Posted by frogisis on October 21, 2009 – 1:56 pm
Feeling a lot better today. I’d been taking over the counter sleeping pills to help normalize my schedule, but they just made me feel like a complete slug the next day so I quit, and now I have the energy to face whatever I need to do without making rude grumbling noises that I hope my neighbors can’t hear. I also watched some old-fashioned melodramatic giant robot action which, god help me, still fires me up far more than it reasonably should. …Super Lightning Kiiiiick! <-- Right, like that.
Going to work more on the inks today, then head over and do some standup at a friend's comedy showcase. Need to go get some more fresh green food that came out of the dirt, too... All out of healthy stuff except for a few very disappointing apples.
Well, I better stop padding out this post with nonsense about robots and apples, and instead show you something humanoid for your eyes to chew on:
It’s the in-progress version of the promotional image for the St. James episode I’m currently working on. More important to finish the actual content, I suppose, but I still gotta polish off this baby at some point - Something I can’t do while typing, so I’ll end here. Goodbye for now, I’m sure we’ll meet again.
Posted by frogisis on October 16, 2009 – 3:03 pm
Trying to update more frequently like I was doing when I was living in Montana - It’s always tough to build a new daily or weekly schedule when you shift locations, especially if there are no “bones” to give it structure, like school or a Nine-to-Five. But I just got back from my daily run in the park, and am feeling that syrupy, chilled, numb-yet-satisfied feeling that comes with being proactive and responsible, and thought, “why not update now?” resulting in the sentence you are currently reading, as well as this one: It is time to work on the inks for the “Tomb of Achilles” comic for St. James, as well as work a little on another painting currently sitting wet and ready on my easel. I finished a small one the other day and am waiting for it to dry, and then I will have a scan up; I really need a new digital camera… In the mean time, here is a goofy little drawing based on a friend’s Facebook status:
I don’t even know…
Going to Madison, WI on Saturday, will be back Monday with more drawn, painted, or otherwise created objects.
Posted by frogisis on September 21, 2009 – 11:59 am
Filed under Fun, Project, Sketch
…That may not be technically correct, either grammatically or as a statement about reality, but it was the first title I thought of when I wanted to do a post about how I had some family in town this past week, which was a grand old time. We did the whole Chicago tour - Especially the art galleries, which were simultaneously inspiring and infuriating - And I now also have a new cellphone desktop photo of my feet suspended over skyscrapers, as seen from the new transparent Sears Tower ledge.
Did some work while being visited, too, but nothing heavy. Now I’m doing some promotional images for the “Ex Occultus” series I’m working on with St. James comics, before diving into the next installment:
Going to polish that off today and then hit the next one, a more traditional montage of all the characters in exciting poses.
There is also a small canvas sitting on my easel with a sketch on it of an uncanny conflagration of the color yellow that I saw at Walgreens the other day… I’d like to paint that as a warmup for that “Astrolabe” deal in the post below…
Posted by frogisis on September 13, 2009 – 10:08 am
Filed under Fun, Project, Sketch
The last couple of days I have had difficulty reigning myself in, so I am going to spend the day at a coffee shop away from distractions to really get my current workload finished.
It hasn’t been all spazzing out, though - It seems when I just kind of let my subconscious do the drawing, I get a big mass of geometric shapes surrounding and interacting with “real” objects, so I decided I’m just going to roll with that and did this ballpoint pen sketch that will eventually become a large oil painting, as soon as I can figure out what color palate I want:
Posted by frogisis on August 20, 2009 – 10:44 pm
Filed under Content, Gallery
Finishing off a short adventure for St. James Comics - I’ll post a link for that once it’s ready for purchase.
Figured I might as well add that “Fate Circuit” proposal to the comics section - Go check it out if you feel like a hefty read.
In the mean time, back to work.
Posted by frogisis on August 11, 2009 – 4:04 pm
Haven’t posted in a while, but I haven’t been working on anything I’d feel honest posting up here in public until it’s finished, so this’ll just be some incidental sketches and musings to prove I’m busy and not dead.
Here are two 4-panel strips I recently did for a project that later got cancelled:
Here’s a quick drawing I did a month or two ago as a kind of summer fun thing - Haven’t drawn those characters from Urusei Yatsura in a while:
Speaking of summer fun, I downloaded this album last night, and part of the reason I’m posting today is because I want to evangelize:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flight-602-Aim/dp/B000GPI3NU
It’s billed as “dance,” but it’s a bit too musically ambitious and intelligent for that description alone - Yeah, there are some clever polyrhythmic beats and basslines so rubbery you could use them as a trampoline, making something you can definitely get up and bop around to, but a better use is to sit calmly (drawing…?) and nod to the beat as the music puts images in your brain. Niko delivers some excellent vocals, as well, turning the album into a kind of musical chronicle of an entire urban summer. This is music for the “slacker cognoscenti” - If you’re one of those people who bristles at electronic music as soulless beeps for weird skinny kids in baggy pants, this will change your mind.
Posted by frogisis on July 21, 2009 – 12:13 am
It might be a few hours late, but Happy 40th to the Apollo astronauts - Awesome stuff. People here might know I have a bit of a thing for space exploration, so I’m pretty jazzed about the whole thing.
For finality, here’s something of mine. I’m working with St. James Comics on a series of short stories about 19th Century adventurers dealing with the occult, and this is a preliminary character design. It’s only the first round on the way to further development, so I still feel honest posting it here:
Posted by frogisis on July 16, 2009 – 5:10 pm
Filed under Project, Sketch
Today I have for you a jumpjet design for “Whiz Kids.” Waiting to hear back from the writer, but I’m going to go on and do some layouts for it.
Posted by frogisis on July 14, 2009 – 10:52 pm
Turns out the temporary internet connection I had here wasn’t up to snuff, but I’ve gone and gotten proper DSL from the fine people at AT&T. I also finished four acrylic paintings for the APW Gallery’s “Something Different” exhibition in Long Island, which you can see in the “Paintings” section. The four of them go together and are titled “The Four Stages of a Most Inappropriate Oath Bearer,” which was a phrase I heard in a dream where I was trying to figure out what to paint. It’s about the evolution an idea goes through when put through the meat grinder of revision and procrastination - Try to find themes that are carried over from one to the other.
Going to get to work now on some other projects, and I learned today I might be joining a co-op that does murals here in Chicago - That’d be a fun experience and a good way to meet other artists… Anyway, further updates as events warrant.
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