Silly Hats and Dancing Killbots!

More bits and bobs I did for Cup o' Doodle!  Followed by some sketchbook and some drawings on free paper!  I love free paper!

Captain Reynolds was less than pleased with the
respect commanded by the new uniforms.

Thank goodness Killbot decided that dancing
was simply more fun than his prime directive.

Oh free paper, you're the best.

Oh and I made a tumblr also - http://roboch.tumblr.com/
At this point it's more or less the same as this thing, just tumbly... it might turn into something else eventually once I figure out what I want to do with it.

Sketchbook!

Today we have some sketchbook funtime experiments with a big ol fat black marker which I firmly to be THE BEST (see Figure A1) and a white gel pen, which is pretty cool too.  Other things were also involved, but those are the main ingredients.  

Fig. A1

Oh, and turtles.

Have a lovely day,
Rob

Sketchbook: Commutants!

So, as some portion of you might know I commute to and from Manhattan every day to go sculpt naked people.  It involves two trains and a subway, usually populated largely by business people in suits.  Frequently they're asleep.  To occupy my time I draw them, frequently while they sleep.

At first I just drew them as they were... then we migrated into caricatures.  By now, after almost a year of doing this, we've moved into full on mutants.  Personally I'm most pleased with the progression.

And now, without further ado,  I present to you some commutants.  We have...

Coffee Wolf

 Purse Bird

 Treehead Stoneface

 Scruff Mcgruff

 Wanda

Goatboy: All Grown Up

Also, here's a little detail of something i'm in the middle of.

Today's post was brought to you by the letter T:

The sketchbook says hello. It also says smelly.

Some fiddly bits from the sketchbook!  Monsters!

Humans!

And to close out.  My friend bought a lovely, thick black marker, and I wondered to myself... is it smelly?  To check if it was, this happened.

"And was it smelly?" you might ask.  To which I would answer: yes.  Yes it was.

Spaceman and Spacehorse!

With this image we may commence a series of images concerning teh adventures of Spaceman and Spacehorse as they wander the mysterious kingdom of SPACE.  So I'm trying out a whole pile of things here, and I'm not entirely convinced that they're all working.  We'll see.

In addition, of course, we have more sketchbook.  Some box foxes and some Draculas, because you always need more Draculas.

Yes.  As always, more to come.

Rob

More Sketchbook Critters!

So here's some more sketchbook town.  I've been trying out new things, with varying degrees of success, but I think these are kind of fun.  They're done in a combination of paint markers, namely a white sharpie and the king of all markers: the HARDCORE marker.  I don't think it's possible to adequately articulate how much I like this marker.  I posted the businessmen at an unreasonably large size, which I recommend viewing.

Onward and upward,
Rob.

Sketchbook Critters

Many things in motion at the moment.  In the meantime here is some sketchbook business!  Critters, including but not exclusive to goats, cats, and a bird.  Also, a picture of people drawing pictures of naked people.

As a second, related note, I highly recommend googling "fainting goats."

That's all for now

Plaster!

So here I have a little preview of my fist foray into casting:

These are all I'm going to share for now, unfortunately the rest of the pictures didn't come out so hot, so I'm going to have to re-shoot.  Either way the process was interesting.  Put in shim lines (like fault lines) so the mold can come apart, then coat the clay in plaster, break apart the mold, destroy the clay, put the mold back together, fill it with plaster, then chip off the mold.  I wish I had photographed the process a little, it's really beautiful to watch all the plaster chip away.  When you build the mold up off of your sculpture it sort of becomes this hideous blob of plaster, burlap and metal bars (to help give it structure).  You then chip all of that away, and it just sort of falls off, slowly revealing your sculpture underneath.  Next time I'll take more pictures.

Oh, and while I'm at it, here's some more sketchbook to keep things even.

And to leave off, a comment on a hand I sculpted from Leonid Brener when I studied with him over the summer:

"Everybody knows she has five fingers, find something more interesting to say."

Sketchbook Backlog

So, since I've been at the Art Students League I've been commuting every day.  Nearly two hours of train riding every day, some New Jersey Transit some MTA.  The result of all this time spent on a train is that I have about four hundred pages (slightly more actually) of train related sketchbooking to share.  So without further ado, and in no particular order, here are some sleeping bankers, reading investors, texters and space starers:

Initially it was purely a ballpoint and brush pen affair, but it has since migrated (marked by the death of my beloved S.K.B. and the complete lack of effort to replace it) over to a more diverse collection of things.  Most recently colored pencils and a calligraphy marker

There will be more of this.

Rob

Back to the Book

Sketchbook! Media experiments! Yeah!

I've had a couple of these pages sitting in my book as pencil drawings for over a month now, and figured it was time to see how big a mess I could make out of them. All in all I'm pleased.

Right then. Back to work.

Sketchbook? Sketchbook? Again?!?

Sketchbook! Now with additional photoshop playtime on top! That top one may resurface in the future...

Sketchbooooooook!

More Sketchbooktown! Here we have some figure drawings I did over spring break in New York at the Society of Illustrators and the direct result of looking at a lot of McBess, who is wonderful.

Yes indeed. More to come in the future.