Watch This Space

You may have noticed that TOPPLED IDOLS has ground to a screeching halt.

This is partly due to my new job as a sign artist (as in, I am drawing every day for eight hours and then working on my own stuff afterwards and don't have time to scan, edit and post it!) and the fact that I just needed a break.

Toppled Idols will return to its regular program on Serpentember 1st... just in time for the Republican National Convention and its induction of polar bear hating beauty queen Sarah Palin.

Until then, please content yourselves with the last of the Summer weather and sun. I personally loathe it and can't wait until Fall. But that's neither here nor there.

I have big things planned... including (drum roll please... ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da) a NEW BLOG(!?) beginning but totally unrelated to, but somewhat akin to George W. Bush's long-overdue ousting.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you join the dance?

Who Can Get Metal Chicks to Dance Topless?

No, the answer is not "A LUCKY ROLL OF THE TWENTY-SIDED DIE."

You haven't been paying attention!


Rhapsody, of course! Now the less cool but hangin'-with-Christopher-fuckin'-Lee-so-still-pretty cool Rhapsody of Fire.

Topless metal chicks, blasting drums, Italian choruses and more curly hair than can clog the Mississippi... you know you want to hang with these charming guys in their leather pants and concealing tunics.

Fire up the wizard bong and prepare to have your wand blown to bits!

Am a Crazy Gay White Nerd and Miss San Francisco

Goya

Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (or G, for short!)'s allegorical portrait of a Spanish aristocratic boy. I didn't get everything right... the head is too large and the eyes are too large and the hair has the wrong angle. But I nailed two of the cats and sone aspects of his costume. All in all I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out.

The naive cruelty and innocent disdain in this painting is so incredible. I believe it's the only Goya at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (but it might be hanging out in the room with the minotaur!). They also have the most incredible Jackson Pollock. Maybe I'll try that next!!! Although I'd have to use molten pencil to fling at my sketchbook...

There was a gaggle of kids all drawing at The Met. It made me really happy. A bunch came over and watched me draw, but most didn't speak English so I had no idea what they were saying. Hopefully nice things... !

Next Thursday, if you want to come just let me know!!!

Class is Forever

Inspired by Dave Sim's new project (well, one of them!) Glamourpuss, I took this from the back of a magazine. It's been driving me crazy for months, sitting on our living room table. "Class is Forever." It seemed like something that would be on the cover of Glamourpuss, and he was drawing from fashion magazines.



I didn't pencil it first, and didn't spend a lot of time on the details (plus I'm no Dave Sim!) but I kind of like the way this turned out. I draw women like drag queens, so why not draw a woman who already LOOKS like one?!! I won't tell you who it is! (After all the plastic surgery, you probably won't be able to guess either!)

CLASS IS FOREVER! WTF??!!!

The Dark Knight

I saw THE DARK KNIGHT today. It was SO good!!!

I'll go again with whoever's up for it (although I kind of want to go to Imax!!!)