I've been back in Vegas for a few days after a nice getaway to L.A. over the July 4th weekend and now I gots the after vacation blues. I wanna get out of this city for good, but a year of school I gotsta finish. So, I'm trying to find a way to add more classes to my life, work less, or not at all, so I can completely indulge myself in school so I can get it done and get out to L.A. and retool my life and start a new adventure. I just don't know how to do it, but there's got to be a way.
We went to California to visit the wifey's family, spent some money and time at the Anime Convention and just to get outta town to rejuvinate and get us on the right track.
I walked so much that by Sunday I just couldn't walk anymore, but it was fun.
We went to a panel with the JRawk gothband Moi  dix Mois, featuring the former member of Malice Mizer-Mana, in a funny interview. Funny, in that Mana wasn't particularly funny himself, but funny in that everything was so controlled and contrived in that is was so un-rocknroll and rediculous,every answer was perfectly translated by his translater so as not to offend anyone and to play up to the whole JRock cuteness and cuddliness of thier cross dressing gothboybandiness. No pictures were allowed to be taken, though I don't know why. His hair and make up was perfect.


My fave thing about the Anime convention in LA is ,of course, all the cosplay costumes and the merchandise. Like any craze, be it a comic convention,KISS convention, sports shows or gun shows, the nutjobs come out in the hundreds, but the majority of the cosplay peeps do a pretty impressive job with thier get ups. Here's but a few-




Being in L.A. is exciting, and hopefully next year or soon after, once we move out there, I'll have my own booth at Artist Alley and actually participate in it all instead of witnessing it. It's time to break out of Vegas and really get down to the art business.

While out there tho, I didn't see any news or know what the hell was going on outside of the convention and family stuff, but I did notice the tons of news vans parked all over the area. It wasn't until Sunday that I found out about the whole Micheal Jackson Memorial that was soon to ascend down upon the area. Now, watching it on tv, we were smack dab in the area where all this was about to take place.
But, the thing that really struck my fancy was when I saw this sign near a bus stop-


I'm much more interested in going to see that! Tho, after fishing around some videos of it on youtoob, I see how cheesy and aweful it most likely is, but if I was in LA right now-THAT'S where I would be-The Creature From The Black Lagoon musical! Gah!

I didn't do nearly as much artwork as I planned too, between the convention,family and lack of sleep I did do up some doodles-




These are of my wifey's cousin's little doggie named Bowser, who I enjoyed the company of, a small little doggie with such interesting facial markings that I had to sketch him up and perhaps use as a character in the future. He rocks!


This is my wife's late kitty-Bermuda.


This is my wife's sister, being all goth and broody, hankerin' for french fries and ice cream.


and the wifey, dreaming of tacos.

So, after a few days away from the godawful heat and grumpiness of Las Vegas,the Ragzter got ragged out and we headed on back, with sore feet, broken wallets, fuzzy heads and hearts slung low knowing the trip was over, but the seeds of hope for a fresh start and a new life have been planted and soon shall take sprout. The next year will be tough, but I'm gonna kick school's ass and by this time next year we'll be on a new road to adventure.

It's time for a change!

Tags: anime, anime expo, creature from the black lagoon, malice mizer, moi dix mois, ragzart
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Grand Funk Railroad

My sister and my niece were in town this week and we hooked up with my other sister and her sons and had some great catch up time on the goings on of each others' lives, and it's good to reconnect with family once in awhile. I'm so busy with school n' work and such that I tend to absorb myself in my own little world. I dig my twisted sistas'!
They also love diggin' thru my stacks of artwork and nabbing some, and they also wanted some sketchies done up for gifts n' personal projects, so here's some of that stuff-


This Superman piece was for my neice's boyfriend, done in ink and watercolor. I'm also playing around with it in Painter X, which when finished I'll post.



This is a pencil sketch of a picture of my nephew Conner that my sis gave me. I absolutely love the picture, it's amazingly dark,moody and dramatic, so in return for the pic I drew this out for her.

We had a good time musing over our livez, the death of all the celebrities this week and eating some good grub. My family rox!

