DRAWING IN CIRCLES

My drawing of darkreaver's coolass light character

I went to NYC last week on a sudden whim.

The plane ticket was expensive as shit. The flight was total hell and my baggage was lost for days. I barely slept. I ended up pissing off the person cool enough to let me crash at their place. My muscles are still misconfigured from sitting for 6 hours straight. And still I don't regret taking the trip at all.

Growing up your whole life hearing about this weird mysterious city called New York, seeing fake disasters and real disasters rocking it, and noticing all the crazy talent coming from it makes actually visiting it somewhat surreal. Like going into the television into another dimension. Everything is concrete, wet, stained, close, and incredibly well designed. Fond memories of riding the subway in the middle of the night.

People there surprisingly nicer than I expected, with the unspoken accepted rule that we all can be rude to each other and it's fine. You don't get pissed and I don't get pissed. I leave you to your own shit and you leave me to mine. And then the occasional New Yorkish warm personality which is so easy and comfortable to talk to. It almost reminded me of Burning Man in the sense of you could look as weird as you want and no one rags on your shit- if anything they expect it.

Tomorrow I start a job at Monolith doing User Interface design for their next project. I'm a little anxious as I don't know 100% what I'm being throw into, but I'm also a bit excited that I get to play around with graphic design and Flash animation again. Looking at my old Flash stuff I can't believe I ever abandoned it.

So I downloaded Second Life to see wtf all the hubbub is about. I also hear a competent 3D artist can make a killing by catering to the masses of this world.

Upon joining you're forced todo this multi part tutorial in which you can customize your character. I look around and see a bunch of generic Poser wannabe models in leisurewear, and..  cybergoths? Anyways, after I discovered you can take off your pants it was all over and I decided to make my character uncomfortable to look at.




My personal favorite is the butt freckles.




After a some 20 minutes of wandering from place to to place I soon became aware that Second Life is really god damn boring. It also reminded me of the scene in Futurama in which Fry is exposed to the modern internet for the first time, and in a Space Odyssey type fashion cries out "Oh my god... it's full of ads!"
Most of the places I randomly visited ended up being shopping malls which to buy more shit to customize your character and housing with- except these cost fake money which as far as I can tell costs REAL money unless you get a job inside Second Life. I guess some lady ended up becoming a millionaire from selling shit inside Second Life and now everyone else is doing it too.

Once in awhile there was something cool that someone built to look at, but fuck if I could find such things without randomly clicking on the map. So now I'm going to purposely find the worst and most horrible places to visit in Second Life. So far the king has been the "FREE PENIS" bin, in which you can have a virtual dongoid to attach to your character.

well now that I've made such a difference in the exciting world of coffee shops, it's time to post some art.

Another DMC session. This is the character I got. And this is what I drew:


Did I post this? I don't remember. Here it is again anyways.

this one was a Eatpoo DMC. What I got, and what I gave:



Plus other things:

This, well... this is Steve Urkel

-you can apparently be lead around by a leash via a sounding rod stuck in your penis
-clowns and mortal men are vicious enemies when put into a ThunderDome
-pianos are grown in the desert
-dust storms are awesome when riding bicycles with two other people who look like they belong in a sci-fi movie
-Q: can it be done while on fire? A: Yes.
-committing suicide sometimes doubles as installation art
-watching a world record fireball being made gets extremely warm extremely quick


I think my favorite moment of Burning Man was taking the bike out for a quick ride on the playa to watch the sunset and incidentally being recruited into the Sith army... which then led into a giant 300-400+ people light saber battle in the middle of the desert... which then led to the army grouping together and rushing Center Camp... which then led to everybody doing the Time Warp and dancing to a rock version of Pink Elephants on Parade.

And that was only one hour in Black Rock City.

[22:24] reddestFIVE: Would it be in bad spirit to say, knock on my neighbors door and when they answer, grab them by the throat and shake them wildly?
[22:24] sinistrdexterius: yes
[22:24] reddestFIVE: What if I start screaming anti semetic lines?
[22:24] sinistrdexterius: just a little
[22:25] reddestFIVE: What if I'm butt ass naked while I do it?
[22:25] sinistrdexterius: a bit more interesting but still in bad taste
[22:26] reddestFIVE: Well damn, what's a guy todo.
[22:26] sinistrdexterius: I'm sure you'll come up w/something
[22:27] reddestFIVE: maybe if I start vomiting on the walls too?
[22:27] reddestFIVE: and roll my eyes back
[22:27] sinistrdexterius: oh well that's fine
[22:27] reddestFIVE: Yeah cause it looks like i'm possesed right?
[22:28] reddestFIVE: I could maybe toss one of them through the window and then come down and be like "Just kidding! *fonz fingers* :D"
[22:28] sinistrdexterius: beautiful
[22:29] reddestFIVE: part of me wants todo this just so you can say "I thought he was just kidding!"
[22:30] sinistrdexterius: that would be funny
[22:31] reddestFIVE: the best part would be that actually doing it would be so awkward I'd have to completely commmit to it
[22:32] reddestFIVE: man, what a great way to completely wack out two people's lives. they'd tell that story for years.
[22:32] sinistrdexterius: you'd be doing them a favor, really


It's weird how much more you appreciate free time getting out of a crunch. I go home and am like "What, I can do more than one thing in a given night?!" I managed to get to some creative painting.

Some various friends and I started a group sketchblog in which to share links and post our arts. So I dunno if I'll keep updating this blog or not since I'll be posting there. In the meantime here's some old/new stuff.

I got me a Asaro head. It's so much fun to paint it's fucking ridiculous.





I ran into Halitosis in the Draw My Character thread over at Eatpoo, so here's a speedpaint I did of his genie

[10:29] reddestFIVE: *zombie*
[10:29] sinistrdexterius: mmm hmm
[10:31] reddestFIVE: I think I'll start a zombie relligion
[10:31] reddestFIVE: unnnggghhh
[10:31] sinistrdexterius: amennngh
[10:33] reddestFIVE: and gather fellow zombies and protest companies for not making experimental biochemical weapons
[10:33] sinistrdexterius: :D
[10:34] reddestFIVE: I'm sure there's something I can fit into there with abortion as well
[10:35] reddestFIVE: "GIVE ZOMBI BABIES A CHANCE"
[10:36] reddestFIVE: <- going to hell
[10:37] sinistrdexterius: not if you become a zombie


anyways, ART:

When we last joined our hero...

MR. BLANKA


Halitosis' SGT. MURDER


WAHHLIGATOR & CROCOSMILE

Here I am to poop out some art.
Everyday is like learning how to draw all over again. By the end of the day I've figured it out pretty good, except at that point I have to go back to sleep and forget it all again. My mental state anymore is that of Memento.

Value studies via MANHEAT













Here's some headers I did for a Eatpoo header contest