New Posts soon.

There will be a truck load of new stuff posted soon, oil paintings, photoshop paints and figure drawings. Looking forward to spending some time off, I am ready for a break but I have to remember to continue working, just not as hard, not push so hard during a break, I will coast during the next break and then when it is time to strain for further understanding I will. In the past breaks I have almost completely ignored practice and I have found that it is INSANely difficult to find "The Groove" again. It is difficult but possible everytime, it averages at about 5 weeks to find again. I would like to cut that time down to about a week or two, but now the possibility of Constant Groove status has entered my mind as an option...I like breaks though, they make life Super easy and simple. I have been reading a lot, a love reading something over and over to make sure i get it, I usually have to learn through repetition because I won't pick it up the first time but after I do read it and understand and then put it into application the results are almost instant. I get the "It actually works" moment. rewarding. I have been drawing with my right hand when my left gets tired. I am teaching my right hand slowly, When I get frustrated with my left, instead of sighing a lot (which happens anyway) the first thought i have about what to do next is swap to the off hand and this usually gives an automatic refresh. I will draw right handed for a few minutes and when I feel comfortable again I will toss the pencil over to lefty. Anyway New posts real soon, the term is almost over and I have plenty of work to do still.

Train lands on building!

Downtown Portland Received and unexpected landing of a train supposedly "Thrown" from the depot located near Se 18th and Holgate. Rumors are flying like spaghetti in a food fight that a large figure was seen bowling over rail cars and violently whipping around industrial cranes like an irresponsible mother with her newborn. When asked what he thought caused this event, one stupified conductor mumbled, "I know it were a big green thing...probly one of them Gott-damned Ninja turtles". Regardless of what caused the 60 ton train to arrive in the middle of Broadway and Alder street, clean up has begun and is wagered to be finished by the end of the year.

Self portraits ahoy

So, it has been a little while since my last post, If there is anyone looking at this thing then I think it's cool that you are. Here is a set of self portraits. One of them is in oil and the other two are done in photoshop paint. The Photoshopping ones are for a "Young and old" themed assignment. The old needs some work because i think it still looks like i am young. There is another version that makes me look a lot like Burl Ives, which I actually kinda like. The oil painting was just for fun, I tried to blend the paint in that one because I usually don't, blending is like trying to hide brush strokes and seems more like illustration. I like being able to clearly see a brush stroke but then when you are not looking for the stroke the painting itself looks right on. Today was a really solid day, I got plenty of work done and didn't complain about shit.
I spoke with the dean here at school again. She told me a story about how she died for a few minutes and came back. She said she saw people she knew that were gone and places she had been. She said after that experience, "I don't have shit to complain about". That is the way it always is but it can be easy to forget that, i said.

Happy Halloween! time to paint

So here is my halloween, These are all done in photoshop and I tried to take 20-25 minutes on each, (some of the better ones are more like 35-40 mins) This is for an assignment due tuesday at 8 am, it's mostly just a value study but just for practice I took it maybe a half step further than that. I used the same brush butt adjusted the sizes and opacity. My favorite is Kennedy, he is just so Gosh darn Charismatic!

Harrowing night of drawing.

God, Last night was a rough one, I had a tough time finding my "Groove" Each of these drawings has what I would call maybe a few strokes of groove which equate to about 1-1.5 seconds of "real time groove", or "RTG" at a time,...if that makes any sense at all, actually if it does I would like to know. Anyway, I have some new drawings right here and in the future there will be a handful of new paintings, some digital and I am actually beginning a series of self portraits in oil. I love hearing what anyone has to say so feel free to write anything that pops in your head. Happy Halloween.

Hipbone studio 10/21/09

I started out this evening so tense. I started by trying out something a fellow student had suggested and I got a little result. I quickly became bored and very frustrated, I flipped through page after page on the same pose, sketch after sketch. Finally I switched over to my china marker because I remembered that it helps me loosen up. So i loosen up and slowly put away my frustration and out of nowhere I am reminded of my doodling in history class, it was fun, I was making things up as i went, carving things out of big shapes, like sculpting (which i have become pretty interested in lately). So I decide to not pay so much attention to the model. I start making things up in places where i think they might work, but always looking back up whenever i had a question about where something might go. It was a good feeling, remembering that I was not there to make a copy of the model, but to make it more interesting and give it a bit of personality, the model stopped and gave me a compliment and a woman sitting behind me came up to me and said she had been watching me work! Positive feedback is always great to hear. Now that i look back at it, my attention and consciousness must have been completely present because the three hours flew by. Anyway today was an excellent day.

Rock whale, aka "Pure mood volume 3"

A digital painting using a photo as a jump off point. My personal thoughts about it include me thinking i went just a bit too far with the paint parts and should pull it back a bit, specifically the area where it looks like blood around the mouth.

Hipbone studios Figure drawing 09/23/09

oil paintings from July

The headline pretty much says it. Hey how did that one get in there!

