Tuesday, March 9, 2010

New life drawing + art from this past fall, winter.



Did a sketchbook warm-up and had this handily available. Perhaps headed to the Leonardo Da Vinci show at the Vancouver Art Gallery today or tomorrow. Below are a collection of works I've done in the latter half of 2009. Including two digital paintings and a an ink drawing of a "Land Shark", a set of creatures/species created by Jessie Niessink that inspired me to create my own. One of the two paintings include a creature I created to fit into the nuclear post-apocalyptic environment of Pripyat, the abandoned Soviet city nearby the Chernobyl accident site.







Friday, March 5, 2010

Life Drawing - I

















1:Lawrence
Watercolour
60 minutes

2:Single line contour - right
6B Pencil
30 minutes
&
Woman with sphere - left
HB Pencil
20 minutes

3:Woman on stool
Conte
10 minutes



4:Woman standing
Chalk Pastel
5 minutes

5:Woman laying
HB Pencil
30 minutes

Thursday, March 4, 2010

A comic

One thing I've always wanted to do was publish a comic series based on a zombie apocalypse, not entirely based on gore and typical tropes of the genre but really focusing on the collapse of society. I dunno, it was a thought and i have full intentions to one day actually do something like that. If you are wondering about the dialog, well:

Dr. Konstantin Raudive published a book titled Breakthrough (1971) which was the collection of his works into EVP (electronic voice phenomena). What he did was leave a microphone in a soundless room and hit record. He later came back, picked up the microphone and analyzed the tape where upon review, revealed sporadic and faintly perceptible auditory events that, once slowed down and scrutinized, revealed themselves to be messages from the realm of the dead. Over a four-year period he recorded over 72,000 voices speaking in various European languages making blunt, imperative statements alluding frequently, repetitiously to sleeping and believing and reporting on the mundane conditions of the afterlife. The transcripts read as a series of non-sequiturs with little insight, information or visual description of the ethereal. What the characters above are saying is dialog recorded from Raudive's research.