The weekly challenge word on Monday Artday is “glass”
um……… oops.
IF: rejection
This week’s word on illustrationfriday.com is “rejection”
As inspired by Charles Laughton (from Spartacus), the ancient Roman emperor shows his disapproval.
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SFG: summer vacation
In 1999, a group of friends from the southern California goth community gathered at Disneyland on the third Sunday in August, for an unofficial Disney event called “Bats Day in the Fun Park“. The next year, more people got wind of the gathering. Year after year, the attendees grew, until 2006, when Bats Day 8 drew approximately 3000! For the past three years, my family and I have been part of this annual event at Disneyland, travelling all the way from Philadelphia.
I still can’t decide which is cooler…. Seeing all the goths at Disneyland or seeing all of the “regular” guests seeing all the goths at Disneyland. Bats Day in the Fun Park 2007 is August 17-19. Hope to see you there!
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Monday Artday: mystical
This week’s challenge at Monday Artday is “mystical“.
Max Schreck, as movie legend tells it, was mystical. He was a German actor. He supposedly kept to himself and not much was known about his life outside of acting. His most famous role was Count Orlock in the 1922 silent film “Nosferatu“, notoriously based on (although unauthorized) the novel Dracula. The story is, that during the filming of “Nosferatu“, Max stayed in character, would only shoot his scenes at night and came to the set in full theatrical make-up. There were rumors that Max was actually a vampire. In the movie Shadow of the Vampire, that is exactly how Willem Dafoe played him.
However, these stories are total fabrication. Max was just an actor on stage and screen, appearing in 51 movies in sixteen years. He died in 1936 of a heart attack. No wooden stakes were involved.
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IF: suit
The weekly challenge at illustrationfriday.com is “suit”
I have been working as a professional artist, in one capacity or another, for almost 25 years. In that time, at every job I have ever had, there are guys in suits. They are very far removed from the end result of what the business produces. Yet, as far as they are from the day-to-day work process, they always have the perfect solution for making things work better. Mostly, their suggestions (or demands) are so insignificant, that it seems they are merely justifing their presence. It is the employees doing the actual work that keep a business running. It is the job of the “suits” to fuck things up.
This is dedicated to the people who actually work. You know who you are. Um…. no…. not you.
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from my sketchbook
I pass this guy, in the train station tunnel between 15th and 16th Streets, on my way to work. He is there most mornings, in his tux, playing an unusual assortment of songs on his flute. The one he plays most often… “Hava Nagila“.
He has no trouble getting coffee. I also pass four Dunkin Donuts, in the underground train tunnel, in a block and a half.
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Monday Artday: warrior
The weekly challenge word over at Monday Artday is “warrior“.
Here’s how I arrived at this:
I searched warrior at wikipedia, and I came up with a general description of war and battles and the people who love them. Then I came to a section about women warriors, specifically a character named Vishpala.
Vishpala was a woman in the Rigveda, a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to Rigvedic deities. It is counted among the four Hindu sacred texts known as the Vedas.
Vishpala is helped in battle by the Ashvins (the doctors of gods). She lost her leg in Khela’s battle and they gave her a “leg of iron” so that she could keep fighting. Cool!
This immediately brought to mind Rose McGowan’s character in the “Planet Terror” segment of “Grindhouse“.
Many, many years ago, when I was in art school, I was taught to always look for reference material (or ‘scrap’) before doing an illustration. I searched Yahoo and Google for Female Warriors. This resulted in page after page of predominantly two things: scantily-clad Frazetta amazons wielding giant broadswords and pictures of Xena. I thought, “If these women are headed for battle, wouldn’t they be covered in armor?”
So, no femme fatale military bimbos for me. My Vishpala is using her new, god-given iron leg to kick some enemy ass!
Let me know what you think.
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IF: your paradise
This week’s word (actually, two words) on illustrationfriday.com is “your paradise“.
Hint: I don’t gamble.
Let me know what you think…..
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SFG: television
The weekly challenge over at sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “television”
Who hasn’t heard these words in their lifetime…
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale/A tale of a fateful trip…” ?
Sure, everyone claims they “hate it“, they think it’s “stupid“… but everyone has seen at least one episode. Everyone instantly recognizes the theme song. Every guy has had the Ginger/Mary Ann debate. Everyone has questioned why did the Howell’s bring every dollar of their wealth and a friggin’ chest of clothes on a three-hour tour, but Gilligan just brought that one red shirt. Everyone has wondered how the professor can make a washing machine out of bamboo and coconuts, but he can’t fix a two-foot hole in an otherwise unharmed boat.
Screw Lost, Gilligan’s Island is why we love televison.
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Monday Artday: Join Us
I was accepted to yet another illustration blog, monday artday. Every Monday, they offer a challenge and the first one I did is this week’s – “Join Us”.
They have a lot of puppies and flowers and children playing and smiley faces.
I hope they don’t kick me out.
Let me know what you think.