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scribbbles

2011-11-28T16:15:00.000-08:00

from the flower market

2011-11-22T19:58:00.001-08:00

artschool girls

2011-11-10T03:14:00.000-08:00

zombies and stuff

2011-11-09T01:18:00.000-08:00

empty

2011-11-06T12:07:00.000-08:00

fashion illustration

2011-11-02T13:10:00.000-07:00

i stopped in to Carol Nunnely's fashion illustration class this morning, she did a demo which was so inspiring, just reminding me to make every mark different from the last.

color figure

2011-10-28T09:40:00.000-07:00

some experiments of ideas with color/design/shape etc

JUNK

2011-10-15T07:52:00.000-07:00

goblins

2011-09-14T09:30:00.001-07:00

pencil

2011-09-10T07:50:00.000-07:00

drawings

2011-08-01T16:54:00.000-07:00

riot gear cops

2011-07-12T05:24:00.000-07:00

recently the BART (bay area rapid transit) police shot and killed a 45 year old man who was drunk on the train, or something, i don't really know the deal, there were protesters and cops in riot gear which are really cool costumes. the protest was near the Powell Bart station by the time i got there around 7 pm.

it was a good day for drawing, i drew people on my commute to work, i taught 2 classes back to back, and then went to draw the figure for 3 hours, and then drew the riot gear guys and the protesters on my way to dinner, and then drew people in the restaurant during dinner, and then people on the Bart on my way home, all together maybe 12 -14 straight hours of drawing?

i really enjoy this type of on the scene, pure observational drawing, i always think of burt silverman's drawings that he did during the civil rights movement.

-g

hungry tired people

2011-07-04T09:43:00.001-07:00

monday

2011-06-27T05:35:00.000-07:00

dark..

2011-06-23T05:28:00.000-07:00

crepevine drawings

2011-06-21T11:22:00.000-07:00

top ten samurai films

2011-06-20T08:02:00.000-07:00

i just saw 13 assasins the other day which i thought was amazing, It led to a discussion of best samurai films of all time... here you go mario....

1. seven Samurai

2. samurai rebellion

3. 13 assassins

4. kill bill vol1

5. ran / throne of blood / hidden fortress

6. harakiri

7. shogun assasin

8. sword of doom

9. yojimbo /sanjuro

10. Kill!

honorable mentions? samurai assasin, lady snowblood, musashi trilogy, ghost dog, ninja scroll, Izo, zatoichi, shogun samurai

i'm gonna watch twilight samurai tonight, i heard it's one of the best

primary

2011-06-02T10:43:00.000-07:00

Bang

2011-05-30T03:07:00.001-07:00

top ten movies set in san francisco?

2011-05-29T12:43:00.000-07:00

1.Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

2.Bullitt

3.Dirty Harry

4.Big Trouble in Little China

5.Vertigo

6.The Rock

7.Milk

8.The Game - ( i like this movie over zodiac)

9.Invasion of the body snatchers (philip kaufman version)

10.The Conversation

model

2011-05-20T17:15:00.000-07:00

this was a drawing done from life, and then i added some flat photoshop coloring

more pencil

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pencil

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workshop

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scribbles

2011-04-24T09:10:00.000-07:00

WONDERCON 2011 pics

2011-04-21T23:36:00.000-07:00

some wonder con photos, that i just got in an email!

nate, konstantin, ben and I stayed busy drawing, and people were happy

thanks Elora!

the book is for sale at gallery nucleus!

Goblins!

2011-04-07T12:32:00.000-07:00

and i put this together to try and show anyone curious some of my thoughts. this is a painting about triangles, i could draw even more red triangles, but i guess you get the point...

and a sorta of simple value pattern.

i was very concerned about the power of triangles. they are pointy and aggresive and can really "abuse" the eyes by shooting them around a picture too fast. so i thoght constantly about eye flow in this picture.

i'd like to render it some more still and maybe change some things

wondercon 2011 update

2011-04-03T08:54:00.001-07:00

the incredible wierdness of wondercon continues, we are selling a lot of books and doing cool drawings in them!

and then these guys...

