fur-b-q doodles

[egypturnash]

I went. It was moderately amusing. Really gloomy skies gave it a subdued feel, for me. I doodled some crap in my own sketchbook, and not in anyone else's. Here is some of it.



I drew this weird thing. "He loves you!" I said in a weird voice, showing it to martes. "He loves you, Roz!" This explains the word balloon, if not the rest of the drawing.

The weird little floating head thing in the corner was done with a .3mm mechanical some guy had. .3mm. Shit. Breaks if you so much as sneeze on it. How can people use stuff that delicate and get any life in their drawings?

The owner of said pencil was saying he wanted to kill Michael Eisner for laying off 4k Disney animators the month he graduated from animation school. Welcome to the real world, kid. Boom, bust, boom, bust.


"I have no idea what I'm drawing sometimes," I said after perpetrating this gal with a butt Robert Crumb would be proud to drool on. "I just let the pencil go wherever it wants and make sense of what happens."

A kid watching asked if that meant I had a chaotic style, if I avoided construction. If you don't need it, really, for cartoon characters. "Yes you do. You only don't need to construct if you're drawing shitty Cal Arts style stuff like this."


"I just have lots of construction internalized from years of practice. When I need it, I can do it."

(Right arm's kinda disconnected, but not bad for something I was only halfway paying attention to.)


Also, when we stopped that the Ralph's for some ice, we discovered that the 40% off on 'Harry Potter and the Extra-Long Volume' that Roz had gotten was not just her local Ralph's, but every one. 40% off the hardback of the new book, plus a free medium pack of Oreos and a six-pack of Coke. It is to laugh. Wait in line for four hours outside a bookstore? Or buy it cheap, and get something to nibble on and drink while you read it? Who'd have guessed.

If they hadn't just run out of them (or so it seemed; there was no pile of hardbacks, just softcover editions of the previous four, and they replaced the '40%' off' sign with one directing you to get a raincheck from the cashier), I might've bought one just for the absurdity of buying it in Ralph's. For 40% off. With cookies and Coke thrown in. Even though I have no desire to own the book.

Comments

[milkpanzer.livejournal.com]

Waugh! You drew my Colossal Ass! o.o;

I preordered my copy of the new HP book when I ordered my copy of the fourth from Amazon. I suppose it'll be here Monday or so.

I think the standing-in-line thing has less to do with actually getting the book asap than with sharing a social experience with those who share your interest. Like a convention, really.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I could see the mini-con feel.

There wee enough Colossal Asses at the FBQ to serve as inspiration without needing to hark out to Washington. You may read the first part of that sentence any way you please.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

I want free Oreos and Coke! Maybe I should go down there tonight and get a copy, then use it to beat up the seeming thousands of people on my LJ friends lists who are obsessed with Harry Potter. Then I'll write some Harry Potter/Mnemora and Arial slash fanfiction. "Harry Potter and the Gaping Fistula."

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

"As you can see, Peggy is a gallant young lad!"

[zrath.livejournal.com]

Great.
Now I gotta go look up "fistula"...

Eeeeeeewwwwwwwww...

Zrath (Not a Harry Potter fan.)

PS: Well, okay, I saw the movies.

PPS: And I can do a pretty good Hagrid with only a trenchcoat and a fake beard.

PPPS: That's in addition to pants, shoes, a shirt and underwear, of course.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Does CalArts really have that bad a rep?

And you've seen Crumb, despite the ass, she's not really a Crumb wet dream if she's not wearing boots.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Cal Arts has recently been turning out grads who don't know anything about drawing solid; their focus lately has been on really flat designs. Dexter and Powerpuff are examples, but a lot of what you see in stuff like Spike & Mike is a good example, too.

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

I'm particularly fond of the lad at the end. He's quite pretty. :"D The big assed gal is pretty fun, too as she seems unaware of how big she really is. "My what? My ass? What about it?"

Dexter and Powerpuff don't rely on reality or solid drawing, I suppose, but at least they're entertaining. I'd rather watch them than most of the other tripe that Cartoon Network has produced since.

-T'