January-March 2014 Inked Drawings, Sculpture.

Here is some inked work and sculpture I have done from January 2014 to March 2014.

I posted the works here in the order of completion

March 2014

Here is the source material for the little guy on the left. He is a Star Wars Kenner Luke Skywalker X Wing Pilot with a creepy finger puppet on his head. He lives in my bathroom with his bear bride.

I recently flew into Massachusetts, for my Nana T's memorial. The napkins on my Alaska Airlines flight had some cool Northwest Native American art.

A daily angel confirmation "Yes I Love You"

This one got good feedback in most places, I decided to make it a write your own caption. Write your captions in the comment section.

 I sculpted a plasticine head for drawing reference of Jack Maggot. I have some more web comic inked pages ready to scan now.Get ready for web comic updates soon.

I show the progression of the Jack Maggot head here. This bottom image being the earlier state. I'm still working on this one, but I have already used it for reference when working on my web comic.

I started this sculpture in the beginning of February 2014.

This head is from the end of January. I was tired from the Viking vs Space Invader drawing so I wanted to get back to the familiar multi eye heads I have been drawing. I may sculpt one of these multi-eye heads at some point.

Viking vs Space Invader 95% Complete

I am still planning on using some half tones in the checkerboard behind the space invaders.

The inscription on the blade says "Endless War"

This stage of the drawing has some of the Viking, his shield, some knot-work, background all inked in.

I had to lay out the pencil line-work for the left side Viking at this stage. On this drawing I started using a Prismacolor Ebony Pencil from my stained glass days. This pencil can leave very dark graphite marks when you build it up on the paper. This made it easier to see how the penciled areas would end up looking when filled in with ink.

I needed to redraw the Viking on the left. He was drawn on trace paper to visualize him better. My pencil lines were unclear and I was getting lost in the messy pencil image on the bristol board. I marked out the knot work behind him so I could begin to figure out how that would work. Then I flipped the knot work vertically to mirror the section on the bottom behind the Viking on the left. I used Saral Graphite paper to transfer the drawings from the tracing paper onto the bristol board.

Approximately half way across the drawing. Here is a detail of the Viking splitting a Space Invader's head.

A lot of ink fill in work at this early stage. Getting to the fill in is harder than I would have thought. The details needed to be clearly inked beforehand.

Stage one inking, I chose to move right to left so not to smudge the pencils.

The drawing is all roughed in at this point. The thumbnail is on the bottom left of the page. On the bottom right are some brush pen samples to test the grey brush pens.

The thumbnail has the viking with an axe.

December 2013 Inked Drawings and a visit to Palm Springs

Here are some of my Inked Drawings from December 2013.

This image is an idea for the battle between the analog and.digital universes. The blade's name is Maggot Tooth inscribed in the runes. This is a reference to my web comic The Adventures of Jack Maggot. My plan is to add color to this, then get it printed out on a skateboard deck. I am working on another design with the same theme.

Here is another four eye drawing similar to the ones I started in November.

                                           

I made some rainbow looms for my Daughter over winter holiday.

 My Family and I visited Palm Springs over Winter Holiday. We visited Palm Oasis, Joshua Tree National park, and the Palm Springs Art Museum

Shots from inside the Palm Springs Art Museum.

This is a gigantic cast aluminum version of Marilyn Monroe in Palm Springs. Click the link for more info on Forever Marilyn, apparently the statue is getting moved back to Chicago in 2014. Glad we got to see it here in Palm Springs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Marilyn

The image is taken directly from the movie The Seven Year itch.

The Marilyn made the dress iconic I don't think anyone else could have worn it and made the same impression. The dress sold for 5.6 milion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dress_of_Marilyn_Monroe

Palm Springs has a spectacular skate park, very worth visiting. Bring your board if you have a chance to visit. BMX is allowed also. Here are 2 panoramas I took of the park.

