Guest post laura, allison spends 5 hours in an airport, and final project

whoops, forgot this one. put it in the category of me being at the airport for five hours.

These are laura's doodles from our scottish literature class. I really like them, especially when i look at them all together. Laura and jeremy said it reminds them of this artist (i have never heard of) whose art is directions. He writes directions and then other people make his art. anyways i am neither the child of architects nor an architect so i don't know who that is. but it reminds me of mondrian. At the MOMA michelle (abstract artist friend) said that he was looking for purity in lines.

So this is the part where I was stuck in an international airport for 5 hours. Its cool because i drew the whole time and i think you can see me getting a little better as time progresses.

This appeals exactly to my sense of humor. I don't laugh out loud when i read it but it makes me so satisfied.

This is my final for one of my classes. Its supposed to be a visual representation of the frame tale. I'll probably end up explaining it to you and some point. i'm a little obsessed. I REALLY procrastinated A LOT so i did it all in one day. So i feel like i could have done a better job on it. But the concept is good.

Love you all.

Help me title stuff.

What's up dudes?

Here is a quick photoshop thing I did, trying to learn more about photoshop, but I didn't really learn anything except that I still suck at photoshop. And I had to draw it with a mouse. I wonder what Tablets are like.

Anyway, this is good reference for their coloring, I suppose. I want the title of the comic on the black part, but I don't know how to make cool text in photoshop. And I don't know the title of the comic. Both those facts depress me.

Ok, here is my movie. It's also on youtube, here. (You should probably watch it on youtube, I just want to put it here out of faithfulness to the doodleblog, whom I love).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvxZQXX4yE

It's a little buggy from 0:10 to 0:16, I'm trying to put up a better upload...

So, yeah, I don't know if it even makes sense. I hope it does, but whatever. Practice is practice. I had to make it short and the characters simple, cause I only had like a month to work on it, and most of the work was done in the past 2 weeks. Hopefully I will get faster with the computer program (Toon Boom) as time goes on. The actual animating took less time the the fucking editing.

Help me come up with a title, and maybe some subtle music or sounds for the background.

This movie reminds me of Allison's "Mother/Daughter sandwich" story, but I didn't think about that till I saw it all finished yesterday.

I am a little amazed that I managed to make the grumbling stomach sound with my mouth.

Bees are nice, but Baby, this post is all about the birds.

Hey darlin's, mama's got some drawings for you.

Here is a watercolor of a train I did. It looks better in person, as watercolors always do. I like painting machines, oddly. It's relaxing.

Here is fanart of a character from my favorite book getting onto a train.

A statue from the Art Institute. She is Jeftha's Daughter, whoever that is, and she has these beautiful little white chubby fingers oh my god she makes me crazier then any real girl oh man.

A picture of Robin the fabulous. Thanks Allison, for inspiring me.

I need to do more of those Daddy's New Roommate pinups, I just haven't had the time.

This one is inspired by those classical statues of Venus at the Bath and Venus in the Act of Undressing.

I mean, this is OK, right? Robin is 18? And butts aren't illegal. I mean, they show baby bottoms in art for grandmas all the time. This is not a sentence most good people utter, but I need to learn more about underage erotica laws.

OK, so this is a little messy. It's just some clips from the movie, not in order. And the chick looks like a creepy ghost thing cause in front of it is going to be the nest. I did it with the nest, and it looked good, but while editing I need it to be gone.

My favorite is when the mama bird is catching the worm. Probably cause that is the only scene completely done.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAKOTA

Indian Russian Dolls

Some more Russian Nesting Dolls. Since it was Thanksgiving I had my annual Indian interest revival that my family is so susceptible to.

So these are characters from Iroquois mythology. (Religion? Is it not OK to say mythology? Cause some people believe it. I mean, you don't say Jewish mythology or something. Hmmm). Some of these characters are from stories I was told as a kid. But I just learned about some of them, like the brothers and the doll.

Here is the turtle that is the earth. I know it's stupid, but sometimes I still picture it this way. I used to really think this was a possibility.

His butt.

There are two brothers who made everything in the world, on good, one bad. I like this idea, cause of my Cain and Abel love.

