inkovember!

Spent two and a half hours today at Barnes and Nobel looking through art books/ graphic novels/ comics/ and manga. I saw one called ‘All You Need is Kill’ and I said in my head “if this is $10 I’m getting it” and it was $14. So I got it, mostly because of the title, but also because it looks to be the manga version of live die repeat, and I did not know that existed. The title reminds me of ‘Blood Lad’, which my friend kept trying to tell me was good, but I never heard him because I was laughing too hard at the title and the image it conjured of a small boy made from a thin condom like membrane of skin overfilled with blood. So naturally I assumed the story was about him constantly in peril of being popped and the Lad loosing all his blood.

Junji Ito's GYO

I got and read Junji Ito's Gyo. I didn't really get it, the writing was extremely dry to my ear. For example, this character's only real defining characteristic is that she is really upset about smells and is incessantly complaining about them through the entire book. And I was all, lets give you a big smile, because without a strange smile on your face your character is thinner than the paper you're printed on.

Dr. Katsubana's God Labs ID and clearance card

"Dr. Fiona Katsubana, a leading expert in persistence-of-soul research, demonstrated the validity of her hypotheses by dissolving the flesh from her mortal body. She lives on as an animated skeleton often experimenting on herself to scientifically deduce why she yet lives."

Some projects

Non drawing things: I took the talisman out of my katana's handle then carved a space for it in a wooden sword I made and epoxied it in. Made new clamping faces for my vice which now it looks too nice to use. Fashioned a clever apparatus that looks like a baseball bat is sticking out of my ceiling. been experimenting with different shades for bare ceramic light bulb fixtures. I don't really like any of them yet, except the one that is all cut up, which I cut up because I didn't like it. Also the wooden one has some of that pink salt blocks glued to the bottom of it. Put a chandelier in my garage. Remade my kitchen light, cut some of the glass off the bottom then painted it black and distressed it. also Fall, also this van gogh smoking skeleton poster fluoresces nicely under black light.

Zionist Nazi

another marry worth, or, no this is sally forth

I always call this strip marry worth in my head, is that a different comic strip?

inktober! The God Labs reactors

Inktober! It hardly counts as I'm working in ink right now so it's not really a challenge to inktober because I ink all over the place. This page was an experiment though because I was mixing inks and soaking the filler material of used up Faber-Castell PITT pens (which are expensive, 5 money a pen and they run out fast) to reactivate them and it seems to have worked! One of the dangers here is that they can mold which I've had happen with water brush pens I filled with ink.

Krull, the nuclear technician

inktober! studies

Inktober! These are some drawings I did from the s.t.a.l.k.e.r. concept art, and one of a RBMK nuclear reactor refueling crane. I'm experimenting with using inks for the next story I've been working on, and I've been doing a lot of research on nuclear reactors and labs and such. I did want to be a nuclear physicist before I pursued art, so in a lot of ways I'm fulfilling my dream!

Horse Joke inktober!

My friend Jon sent me a couple horse jokes he wrote, here is one I illustrated today for inktober!