bus and work doodles
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egypturnashFrom Friday and today. Or was it Thursday and today?
Pen scrawlings from either last Thursday or last Friday. I'm not sure. I was pretty wiped out, and having a bit of the 'this is the start of a new book, it's gotta be GOOD!' blues.
If this was based on anybody on the bus, it's pretty tenuous. There was an attempt at a front view of this above it, but it sucked, so you don't get to see it unless you break into my apartment and steal this sketchbook. Mechanical pencil, since the batteries in my sharpener are dead.
I was working on an animatic in Final Cut Pro. Since my machine is not equipped with any video cards designed to speed this process up, this involved a lot of little waits for a progress bar as it constantly 'prepared video for display' with every tweak. Each of them was just long enough that I'd decide to doodle. It'd always speed up about halfway through the bar, so I'd finish off the doodle while the computer was waiting for me, instead of the other way around. [ Looking at these on LJ, I realize that they'd probably work as user icons. If you wanted to be really confusing and cryptic. ]
I've been doing weird fashion experiments in my doodles sometimes, lately. This is one.
During lunch, we watched 'Pumping Iron', a documentary on the 1975 Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition. Mostly it focused on Aaahnold and Lou Ferrigno. Arnold is a cunning, manipulative bastard; there's one bit where he has breakfast with Ferrigno's family the morning before the competition, and dazzles the somewhat quiet and slow-seeming Lou into kinda giving up. Arnold won that year. Anyway, most of these bodybuilders start looking the same really quickly, except for their heads. This is inspired by watching a bunch of oiled-up man-mountains flex, with cheesy 70s music over it all.
Weird fashion experiment. If I did an adaptation of 'Count Zero', somehow I suspect this is what Bobby Newmark would end up looking like.
I need to remember to put the recharged batteries in my pencil sharpener tomorrow morning. A #2 Ticonderoga pencil is the medium I've been most comfortable doodling with lately, by quite a lot, but I like to have a point on it. Mechanical pencil is a good medium when you're twelve and bored in maf, but not when you're... um... Older. Leave it at that. And on the bus to work. I also like to use the side of the point a lot now, and a mechanical pencil makes that impossible.
Pen scrawlings from either last Thursday or last Friday. I'm not sure. I was pretty wiped out, and having a bit of the 'this is the start of a new book, it's gotta be GOOD!' blues.
If this was based on anybody on the bus, it's pretty tenuous. There was an attempt at a front view of this above it, but it sucked, so you don't get to see it unless you break into my apartment and steal this sketchbook. Mechanical pencil, since the batteries in my sharpener are dead.
I was working on an animatic in Final Cut Pro. Since my machine is not equipped with any video cards designed to speed this process up, this involved a lot of little waits for a progress bar as it constantly 'prepared video for display' with every tweak. Each of them was just long enough that I'd decide to doodle. It'd always speed up about halfway through the bar, so I'd finish off the doodle while the computer was waiting for me, instead of the other way around. [ Looking at these on LJ, I realize that they'd probably work as user icons. If you wanted to be really confusing and cryptic. ]
I've been doing weird fashion experiments in my doodles sometimes, lately. This is one.
During lunch, we watched 'Pumping Iron', a documentary on the 1975 Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition. Mostly it focused on Aaahnold and Lou Ferrigno. Arnold is a cunning, manipulative bastard; there's one bit where he has breakfast with Ferrigno's family the morning before the competition, and dazzles the somewhat quiet and slow-seeming Lou into kinda giving up. Arnold won that year. Anyway, most of these bodybuilders start looking the same really quickly, except for their heads. This is inspired by watching a bunch of oiled-up man-mountains flex, with cheesy 70s music over it all.
Weird fashion experiment. If I did an adaptation of 'Count Zero', somehow I suspect this is what Bobby Newmark would end up looking like.
I need to remember to put the recharged batteries in my pencil sharpener tomorrow morning. A #2 Ticonderoga pencil is the medium I've been most comfortable doodling with lately, by quite a lot, but I like to have a point on it. Mechanical pencil is a good medium when you're twelve and bored in maf, but not when you're... um... Older. Leave it at that. And on the bus to work. I also like to use the side of the point a lot now, and a mechanical pencil makes that impossible.
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Date: 2003-05-19 11:28 pm (UTC)I've considered trying to sketch the Projects girls (I can't remember their names). The descriptions given make me think of 80's Prince fans. :D
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Date: 2003-05-20 09:03 am (UTC)Yeah, the costuming Gibson described in 'Count Zero' was pretty damn eighties. Bobby scavenged a t-shirt with a hologram on it, but the overall ensemble was still stuck in the eighties. Gibson's definitely not an author you read for costumeryl it felt kind of weird for him to give more than a vague handwave about an outfit.
After I scrawled one of the other sketches presented in this entry, I thought to myself 'gee, he fits the description of the Finn.' You can probably guess which one if you look, although I didn't do the buck teeth.
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Date: 2003-05-20 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-20 10:28 am (UTC)(yes, I'm easily amused)
You're lucky you can come up with cool costumes. All my characters get stuck wearing suits or Tshirts because I can never come up with anything interesting.
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Date: 2003-05-20 10:43 am (UTC)I drew nothing but t-shirts on my stuff for a long time. Then I started drawing the people I see on the bus, caricaturing both them and their outfits; now I'm starting to have a vocabulary to play with in terms of costuming.
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Date: 2003-05-20 01:26 pm (UTC)One that didn't have kirby dots around it and little worb worb wrob sounds.
One that wasn't surfing.
One that wasn't winged and facing a duplicate across the top of the ark of the covenant.
One that wasn't dressed like jumpsuit elvis.
One that wasn't waddling in terror as fast as it could roll on its nads away from The Attack Of The Fifty Foot Cock.
Gods I love Paka. I need to hug him when he gets home.
and cute cocklette.