tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51804569244616218302024-03-05T15:37:04.984-08:00VolpaneA sketchbook blog.Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-19211384074179421892020-07-16T11:50:00.004-07:002020-07-16T11:50:37.305-07:00Pre-school artwork, 1970, the Proverbial Apple Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is a bit of early artwork I did when I was about four or five years old in pre-school in California. It is a crayon transfer from a piece of sandpaper to a piece of cotton bed sheet. I remember doing a few of these because it was made from simple shapes and essentially solid colors. Initially I just drew the tree and grass, but having been encouraged by a teacher, I added the sun, the flower and apples as an afterthought. I keep this on my desk to remind me that even a simple idea, when fleshed out can be inspirational.Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-14763738190466490682019-10-07T15:59:00.000-07:002019-12-12T15:29:33.986-08:00Deep-Breakfast Therapy and The Threat of Failure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I think I'm ready to talk about this strip now. It's only been twenty-eight years since I wrote it down in my sketchbook, but it still feels raw and silly. In fact, it sat there in my sketchbook as a very rough outline without really being drawn out and inked. I was living in Seattle working for Fantagraphics Books in their circulation department. At that time I didn't have a therapist, but that did come later. </div>
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The title, of course, refers to one of my favorite albums of music, <a href="https://www.listentothis.info/2015/11/ray-lynch-deep-breakfast-1984/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Deep Breakfast" by Ray Lynch</a>. This strip is an homage to the Dick Tracy newspaper meta-strips that were Chester Gould's attempts at self-parody back in the Sixties, featuring speaking wood shavings and named appropriately <a href="http://www.tcj.com/a-tricky-cad-the-gravies-sawdust-and-chester-gould/" target="_blank">"Sawdust"</a>. I think the rest speaks for itself... After all, it is an animated <i>corn-flake</i>.</div>
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"Homey-boye" was a pseudonym I came up with to commemorate a passing fancy with a cute bank teller I regularly saw during work hours. Initially, I didn't think he was flirting with me directly, but once we'd been acquainted and determined to be friendly, he dubbed me "my homeboy" and I was naturally too flattered and a bit confused as I didn't really pick up any attraction vibe from him before. The next week he invited me to a performance of his <i>Ska</i> band, where he said he was playing bongos. </div>
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It was at a pub in Pioneer Square and the music was good, but strangely the drummer for the band was someone else and there were no bongos to be seen. At first, I thought I'd wandered into the wrong bar as I was almost immediately targeted by women wanting to dance with me. I was clearly out of my element and once the band was done, I went home by myself. I couldn't help but feel I was somewhat "set-up". </div>
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I don't remember if we talked again about his absence at the performance. I also found myself seeing the bank teller less at the bank windows I visited, which again I do not remember now if that was by intention or circumstance. In my mind, I like to think he was intentionally flirting and then seeing me speaking with women at the bar, changed his mind and lost interest, even if this is purely an imagined scenario and doesn't really account for the substitute drummer or the women coming onto to me aggressively. </div>
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Nonetheless, I only used "Homey-boy" a few times more as a signature, changing the spelling each time, because I couldn't wrap my head around using what I thought of as a "street" term that was otherwise entirely unfamiliar to me. You can take the boy out of the country...</div>
<br />Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-81112481721703808852018-12-25T14:53:00.001-08:002020-10-25T14:46:43.930-07:00December 1972, Memories of Sledding in Northern Idaho<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Something I drew in school back in 1st grade. It was a challenging year for me, because our family had lost our home to fire after moving to Northern Idaho from California. This picture commemorated the experience of sledding in the snow.<br />
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There is something of a story there beyond the subject matter. I remember distinctly I'd gotten a low grade on that project, basically because it was about following instructions and not about creating a memory image. <br />
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Miss Olive, our matronly teacher was something of a martinet, when it came to giving us instructions and I'd already established my problem with authority whenever she singled me out for discipline. I wasn't a problem student, I just didn't like her manner of raising her voice with me, so I admit I would respond by sticking my tongue at her in defiance. <br />
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Anyway, she'd started this exercise with having us write our names in the middle of the large piece of construction paper we were each given. She'd lead into it saying we were doing art, but I knew you signed an artwork after you created it and I wasn't willing to put my name to something I hadn't already committed to paper, so I resisted the instructions. Turns out it was a practicality, because we were going to finish our crayon drawings with a whitewash to simulate snow.<br />
