Go Mux Yourself

So yeah i kinda went & let this blog die entirely.

well not intentionally. i’ve been trying to do things but i’m experiencing a pretty harsh creative block lately. pretty doubtful of my own stuff too. like ‘why the fuck should i even be working on this, it’s not good yet.’ like it’ll ever be good anyway haha but like i go to work & i doubt what i’m doing & trying to re work it & then getting nothing done. sorry to whine. but yeah. it’s been low output. i suck.

But anyway, like i promised, a new muxtape for this month. at the same address, just new music:

The Kills - M.E.X.I.C.O.
Nine Inch Nails - 1,000,000
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
Terminal Margret - I Did A Shit On Your Mum
Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)
Prototypes - Je Ne Te Connais Pas
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage)
Soulwax - NY Excuse (Justice Remix)
El-P - Deep Space 9mm
The Roots - rising down (featuring mos def & styles p)
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
The Flaming Lips - Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung

hopefully i have some new stuff soon

-J

The Bid’ness of Badness

Long post to take care of some shit

• Sketches: Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. With the double whammy of my scanner exploding & going into nyc for the comic con, the daily sketch thing fell apart. I did do little bits of sketching here & there but nothing substantial for the placeholders I had tried to set up. So fuck it. I deleted those & I’ll continue to post sketches & things & I’ll try to be often but daily? eh. Three & a half months though! Yeah nevermind, I know. I suck.

• NYCC: In other news, we went to nycc & this happened:

(made for sean’s blog; via) Sitting at that panel, you know, the one the fire marshal almost made them shut down for? I freaked the hell out when I saw Hunter Gathers, but I nearly had a heart attack when they announced voice work by Toby (ARTIE, THE STRONGEST MAN… IN THE WORLD) Huss this season too.

I met a lot of cool people there, even if some were only for a few fleeting seconds. I know going in more of a fan capacity didn’t really help me in the long run constructively, but talking to the likes of Steranko was pretty cool though, I must say. Team Venture as well, even if it was only to mention things like old TV shows. And it was great meeting Jack & Andre from Void. Speaking of which…

• Void: In other news, my first battle just wrapped up at Void. And while I kind of peetered out towards the end, I managed to win my battle with Fence (who I think did a really kick ass job!) I would have posted this sooner, but there’s sorta this policy about posting comics for the site on other websites until the voting’s all wrapped up. Fair enough. So Sign up & vote on the next one! haha But here, check it out (click to get it all stand alone).

And as an added bonus, here are the original pencils before I took it into photoshop. Originally, the plot involved Fence’s Finnegan character to dupe Slaughterface into not crushing them by going to get drunk. It works & the bigfoot just chucks that tanker into the stratosphere. So, they party around town, drinking & pissing on anything with union jacks on them, & eventually end up in an Irish pub around midnight. When the clock stroked Twelve, they were going to say Slaughterface is officially no longer Irish-for-the-day & boot him out on his ass & call him a schmuck. He gets enraged & is about to take a step back toward the bar when suddenly, the same tanker, from earlier, falls & explodes on the pub, seriously maiming the people inside. And he walks off into the night, smug & still slightly buzzed. But yeah. Uh. It got to that final week & I only had 2 & half pages done & a hectic week with work & shit. So I just truncated that ending a bit.

• Other Things: And there were some other things. But I forget them right now. So Fuck it. But yeah. I dunno. I think I’m scrapping the Daily Sketch business for now in order to get a little extra bit done. I’ll keep filling my sketchbook pages & shit & dump all that here once I get a working scanner, but for the time being, fuck it. Alright. Time to put some of this comic vibe down into pages of my own. Back to work!

-J

B-Day Role Call!

Yeah. It’s my birthday (& I totally cabbage-patched while saying that). But don’t wish me a happy. Oh-hoho No Sir! Wish it to these awesome people:

Hot Rod!

Afrika Bambaataa Aasim

Pete Effin’ Shelley

The Guy That Plays The Dick British Guy in Ronin

King Taksin the Great

William Holden, of the Wild Bunch

Former Devils Defender Ken Daneyko

The Evil Prick Pictured Here

This Guy That Everyone Seems To Love

The Day Ben Franklin Died

Star of one of Steve Martin’s Favorite Movies, Black Christmas

The Middle of The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Visual Approximation)

The guy from Opeth

This Dirty Red

This Dirty Red

Boomer

Some Serbian War Criminal Who Just Happens To Know How to Pose for a Picture

AND…. (wait for it)

Yeah. At’s Right. Oh. And be sure to have a Happy World Hemophilia Day too.

