Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Might be time to start cooling it a bit. 

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

BUILDING

Built this structure in Sketchup for an assignment. Based on the principles used by Frank Lloyd Wright to build his home in arizona.

Monday, December 13, 2010

11TH ST

Was out this morning around 10:30 taking some pics for reference. I cobbled a half dozen of them into this collage.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

DYMAXION CAR #4

... designed by Buckminster Fuller in 1933.
as always, click to enlarge

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Friday, December 3, 2010

Thursday, December 2, 2010

MANIFESTO

John Allison has been making webcomics for 10 years or so. He recently posted a manifesto for indie comics creators, but I think most of the points he makes applies to any artistic endeavor, or any business endeavor (interpreted loosely enough), for that matter.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

FRENCHING

French illustrator Enki Bilal came up in class the other day, so I thought I'd (re)post a couple of videos that feature him schooling suckas in his studio. They seem to be from some kind of "day in the life" type of documentary. I'd love to find the whole thing intact. I could watch hours of this.


While we're on the subject of awesome Frenchness, a new blog popped up featuring the work of the peerless Moebius. It's not well organized, but there's a lot of his work to check out. Stuff like this:
Oh! And here's Moebius rocking a Cintiq at last year's Angouleme festival in France.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

THE DROP

I did a 10 page comic for a school assignment.  It is formatted to fit a 1440 X 900 monitor when viewed full screen.
Click here to download a 7 MB Pdf, or view it online as a slide show here.
Below is a small version of all 10 pages.
I envisage the character's helmet being wired for sound.  This is what would be playing during the descent. 

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Thursday, November 18, 2010

ANGOULÉME

The Angoulême International Comics Festival in France is a pretty big deal. Over there they kind of look at it as an art form. In North America there is a disproportionate amount of superhero comics. It's kind of like if, at the Oscar's, there was just action movies - Lethal Weapon winning best picture. Then you go over to Europe and see all this other beautiful stuff.

They recently announced their short list of the best stuff of the year. There are half a dozen or so books who's publication language was originally English. The rest, I'm not even sure if you can get them over here. They look pretty, though. Click on the covers for a closer look, then click again for a brief description, if your French is okay. So cool to see all the different styles that are represented. You'll notice a complete absence of capes, as well...

Monday, November 15, 2010

WHEREFORE WEBSITE?

Artist Kyle Baker recently decided not to renew ownership of his website's domain name, reasoning that for a contemporary artist, there is no reason to have one. He discusses his reasoning in a post on his blog.