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Luckily there were other people besides myself who didn't put their names on the back either, so before they were hung on a bulletin board we were singled out to write our names on them. A month later, when they were handed back to us to bring them home, the teacher apparently had trouble deciphering my name, so again I was singled out to retrieve my drawing from a pile of unknowns.<br />
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Upon examining how I'd written my name I realized I'd just written a vertical line for the "h" in my name. But, why didn't she recognize my name with those well crafted lower case letter "a's"? Hmm, maybe that is what threw her off. So I wrote the uppercase letter "a", and corrected the letter "h" with it's lowercase hook...and then realized what a mess I'd made of my signature. Demoralized by this, I wondered if I could ever write my name with finesse.Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-3958824535962751192018-06-16T12:54:00.002-07:002020-10-25T14:49:17.509-07:00Inspiration from my garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Occasionally, but not often these days, my photography gives way to my artistic impulses. Here is an image I created with animation in mind. Unfortunately my ability and inclination to animate has largely remained dormant. I shared this image on Facebook, largely because it falls in time and subject matter with photos I'd been posting there. You can follow <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nathan.kibler/media_set?set=a.10154988430513021.1073741857.587218020&type=3">this link</a> to see what I have there. You may have to log into Facebook if you are not already registered there before.Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-76317107286885875602017-03-19T11:28:00.000-07:002019-03-16T16:43:56.438-07:00The Inspiration of art books from the Seattle Public Library<div style="text-align: center;">
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The Seattle Public Library is a wonderful resource for inspiration. These three images came from books I checked out from the library, only I couldn't tell you now what the books were. The blocky image of the two children holding hands and the slightly Mesopotamian figure wearing the leaf shift were taken from a graphic novel I didn't bother reading, only flipping through the pages and thinking why would someone attempt to tell such a confusing story. </div>
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As I remember, the artist and writer don't stick in my mind well, but I do remember finding the artwork crude, the coloring basically green and greyish throughout, and something eerie about these images caused me to copy them down in my sketchbook. The child's face in the lower right seemed to express the discomfort the other images brought me, but I think that was based on a photograph. Unfortunately I don't remember the details very well.</div>
<br />Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-73731826218596790462017-03-18T10:58:00.000-07:002018-09-15T10:59:55.498-07:00Archaic Grecian Statuary - nudity alert<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5ay2S8H5lwnYdVmxU5zJefow-P-cycWSP1kt2zQKHOHY_aXeFyS-n6WmKRWXTraURcmThJF-b-43P4-e-6GdskHBGf6rd1wuZJ6Xda3wckKa3AFI2n_6QmbzIqQ5emSqtUurWQ7ucLz4/s1600/scan0013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5ay2S8H5lwnYdVmxU5zJefow-P-cycWSP1kt2zQKHOHY_aXeFyS-n6WmKRWXTraURcmThJF-b-43P4-e-6GdskHBGf6rd1wuZJ6Xda3wckKa3AFI2n_6QmbzIqQ5emSqtUurWQ7ucLz4/s320/scan0013.jpg" width="236" /></a><br /><br />For those of you looking for the naughty stuff in my sketchbooks, you won't likely find it here. I put the disclaimer on this blog because I discuss gender and sexuality here, but I have posted before about where I am posting the naughty stuff and if you care to see it, it is not difficult to find. And anyone really wishing to engage with my naughty drawings can easily contact me directly. I would love to share them with you.<br />
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Anyway, you will see nudity here occasionally, but mostly non-sexualized nudity. For example, these sketches from a photobook of Grecian funeral statuary. The head of a young man, examining the contours of how the hair is rendered and a Kouros or full standing figure. I saw several of these latter statues while visiting the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City back in the summer of 1989.<br />
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Besides an impressive collection of antiques, they also had an impressive sampling of Modern Painters and other artist's works, namely a very large Monet's Waterlilies which took up a full wall of the upstairs gallery and modern sculpture like Duane Hanson's "Security Guard", which I thought was very appropriate in a contemporary art museum. I wish I'd had a weeks time to investigate the whole building, but of course these days they have more buildings.<br />
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Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-67813456093721212852017-03-17T11:13:00.000-07:002018-09-15T11:29:21.728-07:00Stylized faces - Inspiration from Commercial Art<div style="text-align: center;">
