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Clowns used to be about the funny. Big shoes, crazy colors, and flying pies.
But now they about serial killers, nightmares and poison pies. What happened? I don’t know, maybe the trend toward clowns being poorly disguised evil started with that serial killer that dressed up like a clown.

Well clowns can still be funny. Or ironic, or whatever the hell the line drawing I’m posting implies them to be.

Originally titled “Pie-Slaughter”, this black and white drawing turned out better than I thought. Good enough to garner a spot at the Academy of Art spring show back at the beginning of 2007. Oh and I sold a print of it too.

My inspiration was the desire to illustrate an emotionally heavy post-man-slaughter situation, but replace the key players with clowns and weapons with pies.

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I’m wondering, now that I have the ability, whether or not to devote some time to coloring this piece on the computer. No wait, I know I should devote time to coloring this piece, but time is the problem right now.
Also, for your benefit, here is the preliminary perspective study for said drawing.