I really should be doing more artwork over my break, but it's been so unGodly hot out here that all I can seem to do is melt into the couch, but in a few days we'll be gittin' outa town to visit the wifey's family, hook up with some art conventions and maybe find some more ways of getting my artwork giggin'. Plus it'll be so much cooler in Cali, and I need to get away from this heat. It's wreakin' havok with my high blood pressure and wiggy thyroid disorder. I need some rejuvination, a fresh start, a rebirth, a re-go-at-it, a boost, a epiphany -somethin' to get me oomphed up and ready to start up classes again and to gimme the power to get the art gigs a-happenin'.

I have managed to sketchie up some stuff tho, like this guy, I call him Candleman-


That's 'bout all that.
I leave you with this-

Tags: ragzart, superman
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Spinal Tap "Back From The Dead"

Under the influence of Ambien, and on my way to dreamworld, I conjured up a five minute sketch with color pencil and spit.
Not sure what it may all mean, but I'm sure it must mean something.
Here's Ambien Girl-



Dream on...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Tags: ragzart
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Dead Boys

Yet another place to find my artwork-portfolio style!
Check it out at http://ragzdandelion.carbonmade.com/

Tags: ragzart

I'm in a complete haze, due to my insomnia, that seemz not even a dose of Ambien can defeat. I've got some supernatural physicallity that seems to be resistant to anything that would normally knock a regular human out, but instead left me loopy, hallucinating and a trite bit horny. Not that that isn't an interesting effect but not quite the one I was looking for. So today I'm feeling like a ghost, not quite tangible.
 Last night I must've been too tangible, enough so that the freekin' cops hovering around every street corner in this city, felt the need to pull me over for yet again, another brake light that had gone out in my motor vehicle. All I wanted to do was get home after another tedious night at work, but no, the fuzz feels the need to harass those that FOLLOW THE FREEKIN' LAWS in this city instead of bustin' the granny rapers, hoe peddlers, crackheadz and dumpster baby makers that have taken over Las Vegas. He let me go on just a warning, but then again I was stopped about five minutes later at a "check point" where a group of coppers were stopping everyone to see if we've been drinkin' or such. After being interrogated by a douchbag cop, I finally headed the rest of my trip home, only to be followed once again by ANOTHER cop. Luckily, he must've been swayed by some other useless call of duty on his radio or something, so he managed to take off in another direction after tailing my ass for another couple of minutes. Christ, what's up with this city? All of the sudden it's been turned into a police state. Guess cuz tourism is down, the city hasta make it's money slapping tickets on those that actually don't drive drunk, peddle drugs or rob banks for a living.
I used to love Las Vegas, but it's turned into a hellhole in the last few years and I can't wait to get out of this town.
But enough of my whining.

School's out for summer, well, actually only a few weeks, but that doesn't mean I have time to slow down. I've got a website I need to rebuild, more stuff to create for my portfolio and past works I need to revamp, remaster and redo. I created some cool stuff for my classes this quarter, some I used, some I didn't.
One piece I didn't end up using for one of my finals was this-


I call it "BLOOD VICTORY" and it is pretty huge so I couldn't scan it, so here's a low rez photo of it. It was done in watercolor and I really don't know what I think of it. It was an image that originally popped into my noggin' as a surreal take on warriors reaching for victory-a beautiful prize at the end of the battle, but as I started painting it, it started to take on a life of it's own and the subject matter took on a whole other "theme". I'm thinking of loading it into Painter X and recoloring it and seeing where else it takes me.

Which leads me to this piece, all done in Painter X, for another class.


I took an illustration I posted a few weeks back and redid it in Painter X, my version of The Frankenstein Monster being hunted by those pesky angry villagers.


The painting I ended up turning in instead of the "BLOOD VICTORY" piece ended up getting nabbed by my instructor so he can put it up on display next quarter,was my attempt at recreating a Sanjulian style painting you'd see on an old 1970's Creepy,Eerie or Vampirella mag.
It has an Egyptian theme, done in watercolor and copec marker. Here's a really bad photo of it-


Again, it was too big too scan, but once I get it back after next quarter, it shall be photographed much betterly, and henceforth be posted for yer viewing. My instructor really liked it, aside from the horribly anatomically incorrect forearm of one of the Egyptian warriors, which I totally didn't see til he pointed it out. Now it glarez at me large, and I don't know how I didn't notice it before.
Oh well, live n' learn.