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You sometimes see amazing commercial art produced in the city. These four faces were quickly sketched from oversized ink on paper illustrations as part of a window display for a Bead shop up on Broadway Ave. in Capitol Hill in Seattle, back in the early Nineties. They were clearly based on glamour portraiture of Hollywood Actresses, but the reason I captured them here was the clear and simple way they'd been rendered creating striking images for an otherwise difficult to market item: beaded jewelry.<br />
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I actually worked on these in separate sessions, riding by on the bus and holding them in my mind as I attempted to recreate the simple strokes, later inking the width and direction of the strokes. Unfortunately the display was only up for one month and it was taken down before I could capture all the strokes.Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-55489069868599934092017-03-14T16:54:00.000-07:002018-09-14T16:55:29.979-07:00New Wave Dancer<div style="text-align: center;">
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Sometimes I'm inspired to draw just anything. Because of my association with Tod Streater I often thought up wild ideas for costumes. This wasn't based on anything other than the odd shapes I drew to form the coat. Something about bows and buttons, perhaps.</div>
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One thing I remember about my mother and art was that she sometimes would draw us children while we slept. This portrait is a bit out of order timeline-wise, but since I don't think I have posted it before, here it is. I did this way back in college, probably around '87, when a fellow student (I think his name is Scott Rash) was visiting and I encountered him in our living room catching some shut-eye. He had a mohawk at the time, but it was down. I am perhaps a bit sheepish about posting this as the mushrooms were an afterthought and had little to do with the sketch.Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-80739993026319336552017-02-28T16:06:00.000-08:002018-09-25T11:50:26.847-07:00Anime Dancer - sketchbook<div style="text-align: center;">
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This is a direct copy from a <i>Jump </i>manga I owned. Unfortunately I don't read Japanese so I have no idea who the artist is, although this reminds me of the work of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Yazawa" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #002bb8; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Ai Yazawa">Ai Yazawa</a>. I can't find reference to work she did for <i>Jump</i> manga, so it could be someone else working in a similar vein of stories about Rock personalities and fashion designers. I was very inspired how the hair was rendered and in my attempt to recreate the pattern, pretty soon I had marked out the entire image save one gloved hand which I just left off because I'd run out of page. The character who wore an eye patch through the whole story reminds me very much of Pete Burns who sang the iconic hit of the Eighties, "You Spin Me Around".Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-91789533750347873302017-02-26T15:46:00.000-08:002018-09-13T15:47:30.917-07:00Anime Faces - sketchbook<div style="text-align: center;">
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I was beginning to see more and more anime drawing at this time, so naturally I made attempts to copy the style. Too often there is no direction or real focus when I attempt these, but often they can be satisfying if not complete. The female figure I guess was an attempt to examine how a head form can change from profile to 3/4 view. The figure below is clearly encountering some visual anomaly causing his collar to appear like stars and rectangles, while his legs are confused somehow. Next to that are preparatory marks for using dye markers, a la' the previous post. Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-32312302775805811512017-02-25T15:25:00.000-08:002018-09-13T15:38:13.391-07:00Kabuki Face - dye marker<div style="text-align: center;">
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I haven't worked much with dye markers, particularly because they are so expensive to purchase when you can get good ones, but occasionally I've found them at reasonable prices to invest with. These particular ones, a small selection of grays and browns, I purchased during an office supply close out sale I encountered while on vacation in Hawaii. Imagine!</div>
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The image is based on a black-and-white photograph an artist friend, Jason Berlin, took of a friend who was modeling unique makeup. I was taken by the grim facial expression she has on her face and therefore added the dripping red. Not many impulsive images come out so successfully from my sketchbook.</div>
Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-40263800784130756212016-08-13T09:25:00.001-07:002016-11-04T10:33:45.490-07:00"Life in Curry" - a Portrait at Noodle Studio c.1998<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At some point, I scanned this image from one of my sketchbooks that I originally drew in August of 1998 after I'd returned to Seattle from my year away in '96. At the time there was a favorite Thai restaurant on Broadway at the epicenter of Capitol Hill, called "Noodle Studio". Some of my readers may remember this restaurant and recognize the sculptures I drew in the background of this "portrait".<br />
