FARTS ARTS FARTS ARTS

So the group exhibition I 'm involved with debuted last night. Was pretty fucking rad. We partied so hard the Man came to shut us down. And it's true what they say about the Man, he's the biggest douchebag of douchebags, the douche-ess of doucheland. Yeah you get the point, he's a prick. But the alas the good times and success of the night greatly outweighed that turd.

The farts from me for the exhibition:

"Hairspray Hustle"

When I was planning the kinds of works I wanted to do for this exhibition, the general thing that all the drafts had in common were that they featured the interesting and weird characters. This one and the one below were the only ones to make through past the draft stage, before I thought it was too dumb and got axed. I think that's what one the greatest challenges were when doing the work for this exhibition; the problem of being too self conscious with my work where it affects the completion of the work. 

This one features a threesome of glam rockers/sociopaths who are on the run from the Po Po, and have just looted something. What is that 'something'? Cans of premium hairspray? Bootleg copies of David Bowie porno tapes? Who know.

"Peking Dream "

This one came about after I saw a strange looking dude at Coles. The guy is like a caricature of him (slighty racist probably). I'm calling him Ricky.  I imagined he likes peking duck, hence the ducks; and 'peking' sorta has the word 'pea' in it, hence the peas. The nekkid chick is a ficticous girl, Haru, who works at a ramen shop close to Ricky's work place. Ricky goes there everyday for lunch. But he hates ramen, he's only there for the crush he has on Haru. Seedy fella. 

 That's really the best explanation I can offer for this piece, which is about as random as the actual work.

"Shooters" 

 I got a tad lazy/desperate with this one. I was running out of time, so I used a figure I'd previous drawn intended for a piece I scraped. No aimless back story for this one. Just sorta playing with the words 'Hooters' and 'Shooters'. I should have called it "Hooters and Shooters", that sounds way better. Oh, well. Bummer.

Done in watercolour and ink. 

"Bite"

I wanted to entitled this one "Shorty's got Bite", but the thought of dumbness hit me again. Drew a bunch of raptors in preparation for this, which heped a lot. Also, like the rest of the illustrations, I tried to really balance the colour I was using. Contrasty and harmoniously colours alway look sick. So I limited the colours I used, cause in the past I tended to vomit colour on to the page. Also check out the works of Afu Chan and Helen Jo. Super inspired by those guys at the moment.

Also also in water colour and ink. 

I'm pretty darn happy with the work I produced. I don't care if it doesn't get sold, the fact that so many people came to the exhibition, had look and appreciated the work was enough for me. 

Here's a bit of a test of the process I was using for the watercolour ones:

 I sign my work before its done. Yeah!

Ink lines got really chunky here. Managed to fix that when I started working on proper watercolour paper.

Here's the lineart for "Shooters". I wanted to record the whole process like before, but things got hectic and stuff. The background is different from the finished one cause its so fucking hard to paint tiny circles, and then the space around them in watercolour. Lesson learnt, Hellen Jo can keep that look.