aethiopicus

hey everybody i finally got around to posting aethiopicus on youtube, so here it is! stay tuned,... part two will be here shortly...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmJzh6w-9mM

spring studio day 3

these are some 2 and 5 minute poses. I like short poses so much.

spring studio day 2

5 min.10 min.
5 min.
35 min.

this last one has some obvious problems, as minerva pointed out, but she also said that it was put down with a vigor. that might be the nicest thing she's said to me in two years!

spring studio

hey yall, i built a table!

One thing I have learned from this project is this: Only strive for symmetry on the macroscopic level. In pursuit of perfection, you will enrage yourself and surely fail. It is much easier to accept that a piece of wood is not straight, and find a mate that comfortably fits its curves.

hey yall, i'm building a table!

sketchbook

drawing is fun and relaxing and nice. for a certain amount of time you cannot go anywhere else. it is like a wormhole in your day and the scheduling pressures are at least momentarily relieved. this allows you to release your anxieties and subconscious feelings without feeling selfconscious that someone is looking over your shoulder. growing up i remember that i did most of my heavy thinking and math homework on the toilet. i also remember one time when my mother tried to train our cat to use the toilet. needless to say that didn't work.

flashy

all summer long i've been interning at augenblick studio working on their awesome new show superjail, which should be on adult swim in october. unfortunately i can't show any of it here, but instead here is something i did inbetween assignments (no pun intended, aha).

andrew? hi buddy

when i was visiting my grandpa in connecticut, i found this cool book about australia. australia is really strange looking and has lots of alien like deserts. I wouldn't be surprised if zacharia sitkin has some crazy theories about the aboriginal peoples.

figure drawing defiled by cartoons

visual developement

the other night I watched this really fucking crazy film called The Cell (2000). I don't remember it getting much attention, perhaps because it is really disturbing and the plot and casting is sort of wonky. Regardless, the art direction on this film is absolutely stunning, and has left visceral memories in my head. One artist IMDB sited as visual influence is a very talented painter named Odd Nerdrum.
Growing up in the height of modernism and pop art, Odd's pursuing of old master techniques made him somewhat of an outcast. Some of his influences are Rembrandt and Goya.
I also posted this horn player guy by Zdzislaw Beksinski because he has a similar mood and fantastic rendering skills .

Barn Owl space scientist

this guy's outfit was very heavily influenced by the talented fashion illustrators Steven Broadway and Richard Rosenfield. And of course Peter Chung.

bugz

(these images are all copyrighted by the way)

happy father's day

a good day at the museum

today i went to the metropolitan museum. if you haven't seen the new superhero exhibit, you should definately check it out. unfortunately i wasn't aloud to take pictures and i didn't feel like drawing them because it was really crowded with 12 year old boys, but the show also appeals to sartorialists with edgy superhero inspired fashion.
the met is a great place to draw because the statues don't move or complain, ortake breaks and eat doritos like stupid models do.