! But I like cashieering because it has CASH in the title.

So I may or may not post the UNTOLD AWESOMENESS that I will not tell you about later in the summer. Sadly, I may not. You see, I am a 'lazy ass.' This is medical jargon for the complete inability to do, well, anything!

Ooh, look! A birdie!

Dildor!

2009-05-14T12:58:00.000-07:00

"I Feel Like...I'M Flying!!"

2009-05-13T18:08:00.000-07:00

Princess and Frog!!

2009-05-12T12:10:00.000-07:00

I'm So Honored You People Actually Read My Blog

2009-05-12T11:41:00.000-07:00

Hey, to whom it may concern! I've been back for a week and a half now, and I've moved back home. I've been searching for jobs, and if you know of anyone in particular who's hiring, tell me.

Jordan, Israel and Palestine were lovely! Myes. I particularly liked the Old City of Jerusalem and Madaba, Jordan. The sun there is totally different, it feels like it's closer, I swear! @#$*!! And there're no clouds, only a wierd haze. The air smells better than here, and it was definitely not desert. Not the sandsea, not even scrub desert. The No-Man's-Land was very stark desert, but where people lived it was arid cropland.

Anyway, if I brought you a souvenier, you got it already. I think. If you're waiting on a postcard, it may never come.

ASSASSIN'S CREEEEEEEEEED 2 is coming out this year!!!! AAAAAH AAAAAAH When I was in Jerusalem, I totally saw runners and I was all like AAAAAAH AAAAAAAH but yeah, really, I didn't. that was a lie just now. The new Assassin's Creed is set in Renaissance Italy, and the new character's name is Eizo. Which is sad, because I really liked Altair. i__i

I have nothing to show you! I only had five studio classes this entire year, and the peoples took most of it to be judged. This pisses me off because I do not have access to it. I should have properly archived them. This pisses me even more. But the real knife in my back: I'm not allowed to do any art. Whenever my mom catches me drawing (even if I've done all the chores she had me do) she bitches me out as "wasting my time."

This deep-seated fear of not doing what I'm supposed to be doing has been my #1 obstacle in my 19 years of living. I've been struggling with it for a long time now, but all my progress goes out the window whenever she is present. If you have an extra room in your house...

In short: I'm miserable. Please kill me.

Leaving Tomorrow

2009-04-19T18:13:00.000-07:00

I leave tomorrow (monday) at 7pm for Amman, Jordan. From there, I will be driving into Palestine. We're driving all over the West Bank for two weeks! I'll send you all postcards!

Further Anatomy Sketchbook Scat

2009-04-17T13:37:00.000-07:00

More to look at. I haven't finished my BIG ASS SKETCHBOOK but I have put some nice things in there. If you feel they are nice things. They could be nasty nasty terrible things. Nasty! I feel as if my priorities are out of place, but who really ever knows what they "should" be doing?

It's a LION. RAAARRRR

It's an oracle. RAAAARRRRRRR

STEEL BONNET

2009-04-01T09:36:00.000-07:00

Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh STEELBONNET!! My final project assignment for metalshop class. Wheeeeee! I made a helmet that only protects the front of your head! Occipital be smashed, who cares?? I put the emphasis on design. It wouldn't really work as a helmet. It is comfortable, but it's too heavy in the front. If you move our head too much, it falls off.

It's for METAL HEADBUTTS WHA-BAM

It fits MY head perfectly, if you must know. I bought the suede at JoAnn's and hand-sewed it, which was a pain in my ass! Then I used rivets to attach it. The metal is 16 gauge hot rolled steel. I designed it to look vaguely arabesque. (I have vacation fever!! I leave in 2.5 weeks!! EEE!!) The hoodie I am wearing, imagine it's chainmail. Okies?

I will sell it for 200 USD, so if you or anyone you know wants it, have them e-mail me at Iluvrocket@aol.com

(the computer is giving me trouble, and this is the only photo I can upload right now)

Ranting, Raving at the NECTO

2009-03-15T08:37:00.000-07:00

I have proof, that in the future, I will create a TIME MACHINE, time machine, time machine, time machine, time machine, time machine...

