Oliver, Oliver...
Addendum: None
This is a picture of a piece of broccoli playing a flute in the streets of London. Oliver Twist can be seen in the lower left corner. The grid pattern is meant to represent cobblestone streets. I didn't know how to draw perspective very well.
CHKLLGH!!
Addendum: None
Although the first two victim stick figures look like they're suffering similar punishments (?), one is burned while the other is electrocuted. The third stick figure is the only one with a substantial body (for a cannonball to go through), and the last stick figure is the only one with a substantial face (for the grappling hook spikes to stick into). I don't actually know how to draw cylinders.
puzzle Time!
Addendum: None
This piece consists of two pieces of paper layered on top of each other. The top paper is cut around the donkey.
When you lift the top sheet off, it reveals what is underneath:
This was my first vaguely political drawing. I expressed distaste that George Bush had won the election and was being manipulated by Dick Cheney. I don't think I actually knew much about these issues, I just read about them in Mad Magazine or the like. I'm also unsure whether I was trying to poke fun at the apparently cryptic language of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" or whether I was just messing around. Both seem equally likely. On the back page, we have Bob "the hama-stopa", a donkey, a stylized "4" that is in danger of becoming a swastika, and a bird shooting lasers out of its eyes. At the top is "mar-yuh-loo", a mispronunciation of "Mary Lou" by the character Zero in Louis Sachar's young adult novel "Holes". I wonder why "gay" was written to describe the donkey, then vigorously crossed out?
This piece consists of two pieces of paper layered on top of each other. The top paper is cut around the donkey.
If Pens Could Talk, This is What they Would Talk About - By: Rollerball
Addendum: None, it's two sided
Side 1:
Side 2:
Once again, apologies for the time between posts; any semblance of routine dissolved when I graduated high school.
There are a lot of possible explanations for this piece. I used to like to collect pens. I liked the various textures and feelings or writing with different writing utensils. I wanted to be able to use all my pens at once. Thus, this. I characterized each of my various writing utensils that I had in my work area and let the story (if you could call it that) happen. I suppose it shows that I used to think about sex a lot more than I thought about thinking about sex. This plays out like a bad reality television show in fast motion, with many men clamoring for sex with the one woman that exists within the confines of their reality (the ostensible "pen-only zone"). Some things that called my attention:
- Spelling of "yeah" without an "h"
- Pervasive internet-speak
- Pictoral depiction of "fuck you" by Ballpoint
- Racial implications of "minorities" in a "pen-only zone"?
- Why Cleveland?
- Is Blue Fusion a negative caricature of women?
- Why do I say "do it" instead of "sex" or something more explicit? Was I afraid?
- The words to describe sex start out in quotes, then lose them
- Implications of the fact that the story is written by Rollerball?
- Asexuality of Fusion, Felt Tip, and Pencil (although perhaps Pencil is just not as in touch with his sexuality as the others or he's witnessing the sex of a different species altogether)
- "Your hopeless, ballpoint."
Side 1:
Side 2:
There are a lot of possible explanations for this piece. I used to like to collect pens. I liked the various textures and feelings or writing with different writing utensils. I wanted to be able to use all my pens at once. Thus, this. I characterized each of my various writing utensils that I had in my work area and let the story (if you could call it that) happen. I suppose it shows that I used to think about sex a lot more than I thought about thinking about sex. This plays out like a bad reality television show in fast motion, with many men clamoring for sex with the one woman that exists within the confines of their reality (the ostensible "pen-only zone"). Some things that called my attention:
- Spelling of "yeah" without an "h"
- Pervasive internet-speak
- Pictoral depiction of "fuck you" by Ballpoint
- Racial implications of "minorities" in a "pen-only zone"?
- Why Cleveland?
- Is Blue Fusion a negative caricature of women?
- Why do I say "do it" instead of "sex" or something more explicit? Was I afraid?
- The words to describe sex start out in quotes, then lose them
- Implications of the fact that the story is written by Rollerball?
- Asexuality of Fusion, Felt Tip, and Pencil (although perhaps Pencil is just not as in touch with his sexuality as the others or he's witnessing the sex of a different species altogether)
- "Your hopeless, ballpoint."
SFD1
Addendum: None
I thought it was lost forever... NOT ANYMORE!
