What’s to look at?

When I look at the drawing I posted today, I smile, because even though I drew the thing I have to try and figure out where the details came from. Sort of like trying to find the meaning in a weird dream.

This is because even though most of the big elements of the composition were thought out in my sketches, which I have also posted, I came up with everything else as I tried to fill in the empty spaces in the composition.

Drama!

The houses, suburbia, are an image and concept that has been on my mind. I don’t like suburbia. The houses, hunched together yet isolated from each other and far from their food sources make me mad. The crevice that is expanding and eating away at the suburbs probably comes from watching a documentary on people building beach houses that fall victim to errosion, then building houses near the same place again. The penguins marching along, from who knows where, are cool. I like penguins, I think most people do, cause penguins just don’t give a shit.

B & W

The wild mouthed tractor going to fame from no fame is my depiction of a lack inhibition.

The flying ship is an homage to the MAD blimp thing that would float around the pages of MAD magazine, an artist and reader in-joke.

I don’t know if the blimp thing still makes appearances. I wanted to draw it though, and it took plenty of false starts to get it drawn convincingly in Isometric Perspective.

Where Ideas are Fleshed out.

The second part to this assignment was to take markers to the drawing and put in shading.

First shade it to like sunlight, then shade it to look like light is coming from one point within the drawing. The drawings I posted here do not look like the originals, these have had their contrast upped in photoshop because they needed it. Yeah, I still have a problem with value in my compositions, I’m working to fix this. In the meantime, Enjoi.