Monday, August 28, 2023

Arting Not Manufacturing

I beat myself up for not being creative enough. Meaning: not productive enough. Which is bullshit. Art isn't about being productive, it's about arting.

Sure... you have to do things to be arting. But I strongly dislike the language of the workplace being interposed on my creative life. I do not produce content, nor do I manage a brand, nor do I make deadlines or meet expectations. Fuck all that noise.

I art. I try my damnedest to art as much as I can, but I'll suck a donkey cock before I let myself become a fucking robot about it. Or, worse, a god damned businessman.

So here's some stuff I drew over the weekend. I drew these on some cheap paper for acrylics. Kinda has a canvas-like texture. I like how it feels. I think it takes the alcohol markers in a nice way.




 

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Fastner and Larson

 I've been picking up some SQP books lately because they are fun and cheap. CHEAP FUN.

I do love Fastner and Larson art. It's so silly and over the top. It's quite a bit generic, in the sense that all the women are trad model types. But still, I like their style. They lean toward cartoony, which is where I live.



Sunday, July 9, 2023

Women and Weirdos

Beauty and the beast is a kind of trope that refers to a juxtaposed couple: the beautiful, pure, true, good female and the bestial, rough, bad male. Of course the story typically entails her finding the good in him.

But what is the wider trope of the beautiful female juxtaposed against the grotesque, weird, robotic, or monstrous male? Not quite the same as beauty and beast, this wider trope can involve any sort of weirdo being next to the female character. It's a super common thing in fantasy art. You see it all the time with artists like Bode, Azpiri, Corben, Frazetta, etc. It's so common it just kind of hides among all the other art.

Women and weirdos. Hotties and horrors. Chicks and chucks (ok, that's a stretch). Gals and goofballs.

To wit, here's a few examples of what I'm talking about.

Arthur Suydam

 
Blas Gallego

Vaughn Bodè

Me.






Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Hymla the Horn



 She's a former kitchen hand. She doesn't like clothes. She likes gutting evil cultists and finding treasure.