Kicking Moons and Stomping Time

 

Shoes as Outfit

  

She was only meant to be legs, as the rough sketch for the first pose of a sass-filled foot stomp animation and then...well, then.  Sometimes the right boots for the outfit are the outfit.  Then, whatever you feel, just dance it.

The Avianettes: Falcon

The tables of turned on this falconer and she likes it.

9"x 6.5"
Stained glass lampshade piece, spraypaint and sharpie

The 3rd
The first 2

The Avianettes: Hornbill

The continuing adventures of a lamp thrown in the garbage and the Avianettes.

9"x 6.5"
Stained glass lampshade piece, spraypaint and sharpie

The first 2

Shell Shock Couture

I'm obsessed with fashion far more deeply than most people know. And though I'm interested in all levels from ready-to-wear to couture I'm drawn towards the more drastic and dramatic designers like Viktor and Rolf, Christopher Kane, Jeremy Laing and Alexander Mcqueen. I love details. Any time I can get lost in drawing patterns or textures I'm overjoyed. You can see some of that here. Accessories are important. Cuffs, helmets, hats, goggles, boots. All are welcomed with open arms.

SOLD

2010, your front porch is delightful. May I come in?

What better way to start 2010 (a new decade!) than to be a month behind on the blog? Well, thankfully it's not due to lack of things to share. So much in fact that I don't no where to begin.

Switch Plate - "Surprise, lizard-lips"

He thought he had seen the last of her when he stepped out to grab some Pall Malls from the chemist's on the corner and never went back. But Clara was clever and determined to change his mind. He shed his skin so many times. And without fail there would be Clara lurking in his shadow with husk in hand.

Available at the CYCLOPS AND OWL STORE

Pop and Strut

This switch plate is SOLD!

But I will be vectoring it in the future so you will see this stomping vixen popping up elsewhere for certain.

Next is the song she's stomping to. It stomps. Then it waves a finger at you in a "Tsk Tsk" kind of way. Then it skips and bounds right out the back door and leaves before you even realize your car keys are missing.

I've started writing lyrics and melodies to a lot of these songs. They always felt like they were little stories but now it's time that I make them more concrete and potentially ruin them forever.

But I can't wait and I'll always have a fondness for their original unsung state.

Enjoy!

POP AND STRUT by ROMANTIS


It has also been placed in the SOUND ADVICE DEVICE beneath the header for your convenience

The Bookmarks

They've finally arrived. Six Bookmarks printed from the original 8 x 3 inch plexi-glas pieces on heavy archival matte paper. The colours turned out great. The sass of these beauties remains.

Let them guard your page!

For sale at the CYCLOPS AND OWL STORE

The Visitor and The Ranter

So first up is a commission for my friend, PJ. It's a depiction of his dream which he described to me so long ago he had forgotten it. I embellished it a bit. In the dream he said that he had a tinfoil hat and people started bringing him things. All PJ requested was that a wolf be involved. So I made his tinfoil hat extra extravagant and had him intercepted by a gift-giving messenger from some wolf-riding amazon race.

For the people out there who have dreams they would like interpreted please contact me about doing a commission. Much of my work is inspired by dream-like worlds. Worlds where pants aren't always necessary and there's nothing but trouble to get into.


Next is a clip from the field recordings I make while en route to work or home or wherever. Candid crazies, arguments, or any sound I happen upon that gives me pause.

This particular clip is from a very lucid ranter I heard on the street car. He seemed to be addressing not only those on the street car but the city of Toronto as a whole.

TORTURED---


I've provided a transcript of the rantings below so you can follow along? Just in case his genius was not immediately evident.

"...somehow are awarded some of my qualities unto yourselves? I don't think so. I think you're vile. All my qualities tell me you're vile. I tell you I'm being tortured and your like, 'that's what I said. You know?' There's a frickin' difference actually. I have a ludicrous pain tolerance, you might not, eh?"

"No, no, you're not allowed to make fun of me, eh? You're only allowed to send me those fake concerned looks that are more insulting and scarier than anything imaginable. 'Look at me! I can fabricate a fake concerned look. I'm like a George Bush.' Eh?"

"I've been studying reasoning my entire life, Toronto. My entire life. And your arguments as a population are moronic at best. And it would require torture for you to nod 'yes' to those moronic arguments. Are you being tortured, Toronto? Are you just sick and pathetic? Uh? You're just greedy little bastards. I kind of fantasize about being tortured instead of being greedy little nothings."

And then he got off. Wow.

The Queen's Accusation REVISED!