So, there's no shortage of other projects I hope to tackle within' the next few weeks.
So, off I go, I'll leave you with this quicky sketch of The Ragzter done in Political History class-


Don't forget to click on the pix for a larger view
and, oh, if you get the chance, go rent or buy "Blood Car"-


Fer those who may be squeemish about gore,killing animals and titties, ya might wanna prepare yerself, but really, tho it appears to be lowbrow and cheesy, it's a lot more intellegent than it let's on, and the dialogue is hilarious. One of the best recent low budget independent horror flicks I've seen in a while. Highly recomended.

Oh, and watch out for the fuzz. They're vicious out here!

Tags: blood car, frankenstein, las vegas, mummy, ragart
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: "Mad Monster Party" soundtrack

This lil' snippit waz ripped out of a page from a book about witchcraft and  demonology a few yearz back.

Click on pic for a larger view!

Tags: demons, incubus, succubus, supernatural
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Zeke

Latest doodlinz n' stuff-

In Painter class we had to do up a mock TIME Magazine cover, so to celebrate the upcoming take over of the Tonight Show by Conan O'Brien, I came up with this-


I wish we would've had more time to work on it, but it's the best I got in such a small time.

This is the painting I may turn in for Anatomy class, tho I'm thinking of doing another because I don't think it may show enough "muscle tone"
for the assignment. What'dya think?


And here be some other quicky doodlinz-

Tags: conan o'brian, frankenstein, life drawing, ragzart
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Blaque Audio

Latest artworkz n' stuff to share-


This is a teddy bear I made in 3D Modeling class. Sure,it's way out of my character to do something like this, but it waz all part of the assignment,so here it be. Sure it looks all sweet n' cuddly on the outside, but on the inside it actually contains the evil essence of a Lovecraftian' creature. Beware!




Theze are a pair of $125 Oakley sunglasses given to a few of us at the school to decorate and mutilate az we please for a design contest. It's hard to tell from theze pix,but I painted mine up in purple and green,based them after the Martian spaceships in the 1953 "War of the Worlds",clipped a booklight to it and there ya go. Nothing too great,but it was fun messin' up a pair of expensive sunglasses that only douchbagz would pay for. Take that,trendies!



Another anatomy study for ,what else-anatomy class! Who knew there waz so many stringy gooey musclestuff in yer face!







More life drawing sketches from a session last week. The model waz super muscular and great for barbarian poses. Notice the lack of detail on his manparts. Probably should of fixed that before posting it. His nuts n' noodles are looking kinda squishy,like those squeeze toys with the goop inside ya can get at the dollar store. Which, when ya think about it, it ain't all that far from the junk in da trunks to begin with.
I've been looking at nudie pix all day trying to find a good one for one of our assignments where we have to draw a full head to toe piece. The one thing I've noticed about most of the nude pix of people is that they're all way too lit,way to much light and not enopugh juicy shadows to enhance the human figure,that and they alwayz cut 'em off just above the knee.
I wish I had the money to actually hire my own models,but I don't. Plus I really don't know how the wifey would feel about nekkid peeple standing around in the living room. Heck,she'd probably just ignore it and go play video games, as she just acquired a Playstation 3 and she'z had her eyeballs glued to that.
I need to get to more of the life drawing sessions at the school more often, but between work,school and homework it's really hard to squeeze it in my schedules.
Or maybe, if I gathered up parts of people and stitched them together I could create my own unique life drawing model! Like the chick in the movie "May" except I wouldn't make out with it or nuthin',just pose it in all kinds of fun wayz fer sketchin'! Now that's an idea for a movie-a starving artist that collects body parts for sketchin'. Would it still be called LIFE Drawing then? Or Still Life without the fruitbowls and flowers.

