Bonjour, nice stuff around here as always, … my girlfriend wrote me a new signature with my name in ancient Chinese characters, i had to find an excuse to use it asap…so there you go… a quick portrait err

Wasting my time with a spare time job (money money money) I’ve finally found some hours to show you some doooooom doodles :D
Take care my artpals, may the force be with ya (gorillahug)

A few of these landscapes I will be putting these in the Fish Tales Show in Christopher Queen Gallery this Sunday. I know it’s a bit out of the way, but if you are going to the beach or the river that day, why not make a little stop? Get some wine, some cheese, cake and whatnot. Check out the auction, it was a lot of fun last time.

These are some more figure drawing studies that I’ve been doing at the Wednesday night session. I’m planning on doing some video tutorials trying to explain what I do and what I’m thinking when I draw. Figure I can help some people with it.

May 2nd:Christopher Queen Gallery Presents: Fish Tales
May 7th: THE MAJORITY PRESENTS: KALEIDOSCOPE Santa Rosa’s MONTHLY Art Show! every first friday of the month
May 22: Reprezent Clothing Presents LYRI_CAL

argh -_-

I can’t be the first to break the ‘no pictures’ rule, I hear the gorillas can get nasty on your ass if you do that :) I have been in Bali for the last few months, and its an incredibly balancing and creative place. New York is next up, and I dont quite know how I’m going to cope yet!! Im looking for someone to crash with from the 2nd-8th june if any of you simians are from the Big Apple? So here is a batch of sketches that I’ve been working away on the past two weeks or so… I also have an article coming out in IFX 57 on tying travel sketches into imaginative concepts, and there is a full length dvd with commentary on there too, for anyone who is interested. Ill try to get that uploaded when the mag is out too! There are also 2 repin studies in there, and some visual dev for my book… still a way off the look and feel I want. Otay, without further ado!

Obviously, click for higher res :)

PS the photo on the bed is COLOUR CHARTS! I learnt a ton doing these, and even though i will be redoing them with new colours later, it was worth every minute spent on them.

Thought it might be nice to post up the poem that kick started OYO’s piece below :) We had initially intended it to be an ongoing back and forth collaboration of words and images, but life as usual had its own ideas of what to do with our (you guessed it) time!
Oyo,
I have brewed you an epic - this is just chapter one,
intended to kick start collaborative fun.
Feel free to go wild if you like what I’ve written,
Unless you’re too busy… (Chewed off more than you’ve bitten!)

Its a sonnet in 3 parts, each from 3 different views,
Im refusing to edit - I’ve got nothing to lose…
Its a story of the fortunes and follies of time,
That for metaphorical purpose was chosen to rhyme.

One the one hand the narrative makes sense on its own,
But its the structure itself that hits most close to home,
For the pace and the meter and the choosing of words,
Means as much as the bits about sailors and birds.

I hope that it sparks a small light in your brain,
That can flicker and grow and turn into flame,
That if thusly inspired by my improvised scripture,
Could possibly turn into one hell…. of a picture!

So here is the poem, the sonnet - the story,
In all of its half-hour unrevised glory,
May it increase our friendship and make us grow stronger -
And PS the next one will be slightly longer!!!

TIME (PART ONE)

Sitting cross legged, at the end of the harbour,
In a haphazard costume of discoloured armour,
between rickshaws and fishmongers, the buyers and sellers,
was one of the worlds all-time best storytellers.

He woke with the sunrise and slept with the moon,
not moving one inch from midnight to noon,
with his gaze fixed square on the sailing men’s shoes,
he knotted his fingers and conversed with his muse.

And no-one would guess it, at least just from looking,
what heart wrenching stories he had inside cooking.
While weeks would go by without one single word,
not even to rats, or the sea, or the birds.

The men would ignore him, the women would laugh,
the children would tease him or spit as they passed.
The shopkeepers cursed him for turning their trade,
but he patiently weathered the insults away.

He had no concern for the business of others,
for bakers or soldiers or fathers or mothers,
for the tales of wars and kings long forgotten,
or the wailings of those whos hearts had gone rotten.

He was more than content to leave past in its place,
And leave past things to past people, that time would erase.
At sundown, when the past people had left him at last,
It was time to weave tales that would yet come to pass.

For the stories that spun and shone in his mind,
were no trifles or ramblings from things left behind,
they were not biographic or hampered by time,
but visions of futures - of yours, and of mine.

He was the keeper of fire, and the spinner of time,
the father of chance, and of reason, and rhyme,
Whos inscrutible methods are beyond the conception
of those who still peddle in petty deceptions.

So the world kept on spinning and spluttering round,
The gnarly old man who sat still on the ground,
All the while concocting his chronological brew,
as his hair and his beard and his fingernails grew.

Ships would go out, and come back with the tide,
Cities would light up on fire from inside,
The end of a day that had come, and gone by,
While old father time barely lifted an eye.

Bonjour bonjour,

Today, my latest character work,  I started the design a few months ago after reading a short story written by Adam Paquette ( so way before seeing anything about the new mad hatter from Tim Burton’s Alice…). Then I re-adapted the character to fit a story I’m actually writing and for which he is the main character… Hope ya digg ! Enough said !

(btw i dont know why but i cant seem to be able to post any comments or reply to, so thanks for the previous comments especially Min, thanks a lot, you made my day and put a lot of pressure on my shoulders ahah.)

I did a new painting in iPad “Brushes”. The updated version has a lot of neat new functions.
I edited the painting in “Photogene” afterwards.

Since it’s painted in Brushes, I could export the painting process.
Check it out!
http://vimeo.com/11200700

Sketching at the Metamorphica drawing event. People need to get the word out about this event! These are some fascinating, inventive, agile, athletic, inspiring models. And the live music is great. In the mean time, I’ll enjoy that it’s not too crowded, and I get to feel like I’m doing something underground :)  [ Linkage:  busstopgallery.blogspot.com - badunklsista.com ]

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You can see a lot of the process of this piece in the various OnDemand sessions here:
http://www.livestream.com/tomscholes