-J

Happy Tax Day. Here’s Something Taxing.

Happy Tax Day. Here’s a quick concept sketch I started over the weekend but finished today. That alien wears human camouflage. That is all.

-J

Regarding Slaughterface

So I did a plain old picture of my character Slaughterface as I couldn’t think of anything else to do. that’s all. yup.

In other news, I took care of all but 1 picayune detail of the 3 trillion things that popped up that I had to take care of this week.

See you at the New York Comic Con

-J

Gimme Danger

So I did start this before going to sean’s but forgot it before i left. So I finished it up Superquickly.

This character’s last name is Danger. She’s the captain of the team from my story Doomsderby. The anatomy seems really off. sorry. like i said… ’superquickly’

-J

A PIMP NAMED DOOM!

“Let us Pray the Pimp’s Prayer. Lord, please pray for the soul of this bitch and guide my pimp hand and make it strong Lord, so that she might learn a ho’s place. Amen.”

“Amen. Yeah.”

-A Pimp Named Slickback (and Riley Freeman)

Stemming from a Sean Conversation, as if you couldn’t guess. Dr. Doom always was a pimp. Why not make him look the part.

Possible Pimp names for Dr. Victor Von Doom according to some shitty pimp handle generator I found: ‘Vicious D. Victor Wicked’ ‘Bishop Don Von Doom’ ‘Reverend Victor Glide’ ‘Ghetto Fabulous V. Flow’ & my personal favorite ‘Diamondtrim Doom the Latverian Lover’. Ok I added the Latverian Lover bit, but come on!

I got ‘Sheik J. Love’ & ‘Treacherous J. Ice’. The latter’s my favorite out of all of them.

Don’t hate the player…

-J

The Mux Up

Yeah. So I did it, like I threatened. And it took forever considering I did it on my home 56k connection. But I made a Muxtape. Check it out Here.

There you will find:

Yamasuki - Yama Yama
If Ennio Morricone did Scores for Samurai Movies.
RZA - You Can’t Stop Me (ft. Inspectah Deck)
If Rza did Scores for Westerns.
50 Cent - I Get Money (”I Dap Money” 50 vs the Dap Kings Remix)
The Classiest 50 will ever sound.
Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
Actually… I dunno what I was thinking with this one. The breakdown’s ok
Mikis Theodorakis - Cafe Rock
Short & Fuzzy with Bells. Heheheheh.
Sum Sum - Mountain Beauty
Makes me think of something that would’ve been dubbed over for Kung Faux
Giant Robot Ft. Hosni - Get Up
So this is what hiphop sounds like in Finland. Huh.
Gnarls Barkley - Run
Didn’t like it so much when I first heard it but it’s grown on me.
C-Mon & Kypski - Bumpy Road
Distorted & Cheery
Bull in the Heather (Sonic Youth Cover) - The Go! Team
More Distorted & Cheerier… what I listened to working on [my void] battle!
Primal Scream - MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill ‘Em)
It’ll probably annoy you after a few minutes, but ‘not my fault. monkey bastard hands’. Named after My Bloody Valentine & the Sun-Ra Arkestra
Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra - The Last Time
Should sound pretty familiar

Just random shit. Admittedly, a lot of it came from the impeccable tastes of the Soul-Sides mp3 blog. If you don’t go there, well… go. I gave you the link! I’ll probably switch this up again when I feel like it & post another dealie then too. Please to Enjoy!

-J

Trapped In the Blinding Whiteness of the Tundra!

Another sketchbook page & this one’s dedicated entirely to that project I’ve been working on a little recently. Mech Robots. Barbarians. Arctic Wastelands. Alien… things. Don’t make me try to explain what you’re looking at here exactly, but yeah, that kind of stuff. This is just a sample of the dickhead way I work haha Finally got an ok-ish looking mech design though. Not entirely sold on the head, but at least it’s along the lines. Oh, & that’s kind of like a bird’s eye view of it, it doesn’t have stubby little legs or anything like that. More Soon.

-J

Blaylock

So here’s yesterday’s sketch. I started the head as a warm up but was too wrapped up in my void deadline to finish it. So i did today with another pencil really quickly sketching in the body. This is the character with the boombox head from that one project was working on. I decided Blaylock would be an awesome last name for him. But then thought wait…. there are so many musical references, people are going to think that maybe that’s a pearl jam reference (as apparently their original name was mookie blaylock after the basketball player).

