12fps is a bastard, and so is this mook blinding us all with his shiny eggplant!

My mom's doggie, for my mom's birthday. Happy Birthday Mom!!!!!

Visualizing a setting from my story. Winsrr has just found a new home, and he's never going back into town, ever.

I moved to New York City (Yes you read that right! THAT only took twenty-nine years for me to do...) and haven't gotten around to setting up internet yet. I've been picking at the software that came with my drawing tablet while I wait to be reunited with Youtube. No internet is healthy yet maddening!

What what? What is this? It's not the reckless throwing around of ink you usually see around here...

Things have been totally fucked up. This is my first thing that's on my own in months. I've retaught myself some Flash and made a little Mook. He's running, which is way more than I can do at the moment.

I don't know why this took so long. Actually I do.... when you make a series, you create all these rules for yourself, so it's a closed system. But then you make that last one, and it's been a while since you thought about the system, and the piece is supposed to be a bit different than the others anyway, and you just trip over and over yourself just thinking of all the solutions to the visual problem that needs to be solved, wondering what the best solution is. How long can you make visual solutions before you know you've found the right one? Finaly, you just have to settle on something. SOMETHING. I stopped on this one, for the ring motif. But for some reason it was hard to wrangle into a good composition that fits into that said set of rules that makes a series a series.

But I think I have to change the beginning, now. The Fun-A-Day show is coming up on April 27, so I better have everything all organized!

Why I think I can make a graphic novel, I don't know...

Jilted Cloudscape With Tom Waits. Mixed media on 11x14 bristol paper.

While searching the internet for art things to go to, I saw a landscape painting by Matisse. Suddenly in my mind I saw an image of Tom Waits, singing/yelling, superimposed over it. A vision! But hell, I can't paint like Matisse.

I think it's time I showed "Circus"... Recommendation from here is to listen while you read.

 

  

 

  

 

Okay okay so it's not done yet. The last one's thumbnailed and ready to execute. I just haven't executed yet. Mostly I want to post it this way so Poodle Murphy doesn't get lost in the shuffle. She's got cool thighs.

Sorta a strange song to illustrate front to back, I know. I'm sorta a strange girl who illustrates, y'know.

Tom Waits #28.

He said "I'll never kiss a gun street girl again"...

Rar.

Tom Waits and Franz Kline are an odd but compatible couple. Photo does not convey how much ink and paint is caked onto this poor piece of paper. Not as much as a Kline painting, but more than what I usually do. This is #24. I'm almost done with a series of characters from his song "Circus", and realized I hadn't actually just drawn the actual man in a while. Thus: this.