“Don’t bogart that joint, my friend… hand it over to me.”
I find it interesting how much
artwork that I thought was lame and boring at the time of its execution, seems
much more successful and exciting a couple years later. I think that may be,
initially, I was judging the artwork for not achieving my goals at the time of
creation. With the passage of time, I tend to forget what those goals were or
find them to be of less importance. So I can just enjoy the artwork on its own
terms.
I’m dipping even deeperback the archive, having exhausted the series of Ad Marker quick sketches. Actually, these drawings are in the same sketchbook as the Ad Marker drawings. This book had paper especially formulated to accept markers and ink that I purchased while still a student, in 1981. Actually, I’m still a student, but now I get paid to learn, while in 1981 learning was quite expensive.
Also, during this period (1994) I was into the fisheye lens effect; I was using it often in my drawings and comic book work. I fear my run on “The Mark” suffers quite a bit from this interest on my part.
Another in a series of quick sketch drawings, done to test Ad Markers.
This is my design for another gay (I hope) superhero, done as an animation style model sheet. I’m not sure what to call him. The Black Hood and The Black Mask have already been taken.
I was definitely on a simplicity kick back in late ’92. I like it. I should get back to doing this kind of work.
This drawing was done with Prismacolor colored pencils, copied from a photograph.
As in most of my “Daily Derriere” posts, I’m working out of an American Express Appointment Book for 2012. I started this series of drawings on January 1st, 2013 and started posting them on January 1st 2016, hence the weird dating, both in the drawings and the posting there-of.
My favorite drawings in the series are like this one, drawn and/or painted over the double page photo spreads that headed each month. I would stare at the photo until an image arose from my sub-conscious before I started in, usually completing the drawing in 15 minutes or less. In fact, that was part of the parameters of the project: do an artwork everyday on the subject of butts, working fast and loose without any attempt to do good work. These were the same parameters as in my previous series, “The Daily Dick”. I knew from experience that it would take longer to blog the work, which entailed scanning and cataloguing each image, possibly writing a paragraph or two about each image, then posting the image, both on this blog and then on my Facebook page. However, I’ve been somewhat remiss in this series since I’ve rarely written anything to go with the posted images. My reason is, I’m doing another daily blog on my www.raderofthelostart.com site where I AM writing a paragraph to accompany the posted images.
