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I struggled somewhat working on the last few "drawings on a drawing" I've been working on (even had to skip ahead a little to a blank page 083 + 086),but I have come to resolve a few over the weekend. Here's the first one of the weekend, started on Friday, he ended up quite similar to last post.

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a MACRODON as the "Walking Man"

Tonight Olafur Eliasson spoke at the DMA -it was a good lecture, and the exhibition is pretty rad as well. The artist's primary point of view in the execution of his work is how the human body (the viewer) relates to (sizes up to, or literally measures against) the artwork -in terms of appearance, physical space, scale, distance, and time. The artist mentioned Rodin as a source of idealogical inspiration, specifically Rodin's "Walking Man" (seen below), a figure that transcends space and time, frozen, yet in motion, visually -for the viewers traveling around the sculpture, and conceptually -as the embodiment of a concrete action, indicating a passage of time and space. It is the static quality of the figure, that is most appealing to me, it appears to be in no more than an exaggerated yet powerful contraposto. However, I supposed this is where it would come full circle, as power is to energy is to movement is to space, and obviously time.



Aguste Rodin's "Walking Man"

and below, I have distorted the proportions of the illustration to more closely resemble that of Rodin's sculpture... or not.



here is my favorite piece of the exhibition - DMA gallery guide PDF # "O"

I thought my eyes would bleed science. (this picture does it no justice)

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My wife said this Macrodon looks like a were-wolf. It does have the creeping-stalking characteristic and scary upper-body proportions of were-wolfs.

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Spaz if you want to.

You can tell how overly freaked out (in a good way) this Macrodon is. Hell Yes. (song by Beck)

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Macrodons are obviously intentionally weird, but there is something off about this one. weird. weird legs. wierd arms. weird perspective, weird pose, I might change this drawing completely...

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This is how most of the recent MACRODON illustrations start -a really rough sketch of the general shape, and then I clean it up. This time I really liked the way it looked unfinished, even though it is somewhat of a mess.

*1:18 am update -just came back from the Mountain Goats/Kaki King concert at the Granada (Dallas,Tx), and it was remarkably good, they are clearly great musicians, it was fascinatingly executed live, at times very self-indulgent, but in a good EPIC fashion. Best concert I have seen in some time!

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after completing this MACRODON, I envisioned him, more squat, shorter, and stockier, so I Photoshopped it some:



This is what I have been up to the past few days: paper-mâché He-Man Hair,
in stiff-looking, plastic-like, bowl-cut, page-boy fashion!



After all the fun with the PUMA shoes, I could not help myself,
this MACRODON's Halloween costume: HE-MAN!



and my wife's costume this year was Amelia Earhart, with some great vintage Wilson welding goggles, but in this case, visually perfect for an aviator costume, as fashionably sported by this Macrodon:



Okay, that was another, fun, ridiculous post.
I always assumed Macrodons had eyes, and well, really any other body part not previously represented in these illustrations, but putting goggles on it's "head", over it's "eyes" (and whose to say it's eyes are on it's "head"), a sword in it's "hand" (obviously gripped with fingers), etc., was a little disconcerting at the time... I prefer the vague anatomical visual description I have previously given them, so for now, I don't think we'll be seeing any paper-doll style dressing of Macrodons anymore...