The Ting Tings are too much. And plus Katie White in the “Great DJ” video wears her bangs like Megan from 100 Bullets. Jeez.

Some practice.

… except for when they forget to draw in Ashitaka’s nipples.

You’re WELCOME.

The Suicide Girls models come up with some great aliases for themselves.  Two of my faves are “Roach” and “Napalm.”  This chick just wasn’t trying that hard, but I can’t blame her for showin’ some homeland pride.  However, that name which takes the cake as the best to date (imo) is “Fractal.”  Sweet!

I think a really horrible name for a Suicide Girl would be “Botox.”

Okay, so like two years ago I got called upon by the Academy of Art to be one of their Illustration Dept. representatives via these banners they put up on the sides of their 79 New Montgomery building. Here’re some photos that Jenn took:

You may notice that beneath my three names (artsy!) and that photo of my swollen, swollen head is an “artist statement” that I drunkedly composed one night, set aside for soberer times, and whittled from like 1,000,000 words down to 150. I wrote:

“I’ll try not to just draw and wait for something to happen. Too often people think that logging hours into a craft is enough to master it, as if skill were a paycheck. Awareness is just as important as time invested – the artist has to be conscious of where his drawings take him, good or bad.

This awareness can be faked to an extent, and even result in financial success. But in its purest form it could be described as love. Love for craft such that the artist treats art as something to fight for instead of a means for self-promotion. Success will come after love by nature, though other people might find it hard to define what exactly that success is.

Sounds pretty naive, right? But still. I don’t think my 50-year-old self would regret that I wrote this.”

I regret the grammar and some of the word choice, but not the cheese. At the end of “Serenity,” Malcolm Reynolds says more or less the same thing about flying spaceships (and life - duh), but with much cooler verbage.

You know what’s neat, though!? The posters’ve been taken down since the Academy’s fall semester started, but they’re up on google streetview! HahahahaHA!

*zzzt*

Mostly quickstudies.

In other news:

And by “2007,” the banner means “December 7, 2007,” which is like tomorrow.
For the last two years I watched Derek produce amazing digital art for his game, while also balancing his work with a healthy social-life. But of late Derek’s (and no doubt his compadre Alec’s) existence has been all Shaolin. He’s sacrificed life-amenititties like sleep and sunlight to make his final pre-release days count. And if the game’s as good as I seen it mid-development, then by tomorrow it’s going to be stellar. “Aquaria” is an old-school shooter/platformer RPG set underwater with a really immersive environment (i.e. addictive time-sink). When you’re not destroying wildlife, riding the crystal-turtle-public-transit-system or dodging lasers belched from the maw of some aquatic demi-god, you’re probably just swimming around, watching your character grow up, gazing stupidly at your vast and nuanced surroundings. How does one create this shit? With love, fool. With love. Check it out here.

Next:

Volume 1 of the Popgun anthologies is (sold) out. Hopefully I can get a copy next week. It’s a collection of limited-print/unprinted one-shots by established artists coupled with short comics from people who haven’t made it in the scene yet. My favorite of the internet previews so far is from this dude Sheldon Vella. Lotsa talent in lotsa book (450 pages)!

And:

I’m trying to learn some more digital painting techniques and I started a DeviantArt account. Maybe with the above painting I can gain DA respec’ by cornering the “dinosaur panties” searchstring.

For those of you Photoshop nerds, here’s what happens when I take the painting, set its layer mode to “overlay,” and place it over a layer comprised of muted yellows varying in value:

‘nother FAnART: