Skellington's Day Out

Biotech?

2011-06-19T15:10:00.000-07:00

I recently found this drawing from some long while ago. I don't remember all the exact details, but I do know it was part of an unfinished story about how wine connoisseurs of the future had been replaced by robots.
I guess there would be some interesting ramifications floating around humans no longer being needed to distinguish the "finer things," but overall I think I'm glad I didn't try to ride this one out.

Dream Dragon

2011-05-09T22:39:00.000-07:00

This thing kept showing up in my dreams, to the point where I just had to make it real somehow. I can't explain it, but I know this thing's a dragon.
Acrylic, 4x4.

Inky Deer

2011-05-04T20:57:00.000-07:00

There's a lot of deer around where I live.
I made this inky of one I watched wandering around in the fog.

The Things We Are Without

2011-04-25T22:50:00.000-07:00

I made this some two-and-a-half years ago while living in Holland.
It's about culture shock.

ZAM!

2011-04-24T01:33:00.000-07:00

Cliché or not, it was fun to make.

Academic Shenanigans pt. 2

2011-04-22T15:38:00.001-07:00

Pooshka.

Courtyard in Davis.

Selbs-Portait.

Death & Cats

2011-04-20T23:26:00.000-07:00

Found this lone page I drew over a year ago.

The Matrix

2011-04-19T23:06:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of my cat in true color.
See her in action.

Academic Shenanigans pt. 1

2011-04-19T22:36:00.000-07:00

O art, such a despair you are!

Welp, I guess I've decided to get back to posting things here again.

FAQ:
Why you gone so long?
I've, uh, been distracted...by something.
Why start back now?
Because.

Alright, enough of that - I'll start with what I have readily available: A small collection of academic-ish draws I've done. Deal wit it.

You better get fucking ready, artworld - it's crumpley paper like never before seen.

Holy bag of diamonds - SKULLS! Metal. Also, a testament to my concentration.

I like to imagine these are dance moves.

Un jour, cette guerre va finir...

2010-08-19T14:06:00.000-07:00

A second play-around with inks. This fellow's a French infantryman c. 1917. These dudes had great uniforms; a nice horizon blue to look classy in as you died horribly.

Self-Portrait in Practice

2010-08-17T16:31:00.000-07:00

A self-portrait I made to practice with ink and a brush. It is some things behind me and myself thinking about what I should draw to practice with ink and a brush. There's something weird about it; the props or something, but I rather like it anyway.

A Love Story

2010-07-04T21:32:00.000-07:00

So many strong emotions hidden away in this exchange.

He Does Not Enjoy his Job.

2010-07-01T21:36:00.000-07:00

But somebody's got to do it.

Pictures of my Brother

2010-06-23T20:34:00.000-07:00

Color-free version here.

More realistic version.

Another note: check out his music!

Two Painted Cats

2010-04-04T16:36:00.000-07:00

Here are the first two acrylic paintings I did. They're on tiny little 4x4 inch canvas squares.
The human mind absolutely amazes me in that I can imagine "cat" and then these things happen.

Pretty Nice This Way Good.

2010-03-03T16:32:00.000-08:00

There is this Leonard Cohen record that's been sitting around my house forever. I never listen to it, but I look at it a lot. The cover is just a picture of his blank face. I always get this feeling that this face is just on the very cusp of doing something interesting, but it never does

Also: this and this.

The Danger of a Republic Rests in the Neglet of its Destructobots.

2010-02-22T23:49:00.000-08:00

The king of Switzerland consoles his destructobot, fearing the strain endless neutrality and lack of destruction may have wrought on its circuits.

Bonus naked rain ink night man.

Romantic Poetries

2010-02-14T23:05:00.000-08:00

There once was a man who looked like a bird

Whose lovers were never demurred;

When he made it an art

To speak of his heart

Though the affair was rather absurd.

The Men of the Fen: Dr. Turly P. Shouldercraft

2010-02-11T10:08:00.001-08:00

The Skull Beast

2010-02-07T23:24:00.000-08:00

A great, terribly passive creature, the skull beast languidly marches through the ambiguous southlands, serving as a sort of evanescent transportation for natives of the lands seeking release from the harrowing existence of having a head looking like a hadrosaur skull.
Only in the most unfortunate of circumstances do the most devious frog-folk of the most dubious territories make an appearance of disturbance to the delicate composures of the rifled ones.

Here's to grandiose dreams of future colorings.

Know Your Finches, Plan Accordingly

2010-02-03T09:16:00.000-08:00

Being able to properly assess different obstacles and situations in the real world is an invaluable skill on the path to success, happiness, finchual recognition, and a generally more-fulfilling life.

An Academic Portrait and Reindeer

2010-02-03T00:43:00.001-08:00

These are a couple of sketches I did during class, edited later.

A portrait of the artist as a young man incapable of properly holding Book.
Also appearing: I don't think finches are as frightening as they are in my head, Merry-Go-Round patent illustration, Squiggles.

Holy Knife, nice reindeer.

Ghost, Boat, Ghostboat

2010-02-01T17:21:00.000-08:00

Some things I inked onto the backs of coasters for no reason other than to revel in the timeless juvenile amusement of re-combining words and giggling about what sorts of other-meanings abound.

The Four Right Exertions.

2010-01-15T16:55:00.000-08:00

Once someone asked me to design them a tattoo.
So I drew this cat.
For unfathomable reasons they never got it in ink.
I'll never understand people.

Belgium in the Wintertime

2010-01-12T21:02:00.000-08:00

This one's got a bit of a strange production history. It started out solely as this weird lookin' fellow in the foreground, a Belgian soldier circa 1914. Eventually a landscape, dredged from my memories of the Ardennes (and then with snow added), grew around him, complete with a couple o' French fellows doing god-knows-what back there and some nice Ardennesly-iconic castle action way out back. Then I decided to color it with only pinkreds.
The End.

Edit: if you click it to see it bigger (you should), a few zoom-outs will be helpful.

Peek-A-Boo: Oh no! It's Quercus Devo!

2010-01-11T16:00:00.000-08:00

Q: Are we not men?
A: We are Quevo.

The Colors of Beautiful People

2010-01-11T13:26:00.001-08:00

Here are some colored versions of minimalist portrait-esque drawings I did some time ago. I'm rather pleased with the somewhat serendipitous results.

Sitting man with a cup.

This lady, with a "Fifties Christmas" Palette.

And here's cup dude again, but at Christmas time. In the fifties.

Skellington's Day Out, on a Dragon.

2010-01-10T19:40:00.000-08:00

Well, well...just look at what that little rascal is up to now!

A Great Year for Skeleton-Related Adventures.

2010-01-10T19:16:00.000-08:00

I'm making it a goal to post here more often. Seriously. I will. And to start off this new age of wealth and prosperity, here are two things that sprung, unplanned from nothing. Like that one sibling that's so much younger.

I started a portrait of someone, but failed to emulate their face in the slightest, so I let my pens wander and ended up with...this. Personally, I find it charmingly hideous.

Once I had great plans for outdoor adventures and awoke to find my dreams dampened by the drumming rains of a relentless and uncaring personification of weather. Or perhaps it was just raining. I don't quite remember. Either way, I sat down and started splashing around with ink and this pseudo-comic came out. The end.

The Moon!

2009-07-18T04:39:00.000-07:00

The Most Incredible Cat

2009-07-18T04:33:00.000-07:00

un perro en un tejado

2009-07-18T04:30:00.000-07:00

I made this for some ninos while in Mexico. I meant to leave it behind, but I suppose I forgot.
It is a dog on a roof.

Cats on Comets Comix

2009-07-01T17:41:00.000-07:00

Mon Dieu!

2009-06-24T12:33:00.000-07:00

The Virgin and Her Demon Friends

2009-06-21T01:01:00.001-07:00

An odd fascination of mine, a strange obsession almost, is Catholic veneration art, especially of the Virgin Mary. Especially odd as I am violently not-a-catholic. I often find drawings of mine ending up with halos or the like, and sometimes just straight turning into virginesque depictions. The whole "threatened by demons" thing really interests me as I have know idea where it has come from - some deep seated and unresolved personal resolutions, I suppose.
What follows are some of these apparitions that I am personally fond of.

Sir Ian's Epiphany

2009-06-08T01:13:00.000-07:00

My second go at India Inkin'. The text is direct translation from some Polish.
I have no ideas as to other possible messages, so I'm assuming this is the proper interpretation.
Does anyone even remember Sir Ian Blair? Why is he (somewhat) here?

Alice et le Chat du Cheshire

2009-06-06T08:56:00.000-07:00

Decided to learn to ink things with India Ink and a brush. This action-packed tale of Alice and her whacky friend is my first go at it. So far I'm diggin' the medium.

Faces of No One in Particular

2009-06-06T01:44:00.000-07:00

I frequently find myself drawing the faces of the people around me, an exercise which almost infallibly degenerates away from actually looking like the person to become some strangely-colored and exaggerated interpretation of how I feel about what I feel they are feeling.

