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WONDERCON 2011 pics

some wonder con photos, that i just got in an email!

nate, konstantin, ben and I stayed busy drawing, and people were happy

thanks Elora!

the book is for sale at gallery nucleus!

Goblins!

and i put this together to try and show anyone curious some of my thoughts. this is a painting about triangles, i could draw even more red triangles, but i guess you get the point...

and a sorta of simple value pattern.

i was very concerned about the power of triangles. they are pointy and aggresive and can really "abuse" the eyes by shooting them around a picture too fast. so i thoght constantly about eye flow in this picture.

i'd like to render it some more still and maybe change some things

wondercon 2011 *update*

the incredible wierdness of wondercon continues, we are selling a lot of books and doing cool drawings in them!

and then these guys...

WONDERCON 2011

Ok. WONDERCON is this Friday. Thanks to Ben we have a table and even a map to get there. And we will be signing SKETCHBOOKS. Which means EVERY SKETCHBOOK sold gets a sketch from each of us; or at least that's what we try to do. So STOP BY!

table AA121

cape

PS monster

daily travel

i commute almost everyday, the drawings are usually very bad, i am either entirely too tired because it is too early, or too tired because it is too late. or i feel great because it is a good to time to go to work/home, but then the train is usually so full of people i can't get a look at anything to draw!

painter

most artists know this point of view so well, to the left and right a crowd of artists

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for me these kinds of drawings are mostly entirely exercises in composition,meaning i want to add a complex layer of shapes and play around with them organizationally. i wanted 3 focal points and a few overlapping design triangles.

design hierchy of focal points

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focal point 1- head ( interesting because it contains the only eye, most detailed face)

focal point 2 - the hand painting (interesting because of complex grided space)

focal point 3 - second hand (isolated shape versus large block of rest of image)

the first triangle/wedge shape is a top left down to hand and brush, containg 5 heads anchored by brush hand.

second triangle is formed by the main head, the brush hand and the relaxed hand. sort of upside down.

hopefully with these 2 overlapping patterns, there is a pleasant, yet not "in your face obvious" eye flow

in a drawing like this i try and pay careful attention to the meaning of everyline and every angle, as the lines and angles create the shapes. so even though i am designing angles and lines i am simultaniusly designing shapes.

it's amazing to think how much complexity and variety can be achieved with such simple means, even before going into value and color.