So this is a detail of the good brother, who made everything good.

He looks like a girl, but I like that. He's pretty. P.S. I don't know what Iroquois clothes look like, I think they are more cloth rather then hide, but they are like the first people, so maybe they didn't know how to weave yet.

The brother who made everything bad. Eventually, the good brother kills him (Reverse Cain/Abel)!

He looks lame. But It's hard to paint small. This picture is bigger then the real thing, so it looks way worse. Hmm. Whatever. The first two you need to see in person cause you need to turn it in your hands.

Coyote. He is always fun. I like how sometimes coyote is a person, sometimes he is a coyote, and the stories never explain which one he is. He changes back in forth in your mind as the story goes on.

Raven is the same as coyote. They are the most fun characters, cause they are kind of assholes.

Corn Husk doll. Apparently she was so vain that someone stole her face. (I forget who. The Great Spirit or something). I don't know who the Great Spirit is... a person? An energy force? The turtle? It's just as confusing as the Holy Ghost. What the fuck is that?

Happy Belated Birthday Doodlewall!!

another t shit i made. this time its from a frank miller drawing in the dark knight returns. wearing this one tomorrow.

where we left off:

love you guys. also a poem we read in class today:

So You Think You Know Scheherazad

So you think you know Scheherazad

So you think she tells you bedtime stories

that will please and soothe,

invents fairy creatures

who will grand you wishes

Scheherazad invents nothing

Scheherazad awakens

the demons under your bed

They were always there

She locks you in with them

And when you struggle to escape from them,

and when you run

to the very end of the corridor, you find

that it leads only to another corridor

and every door you open is a false door

and suddenly you find yourself in a room

within a room within a room within a room

and suddenly you find yourself forced to meet them,

the demons she unleashes,

the terrors that come from

within you and within her

and suddenly Scheherazad is nowhere to be found

but the stories she unlocked go on and on--

This is the power of the telling of a story--

and suddenly you find yourself

swimming through the sea to the Reef of Extremity,

flying to the Valley of All that is Possible,

walking barefoot on a blade

over the Chasm of Flames,

landing in a field where you wrestle with Iblis,

whose form changes into your love

into Death, into knowledge, into God

whose face changes into Scheherazad--

And suddenly you find yourself

The poem is by Mohja Kahf and I like what it says about the nature of stories and the storyteller.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOODLEWALL!

The doodlewall is one year old today! Soon he/she will be potty trained and calling us mama.

Awww. (Sorry dudes, my biological clock is fucking going nuts. Every time I see a kid between the ages of 2 and 6 I go nuts and miss the siblings. Perhaps that's not the biological clock, maybe that's just homesickness).

Ok, so I attempted to do the "your dudes style" thing, and guess what.

Rachael, I hate you. Don't you know that this takes forever? My hand was so tired. But it was kind of fun, and I like how it turned out, but it's not as much like your style as I wanted. Something about it is still in my style, but I don't know what it is.

I mixed our style up by still drawing two dudes, but I gave them plausible gay deniability. Sure, they are kinda wearing faggy 30's-ish clothes, but they are not making out. Compromise. And I tried your hatching style I like so much, I think your lines are a little heavier, and you use less pure black... so its what our baby's style will be. When we have one together. Or 10.

These are supposed to be an attempt at Allison's style. It didn't really work so well. Basically it brought me back to the style I used when I used to doodle with Allison instead. These were really fun to do, but not like Allison. I still have to work on her style.

These are some fake blind contours, which I like when Allison does, but these look more like my style.

This is also my style from, like, sophomore year. But I tried to doodle in Allison's style. It's hard. I can't really pin down the difference in the way we draw/doodle. I know there is one, but I don't know what it is. Do you guys?

Comics comics comics... and some doodles!

So, here is the next page of Kurt's comic. It's kind of fun, but I am glad I'm halfway done. 6 more pages to go.

OK, I have been actually doodling now. I haven't been doodling for awhile, instead I have been drawing comics or little animation characters over and over and...
Anyway, I decided to just doodle, not think about what I was making and it was pretty fun. It brought me back to styles I haven't really done since senior year.

Another doodle of John Wayne and some animals.

