۞ that thou art ۞

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:36:00 +0000

10 min-ish, colored pencil

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:01:00 +0000

colored pencil + photoshop, <10 min. total

muscles of the elongated skull

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:14:00 +0000

quick pen sketch + wacomdoodle

from sketchbook

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:13:00 +0000

Saturday Life Drawing 11/24

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:37:00 +0000

colored pencil, watercolor

Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:35:00 +0000

Jeff, pen

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:42:00 +0000

crappy chess animation

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:22:00 +0000

maya, 1-2 hours

This is an idea I was working on for a chess game. I spent a little over an hour on it, and at this point the idea got vetoed in favor of another idea I was working on. No sweetening or overlap passes, just rough keyframes. The idea was to have two guys jousting, one knocks the other off, etc. Unfortunately I didn't get that far. Still, I figured it was a decent "sketch" that I could post, since I haven't been able to post any drawings in a few days. Probably the main reason I never post any work-related stuff is that almost everything I've done is copyrighted and unreleased, which is kind of a no-no.

NOTE: sorry for the lame compression and everything. I'm looking into how to edit the settings for this Blogger Video thing, hopefully I can repost a better resolution and frame rate.

git er done

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:48:00 +0000

random dude from hunting magazine, pen, 10 min

Saturday Life Drawing 10/25/08

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:33:00 +0000

pen, 5 min

pen, 10 min

pen, 30 min

pen, 30 min

More life drawing. Thanks for coming by.

sketch

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:05:00 +0000

pencil sketch

Jeez I suck. Oh well, just trying to get back to a drawing a day.

Saturday Life Drawing is Back

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:55:00 +0000

Dave, 5 min, colored pencil

Dave, 10 min, colored pencil

Dave, 45 min-ish, watercolor and ink

Thanks to Wes for getting the free Saturday life drawing sessions going again. There was a really good turnout. These drawings are pretty bad...this is the first life drawing session I've been to in over 2 years I think...maybe more.

me and my oily mouth

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:42:00 +0000

mouth study, oil on linen, 8x10, work in progress

Q: Joey, wass this?
A: This is another anatomy study, a mouth, this time in oil.

Q: How come?
A: Well, a couple of weeks ago I started experimenting with oils, and I thought some anatomy studies would be good practice. This is my second attempt at painting with oils. Like, ever.

Q: Is it finished?
A: No. This is after two 30-60ish minute sittings. In the way that I've been working, you basically do a drawing with the paintbrush in the first sitting: laying out the forms and shadows in a mid-dark value. Then you let the paint set up- for a day, a week, whatever. Then with each additional setting you come back and lay in more detail, more values, etc. It's actually pretty nice, because you are more or less forced to take things one step at a time, and it's hard to make mistakes due to getting ahead of one's self (a big problem with me). I say "usually," meaning, based on my experience of doing it that way twice. Anyway, yeah, it's a work in progress.

Q: You crazy.
A: I must apologize for the poor picture quality. This is, obviously, a cell phone picture. And not a picture from a nice cell phone like Keeler's where you can watch ~~porn~~ educational videos in high definition, but my old cell phone that doesn't even have ~~teledildonics~~ a qwerty keyboard. I plan on buying a decent digital camera soon to better document stuff like this. Also, this is small enough that I can scan it, but I can't do that until I'm done and I let the paint dry for a few weeks. Check back soon for more updates.

Q: What are you doing in the meantime?
A: Other than working 45-50 hours a week?

Q: Uh, yeah.
Well, honestly...at the moment I'm trying to feel some kind of empathy for that yuppie guy that killed his family in California.

Q: Really?
Yeah. I mean, everyone knows that I can't stand yuppies, that I feel that they proudly represent everything that is standing in the way of peace and progress and happiness on earth. But still, I am determined to stand upon some base level of humanity, in order to feel the pain of this tragedy. It's easy to say that this man only got what was coming to him (by that I mean his personal financial issues, not his death). That anyone involved in rampant, material speculation should rationally expect the pendulum to swing the other way sometimes. That business, by nature, is a process in which one's great gains are only made possible through great losses elsewhere in the system. It would also be easy to point out that this man's future, after "losing everything," would certainly be no worse than the situation that I, my friends, family, and practically everyone I have ever known have been in their entire lives. I've never known the kind of wealth that this man took for granted- took as a matter of life and death apparently. However, he was a human being, breathing the same air that we breath, warmed by the same sun, driven by the same kind of anxieties and fears. I'm certain that when he was first smitten with young love, it probably felt pretty much the same as when such a thing happens to you or I. In that light, it is a bit more difficult to judge, and easier to feel empathy.

Q: Do you think that this 'yuppie' would have granted you these assumptions?
A: No.

