Flaming Artist
Since I’ve been posting recent Ad Marker sketches executed in a sketchbook (“THE PAPER IN THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SPECIFICALLY CHOSEN FOR PEN AND INK SKETCHING AND FOR FELT TIP MARKERS”) I decided to scan and post other sketches done in this same book, from even further in the past. This one was done with ink and coquille pen over 20 years ago.
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.
This is the second in the series of jock strap framed buttocks.
I don’t have much to say about this one. I drew it in
less than 10 minutes. I rather like it for it’s Picasso-esque whimsicality. I
drew it in ballpoint pen, no under drawing.
Now HERE is Tony Soprano, if
not James Gandolfini. Here I am attempting a specific likeness of a specific
character, not merely drawing one of my “clones of desire” (a concept
articulated by the brilliant philosopher Dale Lazarof, writer of “Sticky” and “Manly”).http://prismcomics.org/profile.php?id=1496
It also puts on display my
continuing struggles with Photoshop. Basically I did a fake pen and ink
drawing. The only benefit I derived from using the program instead of pen and
ink on paper was the endless ability to re-size and re-do. Nothing to sneeze at
for sure (the lack thereof an ongoing frustration with the real thing) but
there’s more to the program than that. Hell, I’ve taken a couple of classes in
the damn thing. I just can’t make myself practice using the program
consistently enough to get adept in it.
This
drawing is not intended as an affront to Gandolfini or his mourning friends and
family. I like to think he would have approved, based on the scene in
“Sopranos” where his seated character displayed a hard-on through his pants
when contemplating his psychiatrist.
