blog: drawings
Drawing: evil doggie
The most disturbing part of this isn’t the picture (so much) — it’s the selling points sprinkled about it. Even before I defaced this image, the animal pictured is some horrible, mutated amalgam of domesticity named “Scoozie”, an engineered “pet” whose native land is the Uncanny Valley that cuts deeply and disturbingly between nature’s own reality and the endless wakefulness of the soulless automatons.
“…and, of course, cuddle-ability!” Yeah, right, until you wake up with its teeth lodged in your jugular, its ears wagging happily, “responding to light and sound” as you batter at its plastic face with ever-weakening blows, the sight of its deranged gaze the last sensation to enter your mind before the “emotive animation” chalks up another point for the monsters and the balance of power between us and them shifts slightly but inexorably towards the Scoozie faction.
Drawing: carmonster
Drew this guy after I got the estimate for some (pretty extensive) car repairs.
Whenever I draw things with very intricate portions, I inevitably get to the point where I get called away before I can finish the whole thing to the same level of detail — and when I get back to it, well, I could force myself to finish it but usually I’ve lost the spark of it. Nothing wrong with disciplining oneself to work in the face of “no inspiration” — in fact that’s pretty much the definition of a professional creative individual — but for scraps of crap like this it’s just more fun to doodle something new.
Drawing: sumo smash
It’s hard to see, because the scanner flattened it out, but this dude started on one page of a memo pad and grew right off the edge. I had to tape two more sheets to the first one, and even still it wasn’t quite enough (his hand is a little cut off, there). I’ve found that drawings tend to grow, and it’s actually pretty fun to just slap some tape on the page and keep on going right off the edge (instead of trying to squeeze into the corner and ending up with a character with tiny feet).