Speaking of putting together various body parts-



This a sketch of my version of The Frankenstein Monster that I'm trying to work out in my noggin'. I want to do a whole series of him, basically inspired by the song "Frankenstein" by Chan Poling, where I want to take various lyrics from the song and compose a painting around that lyric. This is just a concept sketch of my monster. I want to keep the Boris Karloff face(cuz his eyes are just so damn full of pathos),the basic look of the Universal Monster,but add batteries, wires and tubes to him. I really liked how this came out. More to come!

That's it fer now-back to scrolling thru hundreds of nudie pix and git my drawings done!
Spankin'!

Tags: 3d modeling, boris karloff, chan poling, frankenstein, life drawing, ragzart, war of the worlds
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Gert Welden-The Schulmadchen Report soundtrack

I've been running on about an hourz worth of sleep, but artwork had to be done, bills had to be paid and homework needed to be started, so it'z been another full day for the insomniac zombie Ragzter.
It doesn't help that the heat in Las Vegas iz already at horrid summer highs, sucking whatever little energy I have within me out, but the creative juices still flow.
Here'z some of my stuffinz' I came up with today and in the past few days- (click on the pix for a larger view)
 
The Creature From The Black Lagoon-sketched up with an ink pen during Political Science class.


 
Karen Black possessed by the Fetish Doll from "Trilogy of Terror", again a quick little sketchie done during class.


 
"The Crucifiction of Ragz Dandelion",an idea I sketched up at about 4 in the morning while trying to get to sleep. It seems at night iz when my imagination decides to kick into high geer and I get all theze imagez and ideaz in my noggin'. I think I'll eventually do this one in full size, mayhapz in watercolor and much more detail once I tweek a few thingz and come up with an interesting background for it. Maybe change the hammer. It's a deep,personal piece,well, at least for me anywayz,and it'z up to you tofigure it all out,cuz I need to try more "personal" type thingies.



This is a larger piece. I'm trying to go for the Gustav Dore look, but didn't quite nail it. It's the Frankenstein Monster after he escaped the Castle. I didn't capture the image I had in my mind for this one,even tho I spent most of the day on it.My large scanner didn't really scan it very well either,it looks blurry for some reason.  But it waz more like an experiment to see what I could do with just a marker and Gustave Dore for inspiration. Tryin' something different. There's another piece I want to do with the Frankenstein Monster down the road based on a song by Chan Poling.
No one knowz who I'm talking about,do they?

Anywyaz,that's what I gotz for ya this week. Now to catch up on some sleep....

Tags: chan poling, creature from the black lagoon, frankenstein, gustav dore, karen black, ragzart, trilogy of terror
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Light The Black Skye

In digital painting class I had to take a photo and turn it into something else, so I took this-

and turned it into this-


My homage to the classic "War of The Worlds" movie.
Not quite sure why the Statue of Liberty iz sunk into the water, but hey,I liked how it turned out.
Yep.

Tags: ragzart, war of the worlds
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Uriah Heep

Random Ragzstuff-

The X-Men have been a huge part of my life since I waz a kid, scrounging up quarters to pick up all the issues at the local drugstore long before there were comic stores, and I waz there from the beginning when Wolverine first popped his clawz in an issue of The Incredible Hulk, so of course we had to check out the new Wolverine movie on Saturday, or az my wifey likes to call it-The Best Day of the Year-Free Comic Book Day. The movie waz pretty much everything I expected it to be and really, despite all the whining comic fans n' critics have to say about it, it waz just like reading an issue of Wolverine, well, except without the bright blue and yellow tights, but it had all the schnicks and bubs ya's expect. My wifey on the other hand got all gaga over Gambit. So here'z a snappy just for you,girl,and for all the ladies-




Today started off successfully enuff in that our car passed the smoggin' test, which we were pretty suprized about and didn't expect, so we celebrated by going to Lonestar and it waz there that I filled up on the delicious Texas Rose, which really iz a big deep fried onion. Damn, I love that thing-




I watched cheesy b-movies for the rest of the day az I did some drawing homework,scethin' up the muscles of the leg for anatomy class, did some thumbnails for some future paintings,practiced drawing eyeballs,did a wierd version of Edward Scissorhands-


and while watching "The Wrestler" I did a little doodle of the main character-



"The Wrestler" waz pretty good, tho also quite predictable, I still enjoyed it but had a big problem accepting the fact that guys in a strip bar would turn down lap dances from Marisa Tomei,who only gets hotter and hotter the older she gets. Damn tasty,just like a Texas Rose!
This ones' for the guys-



Another busy day of drawing,eating,car stuff and boobies!
If only everyday went this smoothly!

