|
Monday, August 15, 2016: I have added Mary Jane as I believe I originally tried to illustrate her in my poem the Masterpiece, focusing on overall proportion and line. See how the flow of her garment has a botanical, organic quality. I hope you can see how she would be mocked by Tina Fey and Ellen Degeneres in their shredded 'Kermit the Frog' costume. Tuesday, August 16, 2016: I've smudged my equine to bring it together in the Mammals. I now recall drawing it in 2007. Please don't let them steal my Beauty again. I'll touch up my drawings as I go along. Havin' fun. Hope you are well. Wednesday, August 17, 2016: Posted my illustration for Part VIII of the Masterpiece: the Judgment. I now recall having already drawn something similar to illustrate it when I first shared the poem in 2007. You see how far it is from Saturday Night Live's comedy stage? This poem's religious nature made their fraud unholy. Wednesday, August 17, 2016/4:37pm: Adjusted tint to give Mary Jane a viridescent hue in Part III of the Masterpiece - like I ended up doing the first time in '07. I also darkened the drawing for Part VIII (the Judgement). That one needs to be very dark. Friday, August 19, 2016/7:15am: Added illustration for Part VII of the Masterpiece (the Crisis). It is the same image I drew for this chapter the first time. It took longer because most of the people in it are only two to three centimeters tall. Friday, August 19, 2016/9:35am: I've scaled down my 'crisis' image to its actual 8 1/2" X 4", though it's still being displayed larger online. At its actual size, the smallness of its figures can be appreciated - like those tiny elegant horses of Degas. But if it's blown up too large, it looks scribbly. Sunday, August 21, 2016/4:18pm: Added the last of my four illustrations for the Masterpiece. It is a drawing of a would-be painting by the main character. I drew the same one last time. I guess it's up to me alone to repair all the damage to my work since I am the only one who knows how to do my work. The business knows how to destroy my work, but it won't repair its harm by putting the poetry thief Tom Hanks on a billboard in the locale of his fraud victim. For that matter, I think that a hela monster like Hanks has already made far too much money from pretending to be sweet and lovable in the last thirty or so years. I'm sure most people agree with me, however much their TV's want to argue the point. Wednesday, August 24, 2016/5:21pm: Started work on illustrations for the Herald. Part II's image is another inadvertent reconstruction from the past. It's high points are Antipath's bear skin vest and Malody's skirt, whose silky effect was achieved by a child's crayon running desperately out of ink. I need 32 of these types of drawings and I'm only on number 10. I think I had a couple for the Marathon last time, but after that, I think I'll be in new territory. That should keep me occupied for the next couple of months as I try to save my money. Enjoying fine weather here. I'll be back with a new picture page in a couple days. I'm going to link these notes to their corresponding poems now. Saturday, August 27, 2016/4:30 pm: Posted my illustration for Part VIII of the Herald. Again it is a reconstructed past work, but I am hopeful that my next picture page will be all new. Monday, August 29, 2016/7:23 pm: My drawing for Part VII of the Herald is another old work that has come back to haunt. Oh well, I need to add my drawings to my poems anyway. I know I didn't illustrate all of them. I wanted to put Besoozoo, Lord of the Creatures of the Air, in the sky, but I couldn't clearly recall his face. I found those twisted demons hard to draw small. Tuesday, August 30, 2016/3:49 pm: Completed my illustrations for the Herald with my drawing for Part I. I realize that I have again inadvertently reconstructed my illustration, using myself as a model and costuming by reference to particular Medieval paintings. People with Polish blood love the Middle Ages. That was when Poland was a world power. Also added a dash of colour to this one to help keep the eyes awake. I'll probably colour every eighth drawing, but I think black ink is the best medium for my poems, since it goes so well with the written word. I'm going to get into some war drawings now, I think. Bye for now. Friday, September 2, 2016/3:19 pm: Posted my illustration for Part IV of the Tartar War (the Battle). It is the same as the one I used in 2007 for the same purpose. Its 'gag' about aftershave is directly connected to the story, which involves an army of 'aquas'. (The 'gag' of putting 'the Monks' in the shape of a harp for a music sticker is also a result of having a minstrel like character in the Herald and for needing to fill the