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I remember feeling very melancholy about having to dine alone on that day, but I was celebrating my ability of finally being able to take myself out for a nice dinner, something I hadn't really done in over a year and a half. As the image illustrates, I was wearing contacts and cutting my hair quite short. Also, the whole situation found me in quite the contemplative mode.<br />
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Anyway, despite the poor scan quality I am sharing it now because it has been so long since I've cared to post anything new and I know it will be quite some time before I share much from this particular sketchbook as it is chronologically late in comparison to the early ones I've already shared. I look forward to the time when I can share it.Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-17628088398558017142014-02-11T19:07:00.000-08:002014-02-11T19:08:07.435-08:00Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch - 1997<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Many years ago in the late Nineties I came across an enigmatic face in a magazine. This is the result, although I do have to admit I minimized the rather sharp and perfect line of his upper lip which I realize now only takes away from the portrait. Lately the actor whose face it was in that magazine has come into his own on television and in movies, so I've been equally haunted by my own prescience in drawing this image. I am quite pleased still by the intensity in his expression which in my mind is matched by the own actor's presence.Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-88132666271868495432013-03-09T18:11:00.001-08:002023-01-05T09:55:56.121-08:00Tod Streater, 1990<div style="text-align: center;">
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I've not posted in quite a while. I think about doing things more often than I actually do them, which is how my brain works. One thing I actually did recently was take files off an old hard drive, so I could recycle it. Looking over these old files was, as friend Maxxwell says, like finding Pirate Booty. I started by sharing old photos of friends on Facebook that I'd not been able to do previously.<br />
Here is another image I found. I'd been wanting to post it for a long time, but because it is so large it was resisting my efforts to digitize it. This is a portrait of a friend I drew way back in 1990. I met Tod when I first moved to Seattle.<br />
Tod was very intelligent and creative, designing costumes and props for several local theaters. He was a wizard at taking what he had on hand and making the end result look effortless. He also knew a lot of people in Seattle, so I met many interesting people through him.<br />
Tod died in '93 and I featured him in my zine <i>Gae-raj </i>that I published the following year. I wanted to include this image in the zine, but never found a scanner that could do it justice. The original image is around 30x24, so I've stitched some imperfect scans that were sitting on that old hard drive together to create this image. I haven't done many pen and ink portraits, but I think this one counts as my best and favorite.</div>
Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-28592908527070134032012-06-19T08:28:00.000-07:002012-06-19T08:28:00.453-07:00Dancing Thistle, now as a Zazzle tee shirt!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Those of you following this blog will remember the past posts I made exploring the <a href="http://volpane.blogspot.com/search/label/tattoo" target="_blank">development</a> of this design. A few months ago I cleaned up the original using Photoshop's vectoring features and created this version which I've made available at <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/dancing_thistle_tee_shirts-235758744415375746" target="_blank">Zazzle.com</a> as a tee shirt. I'm quite pleased with the results and am inspired to use this as the basis for an animation that I hope to render as a GIF file. We shall see how that works out.<br />
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I've remained busy over the past few months. In January I created a tee shirt design inspired by a fan re-posting my sketchbook page from my <a href="http://volpane.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr</a>. I sent her a tee shirt and she graciously posted a photo of herself wearing it. I soon hope to have another tee shirt posted of the tattoo thistle design I did for Tod Streater.<br />
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Thanks, <a href="http://angpange.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Ang=Pange</a>!</div>
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Here are a few more images that will end up, sans grey shading, in an essay comic about my youth. I hope to post it soon, but I thought I'd share these as I'm pretty happy with the results. These two images and two from my previous post's all came from thumbnails that were less than an inch square and I think they look as good in a larger format, which shows how simple works well for comics.</div>
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In my previous post about my "Dirty Comics" submission, I mentioned I'd written it originally as part of a letter to a friend, but there were other related pages; so I thought I'd clean them up and post them here. But as happens this time of year I've been busy cooking, cleaning and doing things around the house that need to be done. Not that I need an excuse nor do I want to seem too fastidious, but I've also spent a lot of time using <i>Tumblr</i>, <i>Facebook </i>and <i>Google Reader</i>. Wasting time <i>really</i>, as I have better things to do than scroll through porn, assault my friends "walls" with aimless comments and catch up on blogs that I like to follow. </div>
