Work Doodles
Nothing really stellar today, but it's been slow at work lately and that means I sit in the back and doodle with pens for hours. So I have several pages of that that I thought I would share. Nothing is really clean or polished or do I intend to clean up or polish any of these in the future. SUPER SKETCHDUMP GO.
So all my Matthew Barney books came into the library yesterday and I spent a good deal of time just flipping through the huge monstrosity that is the wonderful Cremaster Cycle book. There's no explinations for anything in that book from what I've seen (well I didn't read the text-intensive parts yet. Just the pictures), so I was just kind of sitting and staring at the most-times creepy and unsettling images and all of a sudden I came to the realization what the logo for Cremaster 5 was. It's a butt. Seriously. Butt and spread thighs. I love Matthew Barney's stuff mainly because I can figure out the imagry without having to be told it, and guys that makes me feel cool because I'm usually not good at things like "conceptual anything".
So after the Bestiary Alphabet where I drew the Ouzeleum bird as a kind of jacked up Microraptor (my second favorite dinosaur outside of the Corythesaurus), Sheana and I were all "DAVID HAS WING FEET. YES" and I kind of took that and tried to figure out Ouzeleum birds based on my new love of double wings. So basically David Haywood's fullform drawn in pen a lot. Drawing with a felt pen is hard. Especially when I'm trying to figure out things/designing things.
When I got home I tried to doodle some more birds when I had a pencil in my hand and ended up trying to figure out their whole "backwards flying" thing. this is still super awkward and I think I'm leaning more towards Sheana's suggestion of "doing the backstroke through the air". What's going on here is that the flight is broken up into two strokes; the first the top wings and the tail pull forward while the bottom legs are drawn up, and the second the tail and the top wings pull backwards (while folded to produce less resistance) while the bottom wings open and pull forwards to further propell the bird. It's awkward.
Legs! This was to be a kind of "How I draw legs" thing, but then all I had was a pen and a sheet of paper and no reference so it kind of just turned into a "Kory draw a lot of digigrade animal legs. The horse one is terrible. The horse legs on Simon down there work a lot better. The legs on those four side doodles are way exaggerated but the principle is still there. The caption says "How legs work? Keeping balance with legs that really shouldn't be able to." Don't forget to shorten the calf and thigh when you lengthen the ankle! David snuck in at the bottom there.
I managed to find a ball-point pen finally and did some proper drawing. Then work was over and I didn't finish it. This whole post is "Day of the digigrade legs" I think. If it just had more satyrs and more bugganes and a couple reverse gryphons I would just cover the whole gammut of Things I Draw With Legs Like That.
Anyway Anthony and Blanche run from something. They probably just stole some shit and are running like mad from certain death. Anthony probably runs like an ungainly ostritch. He probably hates that. I've been drawing some decent antlers lately, too. Amaaaazing. I love Anthony's stupid feet. You should too.
And the obligatory "I got drunk last night here's what I drew" drawing. I actually got TOO drunk to care about drawing. That's me wtih my two margaritas at once. And then a drunken llama because I believe someone told me to draw that.
So all my Matthew Barney books came into the library yesterday and I spent a good deal of time just flipping through the huge monstrosity that is the wonderful Cremaster Cycle book. There's no explinations for anything in that book from what I've seen (well I didn't read the text-intensive parts yet. Just the pictures), so I was just kind of sitting and staring at the most-times creepy and unsettling images and all of a sudden I came to the realization what the logo for Cremaster 5 was. It's a butt. Seriously. Butt and spread thighs. I love Matthew Barney's stuff mainly because I can figure out the imagry without having to be told it, and guys that makes me feel cool because I'm usually not good at things like "conceptual anything".
So after the Bestiary Alphabet where I drew the Ouzeleum bird as a kind of jacked up Microraptor (my second favorite dinosaur outside of the Corythesaurus), Sheana and I were all "DAVID HAS WING FEET. YES" and I kind of took that and tried to figure out Ouzeleum birds based on my new love of double wings. So basically David Haywood's fullform drawn in pen a lot. Drawing with a felt pen is hard. Especially when I'm trying to figure out things/designing things.
When I got home I tried to doodle some more birds when I had a pencil in my hand and ended up trying to figure out their whole "backwards flying" thing. this is still super awkward and I think I'm leaning more towards Sheana's suggestion of "doing the backstroke through the air". What's going on here is that the flight is broken up into two strokes; the first the top wings and the tail pull forward while the bottom legs are drawn up, and the second the tail and the top wings pull backwards (while folded to produce less resistance) while the bottom wings open and pull forwards to further propell the bird. It's awkward.
Legs! This was to be a kind of "How I draw legs" thing, but then all I had was a pen and a sheet of paper and no reference so it kind of just turned into a "Kory draw a lot of digigrade animal legs. The horse one is terrible. The horse legs on Simon down there work a lot better. The legs on those four side doodles are way exaggerated but the principle is still there. The caption says "How legs work? Keeping balance with legs that really shouldn't be able to." Don't forget to shorten the calf and thigh when you lengthen the ankle! David snuck in at the bottom there.
I managed to find a ball-point pen finally and did some proper drawing. Then work was over and I didn't finish it. This whole post is "Day of the digigrade legs" I think. If it just had more satyrs and more bugganes and a couple reverse gryphons I would just cover the whole gammut of Things I Draw With Legs Like That.
Anyway Anthony and Blanche run from something. They probably just stole some shit and are running like mad from certain death. Anthony probably runs like an ungainly ostritch. He probably hates that. I've been drawing some decent antlers lately, too. Amaaaazing. I love Anthony's stupid feet. You should too.
And the obligatory "I got drunk last night here's what I drew" drawing. I actually got TOO drunk to care about drawing. That's me wtih my two margaritas at once. And then a drunken llama because I believe someone told me to draw that.