But no… it’s not. You hear me, Vedder? Screw your hippy ways! Go score another Sean Penn movie! Jonny Greenwood’s better anyway! “I’VE ABANDONED MY BOY!”

Anyway, I did make the void deadline. By like 40 minutes or so. haha It peetered out a little towards the end because I had to wrap it up in a semi coherent manner pretty quickly, but I’m content with it. Not thrilled, but you know… content. With that behind me, I’ll get back to nicer sketchbook pages now while I’m scripting other things.

-J

Fuck All Inevitabilities! Especially the ‘Death & Taxes’ Part!

So I owe all branches of the government a lot of money. More money than I even had income in 2004. Fun Stuff, lemme tell ya.

Anyway, a daily sketch:

So sorry it’s the same character as yesterday. But after that one, she just didn’t look right. So I called mulligan. I tried to make her look just a bit younger & at the same time more pissed off. It suits the character better. While she might look a little too much like Noodle of the Gorillaz now, the original basis I had in mind was more like O-ren Ishii in the Kill Bill animated sequence, standing on the roof with the sniper rifle? That, meets Crazy Woman Ice Barbarian Lady. Really, just make her look totally unsuited for the environment she’s in, which, if you’ve been following, you know to be an arctic wasteland. Thus the ridiculous gymnast physique. While I like how the face turned out, I still gotta play around with the suit design. The more I draw it the less & less I like it. Seems way too generic. But yeah. I dunno. This is why these are just concept sketches.

In other news, I saw a thing on boing boing about this crazy Muxtape site. Seems like a neat deal, but unsuited for my ridiculously slow speed connection. Then people on Entervoid started doing it. And caving to peer pressure like I typically do, now I feel the urge to make one too. I was thinking maybe at some point starting some sort of gig where instead of doing the typical mp3 blog thing & reposting the same mp3’s I get off other mp3 blogs anyway; just setting up a playlist every month or so & maybe somehow, trying to set it up as a widget on the side? or at least a link to the list where you can listen to it stream, you know? Like a much, much, much less convoluted version of LastFM. I dunno. any thoughts on that?

Oh. After that huge chunk taken out of my income, the only thing that’ll make me happy again is drawing, so a-way we go… back to the comicking.

-J

Iced Out

Mech Pilot in furs with a spear all innuit’ed (or ‘iced’) out. get it? it’s cold up there. Same character, same story as the other ones. I got an awesome name for this character that passed the ‘Sean‘ test. but this sketch is just a quick amidst other last minute rushing & tax preparation… yup. don’t worry. i know the quality’s been a little iffy as of late. I’ll step up the game by the end of week.

-J

We Can Never Go Back To Arizona!

So today, out of the blue, my boss asked me if I’d be able to go to Chile, Peru, & possibly Arizona (in his haste, could he have meant Argentina?) for 10 days, to shoot some things for an infomercial around the end of May. This came on the heels of me talking to Sean & screaming ‘WE CAN NEVER GO BACK TO ARIZONA!’ in the hallway.

But screw that. I’m game!

I know the only reason I was asked is because I can operate a camera & have a valid passport…. but so what? haha

-J

AMF Futures

Quickie tonight. AMF… From the future! No further details than that really. You just wait! And yes. Sunny is missing an arm & Ash is bleeding from her eyes in some strange stigmata-y fashion. But when you rock for as long as they do at that point… well it’s a lot of stuff that’s pretty much bound to happen.

in other news, i’ve been working on my battle comic, thus the quickie sketchier comics. I’ll go back to the sketchbook deals around friday i hope. in other news, shit’s all retarded. talk to you later! haha

-J

Kung Fu Disco Jesus

Yeah. So I was driving home from Sean’s last night & I kept working out goofy throwaway project ideas in my head. One of which was Kung Fu Disco Jesus. Basically, think Scarface & Saturday Night Fever & Bloodsport were all one movie, starring JESUS-uh! set in detroit. in the 1970’s. I dunno. it was like 3am, i had a banger headache, & i should not have been driving haha but i always think these goofy things up & never draw them. this will probably be as about as far as this one will get. ever! i was thinking of another older project driving too & got an AWESOME title for it. So that might go somewhere. but who knows.

i spent all day today watching frisky dingo & working on my battle comic for void. yup yup. and chicken parm subs rule.

-J

Cody’s Down!