black guitar case with something interesting in that picture. You don't write things like that as random 'gags'.) As for this first of my four Tartar War illustrations, it may remind Tom Hanks of when he stole that poem I wrote for my father called 'the Veteran' (Visit my poems index.) Dateline likes to attack me on Veteran's Day, too. Or maybe it's just because it's around my birthday. The image file is a little grainy from having to be enlarged from its original 4 and 1/2" by 4", but you can recognize my distinctively chaotic chiaroscuro. Sunday, September 4, 2016/10:19 pm: I see that I've redrawn yet another old work to illustrate Part II of the Tartar War. The fine point pen is still a little thick for the size of the figures, but it's nice to be able to fit more into the scene. I clearly recall drawing and sharing this image for the same chapter of my poem in 2007. I hope I'll be through catching up with old illustrations soon, but I remember seeing this part of this poem being butchered by a TV program in 2007 and I can't remember which one. I see their crimes as being against hard working, honest people who simply don't belong to their privileged group. It's too bad they can't be more like those sweet and simple pearl divers and maybe they wouldn't need to steal my poems and drawings to make them feel good. Monday, September 5, 2016/12:58 pm: I've edited my last illustration (Part II of the Tartar War) to bring out its post impressionist, Paul Gaughin style. I didn't apply as much shading to the divers this time, which would only have taken a few minutes with a pencil, but perhaps I developed some other areas of the composition a little better. Also enlarged it a bit to make the sky look bigger. These stars who stole from me must really disrespect their followers to lie to them so much and for so long with my work. The business that supported their crime must have no regard for the hard work of people who aren't in their privileged club. And the kind of person - Tom Hanks and company - who would steal a poem as personal as the Veteran, which I wrote for my dad, would also be capable of cutting your vital organs out of you in the middle of the night if he needed a transplant. With behavior like that, I hardly think they should be displaying themselves on movie screens as examples of American virtue. Friday, September 9, 2016/2:14 pm: Posted the initial scan of my illustration for Part I of the Tartar War. The scanned image is much larger than the 5 inch by 3 and 3/4 inch drawing. I'll take it home and touch it up but I wanted to show that I'm staying active with my drawing. I know this is a repeat drawing from 2007, but I also know I'm heading to all new territory with my illustrations. Might as well catch up with the old ones first. And I've slowed down my rate of posting to stretch it out until I'm ready to go to court. Thursday September 15, 2016/10:49 pm: Uploaded my last illustration for the Tartar War. I'm dissatisfied with the quality of my war illustrations, but they will do for now. The submarine picture I posted today for Part VII is only 6 inches by 3 inches and took only half an hour to draw. Each and all of my illustrations are no larger than a postcard. There was little or no detail to work with in the photos I used to draw my submarine picture. I used a German U-Boat because I think they were the coolest submarines. Submarines are my favorite warships. I've taken out a picture book from the library to help me illustrate the Heavenly Escapade. Friday September 16, 2016/2:34 pm: Decided my Tartar War looked better in colour. The aquas could be aqua in Part IV and the tone of discussions could be violet in Part I. I've moved on to illustrating the Heavenly Escapade now. For new comedy scripts, I've opened Posterior Reflections. Saturday, September 17/7:05 pm: Posted illustration for Part IV of the Heavenly Escapade (The Refugee). This poem wasn't funny and Saturday Night Live only stole it to ruin it. I already drew a similar drawing for the character of Aurora the first time I shared this poem. She should have the kind of lines that run away on you. I think this drawing may be of the same photo I used in 07. I still need to fill in the background. I like her costume. Only needed to modify it a little. Monday, September 19/8:32 am: Shared my illustration for Part II of the Heavenly Escapade (the Craft) with a similar image to my earlier for this purpose. I modeled the spaceship after a stingray to make it look extra sleek. As for the low moon orbit, the moon is meant to use as a gravity slingshot to send us hurtling to other worlds. It was the only way the ones who put it there could get back home. But I'm sure you already know that. I've just been