RSPCTU2

Remember: May is Respect U2 Month. So are June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, and April.

What Am I Up To?

Information Bullets:

• The basement has become a terrible place
• I started working at That Program
• New pants
• To Everyone who has been hassling me about what I want for my birthday, Here is your top priority, but don't worry - my hopes are not Up.
• Paul Newman is still Dead
• TV is a Thing again
  

A Brief and Triumphant Return pt 4

I've either come a long way or no way at all

P.S. I have one last thing.

A Brief and Triumphant Return pt 2

Here is another comic, it is different from the one posted yesterday in that it is almost all words. Also it has a few colors. This is by no means an indication that it is any better, because it almost certainly is not.

A Brief and Triumphant Return Pt 1

Listen: this past academic year I did a few more Abandoned Astronaut comics. I don’t know if they are any good or not; I don’t hate them yet, which means that they must not be absolutely terrible. The trouble is that I have long since run out of ideas for the character that make any sense and/or are funny, but anytime I am presented with a blank sheet of notebook paper and a pen I will wind up drawing the guy, though it is remarkably rare for anything to come of it. Also, a lot has changed in terms of How Things Are Now compared to How Things Where Then, where Then is the period when I did these all the time. This makes it difficult to do the same kind of stuff, and I’m probably less likely to share this sort of thing nowadays than I was then. However, I am in a generous and blogging mood, so here they come. I think there are four, one of which remains unfinished. You know the drill, one-a-day until there aren’t any left.

“Sorry” to the handful who hate these, and “you’re welcome” to the two who used to like them a lot.

Opinon Poll: Do you Hate This or Not?

This is a logo I made at the request of my dad, who, as you may already know/have made jokes about, is a urologist. Does it make sense to you? Do you see What I Did There?


P.S. Here is a logo for a pretend soda that doesn't exist (yet).

Can You Tell What This Is?

It's alright if you can't, it didn't turn out at all the way I'd envisioned it, and I am not particularly happy with it. Also, it's no fair if you already know what it is (this is maybe two of you?), so no guessing.

As an added bonus clicking the above image will reveal it in alarming every-hair-fiber-and-rubber-cement-tendril-are-visible kind of high resolution.

Anyway and also here's what happened in class on Friday:

This Is Not That Information about Typewriters You Requested

It is, instead, some vector art of an Underwood No. 5 done in that hateful program I have Previously Complained About. Now you have to look at it as that Information you requested continues to await its transmission.



As a special bonus you can now also look at an Oliver No. 3 in addition to the Underwood. You are, as always, infinitely welcome.

Here is how my Time is being Wasted

Welcome to using classtime to learn the nucances of a hideous program that is now hopelessly obsolete. The assignment? Create an image in Freehand from scratch based on a Frank Lloyd Wright sketch. Doesn't it look like glorified asshole clipart? I want to punch myself.

UPDATE:

Goddamnit, it looks even worse when it's printed.

Here is What I Did in Art Class Today

Or, more accurately, Graphic Design Class. Maybe you are wondering why I am taking a graphic design class, so here is why: despite my best efforts I continue to enjoy looking at and choosing fonts, and also using fonts. I am learning that proper people call them "typefaces" so I am trying to be better about that. I like entertaining the notion that someday in my life a person will give me money to move letters and perhaps also images around in an area in order to prepare that area for people's viewing. This will probably not happen, but just in case it does it is important that I learn how to draw the idea of text doing silly things, like a lowercase g in Freight acting like a balloon while an uppercase Copperplate T anchors it. So, here you are.



In unrelated news, Here was the thing that was the best part of today.

Here is that Digitally Manipulated Image of a Skyline you Asked for

You have to click on it, ok?