New (awkwardly sized) Art

12Nov08

So, I haven’t posted in awhile, and I have a lot of new things to post, but i guess the best way would be to to stagger it all. Also I have a bunch of unfinished projects I really want to wrap up asap.

To start things off, I did a project for class that started in one place and ended somewhere entirely different. The resulting concept was “placing pop musicians in the context of fairy tales”. Here’s the finish:

gouache and ink

I decided to do a riff off of Hansel and Gretal featuring the band Tegan and Sara. The long format is a result of looking at Darger to much and is also a nod to the nice long pan you’d see in some old school animation. The background was actually a combination of Snow White and Bambi and was really fun to design.

Right now it’s about 95 percent done. I think I still need to tweak some things too make sure all the elements are clear. I’m still not you can tell the old witch lives in a Twinkie trailer with Hostess wheels…oh well i tried.

On a totally different note, here’s a life drawing from my sketchbook: