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I estimate that I’ve eaten nearly one hundred chicken nuggets in the last two weeks. NOT GOOD

In other news, here’s the most recent page out of my sketchbook; that brush stroke bullshit wasn’t intentional (I was testing colors while painting something else), but it looks nice.

Tonight!

Minty Lewis
Joey Sayers
Tessa Brunton
Ryan Germick
Calvin Wong
and me
and also Jason Shiga!

at
Modern Timesw

BLAWG?!

I’m in Brooklyn right now, sippin’ on juice and juice. Calvin and I are here to table at MoCCA this weekend (June 6 - 7, 11am - 6pm, at the Armory at Lexington and 25th in NYC; we are at table 810 with Damien Jay, against the back fuckin wall) this weekend, and I’ve also got some art up in the GRNY Panelists show on Saturday night (so does Calvin!), which you can take a gander at here:

Will you come? Only if you aren’t a complete dick

Cham-peen Derek just posted these screenshots of the game on his own site. Do you recognize Calvin’s “Ramble On” goblin? And yes, you are correct, that is our beloved Anthony’s head! Click images to embiggen:

You can play it at GRSF tonight!

Derek and I made a flippin’ video game, and Ho-ham Calvin also worked closely with us!

YOU CAN PLAY IT TOMORROW NIGHT AT GRSF

A watercolor after this photo of Catherine Deneuve (far right) and two other actors in the Luis Buñuel film, Belle de jour (1967). Click image for larger version:

I fucked this drawing up several times; while gleefully using a nib to ink for the first time, I splattered some black ink all over the left side, then I messed up Buxom Red’s cheekbone shadow and tried unsuccessfully to cover it with tinted gouache, while trying to also gouache out those ink splotches. The illustration itself is a far cry from the photo I was trying to copy, but in the end, I guess it’s not so bad. Edit: I also just realized that the perspective is SUPER fucked up (compare the direction of the floor to the hanging picture frame), and I feel a mixture of shame, embarrassment, and buffoonery

Technical notes aside, I have to mention that I have not seen Belle de jour, or any other Luis Buñuel films (though I would really like to). I just really liked the photo of the three women very much, and I wanted to attempt a watercolor. In fact, I found the reference photo while searching for images of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent as a young man; apparently this was the first of many films in which Mr. Laurent designed all of Catherine Deneuve’s costumes.

This is yet another watercolor sketch of a Chosun-era Korean girl. Her dress and hair are far more plain, and she’s holding a braid of goolbi (dried croaker/corvina).

This is a watercolor sketch of gisaeng, the well educated, multi-talented women entertainers of the Goryeo (918 - 1392) and Joseon (Chosun, 1392 - 1910) dynasties in Korea. They’re often depicted in old paintings and contemporary historical dramas with huge, piled-on braids, elaborate hanbok costumes, exquisite norigae ornaments, and all sorts of fancy shit. Wouldn’t it be awesome to do an entire comic about gisaeng, in complete watercolor?! Coming to you in … 2025!

Calvin and I drew each other to commemorate our wretched birth month of January (though we cheated; I photoshopped us together).

This is only the second thing we’ve ever drawn together, the first being this masterpiece we produced while being held hostage in the San Jose office of the Board of Equalization seven months ago. SEVEN MONTHS?!?! WE’S GOTS TO GETS OUR NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONES

Here’s a strip which appears in the most recent issue of Giant Robot. I think it’s my last one, so REVEL IN IT:

This really happened