2.0

Here is the revised version of the breath and head turn. I have not had it reviewed yet but i think it looks alright.

#4 animated cowboi

So this is attempt #1.5 to animate the cowboy character breathing heavily after having his hat shot off. Fun to animate but not what "Teach" wanted. I will post #2.0 later today and we will see if it passes muster.

Done

Finally finished editing my cartoon together the way I wanted. It came out better than expected. I am excited to start showing people and getting some feedback. Here is one of the two characters in the short, this guys name is Wyatt and he is a drug delivery man and that's all you need to know...

Head turn animation

wedding project

Here is a low quality version of the painting I did for a co-workers Wedding invitation. They had some interesting requests. First, they are dressed badgers, one needed to be dangling a head and one of the stipulations to coming to their wedding is that you must be over 13 years old. This is actually version 2 because lucky me experienced the joys of not backing up my work properly, that was really a bummer but all's well that ends well.

Asylum

I am exhausted, all i want to do is have my cat feed me zucchini bread and play Batman,

Indian animation #2.

Animation.

Here is a rough hand drawn piece of animation that took me about 5 hours to make, I haven't traditionally animated anything for a while so I learned a lot about where i could improve. Hope this loads, enjoy.

More!

So this bit here is a few random pages of character expressions I did for a class just to get ideas moving around in our heads. A few random pages of people, a sketch of a caged Mandrill at the zoo, a naked guy and an airport employee who had his knee pads around his ankles which i thought was preeeetty damn cool, I exaggerated the inner tube.

Almost a month of no updates.

So it has been nearly a month since my last blog update, sorry about that. To make up for it though I have a pretty sizable bit of work to show for this post. Hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I did drawing it. These here are a few hulk sketches, (what entry would be complete without these?) also included are a few pages of people sketches, sketches from locations around Portland and I think there is a page of doodles that i did while in history class.

BLOG CURVEBALL!

Blog Facelift, Offspeed pitch... People have been asking to see some of my work lately and I have had to casually say, "ok well you will want to write this down...ready? it's www dot Clint Has a Boner dot blogspot dot com." It gets a solid laugh most times but it's time to change the look. Enjoi souldier boi!

Just some dude hangin near the court.

New animated short on the way

What I have here is some first sketches of new characters for an animated flash short to be finished within 11 weeks, it needs to be around 3 minutes...this might be kinda tough.
This is for Advanced Web animation class. The story is... A gangster boss and a drug boss have an agreement to meet in a warehouse to exchange money for drugs. Eye contact is established, the Gang boss sets down a briefcase on a cable spool table...he opens the case facing the drug boss. The drug man looks down at the case in confusion and annoyance and says, "What the hell is this?" The camera cuts to a briefcase full of 100 dollar bill origami swans. The Gang boss keeps his cool for a beat and then explains that the drug dealer is on a candid camera show called, "Stung". the gang man laughs a bit and says something like, you shoulda seen the look on yer face and points to the camera. The drug dealer does not understand what is happening and asks seriously, "Alright wheres the real money?" The gangster starts getting uncomfortable and looks to camera crew for help. In a flash the police bash through the wall and the screen goes black and credits roll, a newspaper rolls up the credits with silly headlines like, "Two morons arrested" and smaller but visible will be an article about stationary...

PNCA Solo Mission.

Every Wednesday night an art school near my own-(fart Institute) holds a life drawing session for about 3 hours. This evening I rode my bike on over and helped the crazy lady set up the studio. The Crazy lady then knocked over my pencils and asked everyone in the room to please let her set up the studio herself for the next few minutes. The model arrived a little late because of traffic but no one really seemed to mind. The night started with 10 one minute poses, (my fay've) and carried on into the longer 15-25 minute poses. Whith the longer poses I am now able to get one or two practice drawings in before I start one that I actually like enough to detail a bit.
I stayed for about three hours and filled what is probably 1/4th of my sketchbook. What I included in this post are four of my drawings that I was somewhat happy with. I did a lot of thinking to myself during this session. For a moment I was convinced that the model could hear my thoughts and was in fact communicating with me telepathically. I thought about how it has been for the past three weeks or so-- (drawing wise, which inevitably translates to everyday comings and goings. My feelings and thoughts about my work tend to directly mirror my attitude toward life, people and experiences.)-- being happy with this new quick and unapologetic way of making lines while observing people just sitting around parks and courtyards, being happy to be walking on newer firmer ground, ground that I had always wished I would cover. Today was a day that comes around every couple months that I rarely notice while it's happening. I realized that I had grasped something new and that it was time to move forward again, getting to this point was incredibly painful, difficult and uncomfortable but it's worth the trouble to see REAL proof that I have grown. The proof is there in those piles of sketchbooks, I can look back and see where I came from, I can even see reflections of my mood and outlook on life at the time of the drawings. This may be rambling but it is also the first time in a while that I have used this blog to try and express myself without the use of a drawing, although some are likely inches from this sentence. Anyway on to the Noody picz.