Tags: edward scissorhands, marisa tomei, ragzart, wolverine, x-men.gambit
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Elvis Costello "Pump It Up"

As mentioned in previous posts, I'm currently learning how to make 3D models in Maya. a program used by most of the movie studios nowdays to create vurtually everything you see on the screen. No longer are guys in bigger rubber suits, vast sets built from actual physical materials or even human actors needed to make a movie look real. It's an amazing piece of software but also very hard to use, navigate around in and actually create something before my feeble lil' computer crashes. But I'm slowly getting the hang of it and I thought I'd share some of my very primitave beginnings in this new adventure. Check these out-








For our midterm we had to recreate a jet of some sort and make it look as realistic as possible, of course, me being me, wouldn't stand for just making a jet but I had to Ragz it up, with ridiculous colors, especially for a SR71 Lockheed which is meant to be stealthly like, but oh well, I'm a diggin' it-check theze out-













Pretty nifty huh?
Course I'd much rather just draw n' paint it out old school on paper n' all, but I gots to learn how the kidz are doin' it all nowdayz.

I have plenty of that to do tomorrow az I gotta git back to the anatomy art. More to be posted soon!

Tags: 3d modeling, maya, ragzart
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Duff McKagan's Loaded

A piece I came up with today while wacthing "The Mummy's Ghost"
Check out more of my work at http://ragzdandelion.deviantart.com/

Tags: mummy

In my last post I mentioned that I ran into a girl at school who waz also from my hometwon of Swartz Creek,MI, a little suburbia of Flint, well, it seemz my lil' hometown iz popping up in strange random places I never would expect, such az last night while I waz doing some catch up reading of comic books. In issue #203 of X-MEN, Cannonball & Iceman are sent out to hunt down the Destiny Diaries, which were hidden in an abandoned broken down brewery in, where else but Flint,Michigan! Clicky on the pix for a better view!

 

And with Facebook now engulfing everyonez livez, I've had people from way back resurfacing into my life. It kinda freaks me out,seein' old faces I haven't seen in decades,and old photos of when I had energy and hope and skinniness.


Funny, how we've all changed and moved on but my sense of home decor has remained the same.



I'm the one TAKING the picture in this one of 5 members of a violent street gang I waz in. Of course, we didn't bother running the actual streets, we'd hit little suburbia back yardz and threaten to beat people up with our plaid jackets,new wave shirts and acoustic guitars.

 
Yearz later,long before Facebook and MySpace took over our livez, we reunited in Flint were we had to confront a supernatural menace that had returned from our teenagehood...booze.

So,all the Facebook stuff haz made me a trifle nostolgic,though I couldn't ever imagine moving back to the wastleand that iz Flint, it'z nice to know everyone iz still around.

Just had ta share.

Tags: belco, flint, strictly taboo, swartz creek, x-men
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Heatwave-Eyeballin'

Me eyez re burning out of my skull. Either I have acquired Cyclops X-Men powers and I'm in need of a ruby quartz visor or it'z from staring at a computer screen for the past four hourz building  a lamp and a table in 3D Maya-a 3D computer art program. Ugh, it'z long grueling work, but it'z what I gotta do. The whole 3D modeling thing is pretty tuff stuff for me, but I'm slowly starting to get the hang of some of it. I'll post some yootoob vidz of what I'm at in the next post or so. It'z not the best stuff in the world, but it iz kinda neat.

