i just amazon’d a Roller Ruler. jelly?
frog dog.
(Source: beforevfx)
this is the last two days of work, ive lost track of what ive been watching. but right now at 3:04 am, its BAR RESCUE on-demand. before that it was sci fi’s FACE OFF monster movie makeup show. basically, while i work on stuff, i like to see other people work on stuff. honestly, its weirdly motivating. try it sometime.
ok, step one was to scan the straight finished linework. i want a strictly black lineart scan of the whole piece, for when it eventually gets made into a screenprint. because the piece is oversized, i scan in multiple chunks with an old HP scanner flipped upside down with the lid torn off. sometimes you have to smack it because unsurprisingly, HP didnt design their scanners to operate upside down. it then gets pieced together in photoshop. save that, set it aside.
masked off the buildings, did a tonal ink wash over the sky. this is a terrifying thing. you mess it up, theres really no coming back from it. the board will suck in and dry that wash very very quickly. you can take second passes to darken, you can quickly blot with a paper towel to pull out a highlight, but you have maybe 10 seconds. too much water, or too many washes, and the clay surface will break down. i let that dry overnight, just to be careful.
i decided to fully hatch out the sky, just so its consistent texturally and so i can give the clouds a certain dimensionality and movement. i made a directional and tonal guide in photoshop, and then projected it onto the original. and started in with a tool capable of broader lines. a day and a half later i had a sky.
tomorrow i rescan the whole thing, and start assembling the final image.
theres a part of me thats nervous about really breaking down my process on this stuff publicly (ive already had a stellar year of being wholesale knocked off), but im like 60 hours into this piece with a ways to go. you know what? if you think attempting a process that takes 60 hours sounds like your cup of tea, go nuts. i love the nature and devotion of truly laboring over a craft, sinking myself into it. so welcome to my hell.
my friend robbie is printing these shirts to benefit the organization he fosters pitpulls through. http://pittieloverescue.org/.
if youre interested, hit up this link: http://fightdogfighters.blogspot.com/ and share this around.
thats me and monkey, pretty much the sweetest dog of all time.
this was a thing that actually happened.
I took this photo on my 21st birthday. Q and Not U were playing the Rotunda in Philly. I carried a case of beer on my shoulder home from the distributor. I tried to make out with a half Japanese girl, tried to. Shortly after this photo they ditched their bass player shown here in this image. The print version of this image was made in 2005 at R.I.T.. I have about 4 more of these sitting in a drawer at my studio. This is the first attempt at combining my drawings with my prints.
Pick up this original here,
this progress represents approximately 2 movies (i seriously have to wonder how many dates Celeste & Jesse Forever crashed and burned for being way depressing instead of the casual funtimes romp you’d expect out of an Andy Sandberg movie, but whatever, im a sadist for sad bastard movies), and 9 episodes of various sitcoms. meanwhile, my hands feel like a truck ran them over.
alot of work on the field today, really filling it out and adding shadows and sort of a flow to it all. and the buildings as a whole. im not 100% stoked on the consistency of some of the walls, but ill have to deal. the brutality of clayboard is that theyre arent alot of second chances. alot of tonal work will be added later once this is all scanned in, and that will help cover some of that inconsistency up. had a debate with myself if i wanted to leave the figures as pure black silhouettes or give them some dimensionality. i winged it, but i think itll add something nice in the end.
tomorrow i scan all this. im sure i will do some trial and error stuff digitally to see if i want to go back and do it on the original. but well get there when we get there.
my band Squall got our 7” test pressings in recently, which the pressing plant sends for us to listen to before we approve the final run. obviously something went very very very wrong, but so very right. this sounds unreal and we immediately started talking about how we could actually pull this sound off live. the joy of listening to this actually distracted us from the simple fact that our actual records production is probably doomed.
http://squall.bandcamp.com
its now 3:35am. tonights progress represents two movies, neither of which were good, catching up on the last few episodes of Parks & Rec, six or seven assorted other sitcoms, a take-out container of chicken fingers, three diet cokes, one joke song i wrote in a dogs voice, and a 30 minute break where i recounted to a houseguest the time my friend growing up told me his uncle was “a ninja for the army”.
im pretty deep into hatching now. theres a certain process order to all this that i constantly have to remind myself of my place in, due to the moderately complex depth-of-field situation going on here. the stalks are still quite rough, but once the whole thing is 80% ill go back in and really tighten all that up. the halo around the figures is still just a guide, its important to keep the figures silhouette really sharp in the end, so im going to do that last once all the crazy lines and stalks and leaves are 100% in place.
