Been trying to use photoshop to color in some Moleskine pages. I haven’t quite got a good method to working it yet, but its pretty fun
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colorize it
Friday, January 15th, 2010stackem n Packem
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Word play
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Im a fan of anyone who can turn a phrase well, whit, vocab, irony… I read at a 3rd graders level but i love the word, solo or in a string. Some times a phrase appears in patterns randomly and they are stuck in my head. Usually I try to ignore them. Other times i try using them so heavily others around me pick them up so i can set them down…
sometimes 20 minutes in illustrator can work it out of my system, while providing a record of the phrase incase, against all odds it can be put to proper use in the future…
“Here to stay”, marks a permanence, suggestive of commitments in the long term. Here, on the spot, to stay. “here to stray”, i came here to to go away, to leave? or to Go a way, non specifically, a way in general…
Pull it, Pull ‘it
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Silk Scarf & knee high socks
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Page on the right was done on the way to work this morning, the page on the left was done on the way home Friday last after work. Ole Boy was wearing a camo baseball cap but after settling himself and checking himself out in the reflection of the window, no less then 8 times he took the hat off, luckily i wasn’t vary far along so it didnt make for a huge visual distraction as can be the case when your subject decides to move mod drawing.
On the subject o school uniforms, im all for them except when that uniform is also the uniform of choice for Strippers, and whores. What is pious and humble about mini skirts and knee high socks, leaving a large swath of teen-age thigh screaming for attention. There is nothing wrong with a mini skirt, but in my opinion its not school appropriate attire. I am not of the opinion that men are so weak minded they cant or shouldn’t be expected handle a lil flesh saying hi; however flesh leaping out may not be the most effective first impression. Dave Chappelle has a bit in ‘killing them softly’ ( a stand up show), about the dangers of having your identity confused. He used as an example the scenario of him, dressed in a policeman uniform being mistaken for a cop. The bottom line he declares, “if you dont want to be mistaken for a whore, dont wear a whores uniform”. That being said, what was the decision process like amongst the administration of a catholic school on deciding that the mini skirt was appropriate gear to love the lord and get a good well rounded education in. Were there factions? Did the ‘below the knee’ crew square off with the younger hipper, image conscious ‘8 inches and Knee highs’ posse? I mean really whats wrong the skirt to the calf? Does that radically effect the level of lesson retention? Im not advocating the Berka, but now that its been mentioned…
One Good thing about Music…
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Type type:
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
fun with type… sort of…
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Ego and the id(iot)
Playing around with the type paths and blended objects. Def endless possibilities. second from the bottom i like as it feels almost watercolor-ish to me and thats a cool thing since its all vector.
Its pretty awesome, that I’m and IDIOT kinda of way, that i made it through 4 years of college proudly not being able to turn a computer on, let alone make it do shit. If some had just mentioned it wasn’t going to be a passing phase like the calculator watch (which i9 was sure was gonna take off big!) I might have taken a bit more of interest. Oh the blinding ignorance of the self assured youth… I can now 95% of the time turn the computer on so i got that going for me!
its gold jerry.
Monday, August 31st, 2009Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is the hard reality one faces when they have what feels like a good idea; but are at a lose for how to maximize it. It seems like something a good comic goes through all the time; how does one go about extracting the full potential of an idea, instead of just going for the easy but shallow one liner.
Sometimes a stone is just a stone, sometimes it’s hiding the statue of David. But how many Sculptures passed it saying ‘eh that stones not fit for the task’, until Michelangelo saw David in it?
After a trip punctuated by generous amounts of gold bond, i got to playing around with gold bond in my mind. Eventually mixing the idea of its intended purpose with the idea of using it to quell the over exuberance of a star struck fan. Gold bond stops jock itch, star struck fans jock the star, thus; ’stops the itch to jock’, you’re cool all day.
below is a quick mock up. It failed to really do much partially due to the text being so small and the only hint at the fact there some sort of joke beyond wearing a big image of a gold bond bottle on your chest. Did i mention it was a tee shirt idea? No? it was an idea for a t-shirt.
as I see it Jokes are made up of {the set up + the punch line}+ the delivery*. At issue here is less the need to move beyond the obvious one liner, and more that the one liner is much less obvious then it should be, to be a good one liner. What there is is an idea, which may be worth something or may not be.
In the end this is most likely a shelved thought best forgotten about. However when i came up with it i was sure there was gold some where in there. Some people spend their lives singularly focused on one idea, hoping to mine the gold they know to be inside; some find it. Many more do not. I’m not sure if there is a time limit how long it is one should spend investigating an idea before its shelved in hopes pursuing a new idea that may be more fruitful.
Although ‘keeps you cool all day’ may help things out.
*no scientific research went in this definition nor were any active comics/ joke writers asked to weigh in
Upsetters
Friday, August 7th, 2009