drawing original pictures for my poems. It keeps me out of trouble. Two more to go for the space poem. Thursday, September 22, 2016/3:51 pm: Posted my picture page for Part V of the Heavenly Escapade (the Musicians). I recall drawing and sharing a similar composition to illustrate this chapter when I first shared the poem. I'm making use of the color pens to show the kids the possibilities with those crayolas. Fun little markers. This is another small drawing but it looks okay big. Good depiction of the planet Sonorus, I think. Monday, September 26, 2016/1:50 pm: Restored my illustration for Part I of the the Heavenly Escapade (the Prospector). The irregularities in his fleshtone are caused by nine years having passed since he first appeared online. I recall using myself to model for the original character of Alexander in my poem, nine years ago. Along with that, I now recall how I was visited by one or more strange women who posed as neighbours in need of my internet access. The first one surprised me by knowing my name when she said, 'you know, Dave, you look pretty good there with your space helmet, and that's why I'm telling them it's someone else.' And then two came at me at once a few months later, to give me the impression that my drawing of me was sexier than I was. Anyway, these are horrific memories when I consider what has become of so much of my work in the meantime. And I could have been making money all these years with new work if so many assholes hadn't needed to build their careers out of my old work. Monday, September 26, 2016/10:45 pm: Edited my picture of Aurora in Part IV of the Heavenly Escapade. I think she looks better with eyeballs. I also needed to increase her head size a bit and make her fist a bit larger. She's supposed to be a doe like beauty, reminiscent of Helen of the Might Hercules cartoon. This does not entitle anyone to abuse my earlier attempt to draw this character, as I heard happened when I edited her to make her face more doe like in 2007. Wednesday, September 28, 2016/9:34 am: Completed and posted my new, improved illustration for Chapter I of the Heavenly Escapade (the Prospector). My enhancement of the character's girlfriend demanded higher standards of proportion and line. I achieved a similar improvement with my first drawings of Alexander, whose long hair emulates his illustrious namesake, back when I first shared the poem in 2007. But those drawings were all stolen and I forgot about them. Anyway, the overall body of the model hasn't changed but there may be a distinctly higher hairline. I'd have to see my earlier one. These are great drawings. Shame what happened to them. I'm on to the Marathon next. I hope I left a few drawings for myself in that. You can see my sketch of this cartoon as I posted it yesterday in my posthumous blog, Posterior Reflections. Thursday, September 29, 2016/2:00 am: I'm on a weird schedule from all the backbreaking labour here. Touched up the head on figure drawing for Part III of the Masterpiece (the Temptress). I still have to shrink it down to its normal small size. In figure drawings, we worry about the overall figure and dismiss the head. But I assure you that if someone can keep a human figure in a proportion, he can also draw a human head in proportion - though I could not see the head in this photo and had to invent it out of nothing. Heads and figures are equally hard to draw, but they are hardest when the drawings have to be small to fit inside a little 8 and 1/2 by 11 scanner. And while I struggle with this microsurgery, I must hear people who stole my songs in 2012 criticizing them, such the person who was eager to joke about how my initial post of Aurora was 'pretty', drawing attention to the head in a my figure drawing to suggest that I am untalented. (Are you saying I'm untalented now? Yeah, that's what you've said through this whole ten year long crime with my ten years of work. I should grow up, eh? After I already watched you grow up.) And I've been drawing things in proportion for about forty-three years now and all I've been able to draw in the last ten has been the first and second posts of every drawing I shared online that ended up getting stolen by my critics and passed off as their work. Anyway, I still have to touch up that pearl diver and let me apologize to her for the fucking pricks who like to put pressure on anyone whose image I used for a drawing. This must be the kind of thing that those TV stars broadcasters and bands want you to support now. Friday, September 30, 2016/9:55 am: Posted improved illustrations for Part I of the Heavenly Escapade (the Prospector) and Part II of the Tartar War (the Pilot). I consider it a victory to have etched facial features