sketchbook pro, heavylox drawing. Unfortunately i couldn't do justice to what was an Incredible nose

sketchbook pro, heavylox drawing

sketchbook pro, heavylox drawing

As part of the restructuring it has fallen on the shoulders of HR people to ‘let us down easy’. Even in loosing a job youre not in love with kinda sucks. Im reminded of being the only loser to skip school on a skip day and then being bored to death cause no one else was around to enjoy the ditch day with. Whats worse is to have HR people try and sell you a bag of crap, only to find yourself in a position requiring you to thank them afterward. You’re firing me, How is that a ‘really good deal’? I’m all for making the best out of a bad situation but nothing is made better by pretending the a tragedy is really a blessing in disguise. I guess we can’t just call a spade a spade and move on.

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thank you, Sincerely
Heavylox

these were scratched out on paper first, cleaned up a bit with a silver sharpie and a black sharpie poster paint maker which covers th esilver oil paint like a charm!

early Berst Sketch on Ipad: in sketchbook pro, and i brought it into inkpad, an ipad vector drawing app, and then exported the file as a svg into illustrator...

4 states of the comb over

Ipad User; digital sketch,by heavylox

One of the best things about drawing on the train is over time you get to see familiar faces and get to know people in a removed sort of fashion. You get to see people in all there facets, in random order, only suing your memory to sort out where they are today.  So as it happens i had a second encounter with a fellow commuter, which was very redemptive.
i was sitting in a double seat with a woman and an elderly gentleman. The lady, well call her Fran, asked me if i was drawing. I said yes and showe her the ipad screen. She was excited about it and remarked to the elderly fellow, well call him Grumpy Gramps, that i was drawing and very talented. To which Grumpy Gramps, replied very dryly that he to draws, and as such he seemed less than impressed.
Fran: oh you draw on the computer too?
Grumpy Gramps: no i used pen and paper.
oh Gramps your really pulling the old timer on me here huh. These youg folks and their disrespect for tradition, I USE PAPER, and draw the way it should be done.
Fran: oh, well im sure youre very talented too. Im sitting with two talented artists.
How nice of Fran to placate Gramps by also allowing him to be talented. I think that warmed gramps up a bit, And he finally forced him self to actually look at what i was doing. I think to his surprise i wasnt drawing a stick figure or some sort of crude pornographic image.
Gramps: you gonna draw the belly (in a voice with NO tact in regards to train passenger  proximity )
Oh now youre all interested huh, you Grump. He was actually quite nice and probably would have been interesting to talk to had we had more of a ride ahead of us.  Through out all of this i started to feel more and more as though i had seen Fran before. Finally as i was getting of the train it hit me, Fran had already appeared on Reason & RasClot before, filed under Bad manners. Yes Fran was Ms So you didn’t go to finishing school?, And here she was the antithesis of all she had shown herself to be previously. Now well see which Fran we met next; the Devil or the Angel.

vanilla scarf, drawn on the Ipad

Crisp weather Lunch Rest: illustration by heavylox

knatty color: illustration by heavylox.

long day Color: illustration by heavylox

opps, thought i was using water color crayons, turned out oil crayons got mixed in...: illustration by heavylox

Classic Five Head

Disc-Man Hanger onner

face Rester

White Hair, by heavylox

Sometimes the harder you consciously try the less you get accomplished. I am all for failure as a teaching tool; however if the quality of the failure is no more then common contrivances then there is little to learn save, stop trying so hard and let it flow more naturally; less consciously that is.

I want new shapes. In regards to style writing, its all about the shapes, abstracting the commonly accepted and universally recognized letter form into a new, or re-refined shape echoing the established while seeking to be its own thing. Just as a child is a recognized human they grow up with the hopes of becoming their own individual, complimenting the hole while expanding on its definition.

As part of trying to find new shapes i found myself looking at the photos of a good friend Saul Metnick of Blandscape.org. I haven’t spoken to him about his work for a while, other then to know hes in the mix and trying ti keep himself moving. From the outset i will say, i dont get photography, i can spot a ragingly good photo, but i miss a lot of the nuance that may make one photo stand out from others. My sense of framing can be hap-hazard at best and accidentally genius once in a blue moon. Saul has always brought a sense of whit and irony to his photos; which i always appreciated but was never convinced was the sole basis for him taking good photos. In looking at many the other day i started to look beyond the subject and just see the shapes, created by the interplay of forms and shadows (which have always been there but took me time to come too, im an idiot with a decent vocabulary). SO in an attempt to distill the shapes and things i found interesting I took some screen shots and did some illustrator mock ups. Surely nothing groundbreaking but a good place to start.