the burroughs folio - mikey

 Michael Portman is completed.  Onto Kammerer & Ian & Barlow.

the burroughs folio - the secret dreamer (3) [nobody recording b/c nobody sees]

what recording?  what tapes?

the burroughs folio - the secret dreamer (2)

Azure Pantry / the Burroughs Folio - Kiki (2)

firehose of thoughts commences:

inking now, foundational fine linework.  taking it slow.  i like this face.  as before, i don't know that this is a good likeness of the historical kiki.  but i think he's my version of the character.  he's got the chin.  he's got the hair, the posture.  i think i can see how he carries himself.  been re-reading the kiki chapter and it's going to be a pleasure to draw.  quite pleased w/ how the whole Folio reads, as a unified piece.  i've built three discrete Books that talk to each other but may be read in any order; there is no determining chronology to the way the Burroughs Folio / Azure Pantry / Denizen may be read.  and that's a hell of a thing i hadn't thought of before:  between this & my Tarot, i'm building two comic books that may be read out of order, in any order.  (i've mentioned my crackpot theory about the tarot & comix, right?  that the tarot is just a bunch of comix panels with no chronological order other than that which the Reader imposes?)  anyway, that's what life is like when you're an artfag.  sometimes you don't know that you're doing something new.  i guess it's on to eyes next, then hands, then background

pee ess:  i hate having a fucked up foot.  i am going stir crazy

 

(some lines later)

 

this is a grayscale, so you can't see that the cloudlines are in blue, but anyhoo.  the eyes furned out okay.  the right hand is fine.  i still have to figure out how to make the left work; that's been the problem for days now.  if all goes well, maybe i'll get some inking in today (thursday, now) and that'll firm this whole thing up so i can stop neurotic-ing over things people do not, cannot, perceive

today, in ink: merrick

 

inking xtinction - 6 (((dressed for success s/t)))

 

s/t for this one is special, dear to my heart

matmos / rachel's - full on night (recension mix)

roll so hard for this shit.  this is my shit to ink to

statuesque - w.i.p.

More rare paper.  This piece was based on a statue I encountered at the Lake Claire land trust, near Atlanta.  The owl in the buddha's hand was a small stuffed toy, and the statue was perhaps less, er, ripped, but I tried to stay true to the feeling the li'l guy gave me when I first saw it.  The land trust was a good place to work.  I wrote quite a bit of AZURE PANTRY and DENIZEN there.

I've considered doing some graytones or painting on this, but I'm too attached to the finished inks on this guy to risk botching it.  When I say attached, I mean, inking the owl brought me tears of joy.  Not an ordinary reaction for me, as anybody who knows me knows I generally loathe my work.  So this will be printed as it stands.  It's valuable, for reasons I can't quite articulate.

I'm pretty proud of the leafy debris surrounding the buddha.  I'm glad I kept the essence of the original pencils.  It was a very delicate job, and I probably agonized over line weight more than was necessary.  But it all felt necessary?  I dunno.  Maybe the traumatic brain injury I received after penciling this shook something loose in my soul.  It's one of the first finished inking jobs I pulled off after recovering full use of my right hand.

Post title notwithstanding, this isn't really a work in progress anymore.  But it isn't Done until I print the damned thing, is it?

chirality - w.i.p.

Still need to finish the stars & do a little cleanup, but it's basically there.

Took a long time to achieve any satisfaction with this.  The roots and branches irritated me in every previous iteration.  Began life as a tattoo design for an old lover, but after he relapsed to alcoholism & spazzed on me for hitting the brakes, he egged the windows of my studio.  After which I was like, fuck that, I'm keeping this one for myself.

Glad I took the time.  It feels like it means something to me now.  (It should.  I've only destroyed like, three different versions.)  It only recently acquired the title, 'Chirality'.  Sometimes you have to meditate on a picture before it comes together.  In this case it was about five years.

I love this paper.  I've never found anything like it for inking on.  It's so thin & lightweight it could be used for tracing, but it doesn't wrinkle or warp when coloured or inked on.  Marvelous stuff.  I found a roll of it in Richmond, VA, and I use it as sparingly as possible.

Anyroad.  Another for the stack to print & sell. Suppose I should set up a Patreon and all that horseshit eventually...

A four deer day.

Today met four different deer on an idle thru the woods.  Auspicious.

To celebrate, have this piece of a deer I met a year ago.

Unfinished, natch.  I still have to add the silver in.  Maybe tomorrow.

inking sinister - 3

 

 

this has been a sprint so i may tap out now

*thanX xrybody for a productive night*

The Wild Bois - series I