Week 14: Lady Gaga - Drawn this Way

Image by Adrian Valencia. Check out Adrian's amazing work here.

Ever since she came on the scene, Lady Gaga has been bending the borders of music, fashion, and performance in way we haven't seen since 1980's Madonna. In the process, Gaga has built herself into an incredible multifaceted character accompanied by truly legendary costumes. They can be beautiful, compelling, disturbing, and sometimes outright bizarre, but they are always the most memorable part of the performance. Love her or hate her, Gaga brings these works of art into the public eye - and that is simply amazing.

 

We at the Rust Belt Haus of Fashion have been given the (pretend) assignment of a lifetime: Design Lady Gaga's next edgy look. Come see how couture we can get...

Wk 13: 2 More Warriors Enter!

A classic confrontation between the stoic Warrior Bob Ross and the Bazooka-Airbrush wielding artist.  Who will win?


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Wk.13: Fin Fang Whom?

My bits of our collaborative piece: El Artisto, fighter of monsters, lover of ladies vs. Fin Fang Tippy, multi headed hydra and infamous befuddler of Artists everywhere!

Week 12: Marge!

It's been a hectic week at the Crider Compound, so I apologize for the lateness. 

 I've been scribbling a lot lately, and it's been a real blast to see my style evolve.  Apparently this is how I draw when I throw my layouts to the side and jam freely. 

 I've spent hours studying simpsons episodes for storytelling techniques, and my early comic book work isn't much more than Simpsons fan fiction.  Even now I'm still cribbing from Futurama and Groening designs, sometimes without realizing it. 

Aside from visual inspiration, The Simpsons shaped my worldview. It taught me to question everything and laugh while I do it.  Which is arguably the only artistic inspiration you really need.

Meanwhile at the Hall of Justice...

This week in the Rust Belt we are trying a Collective first, a collaborative piece! Drawn and Quartered is an annual event in Cleveland where area life drawing groups (GO CLEVELAND DR. SKETCHY!) and other groups of Artists meet for gladiator style combat! By gladiator style combat I mean group drawing competitions in front of an audience. It's a lot of fun and a great event so we've decided to collaborate on a flyer to help advertise!
The concept comes from our collective childhood, "The Challenge of the Superfriends." What will we do with it? Stay tuned and you will find out!

Week 12: Preview

Oh dear... I'm running really late this week.
Here is a little taste of what's coming:

sorry!

Wk:12 Old Man Yells at Cloud

From the thirteenth episode of the thirteenth season (thank you Wikipedia) came the best illustration of, futility, impotent rage that I have ever seen and it's been stuck in my mind ever since. Love Grandpa Simpson!
This piece is pencil and ink and colored in Photoshop. Messing around a bit more with ink line, I should say with ink that doesn't come out of crowquill dipped and ink to varying success. I have yet to find a non dipped ink pen that I like but I am enjoying the experimentation.

Tim W12: "Ho-Mar, What is best in life...?"

By Crom! I finally finished my week 12 "Simpsons" challenge (5 weeks late)! My "van worthy" mash up of Homer Simpson meets Robert E. Howard (and comic books), ...I don't think there is a more perfect summation of my entertainment tastes.

 -Tim

The old line drawing is posted over here.

For a giant size image of the painting, sans the comic stuff, CLICK HERE