I'm trying to get back to the regular Tuesday posting thing....But in lieu of anything new/worthwhile, lemme share some more childhood art, this time from High School and my earliest felt-tip tom-(or in this case, Marty-)foolery.
The "album art" I worked up for what was going to be a collection of girl-themed songs recorded by our No Wave band Exit House. In my mind I envisioned a full-on double album with wrap-around jacket art (I went so far as to gesso my entire "KISS: Alive II" blank white in order to make a full-scale mock up--oy!), but realistically we were only going to make a few color xeroxes at the local Kinko's and put them inside a few personal cassette copies--but we didn't even get that far. Album was to be called "House of Chicks."
The art teacher at my Chino high school used to order in lots of these very toxic, very intense basic marker sets--just BLUE, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, etc., no fancy Pantone shades, no "Indigo Blue" or "Blush Pink" "Light Flesh" of the professional set. So I had to resort to mixing colors to get what I wanted. I learned early to love a hyper-saturated multi-color mix. Here's my double self portrait as bug (I was big into Kafka at the time--so pretentious!).
I tried to keep going with markers in college, (the "Anonymous Superheroes" piece), but all the love had gone out of it. I'd felt invincible in High School--artistically speaking. I thought of myself as totally fearless, (tho' I was too maudlin and narrow-minded). But college really kicked the stool out from under me. Not because the teachers were harsh...more that they were indifferent.
It's taken me a long time to recover.
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Pretty cool Marty. Recovery is always ongoing because self evaluated injury is always taking place.
This reminds me of the talents of people that were told , "Here's your 16 ( actually 15 colors) That is all you get. Do all the art you can with them."
Or was it eight colors. I've forgotten.
Indifference. Knowing nod.
Love your album cover. Pretty sophisticated sense of design for a high schooler. I like the inclusion of Alice's legs. Anyone else's legs being referenced in the drawing that I've missed?
Tommy! Fellas!
These are all girls that I knew (except "Nairobi" at the far right edge, which was not a girl but a city in Africa--and a song my brother wrote/sang (a rarity in our oeuvre)). The Alice girl was a big crush of mine in 9th/10th grade...we are now friends on Facebook!
Glad you liked 'em.
Thanks for sharing this. It's always interesting to look back. when I look at my high school work I think "I have more skill now, but I had a more inventive imagination then". If only I could combine the 2.
This past year I took a comic book panel from a Mexican horror comic that was posted on Tumblr. Semi animated it with Youtubes image sequence loading gimmick. Added some of their public domain music. And called it Lady Kafka.
Marty- got your note via the Draft posting you ...haven't done. Of the Spiderman Supergirl kiss. I'll probably use that notion of blowing out the contact on the color version
Ellis--oof! I'm embarassed! I started that post and then thought how annoying i would be to read it, so I deleted it...it still exists in draft form?? My bad--didn't know it stayed around. But if you found something useful in it, then it'll be worthwhile...hope there's no hard feelings. I love what you're doing with yr Superman/kiss commish!
No. I liked it. All future kiss involved drawings will use it.
I'm blowing out kisses to all of you!
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