If you are asking yourself why I haven't posted anything for three months or more, it is because art school has turned me into some sort of painting automaton, who cares merely for deadlines and finding new deals on groceries, and disappoints friends. Maybe one day this will change.

( Swimming in a local canal... )

So the assignment, mentioned in an earlier post, for which it was necessary to render Batman -- the assignment was to draw 50 people who have influenced you. This took a damned long time. Guess what the most commonly drawn entity in the class was, not including people's friends family members? It was Batman (though none of the other students ( Read more... )

Batman can be surprisingly hard to draw for some reason. The mask is the problem. What is it made of? To what degree should the shape and location of the stylized, white, iris-less eyes correspond to the shape and location of actual eyes? Most importantly, how do the ears connect? Batman is all over my sketch book. It seems I draw Batman all the ( Read more... )

Someone has written a fascinating account of life... and love: http://leperporn1.livejournal.com/2852.htmlRead more... )

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So, Leon suggested that I illustrate...

( Either/Or, the weirdest, tawdriest, most disjointed 700 page 'philosophy' book ever! HOTT KIERKEGAARD ACTION INSIDE )

I am frequently nervous when I am talking to people, so much so that ordinary social situations often become extravagant dramas of judgment, pity, and terror. When I am especially worried about others' perception of my intelligence, I sometimes have the compulsion to say the most inane things that I can think of. Upon analysis, my main fears in a ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Leon told me about a movie called Choses Secretes. Then, at night, Anika woke me via the phone and we had a particularly enjoyable conversation about Art and Morality. Then, I went back to sleep and the two preceding events combined to make me have maybe the best dream ever.

( Other people's dreams are usually boring but this one is AWESOME. It is highly literary. )

I was walking through the condiments section of the grocery store, when I saw a "southern" styled marinade promoting itself with what looks like a chilling pen and ink rendition of the character Popeye from Faulkner's pulp novel, Sanctuary: http://daddyhinkles.com/. Am I alone in finding this ( Read more... )

You would think that I have matured, yet I still fucking hate normal, heterosexual women. If they see that you are not a "girlfriend" they can talk to or a man they can talk to in a sexually charged way, they have nothing to say to you, they get suspicious and hostile, they reply to sincere remarks with a cold "what?". I guess it's mostly that I ( Read more... )