This is the original Stick Figure Death comic strip, as drawn on a sheet of notebook paper with a semi-blunted pencil. I'm excited to narrate it once again:
The story begins in media res with our stick-wielding hero defending himself against a leaping foe. The foe is speared, and Stick (as I'll call him) flings his body out of the frame. Another adversary appears, this time attacking low, but Stick (by some miracle of physics) is able to step on his head and impale him. After briefly holding his prey up to the sun for God to approve, he disposes of the body in a manner similar to that of the first. TWO ENEMIES? Yes. And with a double kick like that of Neo, Stick awkwardly pushes them back. I'm not quite sure what happens at this point, so I'm gonna skip to the spiked steamroller (!!!). The casual SFD viewer might say, "But this is the same thing that happens in the second strip!" And they'd be wrong. Because this one includes an ineffective machine gunner getting run over in the spokes of the spiked steamroller (but yeah, this is pretty much the same as SFD2; trust me, it'll get better in SFD3, it even has red Sharpie stick figure blood!).
This is the original Stick Figure Death comic strip, as drawn on a sheet of notebook paper with a semi-blunted pencil. I'm excited to narrate it once again:
The story begins in media res with our stick-wielding hero defending himself against a leaping foe. The foe is speared, and Stick (as I'll call him) flings his body out of the frame. Another adversary appears, this time attacking low, but Stick (by some miracle of physics) is able to step on his head and impale him. After briefly holding his prey up to the sun for God to approve, he disposes of the body in a manner similar to that of the first. TWO ENEMIES? Yes. And with a double kick like that of Neo, Stick awkwardly pushes them back. I'm not quite sure what happens at this point, so I'm gonna skip to the spiked steamroller (!!!). The casual SFD viewer might say, "But this is the same thing that happens in the second strip!" And they'd be wrong. Because this one includes an ineffective machine gunner getting run over in the spokes of the spiked steamroller (but yeah, this is pretty much the same as SFD2; trust me, it'll get better in SFD3, it even has red Sharpie stick figure blood!).
Bob The Hamma Stoppa 2
Addendum: None
This was drawn during a dry spell in creativity. Notice the chunk missing from Bob's head, as well as the flat (instead of pointed) tail.
rr
Addendum: "PROPERTY OF: [name withheld]"
This was drawn by a friend of mine. I'm not sure what the "rr" stands for, but this man looks dangerous. If you look closely, you can even see the hint of a penis!
Mista Roboto
Addendum: "the 80's"
I'm not really sure what I was thinking on this one. He looks like a very awkward robot. My favorite part would have to be the alternating up and down "O"s in "Roboto".
I saw a dancing candle...
Addendum: "also classic"
Sixth grade. A wild-haired, eccentric lady who could not yet be characterized as "old" is standing in front of a skeptical class of children. "Today," she announces, "we are going to listen to Stravinski's... The Firebird!" I didn't really know who or what Stravinski was at the time, but I played along. "I want you all to close your eyes and listen to the music. Then, we can draw what we see!" After a few minutes of listening, my friend turns to me and says, "I saw a dancing candle." My own imagination sparked by this highly comical image, I began drawing. The larger candle is my rendering of my friend's thoughts, the smaller one on the right is his own.
PAUL
Addendum: None
And now, after a brief radio silence, we're back!
At the top of this drawing is a portrayal of an anonymous sunglasses-wearing Good Guy nonchalantly taking out a gun-wielding Bad Guy. This is part of the "knives-vs-guns" theme that many of my drawings exhibit. Below this violent tableaux is an anagram for my name, Paul. This dates this picture sometime after I read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, in which the main character is confronted with a devilishly clever religious (or anti-religious) sect entitled the Illuminati who brand their victims with anagrams. Perfect reading for a fifth grader, no? Anyways, a couple of my friends who were also Brown fans at the time decided to make anagrams of their names, and I gave it a shot. I'd say that this was probably the most rewarding part of reading Brown's work.
At the top of this drawing is a portrayal of an anonymous sunglasses-wearing Good Guy nonchalantly taking out a gun-wielding Bad Guy. This is part of the "knives-vs-guns" theme that many of my drawings exhibit. Below this violent tableaux is an anagram for my name, Paul. This dates this picture sometime after I read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, in which the main character is confronted with a devilishly clever religious (or anti-religious) sect entitled the Illuminati who brand their victims with anagrams. Perfect reading for a fifth grader, no? Anyways, a couple of my friends who were also Brown fans at the time decided to make anagrams of their names, and I gave it a shot. I'd say that this was probably the most rewarding part of reading Brown's work.
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