"A Fairly Standard Beauty" - This wonky-eyed androgen came from a pursuit to sketch a very pretty lady; until I became obsessed with exaggerating her proportions and expression.

"Green-Haired Dirty Thoughts" - A semi combined portrait of both me and my lover of the time, simply trying to capture the sillyness of thinkin' bout dirty things.

This bizarrely-colored self portrait (ish) is actually quite large in real life. I unfortunately do not actually own any clothes that look like that.

Same standard beauty, more departure from reality.

This odd and nipply monster sprung from an attempt at emulating a rather striking and melodramatic display of uncertainty by a peer of mine.

A portrait in highlighter about laughing at trashy humor.

Chronicles of Insomnia

2009-05-31T18:22:00.001-07:00

Back around the beginning of the year I was having major problems with insomnia. I decided to draw about it on what I believe was the third sleepless night in a row, and this is the result:

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The Fruits of Education

2009-05-31T18:15:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of the apocalypse I drew, rife with scathing social commentary.

A true little story about swearing in class drawn some time ago.
This was the same class period I drew the apocalypse.

Mark it up.

2009-05-31T17:18:00.000-07:00

Check out this dinosaur by a lake.

A picture of a rainy day.

A Man and the Sea

2009-05-30T02:53:00.000-07:00

Drawn during cosmo with a ballpoint.

The Tragedy of the Missing Wings

2009-05-30T01:27:00.000-07:00

This one is from months and months ago, but I just heard from the person who inspired this conversation and thus I was compelled to search my archives for this strange tale of a fallen angel.

BirdFriends BirdForever

2009-05-30T00:50:00.000-07:00

This may just be true despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Personal Deviations

2009-05-29T20:19:00.000-07:00

I thought these two drawings belonged in cahoots as they both began as portraits of people but quickly deviated into something completely different. They still hold essences of the person but it is secret to only me. Haha!

Oh yeah, this was going to be a self-portrait, but then...I don't know, maybe some day.

Socks? The 80s? Bizarre expressions? How did I get here?

Criminalia

2009-05-29T15:50:00.000-07:00

The very face of mal intent.

Just pure mean.

A Story About a Cat

2009-05-26T03:30:00.001-07:00

The beginning of the end...

Progressing Cat

2009-05-24T14:38:00.000-07:00

Playing with colors over a neat little drawing of a cat.

A Big Bird

2009-05-22T11:17:00.000-07:00

Oh man, look at this big bird I made! Check it out, flying over those trees and things. I know nothing about coloring, so if you want to give this a nice little color, be my super guest!

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

2009-05-21T17:26:00.000-07:00

This is my best guess as to what I look like.

Skellington's Day Up

2009-05-21T17:21:00.000-07:00

What started as an upside/rightside face quickly degenerated into this little documentation of how Skellington once went on a balloon ride with the strangest balloon.

Bad Mood

2009-05-21T01:02:00.000-07:00

This is a charming little bit from the very short period in which I did autobios with myself as Skellington. I really like these two strange panels from a day where nothing could cheer me. Nothing, that is, until I drew this!

Angry Leonard

2009-05-16T03:12:00.000-07:00

Is Leonard angry or is he just frustrated? Maybe he only wants the best for you. But you'll never know; you'll never listen to him, and we'll always have to wonder; is Leonard really angry?

Veneration of Whoredom

2009-05-16T03:05:00.000-07:00

One thing I've really found strange lately is the way in which popular western culture treats promiscuity and the idea of many partners being a sign of societal success. The whore is good because she allows so many to achieve the self esteem and stats they desire. The whore is bad because she cheapens the effect. But why, why do we even need this standard of judgment? That magic point where you've fucked enough others with the most stoic of face; that moment where you can now love someone and not be ridiculed for it - what a strange idea. I don't know how to express this really, but I just can't wrap my head around how one's number of partners is their success, yet at the same time I hold myself to this standard and it haunts me.
Fuck this.
Fuck sex.
Fuck art.
Let's dance.

Strng Feelings

2009-05-15T18:50:00.000-07:00

Yo mans, just did a bunch of uploads, so expect new sketches and things to actually be showing up again! Yesssss. More ghosthorse is on the way, but first here is a little story about that way people interact.

Ghost Horse Episode #3: "Ghost Horse in Love"

2009-04-20T13:35:00.000-07:00

This is about Ghost Horse having a great time with his new girlfriend. And were do you go with a lady to enjoy yourself? Why, the craggy land of giant mushrooms, of course!

Ghost Horse Episode #2: "The Moon"

2009-04-14T19:50:00.000-07:00

In which Ghost Horse gets a girlfriend.

Ghost Horse Episode #1: "Oh Fuck!"

2009-04-13T21:31:00.000-07:00

Click it to see it big!

Chief Man in Living Color!

2009-04-13T21:28:00.000-07:00

Whoa! Look at that! This was colored by a computer! No fucking way! Well, fine then, be all high and mighty about it; but this is the first time I've ever done this.
Look at those crazy colors...oh, hahaha.

French Face

2009-04-13T21:25:00.000-07:00

This is sort of an extrapolation of this French guy I knew in High School.

The Future of Transportation

2009-04-13T21:21:00.000-07:00

Yo, check it! That dude is way totally riding that thing! And there are hella mushrooms n' shit!

Chief Man Says

2009-04-13T21:08:00.000-07:00

I really have a thing for "indigenous arts" or however you wanna say it. Especially those of central America and the Pacific Northwest native cultures. There is only influence, though; I don't claim to be replicating the awesomeness. I drew this guy while working under the theme of "outlaws." Not really quite sure how it came out of my pen under those circumstances.

Not-so-Scary-Things

2009-03-08T20:32:00.000-07:00

They can be pretty scary, amigos.

Fuck the Moon.

2009-03-08T20:29:00.000-07:00

Spelling error alert! Yes, the moon is wonky; so fuck it.

Tot Nu: Vanavond

2009-03-08T20:26:00.000-07:00

Something interesting I found in my previous Moleskine, drawn while flying from NDL to PDX I believe.

Fastovsky & Weishampel in the "The Clouds of Doom!"

2009-02-25T19:28:00.000-08:00

Just some character creation I did - perhaps one day it will be a true tale for the ages.

That Creepy Little Guy

2009-02-25T19:26:00.000-08:00

This one goes out to J__ M__.

After the Storm

2009-02-25T19:23:00.000-08:00

I drew this on a plane.

Don't Mess with Aardvarks...

2009-02-25T19:20:00.000-08:00

...or you might get punched.

Let Your Flight Take Balloons

2009-02-16T19:55:00.000-08:00

Colors are never as solid as they would seem.

What Is He Doing?

2009-02-16T19:53:00.000-08:00

Can you guess?

Omdat Oliphant

2009-02-16T19:51:00.000-08:00

Expect to see more of this guy.

"It sure is hot today, m'lord" - "Yes, m'lady"

2009-02-12T17:45:00.000-08:00

The sun is pissed.

Best Frinds

2009-02-12T17:43:00.000-08:00

Goddammit E, can't you do anything right!?

A Head Full of Skeletons

2009-02-10T17:36:00.000-08:00

Where do they all belong?

People That I've Known

2009-02-10T16:09:00.000-08:00

And some things they've said.
Can you find yourself?

The Dance

2009-02-09T22:39:00.000-08:00

Someone like me, with someone like you; how unlikely - too good to be true?

Lady-Man-Lady-Man-Bird-Lady

2009-02-09T22:37:00.000-08:00

A Mythological Wonder

Don't Look Behind You!

2009-02-09T22:00:00.000-08:00

You won't be able to see it anyway.

I impress myself with this one, but because I drew it so so very long ago.

Let's Make us Some Notes!

2009-02-09T21:57:00.000-08:00

California Geography

I went to N___'s CA geography class once, and these were all the notes I took.
Just like the way they look.

Moving Aggresively into the Future

2009-02-09T21:22:00.000-08:00

I started using A__'s really fancy Epson scanner to put things into computers instead of the incredibly amateur method of beforehand which consisted of shoving the paper into the floppy disk drive and praying the computer would like it.

Alors, I have some 92 scanned files, some of which are relevant here, so be prepared for edits because I might be the greatest drawer known to mans!
(I am not.)

Fake Edit: Also, don't be expecting just skellingtons 'cause I wanna share out even some oliphants and dancing llamas and things, too. But they all live in the skellington world, so don't fret.

See that Skellington? It's on a bear.

2009-02-02T12:48:00.000-08:00

That's right, a bear.

Good Bad Decisions

2009-02-01T18:35:00.000-08:00

Lord Wellington is making good bad decisions.

(Le Walker's 21st birfday drawring.)

Welcome to Skellington's Day Out

2009-02-01T18:26:00.000-08:00

Fuck yeah, welcome to it!

I will maybe post pictures of Mr. Skellington and his continuing adventures if I feel like it.

Love,
Lapin