I think I like characters whos first letter in the name appears early in the alphabet.

Hulk, Hellboy, Goon, Franky, Fear agent, Bruce...So this was fun to make for about the first 7 or 8 hours, then I went to a place that painters should not go. I really thought it was the coolest thing for the first painting session but perhaps it was the 30 people having a meeting in the same room (Larry was having a Rocky horror cast election meeting at our place) that distracted me. Who could say? I thought about painting over it but quickly changed me mind because it has a place in the world i think.

Here is a stress relief painting that took 30 min.

I call it a stress relief painting because I am learning to zone in (or out if u prefer) while painting. So I showed up to a test a little early and decided to just start this little dude. He has no story, he is completely off the tip of my head so your guess is as good as mine as to why he has a feathery collar.

well I

I tried to post a short piece of flash animation that I have been working on and need to continue working on but when I actually had it all loaded up and ready to go it looked like Carp. So I will bring it into some editing software and render it out right!

that time

If you have checked my page recently you may have noticed the lack of new posts.
This is because I have reached the time of the term where I just do nothing but work on stuff for finals. I will have a TON of stuff scanned, photographed or in some way ready to look at soon. Until then friends.

Knossos is full of bullshit that I really have no reason to care about at the moment. I am sure there is tons of cool shit ready to talk about in a paper that would contain a strong thesis but right now I have been procrastinating the hell out of this thing, I have blah blah blah blah blah, the motion of writing "blah" is a strange one. My typing skill is actually pretty slow compared to some texters.
Minoan culture is cool to learn about because it is lil stories about people who lived tons of years ago. What did people do back then? Were they happier than we are now? Did they eat better or was it the cleaner air that they got to breath hella of? My best guess is that basically they had the same problems that humans have now. Dealing with people, avoiding things they didnt want to bother with and on the flip side, dealing with things that they didn't want to with a smile and gusto that creates good leaders. or at least leaders.

The minoans hired a dude named Daedelus to create a labrynth. This is by far the most popular story from Minoa and it also happens to be the only thing I am actually interested in when it comes to minoan mythology. It is a story with a monster. Allow me to be redundant and repeat that. A story created by humans, (who love monsters because we are pretty certain they don't exist and therefore they are not as terrifying as the story suggests, and hence making them interesting to talk about). A story about a beast that was created because A god, proabably Zeus came down to earth and had his eye on a woman who happened to be the queen I guess.
Anyway because Zeus was so confident that he could get any woman in the world he made a bet with another god that he could score with this woman even if he were disguised as a bull. Zeus won that bet and the loser had to spend the rest of eternity monitoring the underworld. So some time passed and the king of Knossos came to find out that his wife is the bearer of an immaculately conceieved child and was feeling suprised and blessed all at once. Months later a beast that was half boy and half bull was birthed and was hideous to behold. The king feeling ashamed at his initial thought of killing the beast that very moment, decided that instead he would let the beast live and build it a place to live.
So the king calls up Daedelus and says, hey bud we need to hide this hellspawn that my awful wife made, you got anything for me? And daedelus did have something. He created an amazing and nearly impossible labyrinth, amazing in size and difficulty to master.
Time past and the Bull beast which is now known as a minotaur grew to full size and in order to feed the man monster the King forced his people to pay tribute to this terrifying creature by sending children into the labyrinth. I imagine this happened on the minotaurs birthday, which another one of my best guesses was probably 06/06/06 B.C.E. I think this because there are a few cool things about this.
First the beast gets a really good meal for once instead of just whatever is thrown into the maze as a joke by village dullards, scraps of junk, old tires, alligators, bananas, whatever.
Second this is like a game for the creature, the kids aint gettin out so there is only the hunt and chase for the monster and he completely knows that these little kids are really really scared of him, they probably don't even know what this monster looks like, their imaginations are running wild at this point, for all they know the creature in this confusing mess could be a a Blind turkey.
Anyway the reason this story is so appealing In my opinion is because I totally made up a lot of that information and the cool thing is that it works. This is more than likely the same process that built this story over many many years. People hearing things and passing them on, some dude wanting to sound cool in front of some girls or something kind of exaggerates something he heard while hanging around the palace, who knows, but I bet that is what happened.

I renounce.

Weed sucks. That is all.

The GOON

Here is 3 step goon paintin', Side note...I need to schedule some time for sleep because I have been cruisin' around town on very small amounts of Z's. I have to get ready for class in 2 hrs...suns out...I could run...I could shower...I could do another painting because really I should have like 15 of them in this Paint sketch book that I am working on but I only have 6...this IS an assignment bTW, But I am enjoying painting more and more...so tired...it's too late now to end this sentence...<-----(2 minutes)those three dots that came before this text represent about two minutes of me sitting here half conscious with my head resting on my hand.
Good night everybody I will be semi conscious but here all week!

Paintings

Here are a couple paintings I did last night, There is my pal Geoff, Medusa and some old dude who wants to know why he shouldn't cut a young mans head off?