I was at the Norman Rockwell show at the DIA this weekend. And I have some pretty RAD NEWS. The one piece titled Artist Facing Blank Canvas (Deadline) was dedicated to two people, one being TORI and the other being some guy named Ben Hiller (who I suppose I will meet soon, haw!). Some may say the "i" in the name he wrote looks like a "j" but who ever heard of a person named Torj? What kind of name is Torj? It's the kind of name that doesn't exist. It's because the name written by Norman Rockwell himself was MY NAME, Tori. IT OBVIUOSLY MEANS I will build a time machine and bring Rockwell to 2009, and he will be my personal tutor in the arts of Illustration! Yeah. I know. Jealous, right?? WHAHAHAHAHAAAA

The Seduction of Construction

2009-02-27T12:54:00.000-08:00

This boy who wears the TURDS hat, I do not know his name. I suggested that he change TURDS to TURKS because it sounds so much cooler. Turkish kind of sounds like Klingon. Not that Klingon is a real language, but Turkish can be very gutteral and harsh-sounding. I would like to go to Turkey one day, but it is fascist, and you know how I feel about fascists. They can piss off.

This is Eugene Clark, he teaches Anatomy and is a magician. Me and some people I know took this photo and posted it all over the 3rd floor hallway last semester and it was happy good fun fun fun time.

But I have things to do so this will end my posts for today.

Stunshine

2009-02-27T12:42:00.000-08:00

There should totally be a level nine mage spell called 'stunshine' and it's like the sun, see? And it like, stuns everybody except the caster for TEN TURNS, see?? And there should be NO SAVING THROW. Those damn dragons and Bhalspawn are immune to everything, THEY SHOULDN'T BE IMMUNE TO THE AWESOME OF THE STUNSHINE. Schwing! But in the meantime, here is something I did for my Illustration and Design class. I had to convert this file into a crummy JPEG to fit on the site, so in actuality it looks crisper. Almost as crisp as a rice krispie treat. Damn Kellogs folks can't spell.

Parkour People

2009-02-26T10:55:00.001-08:00

This is a page from my Anatomy sketchbook I like. I printed out photos of traceurs and superimposed muscles and bones on them. I have no doubt some of them are wrong. n__n

I Don't Have An Opinion!

2009-02-26T10:16:00.000-08:00

This was for an assignment to create an editorial illustration for a magazine article. I did it last semester for Image Making I, but I just found it in my files... I did it in marker and ink, then gave it a background in Photoshop.

Fanciful Pantsiful

2009-02-25T20:51:00.000-08:00

I want fanciful pants!

Here are some things I did.

Oh wait.

I can't upload any images. It must be the computer, the time of day I'm at the computer, or the shit-tastic internets of lore that prevent me from doing so. Bards have the highest intrinsic lore, but they suck at fighting and magic and they can't wear anything better than chainmail. So you keep them around for when you need stuff identified, and they can just "poof!" look at it and tell you what that bastard sword +3, +5 against shapeshifters is.

But other than that, they're not useful. They keep dying. I had this really neat tiefling bard in my party, and he had, like, 70 lore, and his special ability was an offensive/defensive spin, and I found him some chainmail +3 that was specifically for bards, and he had some really funny audio... but he kept dying.

I will try to upload pictures later.

Theo Jansen Does Not Like Fascists

2009-01-05T18:35:00.000-08:00

What Theo Jansen has created amazes me. I am particularly interested in the reinvention of the wheel, I wonder what its applications in the commercial world are. The visual of the movement itself is disconcerting but natural at the same time; and I also like the sound it makes. I think it's lovely.

Piss Off Fascists

2009-01-05T15:25:00.000-08:00

Done from reference, but still far too aggrivating. I don't know if I spelled that right. The legs were too long, then they were too short, then they were too thin, then they were too long again, so I made them up. And I think now they are too short, but I posted anyway. Are they too short? I don't like drawing anymore.
I wanted to make his hands red with blood, but I have no red marker with me and I didn't have the heart to cut myself. Thank God!

Save Vs. Breath Weapon!

2008-08-04T09:59:00.000-07:00

Baulder's Gate EATS MY SOUL. It's been mysteriously uploaded on my computer... I have 90% chance to open locks! It's wonderful. Terrible... AND WONDERFUL...Glee!

I'm 19 Yesterday!

2008-07-22T11:07:00.001-07:00

Go me!

Blogblogblogblogblogblog

2008-07-19T17:29:00.000-07:00

You must friend me becase I have no friends.
(I attribut this too my horriblle speling.(

I will add pictures because they tell me to do this.

So here we go.

Boss at work comissioned me. Now she wants me to make a dog food label with the same image. Ok. Then the dog photographer wants me to make an image for her business cards. Ok. Then Mr. Kevin, dad's friend from college (wierdly, he teaches at CCS now) calls up and wants me to do a caracature of his son for his birthday. Ok. No. I'm busy. TIME FOR LOLCATZ.