yeh man, the musculature came out CRAZY well
so did the colours!!

also CUTE

Yeah, backs are weird and inscrutable and I have no idea how they work, so yay for reference.

That poor roo looks so broken, haha...

daw

<3

Man, I love everything about this... the drawing, the design you assembled. Really great!
Yay Sufjan.

Thanks, dude ^_^ It was pretty slapped together, but after not painting for a couple weeks, I really needed to just sit down and crank something out.

It looks awwwwesome though.

Totally digging the shininess of the dingo's back :o

It's like toffeeeeee

OM NOM NOM

WOW! Excellent work.

That's a really adorable scene.

"I think we both know what's up between us. Let's not pretend anymore..." At least, that's the distinct impression I'm getting from the characters.

It's a pretty literal pull from the lyrics of the song:


North of Savanna we swim in the palisades
I come out wearing my brother's red hat
There on his shoulder my best friend is bit seven times
He runs washing his face in his hands

Oh how I meant to tease him
Oh how I meant no harm
Touching his back with my hand I kiss him
I see the wasp on the length of my arm

(Sufan Stevens, "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!!")

Always love the subject matter and coloring of your work!

Thanks ^_^ I kind of feel like this one and the red marbles piece I did a while back are kind of similar, both in content and mood (weirdly) and in that I was happy with some aspects of the figures, but the rest was pretty much cobbled together in a hurry <3

so many cool points for mentioning leyendecker. those torsos are gorgeous!

Dude, I've totally accepted JC as my personal Lord and Savior <3

Hooray, freaky Australian mammal species!

Yeah, man, what the hell. Why is EVERYTHING on that island bizarre and lethal?

ohhhhhh sufjan! i play him in my mom's restaurant all the time :)

Whoa, weird coincidence! Cuz I play your mom at sufjan's restaurant all the time.


<3

smoooooth!

Always <3

(Unless it's rrrough!)

its better rrrrrrough!!! <3


btw you're a genius i envy your TALENT LIKE oh mygod i wish you could be my tutor

Then I guess you should come to my painting panel at FC, huh? <3

UGHHHHHHH if you go to fwa then i will just HAVE TO go.

Hmmmm, but Atlanta isn't a 30-minute drive from my house >_<



(Lazy.)

hahaah <3 oh kamui

btw how do you say your screen name correctly? i say it "ka-mwee"

That's pretty spot on, really <3

A lot of folks go for "kuh-MOO-ee" (the same reasoning, I guess, that has Americans pronounce karate as "kuh-ROD-ee") but it's basically a two-syllable name, with a slight bit more emphasis on the first than the second.

your illustration coloring blows me up! soo sugary! it looks like the style on desserts and food illustration.
also the image is cute. :) what's has to do a wasp on it?
Leyendecker! awesome referece.

Hehe, I do love me some food <3 Maybe it comes out subconsciously?

And the wasp is a reference to the song that inspired this, off of Sufjan Stevens' "Illinoise" album. It uses a wasp as a visual metaphor for the sting of first love, or of the fear of the pain of loss, etc. It's a very pretty song -- weazal posted a link to it in his comment <3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5kG8drKaM

This is the best possible result I could have imagined from making the CD. Original art inspired by it? Dude, I'm in awe :)

Have you listened to any more of the Illinoise album? I just think if you like that one so much, you should check out what else that disc holds...

chicago is aweeesssooommmeeeee

For reeeeal. I also really like the opener.

fuck snow patrol :P

Yeah, the whole thing is pretty much golden. I'd only heard Seven Swans before, and was like, "Yeah, the dude's music is really pretty, but I can only listen to so many mellow ballads to Jebus on one album." Illinoise is so much more varied and rocking and personal. I can finally see what the hype is all about <3 Now I need to check out his other stuff.

The way you feel about Seven Swans kinda holds true for Michigan - though not assss much.

Avalanche is good...like a ridiculous amount of bonus tracks for Illinoise ;)

Watch out for Enjoy Your Rabbit - it's got a heavy noise influence and can be unlistenable.

When the season hits, RUSH to put on his Christmas albums...there's some originals that could become classics. Like "Come On! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance!" is SO happy! Then "Did I Make You Cry on Christmas Day?" and "Sister Winter" are astoundingly beautiful.

