THE INVENTOR & THE MERMAIDEN~ FINALE~!

The original ending is sweet and sincere...

The alternate ending is from a jaded

point of view; a jilted lover feeling

betrayed by a 'True Love' scenario

that revealed itself to be something

less than mystical~!

THE INVENTOR & THE MERMAIDEN~ DAY SIX~!

Note the note to myself on the last storyboard page~

'Like 1st page of Amz. Sp. 122', the classic Gil Kane

pencilled & John Romita inked Death Of Gwen

Stacy issue, where Spidey is holding the

lifeless form of his loved one...

Tomorrow will wrap it up

with an altenate ending

and full color splash...

THE INVENTOR & THE MERMAIDEN~ DAY FIVE~!

Crayons with a watercolor wash give the Mermaiden's

tail a cool fish-scaley effect. The ink sketch shows her

diving downward into the hull of a broken ship-wreck...

THE INVENTOR & THE MERMAIDEN~ DAY FOUR~!

A little more detail emerges...

THE INVENTOR & THE MERMAIDEN~ DAY THREE~!

The plot thickens...

THE INVENTOR & THE MERMAIDEN~ DAY TWO~!

These pages represent part of a 'Feeling Out' process...

It is a method of working through some ideas, whereby,

through the process of writing & drawing, new/better/

more evolved concepts emerge...

The finished double-page spread will be the Inventor's

HAND pinning another Polaroid photo to a wall full of

completed ridiculous and/or obsolete creations...

THE INVENTOR & THE MERMAIDEN~ DAY ONE~!

This week~ layout/storyboards for

a strange haunting tale about an

Inventor & his Muse, a lovely

Mermaiden...

SHORT FILM~ A PORTRAIT OF TWO WITCHES~!

Student Film made with a couple close friends

back in 1988. An excursion into the seedier side

of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia~ under the

influence of strange substances~ through

the looking glass, and what not~!

The Possum are real, by the way, and over

the years I have come to decide that when

they are feeling sick, or get too old, they

sit on the railroad tracks to commit

suicide~!

CRAYONS~!

Three examples of what can happen when you give a

mentally challenged Adult a box filled with 64 colors

of crayons...

MOVIE POSTER SKETCH~!

Here is a rough concept drawing, a Poster

sketch, for my 3rd feature-length screenplay

written back in 2005. The original working

title is seen here~ but~ at the 11th hour I

changed my mind and the title to Voxpop

Voodoo~ a tad catchier and it sounds less

like an Agatha Christie mystery~!

DRAWING FROM REAL LIFE~!

Last post was all about loosey goosey

no pencil sloppy-doppy ink-o-ramas~!

Here, some hoity-toity 'Classical'

renditions of stuff I used to dread

doing... Still Lifes~ and Drawing

from Life assignments~! The

Last image is a pencil study

of a Renaissance painting

by God-Knows-Who stored

in some misbegotten or

long ago destroyed

brain cell~!

Nowadays, I actually

'get' what these

assignments

were all

about~!

The path of least resistance

sometimes is simply to

embrace a situation.

Hey~! Where's my PENCIL~?!

I'm gett'n kinda horny for lead~!

DRAWING STRAIGHT IN INK~ NOT A PENCIL IN SIGHT~!

I've already confessed~! I know it's a bad habit~! But~

I just can't stop doing it~! Not only is it fun, but it is

quite addictive once you get the hang of it and learn

to trust your own skills. Try it for a month~ and~

if it doesn't boost your confidence level ? Pick a

fight with someone a foot smaller than you and

kick the crap out of them ;~j

Sometimes I will use a ballpoint pen LIKE a pencil, by

not pressing down too much you can really control

the lightness or darkness of the line weight...

With a brush~ all bets are off~!

Either way, when you try to envision something

beforehand and then set out to capture it on

paper, there is no margin for error. This

can be quite exhilarating ~! Especially

when you start to like what you're

doing, and then fear messing up~!

Still, as Robert Crumb so profoundly

put it: 'It's only lines on paper !'

cheers~!

TEAM SPIRIT~ T-SHIRT DESIGN FOR LOCAL TOWN~!

Some rough designs, and a final version~

of a T-shirt concept to sell @ various

shops here on the Isle of Lost Souls

where I live. Surfers would lap

this one UP~!

SPILLED INK DESIGNS~!

What happens when you have a registered Independent,

who is EXTREMELY liberal of mind, yet OBSESSIVELY

conservative environmentally & with resources, who can

be a bit clumsy at times and knock over bottles of Super-

Black India Ink ?

I don't know what you'd call such a knucklehead~ but~

here are the results~!

You can't always make something good out

of a bad thing~ but you can always try. Truly

Happy-Accidents are to be worshiped for sure; but

the following train-wrecks are at least of interest~!

Hey~ you should see some of my wardrobe~!

There are nights when I become: The Human Sponge~!

(aka Sponge-Bob Black-Splatter Wet-Pants)

CO-WORKER ACTION FIGURES~!

When I worked in a Weld-Shop up North

it was for a small Mom & Pop business that

had a colorful cast of characters. So, One

Christmas, I bought a bunch of El Cheapo

imitation G.I. Joes and Barbie Dolls, then

altered their faces, made special outfits

appropriate to their personality/job-

description, and put them in rebooted

boxes that had pictures of all the

action figures with a 'Collect Them

All' heading. They are as follows:

WARREN, THE BOSS

ELLA, THE BOSS' CRAZY WIFE

JEFF, CHIEF WELDER

FRANK, MASTER MECHANIC

KIM, THE GLUE WHO HOLDS

US ALL TOGETHER & EVEN

GETS COFFEE FOR US~!

Oddly, I did not make a doll depicting

myself. I ran out of time before our

X-mas dinner, where we exchanged

gifts in a local tavern/restaurant.