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So if you read up on this guys life, it kinda speaks to how its a bummer to be the only bad dude who gets caught and doesn't tell on the other bad dudes. It also speaks to how plausible deniability is totally useful.

Also I've been kind of all about these face wrinkles lately.

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People looked pretty cool in the 1850's as a rule. I have yet to see a picture from that decade that didn't get me a little bit pumped.

These are some bad dudes who did some bad things in the 1850's.

I think they'll be pretty cool when I put some ink on them.

Kapow Meow

This is me powering up before I do real things.

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Lion V.1 Shark (Alternate)

"Line is like my fave"

-Romantic

Puppo - Alternate version.

Hey dudes, I might try and do this right later on but this came out pretty cool so maybe not. This is what happens when all I sit around watching deadwood for six and a half hours and can't get these pictures to look right.

Other than the Gorilla Gorilla skull, these are studies for more Chomsky Stuff. When planning this I was struggling to come up with symbols for Pakistan, India, China, Russia, and America. America and Russia were quick, the bear and eagle, as was China, the other bear. India was at first going to be an elephant, but was changed to the tiger both because it works better for a piece about militarism and because it fits with the trend I had going of using the national animals to represent these nations. I had no idea what to use for Pakistan although settling on national animals solved this issue. I am proud to say that while brainstorming on the couch I said to Tim, " Maybe a goat or something?" only to find out that the national animal of Pakistan is a Markhor, which is indeed a goat, or something. Actually Pakistan has many many symbolic animals. China has many as well. This is noteworthy because one Chinese national animal according to wikipedia is a dragon. China is the only country I know of with a make believe animal as a national animal, they don't give a hoot what you think they do what they want. Giant Dams, sick Opening Games, industrial might, oodles of executions, DRAGONS, China's got 'em and there isn't a thing we can say to change that. Ballers.

Lesser animals and Back issues of NGM. Thanks Book Thing.

Bubble Bubble toil and trouble.

Andre Royo, as Bubbles from The Wire, is one of my favorite subjects to draw. I've been trying to get better at showing how light falls over forms with all these ink drawings, and I think its working out pretty well.

Also, I while drawing Bubbles, I often think of Bioshock, and think of that other Mr. Bubbles.

Bird on the Wire

Fredro Star, of the hardcore rap group Onyx, was pretty awesome on The Wire, and had some beautiful vitriolic rants while handcuffed to a table in a BPD interrogation room.

More portraits for your perusal and enjoyment

So I watched Fringe last, night, and Lance Reddick was playing a pretty awesome CO again. It was pretty cool, even if Joshua Jackson isn't exactly my sort of action hero.




also here is a picture I think is better of Michael K. Williams, who played Omar Little, the legendary stick up boy from The Wire. I really should probably stop rendering things, because I don't like to, and think there's so much more zazz in these high contrast drawings. Maybe I'll color it later.

Frog and Toad are friends

Toads are pretty cool, frogs too. One time I saw frog on a menu, and I totally would have gotten it, but sadly, I was hungover and didn't think they would be good for my gizzards.

Vicky Vale, V-V-Vicky Vale, Bat maaaaaaan

In Leviticus they say you should not eat bats. That is what I learned sophomore year in college. It is pretty good advice because all bats do is make St. Bernards into monsters which is tragic, as the St. Bernard is meant to save hikers with its tiny brandy barrel, and not terrorize the countryside. In short, don't trust no bats.

What I did this summer

Remember that bit about watching too much of The Wire? It didn't stop with school. Sometimes I liked to pretend I was being productive while watching it by drawing the characters from it. Featured here are Lance Reddick, or Lt. Cedric Daniels and a fourteen year old Jimmy Jelani Manners, or Kevin Johnston.

You may recognize Reddick from his recurring roles on Oz and every other procedural though probably not because I draw his head funny.

You may recognize Manners from Step Up 2: The Streets.

I drew some stuff in sketchbooks. Its pretty awesome.

The last days of junior year were characterized by staying up late doing homework and watching The Wire. I once walked to the same junk shop Bubbles frequents. Modern Junk and Salvage Co.

There is something that is endlessly alluring about a fish in a suit.



Doing things like this during AH-390 History of Film is probably why I got a B- instead of that A I think I deserved. That or walking out on those melodramas. Still, drawing a pretty rad Dracula is totally worth dragging down the GPA.