Hehe, duly noted ^_^

Gorgeous, you can just feel how close they are.
Here's a hypothetical, say I start working on a serial of my own. Would you be willing to accept a commission to design a cover piece?

Well I guess that would all depend on sure.

Just shoot me an e-mail or whatever, tiger <3

You sir are the bees knees.

Haha, just no 12-person ensemble pieces or massive explosions, thanks ^_-

Pff, screw that noise. I'd much prefer to play to your strengths and encourage you to do something elegant and beautiful.

So how far along on this thing are you? PM or e-mail me with details -- I'm curious <3

Hell yeah, Sufjan Stevens.

Hell yeah, Tim icon.

What can I say, Braid was the most fun I had with a new video game in years. Tim needs more attention.

dude you NAILED THAT BACK
i love how you paint <:

Haha, that's something I totally can't take credit for -- like I say, I was totally looking through Leyendecker's stuff, and his backs are all so perfect. The roo's back is from imagination, and goes a long way to show just how little I understand the way they work.

I could stand to do a lot more work based off of models / photos / master paintings and maybe actually learn <3

still looks really good though

but yeah i hate using references for things anyway, but its a really good way to learn so i need to start doing it too. i just need to spend more than 5 minutes on this furry business in general, but it's a privacy issue if you know what i mean..

Using reference just makes suuuch a huge difference, I really should be using it more.

I need to find a guy who'll model for me, really.

Was that a pepsis wasp you used for reference?

Ummm, photo was labeled as a tarantula hawk wasp, so I reckon so!

Hehe, that's what I thought. :)

Quite a nice piece you have done here.

shittt your art is so AMAZING

Hehe, thanks <3 It keeps me sane, anyway.

Wow dude. Fantastic as always <3

Thanks! This one definitely has a lot of Morning After Cringe Factor for me, but better to draw something a little wonky than nothing at all <3

I was just over at your page, too. If you ever want to do a collabo-trade-y thing, just let me know, and I'd be theeere ^_^

YOU STOLE MY IDEA. ;o; and then did it better than I possibly could've. XP
Please read all previous comments to see the nice things I could say about this picture.
That song is so amazing-- and so gay. D: XP

Haha, it's a pretty literal interpretation -- I'm sure you can do better ^_^ Plenty more imagery there left to be explored.

And yeah, it's weirdly homoromantic for a Sufjan track, innit?

Well, it's one of his only songs where it is pretty difficult to just make it into a religious-thing. The narrator's friend in that song is totally not Jesus... XP
It's a pretty damn dense song, yeah. Lyrics are amazing. D:

Well, if Stuart Murdoch can do it, so can Sufjan Stevens. x3 (... Stevens is a helluva lot cuter than Murdoch, though..... >-> )

He shore is, isn't he! Definitely a cutie.

And now you've made me want to do a pic about "Seeing Other People." THANKS A LOT, JEEZ.

NO PROBLEM, MAN, NO PROBLEM. <3 I LOOK FORWARD TO IT.

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/wordpres.....ads/sufjan.jpg How can a man be so adorable? Gah, I hope he's gay. XP

I also did the same thing as you with the music... Listening to that track for four out of ten days constantly... The other six days were spent listening to Illinois on a whole constantly.
BEST ALBUM OF THE DECADE THUS FAR, I WOULD SAY.

I'd say top 10, anyway.

My current top ten for the 2000s thus far including year and rating out of 100...

10- Hail to the Thief- Radiohead (2003) 87
09- The Beginning Stages of...- The Polyphonic Spree (2002) 88
08- They Were Wrong, So We Drowned- Liars (2004) 90
07- Spiderman of the Rings- Dan Deacon (2007) 90
06- Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts- M83 (2003) 92
05- Drum's Not Dead- Liars (2006) 93
04- Kid A- Radiohead (2000) 95
03- SMiLE- Brian Wilson (2004) 95
02- Ys- Joanna Newsom (2006) 95
01-Illinois- Sufjan Stevens (2005) 96

...I like to make lists. D:

I like most of those, though I'm not sure about top 10 for the decade. Ys is kind of a knockout, though, huh?

