Back In The Daze

Sorry no posts this weekend. I've been locked in an inward spiral and having a bit of difficulty finding the exit.

While i'm down here, i figured i could get back to things by raiding my own past. For a while, i did a webcomic called experiMental Theatre. The first arc was entitled TIM or This Is Me. I did very bad things with a cyber-voodoo doll, but we'll get to that later. Today, let's just look at the opening strips to get an idea of what sort of weird world it was. (I'd say 'to get an idea of what was going on' but that's probably misleading)

The strip was done fast and loose - minimal pencils and speed inking for a frantic brush style. And strictly black and white - no greys. So lots of hatching and odd line work for textures, with a fun additional challenge of getting psychedelic without colour (later in the series).

There is only one strip with nudity in today's batch. That changes with time, and yes - we'll get there.

So, go ahead and dive in - you can claim you were pushed. I won't say a word...

Next:
things start to get a little weird

stuff by -3- (2010, 2011)

Sleeper's Dance I-III

Okay - i changed the background to that painting, but wound up repainting it all because i also changed things up a bit. I wet the paint more and softened up the brush with a cluster so tight it was just this side of painting with q-tips.

And i kind of went into a painting frenzy - finishing all three paintings in quick succession. (As always with fresh works, "finishing" and "finished" are subject to later review and revision after time and sleep).

Sleeper's Dance I -

Sleeper's Dance II -

Sleeper's Dance III -

And here you can see how the triptych links together -

As mentioned previously (right?) there is a monthly Lullaby Festival to keep C'thul'hu sleeping in The Third Colony. (If not familiar, that's the game i'm building to keep up steam pressure in the brain) The fact that these will work just fine for making posters to promote the festival should give some notion of how that night progresses.

stuff by -3- (2020)

Also Out On The Fringeworlds...

Yesterday, out in the main room, i posted a triptych featuring posters from The Registry's fund raising lottery in The Third Colony (the game i'm building to keep the brain working in my hermit cave).

This one-

As mentioned previously, it's a dark and deranged game world filled with sex, drugs and rock & roll. (But not limited to R&R - we open with Curtis Mayfield ((Don't Worry)If There's Hell Down Below, We're All Gonna Go), you'll find Hugh Masakela's Emavungweni playing at the monthly Lullaby Festival to keep C'thul'hu sleeping. Hit a cave rave and you might find Moondog's Stamping Ground. Like much of the game, it's a weird mix. One of the beauties of no expectation of completion and release on the game, no worries about music rights) And the villains may not behave according to cinematically approved behaviour guidelines.

So, several days after the official posters go up, others start to appear.

You may recall Jack from the G.C. Rejects...

I won't say you can't die in the game. But that doesn't end the game. In a world where mad scientists, magic, aliens, and the Fae intersect death is simply another stage of the game. A Lot of folks have use for a dead body, and it might not stay dead for long. Or might be animate dead. Or the PC could wind up like Jon Voight at his best in Fearless Frank's Greatest Adventure - a zombie hero under the command of a mad scientist. The game goes on.

Falling into death traps or losing battles doesn't terminate the PC. They'll have opportunities for escape, and if those fail it's a world full of superheroes - rescue is inevitable. Eventually.

However, might i suggest that you NOT get captured by this particular maniac...?

Jack does like his teasing threats...

stuff by -3- (2020)

Saturday Solutions Extra

Here are the silhouettes revealed from our recent quiz which we couldn't show in the answers in the main room -

18) Kekko Kamen

19) Red Hat

Feel better now?
I do.

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 12

I don't know how things are where you're at, but outside the hermit cave we got a few inches of snow dumped on us for the weekend. That prompted me to open with this piece from Knute Munson for our Classic Pin-ups Calendar -

For our Covers Calendar, we're going to triple up on a single artist again. This time Peter Driben returns with a trio of covers from the late '40s -

That cover is a bit beat up, but we've got the pre-cover art in much better shape -

One more to complete our trio...

...and the uncluttered art for it, as well...
 

Y'know - I'm still feeling the chill from that fresh snow. So let's let Earl MacPherson give us a bit of warmth for this week's Blue Calendar -

Oh, yeah. That's better.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 11

Bloody Hells.
I went to post this week's calendars, and find that somewhere I lost a day; it's already Monday evening. You probably knew that. I'm still reeling. But here's the planned post that should have gone up at 12:03 this Ante-Meridian:

Y'know - i may be digging a hole for later me, but i feel like tripling again. So let's do 3 of each of our 3 calendar artists this week.

For our Classic Pin-Ups Calendar, please welcome a newcomer to the roster - Mr. Art Frahm. Art is one of those artists who has something to say...

...well, perhaps not 'something to say' exactly...

...but he definitely offers his own distinct views... 

Of course, he'd be greatly handicapped by modern wardrobes.

I think i may have said i'd try to move away from Enoch Bolles for a bit on the Covers Calendars.

I failed -

Someday i'd like to see a count of how many magazine covers he painted.

For our Blue Calendars this week, let's return to one of the true masters of the form - Gil Elvgren -
 

This next one i find oddly intriguing. Mr. Elvgren seems to have been trying a little something different, slightly more stylized, reflecting other art trends of the time...
 

...and back for a classic Elvgren end -

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 10

10 weeks without missing post time. (Okay - by only 2 minutes once, but still) Definitely doing better than last year.

We've got a trio of returning artists for this week's selections, starting with another piece from Mike Ludlow on our Classic Pin-Ups Calendar -

Enoch Bolles returns (yet) again for our Covers Calendar with Redhead Mistress painted for the March 1924 issue of Snappy Stories -

For a bonus this week, we've got an unused, more risque variant painting for the cover -
 

 After our two non-nude nudes, we go to arguably the greatest pin-up calendar artist, Gil Elvgren, for a bit of actual nude with our Blue Monday Calendar -

Now wasn't that worth waiting for?

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.