Practices in Digital Painting

I decided to take Intro to Computer Graphics this semester to see how the other half of Memphis College of Art lives...up in those cold rooms, hiding behind those newest generation pizza box macs, glancing longingly at their coffee sitting on the shelf beside the well-designed "NO FOOD OR DRINK" signs on the wall.

I stroll into the first day expecting to see oh, maybe Meredith Root, or Don DuMont at the wheel of this monster, BUT NO. Dwayne Butcher. Yes, Drip-Masta Dwayne. He is back in my life. I will put my muumuu on.

I've experimented with some of the tools and this rubber duck that we all found on our desktops, waiting for us like a folded napkin at a soiree.

Arbitrary text choices.

With this bad boy up here ^, I opened photobooth and drew myself with some of the brushes (a rather broad selection, indeed). CK pointed out that I could've taken a photo and drawn over it, to which I thought "yes, that would have been the pussy way to do it."

It's very, very cold in these mac labs.

I wish I were here instead.

My Roommate's Cat Keeps Trying to Have Sex With Me

I kept a blog in high school and wrote a lot of funny little stories. Then I smoked a lot of pot. Now I can't write funny little stories anymore. But I can illustrate them alright.

The Herpes comic was done in about two hours. The Cat comic took, like, thirteen. However, I think Herpes is more successful in terms of the art. Looser can be better, I guess. I like the just-barely-wonky perspectives in some of the above panels.

But nothing beats cats in drag.



^This is a comic about what happens when you don't neuter your cat. Eventually a lonely old woman accepts the feline advances that mark so far outside the social norm. What she doesn't know is that he will eventually pee on her clothes. Not very romantic.

Old Work

These are some acrylic paintings from painting one at MCA. All are from direct observation. The daytime landscape, which has been sold, is probably the most representational. The night time landscape was gessoed a violet and I tried to exaggerated the yellows to push the contrast. The still life was originally painted in black and white acrylic and then covered in color oil glazes. 

Facing the Facebook Facts

It's not that I'm actually fearful of someone stealing my images off of facebook, but the words "public domain" probably don't sit will in the ears of any living image-maker. Maybe I'll consider communal authorship after I've gotten rent paid.

And, let's face it: giving a prospective client your facebook address to see your work is a bit sketchy.

So. Hello, Blogging World. How handsome you are. We have a lot of catching up to do.