I know saying this'll get my lynched in some circles, but I never really got Thom Yorke. I respect what he does and all, but the aesthetic just never really clicked for me. Maybe if I listened to it enough, I'd learn to love it, I dunno.

I don't know exactly what would make my top 10, let alone in what order they would feature, but I can at least tell you it would also include Daft Punk's "Discovery," Ben Folds's "Rockin' the Suburbs," the Arcade Fire's "Funeral," and Death Cab's "Transatlanticism," so there's half the list, anyway ^_^ If we're talking "last 10 years" as opposed to "2000s," Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" is another easy in.

There are other and more recent albums I've drop-dead loved, but I kinda feel like I'd need to sit on them a few years and see how they hold up before entering them into the pantheon of a 10-year best of list <3

Ys, especially "Emily" and "Only Skin", is fucking beautiful on every conceivble level.

I can understand that... XP Some stuff is just kinda "lol, wut" but I dunno, I'm pretty fond of Hail To the Thief and Kid A. Amnesiac, The Eraser, and Pablo Honey can go in the corner and rot, though.

Rockin' The Suburbs is in my top-20. I've been meaning to give Daft Punk a more critical listen lately... And you are to Thom Yorke as I am to Win Butler... I just couldn't get into either of Arcade Fire's albums, except the first song on either of them, which I loved on both Neon Bible and Funeral, but the rest of both of those albums seemed so painfully mediocre... In The Aeroplane Over The Sea is one of the only five albums I'd give 100/100... XP

- The Beatles- The Beatles (1968) 100
- Indeterminacy- John Cage (1959) 100
- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea- Neautral Milk Hotel (1998) 100
- Bitches Brew- Miles Davis (1970) 100
- Black Saint and Sinner Lady- Charles Mingus (1963) 100

Yes. I have to do that too. You can only really measure the quality of something once it's been existing for a while. I've made a complete top-50 for the 1970s, though... But I gotta work in Faust's So Far now because I recently found out how goddamned amazing that album is.

Honestly, I listened to Funeral when it came out and was like, "Yeah, okay, I guess?" and it was only like a year later when I pulled it out again that it totally blew me away.

And honestly, if you haven't really explored Daft Punk, sit down with a copy of Interstella 5555 and take in Discovery that way. I'm a big lyrics guy, and love me some indie/folk/etc. acoustic-y stuff, but if someone came up to me and said, "Daft Punk is the best band," I'd honestly have a pretty hard time refuting it ^_^ It's always nice to see electronic, rockin' music that totally stands up to scrutiny as honest to god music.

Something like that kinda happened to me while walking through a Chapters... They were playing some music and I ended up getting some of it stuck in my head, and after 10-15 minutes I realised that they were playing Neon Bible and I was just like "WHEN DID THIS ALBUM BECOME GOOD?"

I tried listening to Homework a month or two back and I just couldn't manage it for some reason Out to try Discovery sometime soon, though. I like fucking everything, but as for lyrics: Bad lyrics can ruin a good song, and good lyrics can make a song a fuckload better. From what I have listened to more closely, I prefer Justice to Daft Punk. XP But dammit, I should make a point to finish up Discovery(of which I've only really listened to singles from) or something before I become sure of that. Honest-to-God electronic music, ad you put it, is great; Fuck Buttons, Vladislav Delay.
But as for best bands that I would have a hard time refuting: Velvet Underground, Beatles, Faust. XP

Honestly. Homework's not really my bag. I can understand it as being important, but it brings me comparatively little joy to listen to. Discovery, on the other hand, is like explosively, orgasmically fun.

配色がきまってて好きだな。今色のことで悩んでたんで、kamuiさんの新作みれて助かりました。ホント色は奥が深すぎて深すぎて・・・
そして脇腹にできるシワっていいよね～つまみたくなりますは。ムニって。

それにしてもカンガルーのぶっとい尻尾には惹かれますなぁ。きっとみんなこの尻尾が好きでカンガルー描いてるんでしょう(笑)
最初FAに来た時カンガルーが人気で結構驚いたんだけど、海外では日本よりも身近な動物なのかな？