November 2013 Inked Drawings/Jack Maggot works in progress and revisions

Working on some new themes of heads with multiple eyes. Finding inspiration in the linear work of Mike Giant http://www.mikegiant.com/index.php

Im trying to throw my own twist on the source material. When I saw a Sake bottle with a Uni/deamon with multiple eyes in Encinitas I had to take off on that theme. I'm planning on doing more of these on some larger,sturdier bristol boards.

The sketch on the bottom is the first one of the series. Above it are some printouts I made from Mike Giant's work.

My brush pen collection. The one on the top is a big one with rellly long "hairs"  The label is worn off and I don't remember where I got it, so when it runs out Ill have to switch back to a real brush. The Tombo and the Zebra are the best of the lot. Prisma color is good but not remarkable. The pigma is the worst of the lot.

Johannes from BPRD, drawn from my toy collection.

I started posting my comic on the web. Officially making it a a web comic http://www.jackmaggot.com 

Please check it out, spread the word if you like it or if you know someone  who will like it. 

The Adventures of Jack Maggot is a choose your own adventure format comic. It has mazes and other diversions included, such as mock ads, mock games. I have posted the first 9 pages and I will be constantly posting more as I format them for the web. I have a lot in mind for this comic which I don't want to reveal yet.

I had to redraw some pannels for my webcomic. Jack descending the staircase to the basement.

I used velum on this section for the comic. Lettering has proven to be a challenge. I have created a custom font from my own handwriting for now it will have to suffice.

Inked finished maze 2 of 3 for pages 18,19,20.

Inked Page 18 for The Adventures of Jack Maggot

Work in progress page 20 for The Adventures of Jack Maggot.

Some recent work from October 2013

Toaster bot

Mummy Cat with a WIP pencil 

Dia De Los Muertos Sketch with Classic car ref.

Nosferatu 30 min sketch

Golden Colorado: Moving to California part 5, from Massachusetts to California Day 5 and 6

A warm howdy from Golden

South Table Mountain seen from Golden Colorado

Looks like the mountain top from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

On Day five of our cross country drive, we arrived in Golden Colorado to a warm greeting from our friends Alan, Mercedes and Nyx.

We stayed in a hotel outside Colorado for a two day visit. During our stay we were able to catch up with friends, recuperate, visit local attractions and have our Mini serviced. The engine light triggered because a filter sensor needed to be replaced. The long drive from Boston finished off the old filter, the work was covered under warranty. The visit to the Mini Dealer meant I would spend a part of the second day in Denver area dealing with repairs while Rise and Mayari hung out at the hotel pool. The good news was that we spent the rest of our extra time with our Denver friends, and we had time to explore Dinosaur Ridge.

Rise and Mayari with a lifesize painted sculpture of an Iguana don, which is the type of dinosaur that left its foot prints in the sand.

Dinosaur ridge http://www.dinoridge.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Ridge

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dinosaur-Ridge/104056422633

We were really excited to see dinosaur ridge on day 6.  Dinosaur Ridge is a plot of land with fossilized dinosaur bones and foot prints are embedded in the stone hillside. There are dinosaur remains and footprints from many dinosaur migrations millions of years before the earth shifted and transformed Colorado into mountains. At Dinosaur Ridge you can interact with fossilized dinosaur bones and foot prints in a rock wall. The footprints were imprinted during the Cretaceous period millions of years ago, when the Colorado area was more low lying marsh lands. When the surface was still soft enough to be imprinted on by the Iguana-don type of dinosaurs which migrated over this surface. As time passed on the mud was covered by other silt and mud, add millions of years, shake up the earth and you get fossil imprints in a sandstone rock wall.  

Makes me feel like the geology of Earth is alive and that we were travelling through time.

   

You can take a walk on the trail to the other side of dinosaur ridge to see a bone quarry from the Jurassic era.

Basically a pile of fossilized bones embeded in the rock wall.  Less impressive than the footprints but still accessible and cool to see.

                                               

Mayari using special glass crayons on the windows of our car to send messages to fellow travelers.

                                      

The cat is back on the road...

Next stop Utah