WONDERCON 2011

2011-03-31T13:43:00.001-07:00

Ok. WONDERCON is this Friday. Thanks to Ben we have a table and even a map to get there. And we will be signing SKETCHBOOKS. Which means EVERY SKETCHBOOK sold gets a sketch from each of us; or at least that's what we try to do. So STOP BY!

table AA121

cape

2011-03-26T17:58:00.000-07:00

PS monster

2011-03-25T01:01:00.000-07:00

daily travel

2011-03-21T16:34:00.000-07:00

i commute almost everyday, the drawings are usually very bad, i am either entirely too tired because it is too early, or too tired because it is too late. or i feel great because it is a good to time to go to work/home, but then the train is usually so full of people i can't get a look at anything to draw!

painter

2011-03-11T14:24:00.000-08:00

most artists know this point of view so well, to the left and right a crowd of artists

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for me these kinds of drawings are mostly entirely exercises in composition,meaning i want to add a complex layer of shapes and play around with them organizationally. i wanted 3 focal points and a few overlapping design triangles.

design hierchy of focal points

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focal point 1- head ( interesting because it contains the only eye, most detailed face)

focal point 2 - the hand painting (interesting because of complex grided space)

focal point 3 - second hand (isolated shape versus large block of rest of image)

the first triangle/wedge shape is a top left down to hand and brush, containg 5 heads anchored by brush hand.

second triangle is formed by the main head, the brush hand and the relaxed hand. sort of upside down.

hopefully with these 2 overlapping patterns, there is a pleasant, yet not "in your face obvious" eye flow

in a drawing like this i try and pay careful attention to the meaning of everyline and every angle, as the lines and angles create the shapes. so even though i am designing angles and lines i am simultaniusly designing shapes.

it's amazing to think how much complexity and variety can be achieved with such simple means, even before going into value and color.

qucikies

2011-03-02T10:09:00.001-08:00

what i'm reading now...

2011-02-25T01:44:00.000-08:00

2011!2 months in already. so far this year i have read

the emperor of all maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Galapagos by kurt vonnegut

the dispossessed by ursula K leguin

the moon is a harsh mistress by Heinlein

which were all excellent and i highly recommend,

I am currently reading

1. Gilead by Maryilynne Robinson

i plan on reading the following books, possibly in this order

2. Angle of repose by Wallace stegner
3.short stories by Flannery O' connor

4. Candy by luke davies

5. babel-17 by samuel delany

6. the border trilogy by cormac mcarthy

7. Star Maker by olaf stapleton

8. Autumn of the Patriarch by gabriel garcia marquez

9. Walden by thoreau

10. a people's history of the united states by howard zinn

11. arctic dreams by barry lopez

12. intruder in the dust by william faulkner

13. A confederacy of dunces- john kennedy toole

14. the master and margarita by mikhael bulgakov

15. space trilogy by c.s. Lewis

16.Golem 100 by Alfred bester

17. the violent man by A. E. Von Vogt

18. the Idiot by fyodor Dostoevsky

19. camp concentration by Thomas disch

20. As I lay dying by William Faulkner

21.life of Pi by yann Martel

22. redwall by Brian Jacques

23. to the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

24. the famished road by Ben okri

i guess if i read em all in a year, it would be pretty good, after a short non reading period after high school my appetite for books has steadily increased. i find it helpful to have a stack of books ready to go, so i don't have to look for one when i finish a book and am hungry for the next one.

i will definetly make a post with table information for wondercon before it happens, our books will be for sale! and i will be sitting there drawing

-george

Great Art hidden in plain site in San Francisco

2011-01-02T09:09:00.000-08:00

*All the following images are from google image search, I was visiting the Rincon annex murals the other day, it struck me that a lot of people might not know about it. Each city offers a lot of art, which is stuck there, it will never leave, perhaps the locals take for granted, because to visit is free and they have been around for decades. Here are 3 such examples;

1 - the Frank Brangwyn murals in herbst theatre.

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Frank Brangwyn Information

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In my opinion Frank brangwyn is the greatest muralist who has ever been, so if you live in San Francisco you should feel lucky that some of his masterpieces are located here.

Herbst theatre is a smallish theatre located on van ness st across from city hall. It is worth seeing any show here just to glimpse the 8 murals frank brangwyn painted in 1915. these painting have really found a home here, even though they were originally painted for something else.

Brangwyn was born in Belgium but is known as being a British mural painter.

Dean cornwell studied with brangwyn for a bit.

there are a total of 8 murals, 4 on each wall each set depicting the classic 4 elements, earth, air, fire and water.

