sketchbook

[egypturnash]

This is from a night hanging out with Bill and Evan a little after the con where I filled up another quarter of that same little sketchbook. Gods, I rip through these things sometimes.


Self-portrait idea. Which has probably been done, thematically, more than a few times before - I seem to recall a W. D. Barlowe self-portrait along these general lines. Taking off the human mask to reveal raw shimmering diagonal abstraction is probably very much mine, though.

I lost it on the lower hand and if I do anything with this I'll have to do massive reworks to that part of the sketch. I like it a lot, though.




This one didn't scan very well but it just makes me laugh. ROYAL RAINBOW! BLAAARRRFFFF.




So I was sitting there drawing this Peter Elson/Roger Dean explodey tech-diagonal slash semi-pinup...


...when Rik said "Draw me a yiffy vixen, Peggy!" When I pointed out what I was doing just before he said that, and he saw what his request got, he was apologetic.




Escheresque: High and Low plus Concave and Convex plus... I dunno.



This one was done around the Prismacolor bleed-through from the previous image.


Coat full of spacescape flowing out feels like something I saw a zillion times in my youth, too. I still like it.


And what's a pile of spider drawings without weird, skittery poetry stuck in a word balloon and given to a many-armed robot chanteuse to sing?

Comments

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Show me a pill that makes me as happy as that Broken Yiffy Vixen, and I'll show you my new best friend for the decade. o.O

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, no-one has yet invented a "Be Drawn By A Giggling, Demented Cartoonist" pill yet.

[paka.livejournal.com]

I like the spindly pen stuff more than I like the pencils, actually. Not sure why.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Really? I tend to feel like the pencil stuff is usually better by far in terms of construction and being a good drawing. I spent a lot of last year drawing direct in pen like this, and I could feel some of my solidity slipping because I couldn't make any preliminary marks. But the pen stuff does have a certain energy to it.

[devibunnie.livejournal.com]

you're pretty cool. i'd like to watch.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Thanks; feel free!

[luoto.livejournal.com]

Very nice Sci-Fi-feeling in these images!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

More and more, I feel like I'm regurgitating everything I ever found pretty and cool in my life. All the cheesy SF art and imagery I grew up inhaling.

Is it escapism, or is it reclaiming? Where am I going with this stuff - or am I just wandering around in me memory?

Maybe I'm just down on myself because the back of my mouth tastes like billions of tiny deaths, as my body clears the last of this cold out. Pardon my art angst. *grin*

[luoto.livejournal.com]

Personally I am very fond of old-fashioned, Flash Gordon-type SF. The more modern and technically correct SF imagery tends to be dull and boring. I also love the 19-century style used in illustrations for Jules Vernes books. Some of Your work reminds me of this,(I see fins, antennas and cooling grids, lot of crazy and fun technology!)

It might be escapism or reclaiming, but I think You draw like this beacause it is fun!
(Please continue...)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've done things deliberately contrasting stylized, fantastic SF imagery with more "sensible" imagery. I'm much more influenced by the older stuff because it's just fun to draw - you don't have to even pretend that things make sense, you can just throw on another fin for entirely compositional reasons.

I'm not about to stop! I just had a weird little moment of asking why I draw it.

[furikudanji.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I like this batch a lot. You do the kind of sci-fi I really enjoy. Quirky, kinda retro, exotic and a little erotic. And smart, too.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I've been filling my head with images of the Future for thirty years now. It all has to come out somehow!

I guess I had my fill of gloomy, all-too-realistic dystopias a while back; what seems to come out now is a wry sort of reconstruction of the creepily-optimistic futures of the turn of the last century. I'm done expecting nothing but the worst; I want to envision a future that's fun. And pretty.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Why, pray tell, is there a familiar-looking mask behind that vixen?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. It just happened. I think I wanted to give some kind of redeeming quality to that image.