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HAPPY NEW YEAR !

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After a short break for the holidays,
I present to you: my MACRODON research from the past 8 days...

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another pointy one...

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anthropomorphic pickle... not unlike this pickle:


(fun cartoon books about a "super-pickle" worth checking out)

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anthropomorphic raisin... reminds me of these guys:



that video led me to this one: California Raisins & Michael Jackson
(how could I not post this?!)



and in the spirit of Christmas, I had to include this little gem as well:

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cartoon jellyfish macrodon

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is that the face, or the rear?

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not so much a macrodon as a zombie cucumber...

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...

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time for sleep...

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119 & VARIATIONS

Here is the last of the "twelve sketches" I started several days ago.
And here are a few of the changes it went through:
neck/head/antennae variations.

117-118 part I

I am beat.

This is all I was able to manage tonite (in addition to MACRODONS 115+116).

These lumpy black shapes are pleasing in a way, but I am planning a reductive drawing this time -drawing with white paint instead of black as I typically do.
(similar to what I did for # 080, and sort of like # 086 also).

Also, these MACRODON drawings come from the figures/toys/sculptures I've made: www.macrodons.com

115-116 & VARIATIONS

Again, I skipped a few days, but not for lack of making MACRODONS, just not illustrations though (more on that in a future blog post). So here is another pair of MACRODONS along with a few variations they went through, due to my indecisiveness. The initial sketches for these illustrations can be seen here. As can be seen, I like to leave the rough pencil markings as a sort of indication of where the drawing is going, and how it informs each stage in the process. The MACRODON on the right has a sort-of-horse-like quality to it on and off again, something a little different for a MACRODON...

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MACRODONS @ AQUA ART MIAMI

Last weekend Miami hosted the sixth installment of Art Basel Miami Beach -along with all the accompanying satellite art fairs that have sprung up around it. This year The Public Trust exhibited at the Aqua Hotel in South Beach, near the main fair. As can be seen above, a small group of MACRODONS were present for this weekend of art excess, among the work of other Public Trust artists including Steven Hopwood-Lewis, Brent Ozaeta, and Evan Hecox.

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I skipped over a few of the sketches I had, because I had this new idea: MACRODON with an antennae/horn.

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Here I drew the 3-"headed" MACRODON (top), and messed around with it in Photoshop to see it with less "heads"

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*
(3-D asterisk), blob, phallus(es), appendages, meatball... which way is "up"?

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below I Photoshopped out the background

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tough guy



quite fitting, right?

106-107 & VARIATIONS

After skipping yesterday, I doubled up on drawings (and then some). Here are illustrations 106 & 107, side by side, with their multiple variations. Above is the final result (and seventh re-working of the initial sketch, seen here). As the drawing progressed, and digressed, you'll see that the changes occurred in the "head" area, while th "body" mostly remained unchanged.



The MACRODON on the left looks like a walking hand,
similar to Thing T. Thing from the Addams Family.



I am most satisfied with the MACRODON on the left at this stage (above).



Aside from the last drawing (the one at the top of this post), the MACRODON on the right had very subtle changes, mostly a growth in "head" size.



Again, the MACRODON on the left has a hand-like appearance, this time, if instead of being "cut-off" at the wrist, it has "feet" on it's "hand". Also, I like the MACRODON on the right most at this stage. Also, along with the final drawing of the MACRODON on the left (at the top of the post), there was a sort of conjoined MACRODON theme going for it.



I somehow lost this step in the progression of these MACRODONS even though I thought I scanned and saved it. The changes were very minimal so I was able to make similar changes through Photoshop.



And finally, below is the first step in this series of changes to these two MACRODONS, some of the initial sketching, as seen here, is still visible.
(on the left) conjoined? - (on the right) no head?

105 & VARIATIONS

This (jellyfish-like blob) is the first of the twelve sketches from yesterday, fleshed out, with a couple of variations. Because of my indecisiveness I repeatedly changed it, drawing over parts of it, but not without scanning it as I go, here are the transformations this MACRODON underwent:







In this next post I darkened those lingering lines indicative of arms in this MACRODON's previous incarnations:



In this last one is a Photoshop composite of the first drawing with arms:



This post is sort of a gnarly-er version of these MACRODONS here.