into that pearl diver's 4 mm wide head with a pilot fineliner and not totally botched it on the first stroke. And yes, her breasts do, in fact, point up. They are very firm, possibly from doing the breast stroke. My Alexander character in the Heavenly Escapade needed a little work around his eyes. I went over the outside of my pencil line on those when I should have stayed on the inside. Anyway, now he looks like he did when he was a teen heartthrob in 2007 and those nasty workers barged into my home and tried to make me feel gay for creating him. Saturday, October 1, 2016/10:55 am: Modified illustration for Part II of the Tartar War (the Pilot). I wanted to bring out some warm sunrise tones in the water. But the military base carved up all the vegetation on the island so I don't need any green for it. I'll touch and retouch my older works as required when I get a chance to review them. Monday, October 3, 2016/1:03 pm: Added illustration to Part II of the Obelisk (the Lovers) with a picture of Ophelia and Mark in the battlefield. (I know I said I would illustrate the Marathon next, but I changed my mind.) I recall drawing a very similar picture for this chapter in 2007. I gave the soldiers Spartan helmets and posed for the head wound. (No, I wasn't trying to peek up Ophelia's toga.) By the way, I hope I did the face okay in this. It's actually easier to idealize facial features by making them more symmetrical. I suppose that when the body is in proportion, the head needs to be more accurate. Back in the 1980's, when I was an impressionable high school student, I was greatly influenced by Heavy Metal cartoons. You may see this influence in my current illustrations. Tuesday, October 4, 2016/12:56 pm: Made a two frame video out of my illustration for Part II of the Obelisk (the Lovers) to create the flash of artillery - but not the sound. I think I did the same thing in 2007, using my old imac. I also clipped the boots out of the frame because there was nothing but empty mud to put behind them. It looks like a fuller picture now. I bet I did the same thing last time. And is anyone mocking my efforts? Not the broadcasters who praised the jerks who ripped off thousands of my posts? Not them any more, just all their dedicated hate subscribers? Thursday, October 6, 2016/3:23 pm: Posted my drawing of the wonder weapon to illustrate Part III of the Obelisk. It's similar to my last effort on this project nine years ago. Most of the nine years since has been spent recovering the vast volumes of work that were stolen from me by stars on the TV and radio and in the movies. And now some people want to bash my drawings because I'm not a movie star like the big important pricks who steal my beautiful posts and tell filthy fucking lies about me. Why should it cost me so dearly to not have a movie career? Does it cost you all anything to not be movie stars? Why do some fucking brain dead TV loving assholes who I tell to stay the fuck out of my account and leave me alone need to make me pay for not being a fucking prick movie star like those reptiles who cheat their way to the top and suck the blood of true talent? Thursday, October 6, 2016/5:08 pm: Reposted my new illustration with changes to cool down the colour scheme in Part III of the Obelisk. Now it looks more like it does in my drawing pad. I must have heated up the colours accidentally when I turned up the exposure to clean off the scanner noise. My legs are tired from having to make four round trips to post my work from an outside computer a half mile away. This is because I can't trust Telus to treat me fairly with my home connection, as they proved to me in 2007 and 2008. And I can't very well ask the cable company for help after their shows tried to murder me in front of the whole world. Sure would be nice if some of these big powerful corporations who control our fucking lives would be more law abiding. But instead they seem to want to get everyone to worship music frauds and comedy frauds as though they were Jesus Christ and hate the author who wrote all their work. These crooked shows have stirred up a lot of hate. And who thought I needed a suit? Do you think I'm applying for a job in my poetry illustrations? Fuck, thanks a lot for all this shit, there, internet and cable companies. Friday, October 7, 2016/1:32 pm: Edited latest illustration for Part III of the Obelisk to get upper battlements pointing more upward. Will add more comment on this topic to my next blog post. |
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
| © 2016. Statements by David Skerkowski. All rights reserved. |
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Illustration Footnotes
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment