In Loving Memory
11x14" / 27.94x35.56cm

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don't worry, no one bought that poster. i just had to make sure.

so i have 2 new goals for the summer
[1] learn to draw girls
[2] stop [if only temporarily] the incessant, viral, Haring-esque 'drawing', instead making more definite compositional choices.

this one is for the 21st St house in San Francisco

Who Needs Pets
11x14" / 27.94x35.56cm

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when someone looks at one of my drawings and can tell who i drew. except for when it's me, and maybe when it's Steven. you would think i would find my own art more representational than i do. i hardly ever think my figures look like anybody.

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Another Knight

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this one took me for-fucking-ever, partly because of my dayjob, partly because of other stuff. i look at it and see a good drawing, but definitely something overstudied. now i kinda understand what Keith H meant when he said an artwork must be completed in a single session to make sense. for me, it doesn't have to be a single session, but about 5 days maximum is good. i spent nearly 2 weeks on this one and yeah, i don't think that's the best strategy for me.

one cool thing about spending more time with this one though, i feel like i took the time to learn more about color, which is one of my biggest weaknesses and something i really want to conquer.

but now i'm ready to do something else. i just got some Rapidograph pens for the first time ever and i can't wait to do a single-color, straight-up line drawing.

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Only Chemistry

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i started this drawing at the end of 2006, and i finally came back to it tonight [or technically, this morning]. i think it has the most different kinds of media of any drawing i've done so far- i used fountain inks, pastels, Tombo markers, Prismacolor markers [which, incidentally, are WAY overrated imo], Staedtler markers, and Staedtler drafting pens.

i wish i had more time to draw right now, but my dayjob is eating too too much of my time...

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The Last Time You Saw Me Alive

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Sorry

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Between Us

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as soon as my fever subsides, i'll parcel this sheet of paper off to Switzerland. i've never been there, but that neutral nation's shameless, consistent use of the + seduces me totally. plus i hear you can buy cannabis in stores there, for 'decorative purposes'.

Between Us is for Mizu, the illustrious author of Ewig + Drei Tage. i told her i wanted to make her a drawing, and i said she could pick the colors and/or theme if she so desired, but she asked for a complete surprise. so, here it is. i drew it from a photograph i took of 2 boys i had sex with [on separate occasions].

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Downtown Trap

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i'm basically only posting these because i got a chemical burn in my throat, so i haven't been able to use markers for the past few days, plus i've just been really tired and kinda sick. thus, no new art. i should be well enough soon, though.

anyway, the first images i strongly wanted to share with the world were these two photographs of Carl Barât and Pete Doherty taken by Andrew Kendall-

i own them as 8x10" prints, and they hang over my desk, next to my window, along with a lot of other photographs. last March, while how learning to code this site, i took the photos off my wall and scanned them. they became the blog's second entry.

last October, when i decided to draw from photographic reference, these two shots were naturally the first two photographs i picked. they were the first drawings that suggested to me that maybe the whole thing could go someplace, but i never bothered to share them because they're not that special, especially compared to the photographs. but since my recent art has been a bit slow, here they are, my first drawings from reference. i did them 20 October 2006.

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Foreigners 01

Foreigners 02

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Hey Dennis

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for the birthday boy. hopefully i get to give him the paper copy in March.

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until you've seen the stars
reflect in the reservoirs.

[ -Morrissey, First of the Gang to Die.]

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i think it's official. my clothing line will be called Editions on Purpose.

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Touching Each Other Oh My God

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Look at My Hands

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my first concert: R.E.M. Monster tour 1995, near Halloween. the first time i encounter Michael Stipe 'in person', in concert, he's already glammed-up and confident. i've told my parents that i'm staying the night with a friend, which i essentially am. we sneak out. believe it or not, a teacher from our high school picks us up and drives us to what was then the Blockbuster Pavilion, now the Hyundai Pavilion: supposedly the largest amphitheatre in the western half of the United States.

we're relatively close to the stage, maybe 5 rows back. when Michael Stipe first appears, he looks like he's wearing about 2 layers of clothing, max, like maybe 2 t-shirts with a pair of jeans. throughout the concert, swear to fucking god, he must take off like 10 different tops. he never looks like he's wearing more than 1 or 2 shirts at any time, but they keep coming off and keep coming off. his arms get totally bare and he starts to flex, blinking at his Krazy Kat tattoo. still, from someplace, the shirts keep coming off.

he never gets down to a bare chest, never runs out of shirts. Michael Stipe is, at that point, the most desirable thing i have ever seen. an animal so beautiful, i don't realize it's eating me.

the title for this drawing comes from one of my favorite R.E.M. songs, Green Grow the Rushes. mp3 maybe tomorrow.

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The Libertine
[self-portrait as libertine]

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Patrick Wolf:
'The troubadour cut off his hand and now he wants mine
Oh no'

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Art Is Only Good
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here is the drawing about how i couldn't do 100 in November.

like every other thing in the world, it's meant to speak for itself, and like every other thing in the world, it has a context too massive to even begin describing.

i guess what you need to know, if you don't know these things [about me] already, is: pop music has saved my life ten zillion times. so has pop art. one time i was working in a job i really hated, in a place where i didn't want to be, inside a narrow stairwell, sweaty, carrying an armload of giant textbooks up 14 flights of stairs. [the elevator was broken.] somewhere in the building there was a tinny radio, and i heard Thom Yorke's voice. 'the best you can is good enough.'

for a long time i wanted to write a book called Good for the Dead. maybe i will still write it. the title comes from a... dream, visionary truth, whateverthefuck. a slogan that carved itself a home inside my mind: Art Is Only Good for the Dead.

as usual, it turns out that the universe is so much simpler. this isn't to say it makes it kinder or easier. it's just simpler.

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Toward
[057 / 100]

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i am really proud of this one because i feel like it expresses something i could only say in an image. most of my other drawings are essentially explicable in other ways, in addition to the image itself. this isn't to say that i couldn't talk about this drawing or explain why i made certain choices while doing it, but; this is one of my first designs that stands out to me as something i really don't know how to say another way, and don't want or need to say in another way.

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No Girls Allowed
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Glendale, CA

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16 computer wallpapers / larger versions of my drawings: pleasureiseasy.info/free_art

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this is what i really want out of this design, something backlit. if i could do it in neon one day, that would be awesome.

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Little Help
[050 / 100]

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50= halfway done
so far so good
these last 2 are a couple of my faves
more thoughts later, right now i have a stomachache
g'night.

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Two More Times
[49 / 100]

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Wouldn't Claim Otherwise
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DAN5513
[047 / 100]

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I'm American Too
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The Only Way to Understand Creation Is to Do It
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POW ZOOMBANG

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Powerup
[018 /100]

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only recently did i learn that a lot of gay boys wanted to fuck Simba when they were kids. i feel very sexually unimaginative for never having had a crush on a cartoon character. i drew this from a photo of a hustler who dressed as Simba this past Halloween after his plans to dress as a 'trash bag' somehow 'didn't work out.' it seems like it should have happened the other way around, but go figure.

and what kind of weird faggoty shit is Mario's FIREFLOWER, anyway? something straight out of Genet.

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Call to Power
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like Steven said, don't vote today. fuck that shit. Make Art Instead.

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Wish You Were Here
[016 / 100]

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i bow to Alex, aka 'porcelain skull', the first commenter here. his words inspired this drawing.

for me it's also in the same basic genre as Shoplifting. i want to do more drawings about... that kind of uneasy, yet unabashed, reaching out... ?

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i mean for sure: why write something down in 5 seconds when you could spend 2+ hours making a stamp of the same phrase?

There Are Potions You Don't Know About But They're All Mixed Together
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Radiant Baby 2006
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Outnumbered
[005 / 100]

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here is what i recognize as basically my style in a nutshell. a 'for example'. it's: future-primitive/80s-pop-art/ or whatever my line would be properly called; it's sexual, aggressive; it has text rendered as shapes; its line is only 1 color. all variation of color is fundamentally blasphemy. still: elsewhere, talking to people about my drawings, i see that so far, people seem to respond much more strongly to the colorful ones in general. and i mean yeah. it's color.

i'm attracted to this... democracy?, or whatever, of line, where it's all one thickness, all one color, and the fields/shapes all bleed into one another [which isn't conducive to coloring them in]. at the same time i'm totally attracted to the idea of pleasing an audience, 'my audience'. another kind of democracy?, or whatever.

basically i plan to keep doing 1-color drawings and 2-color drawings and many-color drawings and so on. the 1-color drawings are the ones that are most 'for me'.

my personal favorites so far are Shoplifting and First Off the Boat.

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First Off the Boat

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Fuck Me Like We're From That Other City

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Militants [900x856 -->]

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this is my second drawing on the big easel paper, also drawn from Russian porn. this time i used the manga markers. it's obviously not as complex as the first easel paper drawing, but it took about as long because i was paying a lot of attention to the thickness of the line. i was surprised and pleased how Dragonball Z / L.A. graffiti the drawing ended up.

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Earth Is Holier Than Hell

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by definition.

second experiment with the manga pens and different line thickness. this time i used all 3 black markers from the manga set. for the colors i used a couple of the German 1mm markers, some brush markers, and the lightest gray manga marker. and the red hair is the red markup pen again.

that's all for now. see you when i can get on the computer again.

if i owe you an email, again, i promise i will get to it as soon as i get my laptop back, if not sooner... my webmail client is fucked up and it's not very convenient to set up my POP3 account/etc on other people's computers... so i have several days of email that i haven't even read.

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Long May It Last [900x795 --> ]

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after several failed attempts drawing with thicker markers on the gigantic easel paper [27x34" / 67x86cm], i finally made this from my Russian-porn-viewing. it took forever. i used a lilac ultrafine Sharpie, the fumes of which eventually gave me a severe headache. the Sharpie and the easel paper are a good match, though. while the paper is incredibly thin, the marker barely dots or spreads out; the lines are very skinny.

when i got done with it, it seemed proper to cut off the pieces that weren't part of the overall shape of the drawing.

i had to crank up the contrast like crazy to get a viewable image of it. skinny lilac lines on white paper don't photograph easily. in real life, the wall isn't nearly so yellow.

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Morrissey

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Death

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i should add that i drew this from a photograph of a guy who was actually incredibly nice and un-death-ly. we met in line at a Morrissey gig in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Heaven Is Pink

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just wanted to draw something super yummy

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HMBavian47

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a stand-in for a famous writer's ex-boyfriend

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Shoplifting

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Brokeback Starbucks

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