So this is an older piece posted before that has been revamped. When a friend came over and thought the queen was a fly I knew she needed to be updated. It's one of those weird mindset's you get in where something seems like it should be obvious but is clearly just a projection. So here she is, with an addition that, I hope, makes her more bee-like.

She's also on sale HERE at the Cyclops and Owl etsy store.

Periscope Tug Champion

This is a forgotten sketch I did about 3 years ago. At the time I was good at drawing the chassis of a lady but unsatisfied with the faces I was drawing so I would often save myself the risk of butchering a face by throwing on a fancy helmet. I've thankfully overcome this obstacle, to some extent at least, but I still love drawing girls with crazy masks and such.
There was also the fact that I was often running into issues at work where the people I was drawing were perceived as unattractive and not fresh-faced enough for the client. I had just heard we were going to be working for a corporate lingerie giant. Out of my initial brainstorm sketches came the drawing above and Kendo Chat Noire.

Crow Calliope

So here is a drawing I love. A drawing that I submitted to a T-shirt design contest that shall remain nameless, though some of you know about it. I submitted it about 5 minutes past the deadline. Now that I've seen the 30 finalists AND the fact that none of them get ANY exposure whatsoever, not even their name or a single link ie: Thomas H's design (!), I'm totally pleased that I'm not a finalist. Now it's MINE and mine alone to use. Here it stands, debranded and looking better for it.

Greatest Misses: Room For Kaboom

Truth is, Crushida (CRUSH-ida) is all about finesse, despite her name. She could have knocked the bullet back at this towering douche-bag but she prefers to juke and move in for a jab to the his mechanical jugular.

Available here at Cyclops and Owl

ROMANTIS

Well, well, well. I am, to say the least, happy with this. It slides on like a nice pair of racing gloves. Balanced, like a jade handled riding crop.
It was uttered by my cohort in a random act of brilliance. At first, she laughed, but the laughter dissolved into a crystal clear confidence. ROMANTIS. Yes.

Cauldron who?

Falconer of New Tonkhil

You may be asking, "why the detachable head?" which was a question I asked myself when I was drawing it. Now it's completely obvious. She isn't satisfied with a second-hand report from her avian friend. She prefers to send the bird with her noggin in tow up into clouds for a first-hand view of all that can be surveyed. And then back to her throne for some grapes!

PS - I don't know why this colour always digitally boils like this. Shame. I wish I knew how to compensate for it. Until then!

8" x 3.5"
Spray paint and sharpie marker on acrylic sheet

The Beyondress

All you do is say, "scope that out over there," and consider it done. She enjoys the work. She enjoys nothing more than the snoop. Her peepers are picture perfect prying machines. Beware though, for what she has seen she can never unsee.

8" x 3.5"
Spray paint and sharpie marker on acrylic sheet

Court Advisor

I don't know what to tell you. She sees it all. Everything. But do not question her methods. Unbelievers will be smitten with her beauty and smote by the imps beneath her gown.

8" x 3.5"
Spray paint and sharpie marker on acrylic sheet

Commence the Dance, Hence

Count your lucky stars. The dance has begun.

Check out the Sound Advice Device. There is now an announcement track and a new song called Baroness which I think is particularily sexy. Shake your limbs!

8" x 3.5"
Spray paint and sharpie marker on acrylic sheet

The Bubblecraft Brigade

Who is on her tail? If they're an enemy she doesn't look too concerned about being bested. She should really watch where she's going though. Despite the bubbly appearance that is a vehicle to be taken seriously. Bubble-power is deceivingly more volatile than horse-power.

8" x 3.5"
Spray paint and sharpie marker on acrylic sheet

She's a Keeper

WOah! 3 weeks since the last post. SHAME! Well's it's not so bad. Unlike past post droughts this one wasn't for lack of postables. And let this stand as an example of what I'm doing when I don't return phone calls on time, or at all, or send ghostly emails 3 weeks later. I'm usually drawing. Or thinking about what I'm going to draw. But mostly drawing. The last few days have brought about the next three posts.

"She's a Keeper." It's what I think about this girl. It's what this girl is thinking about each of her little sproutish finds. Careful concentration is required to pull the blossom out of the stalks with bulb intact. A blossom without a bulb is, well, just not the same.

8" x 3.5"
Spray paint and sharpie marker on acrylic sheet

"Too high, Bug-eater." PART 2!!!

Another installment of the Greatest Misses switch plate series.....kind of. This is the sequel to the previous installment seen HERE. It started as a suggestion from my friend Yves and was further promoted by my eternal cohort, Amarina. I'm so glad I did it.

This amazon made short work of her avian foe. Yikes on bikes! That is one sharp elbow. POW!

Available here at Cyclops and Owl