In artwork where I have some semblance of knack, I worked up a new character I think I'll call Belfyrgorr. Not sure where he'll fit into it all in the Ragziverse, but I like his expression-


A few weekz ago I also completed another Plazmo painting. It didn't quite turn out az planned, but like Maya, I'm working my way thru watercolors and I'm enjoying it quite a bit-


Took a better pic,cellphone style, of my Ragz sculpture, now on display at The Art Institute in Vegas-baby!-



Oddly enuff, in one of my classes, I met a girl that graduated from the same high school I did, way over in Swartz Creek,Michigan! That'z pretty strange meeting someone from the same earthly place I sprang into human existance from, especially halfway or more across the country. Course she graduated many years after I did, but that just blowz my mind.
Anyhoo, also gotz some more life drawing drawingz to share-






And I finally finished up another Fantasians cover, I'm waayyyy behind on these, but I'll chip away at them az time goez on-


So, az you can see, I've been pretty busy with the artywork, and will be this quarter. Hopefully it'll all pay off some day and get me some decent jobs other than low paying retail gigz.
Now, off to study some anatomy!

Tags: fantasians, life drawing, ragzart, sculpture, swartz creek
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: KISS "Rock & Roll Over"

Many times it's frustrating as hell being a creative person, be it an artist,musician,poet,actor,writer-whatever, not just in the persuit of bringing your creations to life, but finding a place for them, especially a place that rewards you with being paid for it. I never feel like I have enough time for all the images zooming around in my head, and when you have to put those creative urges aside to sell your soul out to pay the bills by doing stuff you hate, it makes it doubly painful for us. All that energy wasted on real life responsibilities instead of using it to hone and perfect your ideas. Many non-creative people don't understand this thing we go through. Many think just cause you write well, or draw well, or do whatever well, that it should take nothing to "make it big" in that field. Sadly, it rarely works that way.
Such is the constant frustration I feel in my search for employment in the field I wish to work in. I don't know where to go, where to take my art and what realistic options are actually out there. And whatever art jobs are available, most employers don't wanna pay any reasonable amount for,. Artists are constantly expected to do tons for little pay. C'mon people, it took us years to get our skills where they are. You don't expect to pay little for a mechanic or a plumber. Just cause I can draw up a picture in a few minutes doesn't mean you should expect it to cost less.
Ok, so I'm venting. I'm frustrated. I'm tired of working doing things that mean nothing to me spiritually. And it runs you down after awhile. But I continue to look for that break, or at least something that may lead to a break. Just wish I wanted to be a doctor or a mechanic or something a little more useful than a guy who likes to draw monsters and half nekkid chicks.
I just know there'z something out there for me and I keep on keeping on in hopes of finding it.
One of my major inspirations this week is a book I picked up from Barnes & Noble for cheap. That book being "The Drawings of Gustav Dore"-
 
Dore's amazing artwork is placed along side of the literary work it represents such as Dante's Inferno,The Bible,The Raven and more!
Dore's artwork just makes me drool like an idiot, and I want to find the time to spend hours upon hours emulating his style with my characters. Mayhaps that is what I'll do for my Drawing & Anatomy class final.
I'm suprised it didn't include one of my fave drawings by Dore, but alas, I shall post it here-
click on it for a bigger view and prepare to drool yerself-


Another inspiration piece of artwork that I've stumbled upon this week waz a short film I caught late at night on TCM. Easily I tracked it down on youtube and it goez by the name of "A Day In The Death of Donny B", a short anti-heroin film made in 1969-

I'm suprized I've never seen this gem before. I love the music, the film style and the Donny B. character. Good stuff!

So there ya go, a few inspirational stuff for ya that's stuck out for me this week. I'll post more gems I come across later on, but it's thingz like this that keeps my creative juices flowing, and keeps my drive alive that maybe, just maybe, I'll crack the code of this life and git my groove on artistically and git paid for it in the same run.

There's nothing more  want than to make a living making my art come alive!
 

Tags: day in the death of donnie b, gustav dore
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: W.A.S.P. "Crimson Idol"

Finished up the Tsunami 7 sculpture, fully painted-




After people saw my painting of my wife's friend that passed away earlier this year, she got a few requests for more, so I painted up another one on a smaller drumhead today. It's got a bit more shading than the first one I did, and I think it looks a bit more like him also.


