The Goat Hatchet Cafe.


A few links today. Reviews at Size Matters for two books,
and reviews for 1, 2, 3 books at Quimby's. I sort of wish I had the job of writing all of the right-off-the-top-of-your-head blurbs at Quimby's. But maybe I'm not tough enough.

Well, haven't posted anything lately cause everything's been pretty rough, but here goes anyway:

I've been drawing astronauts a lot. Here's one in action:

Lots of roughs. everything's still in pencil, though I'll probably start laying the ink down tomorrow. Other than that, lots of figure drawing. I ran out of my smooth newsprint, so I tried out the ink brushes a few times:


It's fun, and I like how it looks, but it's so fast that I feel like I'm cheating. I dunno. It seems like the kind of thing where less is more, so I end up burning through paper and wandering around the room for different angles. I was getting fixated on learning to lay down tones and model the forms, so the ink brush was frustrating. Most of the drawings were massive jumbles of lines and attempted cross-hatchings. So I got some more of the smooth newsprint and went back to the charcoal pencil:

And, well, I dunno. Honestly, I'm not sure where to focus. Most of my reclining figures tend to look like they're made of jello, though, and this one's not so bad that way.

Take me to your leader.

So I went into the shop and asked this guy what actually sells. He said, "the psychedelic stuff." Which was sort of the heavy doodle stuff that may or may not make its own kind of sense. So, here's an attempt at the psychedelic stuff.