2- Rincon annex murals

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Anton Refregier Information

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These murals are great, and it is free to walk in!

There are 27 murals, they are painted by a russian immigrant named anton refreiger in 1940 as one of the last depression era public works murals. A sort of golden age where the american government became a great patron of the arts through things like the WPA.

San Francisco has several WPA era murals, but these are in my opinion the finest.

3- Palace hotel - Pied Piper bar

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Maxfield Parrish Infromation

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The palace hotel is on market street. It is old and beautiful.

this is the maxfield parrish painting in the bar.

This painting is a real beauty. Since Parrish is such a forgotten American great, this painting is the only example of his work I have ever seen.

My mother took me here when I was ten years old to look at the painting, but she was asked to leave because children are not allowed in bars.

I hope this infromation leads some people to view these great works of art for the first time. happy new year and buy my book!

drawing

2010-12-28T13:00:00.000-08:00

buy my book!

Book signing at Gallery Nucleus Dec 4th at 2pm

2010-11-23T12:12:00.000-08:00

I will be having a book signing at gallery nucleus, which is super exciting!

Producing this book is something I am very proud of because I have loved books my entire life, i read a lot as a kid and still do. I find it amazing that entire experiences, adventures, whole life's work, entire bodies of knowledge or anything imaginable can be communicated from author to reader, in such a controlled method. when ben, konstantin, nate and I were creating this book, we knew what we wanted, a large book, with no text crammed full of images, a sort of visual assault, a celebration of drawing. i was inspired by the sketchbooks of heinrich kley, and other dover sketchbooks, jerome opena, katsuya terada, Igor-alban Chevalier and others. I think it was the clarity of intend that made the book so solid.

i made a video of me flipping through the book

gallery nucleus will be the exclusive online seller, starting dec 4th, if you live in the bay area and want a copy just send me an email.

different drawings

2010-11-12T00:00:00.001-08:00

a few black and whites

2010-11-02T01:02:00.000-07:00

figure

2010-10-23T12:02:00.001-07:00

just wanted to get some art on here

APE

2010-10-18T01:02:00.000-07:00

The convention went really well, we completely sold out in just a few hours, but don't worry more books are on the way and i will post as soon as i know!

COME VISIT ME AT APE!

2010-10-01T22:04:00.002-07:00

I will be at APE, the Alternative press expo, OCTOBER 16-17, selling a really nice book. I made it with 3 of the best artists I know. In total you get a 400 page book, 100 pages of art per artist, it is black and white, and 8 x 10.5 softcover. this book has zero filler it is ALL Art, Tons of great drawings!

For now we are doing an extremely limited run of 50 copies, at $40 each. or 10 dollars per artist!

I will of course be printing more soon, but it is very likely that this will be the only time to get the huge book version, and the next large size run will be cut in 2 volumes.

the artist's are myself, Ben Jelter, Nate Sisler, and Konstantin Pogorelov.

here is the AWESOME COVER!

Ben made this picture to help you comprehend the amount of content in the book!

and of course a handy map!

I will also be selling original art for Low prices!

And if you want to pre-order it, email me now, and for 50 dollars I will mail it to you and get at least 3 of the artists to draw something original for you!

or if you want to reserve a copy for pickup at ape email me about that!

i'll post some pictures of the book in my next post

wyvern

2010-09-25T22:03:00.000-07:00

I remember drawing a lot as a kid and then finding out about wyverns; dragon's with no arms, only 2 legs and wings. this was such a relief, since at the time i was really struggling making arms and wings work together.

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Common in coastal waters

scribbbles

from the flower market

artschool girls

zombies and stuff

empty

fashion illustration

color figure

JUNK

goblins

pencil

drawings

riot gear cops

hungry tired people

monday

dark..

crepevine drawings

top ten samurai films

primary

Bang

top ten movies set in san francisco?

model

more pencil

pencil

workshop

scribbles

WONDERCON 2011 pics

Goblins!

wondercon 2011 *update*

WONDERCON 2011

cape

PS monster

daily travel

painter

qucikies

what i'm reading now...

Great Art hidden in plain site in San Francisco

drawing

Book signing at Gallery Nucleus Dec 4th at 2pm

different drawings

a few black and whites

figure

APE

COME VISIT ME AT APE!

wyvern

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wondercon 2011 update