Baaad Drawing.

A Stamp of Disapproval.

Baaad drawings are the bane of an artist's existence! Like demons, we must exorcise them or learn to be friends with them.

I find myself stamping this sheep on various drawings that I have done. Mentally of course. It's a way for me to stop taking myself seriously instead of agonising over how a drawing went. A coping mechanism, I guess. It works for me.

The drawing itself is subconscious. Gotta be aware of this self critic lurking quietly in the background!

Everyone's their own worst critic. Deep inside, we're harsh with ourselves. We don't need a sounding board from others to know that. Only by choice do we allow their words to hurt us.

So, be nice to yourself.

Be compassionate.

Don't take yourself seriously, or anyone else either, or even this Stamp of Disapproval!

And a Sea Of...

And a sea of Bad drawings from which the sleepy croco ( http://mindminersmining.blogspot.com/2009/11/sleepy-croco.html ) has been airlifted away from. One sheep isn't too bad, but when a bunch of these guys show up, you can be sure you'll be losing sleep over it. They'll move into your space, eat your thoughts, litter the noble sanctuaries of your mind and just downright aggravate your sense of well-being. Instead of counting sheep to go to sleep, these guys will keep you awake. On purpose!

Collectively I think instead of "sea" it should be "crop" or some other word. A crop of bad drawings! But it's meant to go along with the sleepy croco pic.

There are some interesting collective names for animals out there. A parliament of owls, a murder of crows, a clutch or chattering of chicks, a brood of chicken, an intrusion of cockroaches, a weyr of dragon, a pod of whales, etc.

Sleepy Croco

This drawing has been airlifted straight out of a sea of bad drawings. It has been sleeping peacefully ever since.

It now needs a new home.

Too Much Coffee.

bic pen
computer paper
Embellished w/ Photoshop


Drawing scanned from my computer paper collection.

Computer paper, 1/6in Greenbar, 1 part, 20 lb., 14-7/8 inch by 11 inch - 2700/CT for those curious about the kind of paper used.

Feel free to comment over at the Deviant site. Thanks in advance. =P

Note: Comments are off because I had some phishing sites being used in the comments section before and I'd hate it for some of you to click on that before I could delete them in time.

Freaky Franken Foods!

bic pen on paper
coloured on Pshop

I made the file bigger in case you wanted to read the text.

Snailiens up top. The spaceman-superhero'ish charactersx2 type might belong to the snailien idea. Was a semi-stream of consciousness thingamabob.

Coloured stuff: Pumpkinhead revisited. It's got company this time! Baaaad company.

Originally created during the Biotech Revolution.

Biotech companies in their mad dash to be the first in the world to patent all of nature's genes and other genetic secrets for their own personal gains, have recklessly created monstrosities in their name, to wage secret wars over other companies for rights of their patents. For Greed! power! arrogance! madness! Oh the humanity! For shame.

These creatures were aborted once it got up to a certain stage in development. They were then disposed afterwards to hide their companies' secret going-ons. However, by some sheer luck or circumstance the genetic material, due to biotech scientitsts needless twinking shenanigans, has managed to survive and grow unaided. Or something like that. ( Nature rules! )

Now they spread like a plague, covertly, under the ground only to emerge at night-time to forage for food.

What kind of food? Maybe us? Forward set of eyes, canine teeth. What the? Are they predators? What the deuce were those biotech guys thinking? Who knows!

Based on a true story. With other embellishments and "creative liberties" F U Hollywood.


Happy Hallowe'en.

A bit late for Hallowe'en. I had this posted over to my Deviantart a couple of days prior.

Does anyone else have hangups over reposting the same material over to different sites? I suppose there are some things that would read better on a blog than on a site like DA.

Feel free to comment over at the Deviant site. Thanks in advance. =P

Note: Comments are off because I had some phishing sites being used in the comments section before and I'd hate it for some of you to click on that before I could delete them in time.

Snailiens at it again.

My obsession with all things snails hasn't ended yet. Maybe I'll be known as "that guy who keeps on drawing snails". A typecast if you will. Haven't I said this before? Oh well, ignore that if I did.

Lately, I've decided to mess around with an old scanned drawing of snailiens on photoshop. Hurray!

Gotta love the scan in all its messiness. That's some good weathered down and abused computer paper right there.

Anyways, the drawing wasn't drawn all in one go. It took a period over days. I would leave the drawing pad ( really, its computer paper) by my bedside so that whenever I go to bed to take off my crutches (hearing aid/glasses/etc) I would take a glance at the drawing before I go to sleep. Whenever I do look at them, I would see them in a new way with the paper being upside down, at a 45 degree angle or whatever. Now this is usually a bad idea to try this right before bed time! If you do happen to catch something cool with your eye, then you will be forced to draw it out, which I did anyways despite feeling dead tired with rigor mortis setting in.

Now onto photoshop! Bring on the PAIN.tings. Nothing too serious here. I just felt like dabbing in and out with these sort of things

A billion layers later, this is how it ended up before I got totally sick of it and called it a day. It's a painting based off figure c.) minus the long eye stalks which I felt was way too wonky for its head. I suppose I could have made them more slimmer but at the moment I thought castration was the best answer.
Then for some reason I felt like sabotaging it somewhat by squishing/squashing some parts, cloning other parts, making certain parts bigger and so on. The result is the last painting you see on the bottom.

Well, there you have it. It's not that totally different but it was a lot of fun.

Oh, It's salivating because I'm hungry. =(


Also, there are a couple other works-in-progress sitting on the backburner just waiting to ooOooze all over this space.

Faces, faces and more faces.

Oh boy. I got carried away over at Flash Face...

It's a pretty fun thing to do and a nice way to warm up the mind before drawing. Perhaps you could even draw from the finished results as a warm up exercise too.