Q: Why, then, do you come to these conclusions?
A: "I suppose it has something to do with being able to look oneself in the mirror." - Noam Chomsky

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:27:00 +0000

ink and watercolor sketch

mAPPLE_THOR(N)pe

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:47:00 +0000

ink sketch from photo, 5 min

This is another one of those where I was headed to bed and thought to myself- "I need something to post tomorrow!" So I sat down and did this quick thumbnail from a Robert Mapplethorpe photo that I had in a book that was sitting around. I remember reading an interview with Patti Smith about a time that Mapplethorpe gave her her first hit of acid, and they walked around New York during this huge garbage strike and there was garbage piled up everywhere and she freaked out. Sounded pretty heinous. That story always makes me think of the time that I was in Texas with some friends, and we brewed a big pot of thornapple leaves, drank the tea and then proceeded to have unspeakably surreal hallucinations for 2 days. Precognition, retrocognition, psychokinesis. I had a fairly in depth conversation with an old friend that had died 2 years earlier. Wild. Tropane alkaloids are really like nothing else on Earth, and I think the proper attitude one should have towards them is fear. I think the only reason that the Patti Smith story brings the Texas thing to mind is that Mapplethorp kinda sounds like thornapple, and, well, a freakout is a freakout.

blog from the dead

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:28:00 +0000

mouf study, ink and watercolor, 5-10 min.

I did this one in the last 5 minutes or so before bed last night. I had just gotten done putting colored ground on some new canvasses, and I thought to myself "I gotsta put something on that blog." Jeez, it's been almost 2 months. Well, I'm going to try to get back up to a post a day. I told you guys I'd be out for a while, but I didn't think it would be that long. Anyway, thanks for coming back. As I'm typing this, I overheard someone out in the hallway say "It's only pain, we can work through that." Awesome. That's the theme of the day, friends.

mind of persia concept

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:26:00 +0000

Last night I was inspired to do a painting based on the concept of Persian identity in Iran. I did a few quick, rough thumbnails, about 2"x1" or so to develop the idea. This was the one that I felt best captured the concept.

Zoroaster boy

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:55:00 +0000

boy in Zoroaster Center, ink and watercolor sketch, 15 minutes

I asked the boy for some wisdom of the prayer book from which he was reading and he said "Fire is the sun unwinding itself from the wood." No joke.

Light

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:50:00 +0000

guruji, watercolor and ink sketch, 30 minutes

I met my guru in an airport in 2003. I was walking along with a big backpack on, and out of the corner of my eye I saw an old man that looked very strange to me. He had golden brown skin, a mark on his forehead, and what in my naivety I thought was middle eastern dress. As a young man fresh out of Kansas (the naval of ignorance), such were the limitations of my knowledge of the world. He walked up to me with his hands in namaskara and said "Ah, my student!" Of course, I was taken aback. After staring blankly for a moment, I managed to get out "uh...I'm sorry, I'm not-" and the man cut me off with "Yes, but you will be! Soon!" The man did a strange little bow and walked away. I wasn't really sure what to think. Over the next couple of years I was surprised when I began to see the man's face on the covers of magazines and books. A series of strange coincidences finally coalesced into a singularity when, several years later, I found out who the man actually was and discovered that, strangely, I had recently and somewhat absent-mindedly become a student of his tradition and had just began studying under a few of his disciples. Stranger things involving yogis have happened to me since then, but I will certainly never forget this encounter.

meeting minutes

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:33:00 +0000

John in tha Meeting, 2 minutes, pen

Naoyuki Tsuji

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:43:00 +0000

experimental animator Naoyuki Tsuji, pen and photoshizzle, 30 minutes

Meeting Minutes

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:54:00 +0000

Steve and Matt, Gel Pen, less than 1 minute

Brain Droppings

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:15:00 +0000

pen, 15 min.

Bad Form

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:20:00 +0000

colored pencil, 10-15 min.

This one's pretty heinous. I sketched it out of my head in between loads of laundry. This is a great example of what happens when your drawing skills atrophy. The rendering isn't god awful, for a 10 minute sketch. That kind of "muscle memory" takes a long time to completely go away. But everything else (lighting, composition, etc.) is very weak, and the proportions in particular are WAY OFF. I've always had a weird issue with facial construction, in which the area from the eyebrow ridge down to the bottom lip basically ends up scaled up about 20% and rotated about 15* out away from the main facial plane of the skull. This one suffers from that pretty bad. Not having a model or reference will accentuate these issues. Oh well, I wasn't expecting to get much of anything done this week, and you know what I say about bad drawings vs. no drawings.

Currently listening to Nick Cave (just bought tickets to the Ogden show, woohoo!).

the jawbone of an ass

noreply@blogger.com (joey) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:14:00 +0000

So...this week I am expecting the first of a month long stream of visitors to my crib. Do to this, I probably won't be able to post many drawings over the next couple of weeks. I'll do my best. For any of my bloggerlovers (pssshhhh - blogger please) that live in Denver, you might be aware that T-Cloud is coming to town:

http://denver.craigslist.org/m4w/755159528.html

Karka Sankranti is passing and tomorrow is the first day of Dakshināyana (दक्षिणायन). It is the time when the kite string pops. A time of going-under. The nighttime of gods. Some things I could have done without during the Uttarāyana (उत्तरायन):

fake buddhists
fake mystics
fake EEE ES PEE
the shallow
the boring
the bored

...mostly the shallow

O, this Kali Yuga. I will spend the next few weeks contemplating this period and the next. The Uttarāyana will no doubt be a time of evaluating personal relationships. Thanks to Jack, Wes and Christine for making me smile every day in 2008 and never bumming me out.

Currently listening to the new Girl Talk album.