This painting is so, so brandywine school. And hey this one actually has a title! Queequeg Leaves His Father. Queequeg and I both abandoned all contact with our fathers to make ourselves stronger and spiritually bigger, so I wanted to make a nice finished illustration for his moment. His father isn't even in the picture. That's just how OVER Queequeg is with his life on Kokovoko. As for me, let's hope I don't end up drowning in a whirlpool of a giant whale's rage.
From the beginning, I wanted one of my Queequegs to be animated.
You can view the full thing here.
This one probably took the longest. I would add a frame or two during my lunchbreaks at work. This is my first attempt at animating anything by hand.
It was tedious, but you know what the BITCH of it all was? Figuring out how to string it all together and make it DVD-able on the computer. But the awesome thing: Even though I'm poor and don't have Flash like everyone else out there who thinks he's an artist, I can still make me some cartoons!
Nah, this isn't a real dollar. I'm too cheap to do that.
This one, Queequeg #31, was greatly influenced by Matt Kish's insanely insane One-drawing-for-every-page-of-Moby-Dick Project, which he has recently finished. My hat's off to him! I patiently await for the book.
More information on the Fun-a-Day Final Show can be found here.
A couple of people have asked me which character I'll do for next year's Fun-a-Day. I really like the suggestion of Fyodor Karamazov-a-day so far!
This is the second Queequeg I made. It's inked right into my sketchbook, so the paper's a little warpy. When I started Queequeg-a-day I was worried about all the boat anatomy I'd have to draw, but as it turns out I had nothing to worry about.
More to come…
