Paradigm Pirates

Rough sketches for the first few panels of Sublimation Next...

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:21:24 -0400

Rough sketches for the first few panels of Sublimation

Next comes refined sketches, color and value studies, then work on the final panels/gifs (those blue bits will glow via animation)

nightmarebrunette: pasithee: Gerhard Richter, Betty (1988) I...

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:39:32 -0400

nightmarebrunette:

pasithee:

Gerhard Richter, Betty (1988)

I went to a lecture once that a prolific writer in the art world gave. It was about, amongst other things, the “philosophy of beauty in art”, which I won’t try and elaborate on here. He was fantastic and engaging. He told us that to him Richter’s painting of his daughter, Betty, was the most beautiful painting in the world. He used the phrase “the most beautiful painting in the world,”. You don’t see her face, but you’re waiting and waiting for her to turn her blonde head to you, and you know that when she does you will see “the most beautiful face in the world,”. That is another thing he said.

I also think this painting is very beautiful, but I think it says something about our aesthetics if we’re struck by the beauty of something we can’t fully see. Perhaps anticipation is an aspect of beauty? I wouldn’t be able to answer that confidently.

Kierkegaard: “Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.”

I got to see this in person at SLAM. It really is beautiful. The out of focus print of her jacket pulls at your eyes. It makes demands of you.

yup

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:39:37 -0400

yup

http://arrestedmotion.com/2010/09/interview-alex-gross/ http://ww...

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:35:07 -0400

http://arrestedmotion.com/2010/09/interview-alex-gross/

http://www.alexgross.com/index.html

Nimit frickin’ Malavia I love those lines. When I shotgun...

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:27:47 -0400

Nimit frickin’ Malavia

I love those lines. When I shotgun my RSS reader, scrolling through pictures like I’m Alex being brain-washed, total information overload, I still see Nimit Malavia’s lines in the 5-posts-a-second blur.

Best part is this is a print.

http://nimitmalavia.com/index.php?/store/prints/

LOOK AT THAT NOSE! LOOK AT IT! Makes this little moan-grunt-grumble of affirmation escape from deep in my throat.

the footer on lick to experience (NSFW). Probably by Jaime, a...

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:00:49 -0400

the footer on lick to experience (NSFW). Probably by Jaime, a contributor to said blog.

I wanna lensflare the faces off people now.

LENSFLARE’D!

by fuckyoudraculas at lick to experience (NSFW).

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:01:08 -0400

by fuckyoudraculas at lick to experience (NSFW).

A complete GIF of the process of making this drawing. I think...

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:10:24 -0400

A complete GIF of the process of making this drawing.

I think I’m gonna do these progress GIFs all the time. I think they’re awesome. I wish I could see the process some of my favorite artists go through. Start to finish time lapse-style.

Alright, I’m done for tonight.

The finished drawing (see next post for complete GIF) I’m...

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:06:56 -0400

The finished drawing (see next post for complete GIF)

I’m done! YAY! Took awhile (tues-thurs) but I’m pretty much satisfied with the way it turned out.

Inspired by this painting (NSFW) by Conrad Roset. Check out his photostream, the Schiele influences are pretty obvious. I love Schiele. Just google Schiele (NSFW, at all) and you’ll see what I mean.

by Jaime at Lick to Experience (NSFW), a collaborative art blog...

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:48:45 -0400

by Jaime at Lick to Experience (NSFW), a collaborative art blog that is very rarely updated.

The post with this image in it (titled ‘static goo’) only appears in their RSS feed. The post itself is missing.

Work in Progress GIF - Click image for animation I make it slow...

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:28:37 -0400

Work in Progress GIF - Click image for animation

I make it slow down once at the white outline just so you can get a better look at it. I think it’s pretty rad looking at that point but I wanted to keep going.

GIF - Click through for animation by fuckyoudraculas (love that...

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:12:44 -0400

GIF - Click through for animation

by fuckyoudraculas (love that name so much) at Lick to Experience (NSFW), a mostly defunct artists collective blog that has lots of little gems like this.

supposed to be here, but it is not. Only appears in their RSS feed.

He says it’s based on the work of a Babsnoir, so I thought I’d post credit to her too.

Ideas for "The Farce"

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:26:03 -0400

- We’re off to save this puny town from the very embodiment of evil! I’ll need your most powerful weapons!
= evil killin’ weapons?
- Don’t give me that attitude, old man. I’m saving your life here.
= mm hmm. So what can I sell you?
-Sell? What’s money at a time like this?
= well if you’re confident you’re savin’ the world then I’ll still have a business to run once you’ve ushered in the Great Age of Peace, won’t I? I’ll need capital to expand.
- What!? What’s to stop me from just taking them from you?
=Sounds like the pure embodiment of evil talkin’ there. Don’t let it win kid. Fight it. I believe in you.
- Agh you’re right! That was close.

The Farce, Christopher Jewell

[The Farce will be the pre-War timeline that’s pretty much a straight parody of any stereotypical RPG or fantasy plot. In my comic. That I will be working on. Soon.]

From "A Primer on Ethereal Entanglements"

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:00:47 -0400

“Though natural dualisms occur most often lower on the spectrum, there exists the possibility that accretion of planetesimals and entanglement may occur at any point along the spectrum. Whatsmore, it is possible to have harmonies between objects that exist at different points along the spectrum or to have objects that span large portions of the spectrum instead of existing at a limited point. Objects may also bleed or fade along the spectrum, existing to a greater or lesser degree at different points. Furthermore, ethereal objects may interact with different physical objects at different points along the spectrum. This allows for multiple simultaneous conjunctions, among other complex configurations.”

A Primer on Ethereal Entanglements, Christopher Jewell

Doodle, Sept ‘10 I have to submit the bad stuff...

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:58:08 -0400

Doodle, Sept ‘10

I have to submit the bad stuff too.

Source for the photo I used? Pfft, I don’t know. From some tumblr. You know how it goes.

Ginger Root - July ‘10

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:58:38 -0400

Ginger Root - July ‘10

GIF - Inside My Head

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:52:30 -0400

GIF - Inside My Head

This is an animated GIF. Click through to see. New banner coming...

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:21:00 -0400

This is an animated GIF. Click through to see.

New banner coming up in a bit.

Little pattern doodling from what was mostly a wasted...

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:20:31 -0400

Little pattern doodling from what was mostly a wasted opportunity of a day.

From "The Undying"

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:08:33 -0400

“… [W]e may finally reach such a goal as self-actualization, as self-perfection, when freed from the chains of Death. One need not pour libations to unjust gods to save one’s soul from oblivion or Abyssal monstrosities. For sacrificing oneself unto the gods is to compromise what Reason dictates is good and right and just. Freedom is required to be truly virtuous, and to shatter the chains of Death is to be free to truly choose without coercion.”

Fragments of brainstorms and backstory from the Undying campaign, Christopher Jewell