joelbenjaminillustration asked:
Great! The one panel mini-comic will be my main contribution to Western Civilization. Or to Civilization as a whole.
Soon: the two panel mini-comic. And I’ll follow a steady progression until producing a two hundred pages graphic novel.
(Anyway, I am very happy to hear you find it inspiring! Thanks!)
voxmaris asked:
I know what you mean. Obviously most of my interest in B. Fuller’s stuff comes from a aesthetic standpoint; I am afraid that, having read little else about Fuller’s designs apart of what’s available in Wikipedia and in a couple of websites, it would be very daring from me to go further than things like “hey, I like it because it looks like all those Modern Mechanix stuff”.
Sure, I also was dissapointed when I first read about Fuller’s car being a failure, but I still like to think of all these inventions as a glorious (though mostly futile) effort.
jacobvanloon asked:
Thank you Jacob, those are encouraging words, particularly because they come from someone whose own work I admire and respect.
And yes, after setting an Instagram account a few months ago without a clear purpose in mind, I’m finding it useful to use it for showing my process on the go, while I turn to tumblr when it comes to post finished pieces.
This has been on my drawing table (or somewhere near it) for at least one month, but once and again I’ve been forced to leave it aside because of deadlines and… well, life. Now it’s finished.
I would like you to look at it as a sort of minicomic. A one-panel minicomic, if that’s something worth a name.
The text is (allegedly) a Phoenician prayer quoted by Jorge Luis Borges in his book Seven Nights (this is when I start to look pedantic), which holds a collection of seven lectures from 1977. The prayer was spoken by sailors “when the ship was in the verge of being lost”, and it translates as follows:
Gods, judge me not as a God
but as a man
whom the Ocean has broken.
I have been careful enough to write “allegedly” before because Borges didn’t add any particular reference as the source of this text, and he had a well-known habit to make up apocryphal stories. You have been warned, my dear worthy reader.
This is sumi ink and airbrush on A2 board, by the way. As usual, you may find some progress pictures in my Instagram stream.
PS: I just noticed: two literary references in two posts. What’s happening here? As if I still had time enough to actually read or something.
“Soon he couldn’t hear a sound—not the fans, not even his own heartbeat. The nocturnal silence aboard ship was unlike any he had ever experienced. Earthly silence has limits; one senses its finite, transitory quality. Even when you’re out among the lunar dunes, you’re always accompanied by your own private little silence; trapped by your space suit, it magnifies every squeak of your shoulder straps, every crack of your bone joints, every beat of your pulse—even the act of breathing itself. Only on a ship at night can you be truly immersed in a black and glacial silence.”
Stanislaw Lem, Tales of Pirx the Pilot, 1966
I drew this typewriter in ruthless isometric perspective for a client which is also a good friend. From time to time, I also do logo designs which always end up looking kind of minimalistic, as you can see in the second image.
I finally did a partial revamp of my site. Basically I’ve got rid of all the superfluous stuff and made the social links more visible. It now has (I hope) a more clean look. I’ve kept the big thumbnails though, which I kind of like. Oh, and I also wrote a private php routine to help me easily upload new images to the site without the need to manually update the database. I don’t have the slightest idea about how everyone else does this, so most probably I’ve been reinventing the wheel. Anyway, I hope that will make updates of the site more fluent.
I also draw this sort of self-portrait for the about section. Yes, deep inside I am a curious, shy little creature.
I have a couple of unfinished pieces on the desk, but whenever I am short of time for more elaborate things, I turn back to these sort of ink studies. It feels good being able to complete something in a single drawing session, for a change.
In case you didn’t notice, this is from “Sacred Love and Profane Love” by Titian. She is the profane one, of course.
