Lots of Stuff Today
First off, something a little different and more serious than I usually get to do. This illustration is appearing in this week’s Portland Mercury, alongside an article about the recent settlement in the case of a mentally ill man who was tasered and beaten to death by the Portland police three years ago. I thought a rough pencil portrait would look better in the negative, as opposed to my usual, clean ink line.
I’ve done a bunch more of these little ink splotch doodles that I posted about a few days ago; 53 in the last three days to be exact. I’ve taken to calling them fadges because it’s a word I doodled in the same manner a while back, and it sounds interesting (and just kind of dirty enough) to catch the eye and the ear. I think I’m going to put together a little zine of these, maybe when I reach 100+. Hats, or things wearing hats, seems to be a repeating theme in many of these that I’ve done so far.
Lastly, I just found this picture on Flickr of me looking like the coolest dude on the planet. This is from a photo taken by Sam Guerrero, curator at Tender Loving Empire, and was taken during the opening of my You Better Believe It show opening last Thursday night.