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As always, I justify everything I do recreation-ally as "doing research". Anyway, these images will end showing up smaller and with less detail in the final, because they will be accompanying words, but I wanted them to have more punch. At some point I'll get back to posting sketchbook pages.</div>
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Having posted this spring about an unrealized <a href="http://volpane.blogspot.com/2011/04/mad-violinist-unfinished-project-part.html">animation project</a>, I was inspired to clean up two of the sketches and offer them as <a href="https://www.zazzle.com/store/volpane" target="_blank">promotional items</a>. Here is Erich Zann as the crazed musician the protagonist encounters in the garret on the top floor above his apartment.<div>
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I wanted to illustrate the phrase "<i>Read my lips</i>" with this stylized self-portrait. Unfortunately I wasn't too flattered by my attempt to illustrate my personal "look". I imagine I had the exaggerated and smooth lines of <i>the <a href="http://www.rollingstones.com/">Rolling Stones</a>' logo</i> in mind.<br />
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Wikipedia tells me <i>that </i>was the work of designer <a href="http://www.johnpasche.com/">John Pasche</a>, who has done extensive work designing album and singles covers for the music industry, notably several <a href="http://www.theartofnoiseonline.com/">Art of Noise</a> covers that I remember from my early twenties, working at <a href="http://kuoi.org/">KUOI</a>, the college radio station in Moscow, Idaho, back in the late Eighties. All the same, there is much to recommend this sketch, perhaps I'll re-do-it.Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-40949413743268567012011-09-21T13:08:00.000-07:002015-10-23T09:17:12.021-07:00Dirty Comics: an Art show<a href="http://jonmacy.com/">Jon Macy</a> has put together an art show of comic book "erotica" for the <a href="http://www.sexandculture.org/">Center for Sex and Culture</a> in San Francisco, California. He's calling it <i>Dirty Comics</i> and I've submitted a single page autobiographical piece for the show. I'm not sure what the etiquette for posting things that are submitted to a show is, but once the show is done I may share it here. <br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Macy">Jon Macy</a> almost needs no introduction as his work is all I've been talking about for the past five years or so, well, when I'm not talking about my own stuff. He's published his adaptation <i><a href="http://northwestpress.com/teleny-and-camille/">Teleny and Camille</a> </i>was awarded a coveted <a href="http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/2011-lambda-literary-award-winners/">Lambda Literary award</a> this spring for erotica. He's now working on his four part series <i><a href="http://www.jonmacy.com/fearfulh01.html">Fearful Hunter</a>, </i>a fantasy featuring Druids and Werewolves. He drew the above portrait of his two protagonists Oisin and Byron for me at the Emerald City Comicon this spring. Below is the Wolf Master, who I've been pestering Jon to depict for me for some time. <i>Hunky</i>, isn't he!</div>
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I'd heard of the <i>Myth</i> comic books on several of the Internet forums I regularly read and I'd visited <a href="http://rated-z.com/">Rated-Z Studios</a> before. But I was very pleased to meet Sean Z, the creator of these comic books at the Emerald City ComicCon this spring. He asked me first, "elf or human? I think elf." Then he proceeded to produce this "portrait". Who knows, this character could show up in one of his stories...Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5180456924461621830.post-36094586564667931612011-09-01T08:32:00.000-07:002011-09-01T08:32:00.823-07:00Artist Signatures: Christopher Lange<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWi6sAzIfsofsAzygziersd8cPePCIIPPMgSaF8yEvjApRlsXk2J3BlD9SmkjEeZavVpRMFYonuZevm_jY0ijy7S5IStBerdeu9SPf_B3UEIH6Kp4h9YgMU8tH6GOIpNWFY-p0VBS1n6cu/s1600/scan0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWi6sAzIfsofsAzygziersd8cPePCIIPPMgSaF8yEvjApRlsXk2J3BlD9SmkjEeZavVpRMFYonuZevm_jY0ijy7S5IStBerdeu9SPf_B3UEIH6Kp4h9YgMU8tH6GOIpNWFY-p0VBS1n6cu/s320/scan0003.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><br />
Jon Macy pointed out to me Chris Lange's artwork last year. I met Chris at the <a href="http://prismcomics.org/">Prism Comics</a> Booth at the 2011 Emerald City Comicon. He's been posting his web comic at <a href="http://www.capitolhillbillies.net/">Capitol Hillbillies</a> since 2007 and had a small chapbook of his strips published by Northwest Press. His eclectic and graphic style stands out for its ability to engage the reader and yet the topics of his strips are definitely not work safe. Chris's humor is adult, sarcastic and definitely campy, referencing pop music stars, porn stars and Internet sites. What you get is a contemporary pro-safe-sex observation of "twenty-something" gay culture. In the sketch above the comic strips character's names, as best I can tell, beginning in the upper right corner with Stu pointing his finger, then John in the lower right corner, William to the lower left and finally Clark in the upper left with the cross hanging from his neck...Hey Chris, let me know if I got their names wrong!Nathan Kiblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044456348332122323noreply@blogger.com0