色も体も光の当て具合も…
絵を描くのって難しいよね。

なんか最近、自分の描く絵がものすごく適当じゃないかって思うんだよね。
もっとしっかり勉強して、まじめに描こうって思うけど、一日分の仕事を終わらせて、寝る時間を削いで描いてるせいか、どうしてか絵が一段落ついたところで「これくらいでいい」って諦めがつくのね。
何日もかけて絵を磨き上げてるとすぐ飽きが来ちゃうし、俺ってこんなにいい加減だったのか？って思うわ。

いやいや、愚痴っててすまない。もっとしっかり描く努力しなくちゃ<３

カンガルーってオーストラリア人でなければ身近ではないと思うけど、確かにかわいいっすね。
尻尾とか耳とかでっかい足とか、ちょっと変わってる、愛らしいプロポーションをしてるところや、身近でないエキゾチックなところで惹かれるんじゃないかな？
捕食者でも被食者でもない、強いけど柔らかいイメージもあるように思うんだけど、ひょっとしてそれ考えすぎ？

あ～なんとなくわかります。カンガルーって凄くエキゾチックでミステリアスな存在だと俺も思ってるんで、要はその不思議な魅力に惹かれるかどうかの違いなんでしょうね。
あんな巨体でぴょんぴょん跳ねるしパンチはするし・・・あれです。きっとギャップ萌えの一種なんだと思います(笑)

絵のことで悩んでいたのはkamuiさんも同じでしたか。う～ん難しいよねホント。いろいろ悩みは尽きないと思うけど、絵に対する向上心が途切れない限りは大なり小なり前に進んでいくと思います。
いや、むしろ悩んでるってことは向上心の裏返しなんですよ、きっと。僕は悩まなくなった時の方がが逆にヤバいと思います。

僕自身、すぐに答えを出す人よりも「これでいいのか？本当にいいのか？」って悩み続けている人の方が好きなんです<3

いつも思うけど、motoさんの言うことってすてき<３

ありがとね。

Nice picture. I was going to say, that wasp design is incredible. I would actually get a tattoo of that I think.

Oh, man, how freaky would it be to have a wasp tattoo on your arm? Every time you caught it out of the corner of your eye, you'd start flailing around and freaking out.

GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME GET IT

ahahaha, you would get admitted. After a while your mind would form a schism and it would always be there even after laser removing it.

interesting :) luv composition, color scheme & textures!!!

Nice job as always man!

Thanks a bunch, dude ^_^ My feelings are pretty mixed, but I'm glad I drew something, anyway <3

<3 <3 <3 !!!!!

I haven't you in ha while ):
this reminded me 'cause i went to the society of illustrators Leyendecker exhibit in NY. sooooooo nice.

Sooooo jealous. I've got the big hardcover retrospective of his work that had a short run in the 70's, and it's basically my bible.

Illustrator's bible if there ever was one. Are there any comprehensive books of his work around now? ...there must be.

His brother's work was there too, Fank X.
& an actual Mucha peice! My first time seeing a Mucha painting. Caught me off guard and i got a bit weak in the knees (:

None printed in recent years, no! There are a couple of little collections out there, but nothing anywhere near comprehensive. Even the big hardcover I have doesn't have everything, and only maybe 20% of the plates are in color, but it's the best out there by far.

Frank's stuff is great, but kind of gets lost in the shadow of JC's, I think. It's solid and interesting and beautiful, but it tends to lack that kind of divine spark of life, to my eye.

And holy wow, I'm sure a Mucha in the flesh is something to behold @_@

Well... at least we got the exhibit catalog.
Yeah, i agree about Frank. It's solid work, but lacks that flow & sense of enjoyment in Joseph's paintings.
Also, Frank wasn't gay... 'nuff said :P

& yes, QUITE.

It really does come down to the gay, doesn't it?

I wasn't gifted with the manic depression of the really great artists, but at least I've got the gay.

Oy..... i've got both.
Not manic, but good gracious depression's one terrible feeling.

Yeah, I'd rather be a mediocre artist than have to deal with that >_<

OMG sufjan. he's my hero. and so is this song.

<3

Like a album cover
And i do love this artist

BEAUTIFUL.

This is a phenomenal song, and album, and you did it justice perfectly! :,)

It feels pretty rough looking back on it now, but I do love the song <3 Thanks for the kind words!