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H O M E P R E V I O U S L I E S C A T E G O R I E S L I N K S P A G E S M E T A S E A R C H i unsee the future by brandon as Uncategorized — brandon Thu 2 Jul 2009 1:00 am Simply a humble suggestion as to future directions for our favorite internet search engine colossus thing. Also, why hello there, art blog. You’re looking mummified today! permalink | trackback uri | 1 comment -- watching the watchmen by brandon as book art — brandon Wed 11 Feb 2009 9:03 pm Apparently this here picture has regained some slight internet currency what with the movie looming upon us and all. Around the era in which I still updated my art blog, I got a bit of criticism from other comics dorks, along the lines of “that picture is invalid! Everyone knows that Rorschach has symmetrical markings on his mask!” I thought it was pretty stupid at first, because the mechanism of the mask (two synthetic surfaces and an interstitial liquid, as I recall) would in real life have generated symmetrical markings about as well as your shirt generates symmetrical wrinkles, esp. when shit went down. But, I checked the book, and whoop de doo there is Rorschach with symmetrical markings on his face. I guess Moore and Gibbons were making some sort of metacommentary about the iconic status of (super)heroes with that, though I’m not sure I see where that metacommentary was going or if there was a comment behind it at all and not just mindfucking. Anyway, whatever: here is your freaking symmetrically-splattered chibi Rorschach, comics freaks from like three years ago. I serve it with condiments of social disdain. Taste the bitter flavor, and recoil! A bit more recently I drew this as a bonus graphic to go on one of the posters for my comic . SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT permalink | trackback uri | no comments -- ACTION CAUSES MORE TROUBLE THAN THOUGHT by brandon as Uncategorized — brandon Tue 7 Aug 2007 12:47 am …yeah I just had to get that out of my system. I am probably going to start updating again pretty soon, as there are a couple of images in here that are kinda sorta flirting with general relevance. permalink | trackback uri | no comments -- if: 80’s, and make-up work by brandon as illustration friday — brandon Fri 19 Jan 2007 12:22 am Okay, it’s not that I’ve been not doing Illustration Fridays for the past month or so, it’s that I haven’t been doing them in time . So let’s backtrack a bit and I’ll drop comics and try to explain what I was thinking or just gabber on about semi-related stuff. I started out just goofing on terrible adventure situations, but two panels in I realized I had found a gate into Dick Cheney’s mind . I left some old salami there. We’ll see what happens! This one is pretty hermetic, I think. That’s ok. If my life really heads south maybe I’m gonna be one of those guys who gets a samurai sword and runs around in the mall until the cops tazer him. I just decided this. You gotta keep your options open. And, the current theme: Ok so nostalgia’s a pretty powerful force and you find yourself wanting to return to some version of the past where everything was safe, and yet new, where everything is a discovery – I think that is what I most miss. I mean, I was cynical then, but there were still cultural frontiers that held me in awe and made me want to join in, people singing about things I felt (though you had to really look) and just a space in the media, a sensibility to which I belonged – and that was very much in the 80’s. In fact I spent a lot of time looking back at parts of the 80’s I was too young to appreciate… I think many of my cohorts did. It’s not that now is alienating, it’s that it feels like an undead version of the 80’s, and I’m a ghost that’s bumping around in a strange undead body haunting my interests. I don’t always feel that way, but sometimes. Maybe a lot. So I understand the urge to bring the 80’s back forever. On the other hand, tons of f’ing nuclear weapons poised to blow up the world. Yeah, bringing back the 80’s forever isn’t a real smart idea. permalink | trackback uri | no comments -- if: mask by brandon as illustration friday — brandon Thu 14 Dec 2006 9:36 pm Really, what else could she possibly do? permalink | trackback uri | 3 comments -- if: might (i got bored) by brandon as illustration friday — brandon Thu 7 Dec 2006 11:37 pm Hi guys! It’s been a while. I got bored. Illustration in terms of exploring media is not that fun to me. Exploring media is more a fine-art thing, something where you can’t just throw a simple word out, like “clean,” and come up with interesting ground for long. To pursue media, you really have to be either entirely free to explore, or (if you’re serious), focused on your particular direction. For me, Illustration Friday was simply a way to get in the discipline of doing something for the internet on a routine basis. The comments were nice, but that was the point. And that’s been achieved: I put that effort now into my comic. I’m posting again because I found a new way to make Illustration Friday work for me. I’m back into cartooning heavily, and finding that I want outlets besides my online comic, which has a very particular tone to it. (The tone of howling madness, bewilderment, and despairr!) So what I figured I’d do is dedicate this blog to three-panel sequences. They aren’t necessarily going to be funny or even have a point, they’re just explorations in putting pictures in sequence, kind of a freeform formal exercise. I’ll use Illustration Friday and various other internet memes and possibly my library of books once again as jumping-off points. There will be little experimentation with media, though: just three black and white panels per post. This comic reads like a Carol Lay cartoon, and what I’m going to do here in the near future will also follow that path, because Carol Lay is one of my very favorite cartoonists on this still somewhat green Earth. permalink | trackback uri | no comments -- if: capture by brandon as illustration friday — brandon Thu 10 Aug 2006 8:25 pm Ok, I’m trying to keep up here! I hardly have anything up on the walls and it’s getting to be a problem, I think. The thing is, as an artist, the stuff I’ve made to put up hasn’t functioned as decorations so much as self-criticism magnets. I mean, you don’t look at your sofa and go, damn, that one line is really bothering me. Why is it there and not here ? So the next few IF’s I’m gonna use to drive compositions that I’m going to – going to – be putting up on my walls! The final products, supposing they look good enough to get that far, will be large collage/ acrylic assemblages, I think 4 feet tall. Their dimensions will be identical. There will be 5 of them and they will go up in my little, bare-walled bedroom. This one, based on “capture,” is a composition sketch for one piece. 5 pictures in all. I said it here, it means I’m gonna do it. (#2 is “opposite,” that one theme I missed – still gonna get to that one!) Actual things on the walls! Finally, right? . . . permalink | trackback uri | 1 comment -- if: clean + sacrifice by brandon as illustration friday — brandon Thu 3 Aug 2006 2:34 pm Self-portrait of me in the mornings. I have been pretty bad about this lately, and I’m not sure many people at Illustration Friday are going to get to see this, seeing as how it’s Thursday afternoon – this is more for the three or four of you out there that have this blog on your blogrolls. Yes, I’m still around. Cough. Ooh, dizzy. I never did do one for “opposites” – I couldn’t think of anything, and that one should be pretty easy, right? – but “sacrifice” was an inspiration for one of my Nobody Scores! comics, where most of my efforts are going these days. Here’s a teaser: You can click on it to see the whole thing, if that sample failed to warn you away, which it should have. I’m telling you, no clicky. I’ll try to do make-up work on “opposites” next week along with whatever other theme rolls around. Yes, teacher. I’ll be good now. permalink | trackba...