Rising up from a pile of work to update.

Things have been happening.

As finals week approaches, the workload shifts and morphs. I have begun work on an oral presentation for Spanish that will be on the luchador El Santo after finishing off a 2500 word paper on Roy Lichtenstein and comics in which I quote Warren Ellis. I've been polishing up my figure drawing portfolio before turning it in, too, and I've got more stuff to prepare for and dig into.

Somewhere in there, I got fake blood splashed onto my shirtless body to take reference photos for the life sized self portrait I have to do. And this came from it:

I'm still struggling to figure out what I want to do for my senior exhibition. I mean, I kind of want to do a narrative series of some sort, but I can't um, think of a decent one just yet. I've got ideas, a few characters bouncing around in my skull, but nothing's really clicking. I kind of know the direction I'm wanting to go in, and I did this piece as a sort of example, though it was also an experiment in playing with zipatone and halftone filters and stuff:

The green-haired girl is an actual character I was planning, the two guys in the background are just chilling.

Things I've been into lately:

Went into a huge Witch House kick after learning of a tribute to Twin Peaks album that I'll never get my hands on. In particular, I dig this band Silver Strain, also called §. The video, is uh, not safe for work (Mexploitation cinema! Boobs and blood and stuff!)...much like some of the art that's already on this site, so, you know, use your own discretion.

§ - Sádicos Infernal from § on Vimeo.

Also on a punk kick, having bought a Bad Religion album. Also, I got to see David Liebe Hart from the Tim and Eric Show live the other night! I got my picture with him.

No joke, it was AWESOME.

As usual, I've also been acquiring and reading more comics. Got a lot of decent Jack Kirby stuff at work: some Kamandi, Devil Dinosaur, the Demon, 2001, and the Eternals.

Also watched Sucker Punch in theaters and didn't like it. Last weekend though, I went and saw Hanna, and it was amazing. Check out the trailer:

Hm. I think that's it. Back to Mexican wrestlers fighting vampire women!

[Brett]