A paint doodle. This was less doodle-y, cause I have a basic idea in mind, but try to keep it loose and mindless.

OK, more Cain and Abel comics. I still don't have a title for this thing. The super easy one would be "My/His Brothers Keeper," but I don't want that. Something biblical probably. There are two comics I love, whose titles I love, and try (unsuccessfully) to get inspiration done. One is "Goodbye Chains" which is about a communist trying to end capitalism, and it is set in the old west. So that is a badass title. The other one is called "Metanoia" which is a Greek word and wikipedia says: "metanoia is a rhetorical device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way." And the comic is about a second chance. I think that is pretty badass as well. Also, its a similar theme to my comic, the whole second chance thing.

Also, I can't put it online without a title... choices choices. Oh well, I haven't gotten far enough in to do that anyway.

Oh no! What a terrible page! What a dark place in my comic history. This is the page where Cain becomes attracted... to a girl. Eugh. And you know what is gross? Shit happens between them. Why do I do this to myself?

This is my desk/workspace. I like seeing you guys' area, so I thought I'd post mine. With my ink, and my paintbushes and my movies and stuff. Yeah. Look at that view. (You can't see much in the photo, but it is awesome.

Anniversary

tangent: this is the artist ibrahim el salahi of sudan.

he was at the johnson museum (at cornell) talking about his art.

I took a picture cuz i thought he looked really artisty in his little hat and all black clothes.

This is my workspace. Is it a creative mess or just a mess?

The dorm's built in movable desk light is actually really nice for drawing comics.

the doodle wall is turning one this thursday!

to celebrate i thought it would be cool if we drew in each other's styles. For example rachael would draw something in dakota's style and something my style, i'd do rachael and dakota's style, and dakota would do me and rachael. (take whatever sexual innuendos you want from that you immature perverts)

i don't think that the due date for this necessarily has to be this thursday but whenever you get it done.

I think the most fun thing about this will be seeing your style done by two other people. hahaha. okay. cool.

10 Dead Princes Part 6: Beheaded plus some comics and fanart

So, here is my 6th dead prince. This boy is beheaded (obviously), and I took the walls from the Queens houses in the Tower of London, where I went to at the height of my love for Anne Boleyn, and the Queens houses are where she stayed before she was beheaded. (Also, I stood where she was beheaded. It was a pretty amazing experience.

In fact, a big part of my dead prince inspiration comes from the Princes in the Tower, who were murdered in the Tower of London. Look at this beautiful painting.
http://tudorhistory.org/people/edward5/princes.jpg
I bought a postcard of that painting when I was 12, and have had it on my wall at home ever since. Kinda pedo, but I was like 12 at the time so it's OK. But I'm thinking of these kids a lot with the dead prince paintings.


This is fanart of Sherlock Holmes.

I love him so bad. I read all those abridged kid books about him when I was little, but never read the real ones. I should get to that.

I just saw "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," where they strongly imply that Holmes is a homosexual, and he explicitly states that he and Watson are in a sexual relationship (however, he is lying to get a woman to leave him alone). But when Watson confronts him about it... it was a great scene as only pre-sexual revolution movies can deliver.
Now that everything is accepted and legal and stuff, there is a huge lack of subtlety. It's worth it, but I miss how authors used hints and codes, an undertone of shame, and nothing was explicitly stated. (Like in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which I can never stop myself from referencing. Sorry).

I love book Watson. He's so cool. Movie Watsons are always dumb, for comedic effect.

Here are the next couple of pages of the comics I am doing for that guy. To be honest, I was not impressed with what he gave me in terms of story. (Horrified, was more like it). But I feel I was able to pull out a skeleton of a story, and build on it.
He wants me to keep working on his other short stories after I'm done with this, but I think I am going to say goodbye to him after we finish this collaboration. I mean, I just dont have the energy to work hard on something I am not passionate about. The reason I can do my own comic is I keep thinking "This is one more page untill they make out. One more page." (Just kidding, kinda).

No, the story is not realistic, so it's OK that there is a patch of grass in between two buildings and stuff, and that there is nobody on the street. It's supposed to be kinda surreal, but it doesn't get really surreal for a couple more pages.