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Austin Osman Spare Inspired

I've been really interested in the illustrator/artist/magician Austin Osman Spare. If you want to read more about him, click here for his wikipedia page. I won't go in to too many details, but he was the progeny of automatic drawing before, well, anybody.

So here's my attempt at it!

I used the right hand on the right side and the left hand on the left with two identical pens.

Rouyn-Noranda

Canada is very cold and everyone speaks French. The town of Rouyn-Noranda is like a small town in the US, but in bizarro world.

I'll be back with plenty of fun pictures in a few days!!!

Au revoir!!!

A Bust

just like the debates! Sorry... I had to save it.

Kool Herc

Unlike the guy who invented the continuous break-beat and hip-hop in one fell swoop, this
Herc posed in his b-day suit with nothing more than an apple and a fleece.

This is the "marble statue of youthful Hercules" from the Roman Flavian period, AD 68-98.

It's at The Met, where I was today drawing for the first time in quite a while.

Oh, they have this "Classic Fantastique" exhibit that is awesome... check it out! Art deco and bauhaus inspired furniture and objects from early 20th century

Inking Blacks to Spot

Although this isn't the page posted below, it is inking of a page of finished pencilling. I'm trying to do something that terrifies me, but is suggested by most artists: inking the large patches of black before anything else.

I'm used to outlining, then shading, then filling the fields with a brush (or q-tip, I ain't gonna' front!) because the filling is kind of boring and easy. BUT most artists say to lay this down first, to see where it leads the eye on the page, and to really define the negative space onto the page.


This was taken from the new V magazine... a real disappointment, if you ask me! Anywhoo... here's to facing your fears!