I want to do another painting of my character Plazmo with a lovely woman, I'm gonna make him the "sex symbol" of my cast of characters, maybe even pushing the envelope with him and git 'em into a more "erotic" tone with his ladies, so mayhapz for thoze with eazily offensive eyeballz, ye might want to be prepared. Plazmo iz gonna git some dum dum!
But fer now, here'z the first sketch I did of him after he came to me in a dream( Wait, that came out sounding much more gayer than intended, not that there'z anything wrong with that, HE IZ one sexy dude!)-

Ladies love him-for many reasons!

Okay-off to do some dishes(we had breakfast for supper-yum!), then off to paint some porn!

Tags: plazmo, ragzart, sculpture, tsunami 7
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Joe Jackson

The sculpture iz painted and done and my teacher wantz it displayed in the student showcase up at the school so I guess I waz successful. For the most part I'm pretty happy with it except for a few thingz here n' there and when I get it back after a quarter of having it on display I'm gonna repaint the hair because when I added purple to the base black it instead created a strange copper like tinge to it instead of dark purple highlights. Here'z some pics of it, tho not the best photography in the world, the white over exposed itself and I planned on trying different snappys of it with different lighting but I didn't expect it to win a spot in a showcase, so I wazn't able to take more pix, but here'z what
I ended up with-


The same instructor haz also submitted my Father Fear LP cover for display too. I think he kinda digz my stuff.
Yesterday morning he showed us a short 16 minuted stop motion film that blew me away, and I've been hunting all over YouTube hoping to find it on there, but I've had no luck. It waz an adaptation of Franz Kafka's "Hunger Artist" and it'z pretty damn cool. I'll have to ask him where I can optain a copy of it, it'z a must see!

Another must see iz the Swedish low key vampire flickie-"Let The Right One In". I know all the rage iz the horrid "Twilight" stuff(okay, that may not be fair since I haven't read the books or seen the movie, but really, I don't have any desire to see retreaded old sexy vampire teenz being all Hot Topicy to each other. Hasn't it been done to death?Vampirez are nasty,smelly,dead thingz not 90210 rejectz with too much gel in thier hair.  I'd rather watch Buffy reruns,but I digress...).


"Let The Right One In"
takes some really nifty turnz with vampire lore without overdoing it. Good stuff.

And speaking of overdoing it, I leave you with one last science class sketchie, this time quickly colorized in photoshop just for the heck of it.
Az the final class presentation was being done on "Shark Finning", which I actually learned something about and found interesting, I finally came up with a visual interpetation of a character I've had swimming around in my head for yearz, a half man/half shark creature called "The Mark"-


Get it? Half Man/Half Shark? Mark?
He he-me so clever!

No one will be taking his finz fer soup!

Lots more to do, more art and wackiness to come!

Tags: let the right one in, ragzart, sculpture, vampires
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Cradle of Filth

Az this school quarter comez to yet another finalz week, I'm pounding out the last few pieces for the week.
I'm now in the painting stages of my "self-potrait", but here be the final sculpt stage-
 

Painting it haz been difficult because it's heavy AND fragile and the weight iz lopsided, so I'm alwayz in fear of dropping it or chipping it. That and I'm new at this whole painting sculptures thing.

For my final piece for Advanced Life Drawing class I finished up this piece today-


It's of my new character Plazmo and hiz lovely wife who I have yet to name. I waz trying to go for a bizarre erotic photgraph thing with the two, I don't think I nailed it, but I do like how it turned out for the most part. Done in watercolor and guache on watercolor paper.

Well, it's off to study for my science class final and back to painting the sculpture.
Final painted sculpture to be posted soon!

 

Tags: ragzart, sculpture
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Best of New Wave Theater

I'm pretty happy with some of the quickie life drawing sketchies we had to do in class today. What'dyathink?
 

Wednesday morning I had to do a presentation with a group in science class. It went over pretty well, probably cuz we did our presentation on mutationz and we got to show powerpoint slides of mutant freak babies and animalz. While others did thier presentations on other environmental stuff I sketchied up some other character ideas for future use, such as this steampunker-

and this guy, who I hath named Plazmo, who will be the next subject in my advanced life drawing class final project-

Finalz week iz upon me, so I goeth now back to my sculpturin', finished sculpture and painted version will be posted when done!


 

Tags: life drawing, ragzart
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Airbourne