new school old school

there has never been a more appropriate time in my life to write a tribute to en vogue. yous gals rock. hope all is well kthxbai

like seriously.
can music be any more
inappropriate.

he’s a cold hearted
snake (oh) look into his eyes
he’s been telling lies.

still travelling back in time and playing ketch-up to post the work i’ve done over the past 2-3 weeks. during this time, my schedule changed quite suddenly and now i’m working on getting into the groove. boy you’ve got to prove.

this was the first time in a long time that i felt all 6 drawings/paintings i did at an AFG 15-minute pose session were decent enough to post online. usually there’s one or two i leave out cause they suck. so yay for me, and toot toot my own horn. this model did some really cool poses that were fun to draw, esp the karate type one.

on april 21 i saw spoon play at the scoot inn in atx. which was a special place to see them play because it was a small little venue, and i was real close to the stage. they put on a pretty sweet show.

i got there pretty early and went to the show by myself. i didn’t really feel like going up to people and trying to make friends with strangers, so i decided to just sit there and draw them and then post the drawings on the internet, because that’s way less creepy. and that joke is sort of stolen from a picturesforsadchildren.com strip but i have no idea how to find the strip. here’s the drawings:

this is kind of an experiment in SEO to see if any of these people actually find this post in real life. the sketchbook i was drawing in has very thin paper… so when i scanned these, the drawings from the next page would show up behind the drawings i was scanning.

#1 – a girl who is from chicago who i think lives in austin. was there with a dude. you can see #3 in the background, who was at the table adjacent to #1 but they didn’t go to the show together.

#2 – very pretty girl who kept talking about dogs, like for a long time. to some dude. she would rescue dogs in college and she was really good at guessing their names. like they found some lost dog, and the name that she was calling it was really similar to the name it had, so it would automatically respond (by looking up or whatever, however dogs respond) when she called it by the name she gave it. you can see a sneak preview of a future newschool webcomic behind her.

#3 – asked #1 and her dudefriend , hey i don’t mean to be eavesdropping on your conversation but are you guys from chicago? and they were and #3 and her friend were from there too so then they started talking about chicago for a little while. i wondered if they knew i was drawing them but probably not.

#4 – was far away but man, this outfit is so texas-gurl to me. makeup, earrings, high heels, and shorts. i feel like i wouldn’t see that very often in the promised land (jersey). in the background you can see some ideas i was sketching on the next page for buttons / labels for this here webcomic artblog website thing.

i sure do use the words “chicks” and “dudes” a lot. i think it’s funny using them in art-land.
next month at the museum of modern art
a new school old school exhibition
“my drawings of naked chicks”

this weekend was sxsw and AFG participated in a show at blue ocean gallery. the bands played really good acoustic music. kerry seiffert makes amazing furniture out of wood and asked me if i wanted to design the exterior of an artbox. i did:

i think apple needs to make a commercial for their web browser (safari) showing people “surfing the web” and then use “surfin safari” as the song. but when they do this, they need to pay me for my idea. cha ching$. do people even say that anymore? watcha up to man? oh just SURFIN tha Web brah!!! cruise