This is both a quickie and an expansion of an older work. It is expanded off of a tiny drawing I did for a workmate (I've been drawing her a 'weekly monster' for about 8 months). At the time, she'd said it was the very creepy. This may be the grossest thing I've drawn since this.
It felt a bit weird to do, but I think that unreal things (like abulatory, blade-weilding teddies) are scary in a different way than, say, characters from a Rob Zombie film . An unreal evil, you can imagine what it'd be like, but in your heart you know it isn't a real threat. The new 'gorenography' films portray ordinary-looking people doing nasty things. It's too easy to believe that such things can happen in real life.
That's why I'd do an abulatory, blade-weilding teddy leaving bloody footprints, but never, ever a regular guy in jeans and a t-shit. Call me a wimp, but it creeps me out to even imagine drawing that scene...
The work itself was a quickie because I did the final pencil in my sketchbook at lunch, inked it at home with an 01 Micron. Since my scanner is down (stupid ac adapter, breaks after 7 years of being dropped over and over!), I had to photograph it with a very old digital camera.
I'm still not great at coloring. I'm still concentrating on growing my linework skills right now, so this will have to do for the moment.
So... BOO!
Also, last weekend the art supply store (with no website) that my wife (STILL FEELS WEIRD!) assistant manages hosted 24 Hour Comics Day! I'd suggested it as a good thing for the store to do, especially as the nearest one was being hosted +60 miles away. We had 11 participants including three kids. It was... not easy. It was, however, fun. Fun in that, "this is my first mountain bike race in a decade" sort of fun. I managed 11 pages and that was average for the group. The only one to complete 24 was a retired art teacher/professional cartoonist.
So, want to see what I look like? The local weekly paper Seven Days (a cool, free paper that does real news and actually has well-written articles) has a video blog and the video-blogger-girl stopped by around midnight, I think? We were all pretty loopy by then. I'm the guy who uses the phrase "It sounds cheesy". Yup, that's me.
The work is... not bad. Not great, but not bad. Worth expanding into a real story (that someone else needs to script. Anybody?).
listening to while posting: "The World is a Very Scary Place" by The Gothic Archies from 'The Tragic Treasury'. Funny how apropos that is...
2 comments:
Love the horrific teddy bear; looks like he could be the new chucky only better! ;). I think the layout in this piece is very strong. The lines and colors keep drawing the eyes back to the center.
As for the 24-hour comic event, it looks like you had fun… despite getting tired. I’m glad they sent a reporter cause now I know what you look like. I hope we get to see what you worked on sometime!
thanks for the crit.
I'll be posting the work as soon as I get a new ac adapter for my scanner.
It will be posted in its pristine state. No colors and no changing of anything. It is fun to see how rushed it is and how my style and lettering degrade as the hours tick by.
The reporter at the 24CBD was cool. She plans on actually participating next year.
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