Sorry for the lateness. A Cosmonaut chick concept I was kicking around for an old project a while ago. as seen here as well. but this newer one of course isn’t as nice & is much sketchier. not from my sketchbook, i’ll do that when i can but that might not be an everyday thing.

-J

GDMFSketchbook Deux

It never freaking stops. I go to scan this & my photoshop shuts down every time it tries to import. I FINALLY got it & so here it is:

Another sketchbook page. Didn’t so much fill it but took up a large portion. Just random girls. The main one was supposed to be kind of like a generically cyborg indian girl. like i said. random. the others? no idea. just filling space.

also? wordpress’s new layout? i ain’t diggin it.

other than this sort of stuff, I worked on my battle comic today, which i’ve been neglecting amongst this week of total bullshit. Still got a week though in front of the deadline & as is, I should be able to get it done. I hope! haha and get my taxes done. and still pay my student loans. and other shit. fuck. fingers crossed everyone haha

did find time to by some bristol though. hoo-ray.

in other news, if you happen to like girls & monsters sketched out with really really clean line work, do yourself a favor. Check out Paul Richards‘ stuff like I did today. looking at a small sampling a few days ago is one of the reasons why i switched up the format here a little. but he does good stuff. not all of it’s work safe though.

Oh! And PS- since these sketchbook pages are gonna get random, feel free to start suggesting titles for posts & things… or else you’re just going to be getting a bunch of boosh, spaced, arrested development, athf, pete & pete, & python lines severely out of context. blowing your mind.

-J

Tintin, Motherfuckers!

So this was a page I did in my sketchbook. Herge’s Tintin (with a camera to reinforce that whole reporter vibe), along with the heads of Snowy (who ended up looking creepy after the scan), Capt. Haddock, & Prof Calculus. I effed with the style a bit, just fuckin’ around & not trying to bite Herge haha but yeah. The thing I think that came out the best was the Hindu Girl Sculpture thing pointing the way. I dunno. It seemed world-travel-y. And no real reference for this, though it took longer than it should have haha While I went All-Page, I gotta remember to leave a margin around the edges as my scanner’s a pain in the ass. Seems like it’s shorter than the 8.5 or something, which is why the lettering got cut off.

Click the image for an added little bonus.

Back in my own bed. Ahh. I enjoyed actually working in my sketchbook. More like this soon.

-J

Ice Flow, Nowhere To Go

Uh Huh.

So after not having a computer, I sketched this. A quickie of the character from that mech robot thing with dragons & crashes in space. i’m thinking this might be a good look for the suit. Not 100% on it, but maybe like 75& or so. But that’s just her pilot suit. Crashlanding on the surface of barren wasteland, she’ll generally run around with this suit & some animal pelts & things. But that’s later. Anyway, she’s supposed to be looking at a hologram type thing. Oh & there is a background for this, it’s just a blizzard with whiteout conditions. no seriously.

So far, the vast majority of the daily sketches have been on loose leaf sheets of 8.5×11. I’ve been looking at other artists sketchbooks recently & might move towards more of like a ‘page a day’ & fill a page with studies, random shit, & whatever. Use my sketchbook for it’s actual intended use rather than as a halfassed trapper keeper. We’ll see though.

Just glad my wrist is back up to par. Still don’t know what I did to it & it’s a little tender if I stretch too much, but I mean I can move it again so yeah.

-J

Gah! My Computer Exploded.

Not in a literal sense but in a ‘i’m using someone else’s computer to tell you this’ sort of way. So this is a placeholder till I can get my laptop & scanner running again. Sorry. I suck. This week’s just been suckage left & right.

EDIT: And finally….

Jode from AMF. Fucking with the stylization a bit. Not quite liking it. I did this quickly at work. I get home, start my laptop, get ready to scan it, but my laptop’s power cord has gotten pretty fucked in that it has to be in JUST right & have JUST enough tension on the cord to get through & charge the battery. Like when you have a trusty old pair of headphones, & one side starts cutting out? Yeah, that’s how I have to charge my laptop. I’m waiting for the fire. Well no matter what I did, for … well… quite a while, I couldn’t get it to charge. I thought it was busted for real.

This morning, I monkeyed around with it for three seconds? Boom suddenly there’s power back. I let it get a full charge &now (as long as I don’t touch it) it’s perfectly fine. Till I go to scan & suddenly the belt in the scanner started squealing & enlongated the image. But after two or three goes, i got it ok. So sorry to placeholder you again, but those were my reasons. Gah.

-J