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Sketch-Lapse: Buddha Journey

by JayZuck on May 9th, 2010
Posted In: Sketches
Sketch-Lapse: Buddha Journey

In Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, Siddartha comes to realize there is no such thing as time.  Upon the realization it is said, “Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.”

Today, we have a little something different in the form of an experiment not only in pencil, but in time as well.  With the help of my friend Richard Gluck and his awesome Canon 5-D, I was able to document the process of today’s sketch.  I asked Richard if he could time-lapse my sketching.  I knew he could, but he suggested that we animate the sketch instead, taking shots of the drawing little by little.  The effect was to remove my hand and pencil so it wouldn’t cover up the drawing.  It could use a little more contrast, but this is my first attempt and it would have been a little longer too if my drawing hand had not knocked the camera out of place.  It’s a Buddha Journey.

There is truth and wisdom to Siddartha’s concept of time, but today it does occur to me that if there is no time, there is no sketch-lapse.   Reality though… Maybe?…  Presence, surely.  I hope it gives you something to wrap your mind around.

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Follow the Black Ink Mechanica Z

by JayZuck on May 1st, 2010
Posted In: Sketches
Follow the Black Ink Mechanica Z

If you follow your imagination and some ink into deep space who knows what you’ll see.

Alien spacecraft approaching…  Mechanica… Organica… and a Z.

We’re doomed!

I can’t forget the original ink.  It could be an artifact of a bygone era by 3030.

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Mon’Stah Head

by JayZuck on April 12th, 2010
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Mon’Stah Head

“The Monster was the best friend I ever had.” ~ Boris Karloff

How many times have I said I love monsters?  Here’s the original inked goodness, but otherwise I rest on the quote above……

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Angel of Death

by JayZuck on April 7th, 2010
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Angel of Death

“For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.” ~ Lord Byron

This is another spacecraft hybridization of the mechanic and the organic and what I call a mechanical organical. The triangular cluster of dots to the left of the craft echoes my own encounter with a genuine UFO.  Those three dots used to appear in a lot of my drawings, sort of a signature of mine.  I’ll tell you the whole story another time.

The piece was also inspired in part by one of my favorite anime series: Neon Genesis Evangelion.  Some of those Angels look almost like spaceships.

I was pretty blatant in establishing the mechanic-organic duality.  I tried to use organic shapes on the left of the ship and more mechanic one’s on the right.  There are even branches, veins and even leaf-like structures growing out of the left side and trailing arm tentacles like a jelly fish’s ready to stun anything foolish enough to drift in its wake.

One of my process drawings gave off more of a Death Angel Baby than a fully matured Angel of Death.

I continued to experiment and so developed its darker and more sinister Papa.

You might remember the old Passover story about the Angel of Death “passing over” the first born children of the Israelites thanks to the blood of a lamb painted across their doors.  I’ll tell you one thing, this one ain’t passing over no one.  An indiscriminate executioner!

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Big Fish Head

by JayZuck on March 30th, 2010
Posted In: Sketches
Big Fish Head

We all have our Big Fish stories……What’s yours?

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Jay’s SPaceShip: Interstellar Through the Bleed

by JayZuck on March 26th, 2010
Posted In: Sketches
Jay’s SPaceShip: Interstellar Through the Bleed

“I’ve tasted the maggots of the mind of the universe.  I was not offended…” ~ Funkadelic

So what is today’s sketch all about?   Hmmmmm……. Should I tell them the truth? It’s a Hummingbird.  Yup , a hummingbird, tick, maggot brain burrowing through the crevices of hyper-dimensional surfaces in the all mysterious holographic infinity of the multiverse.  It’s actually a spaceship: a mechanical organical.  This spaceship can and has traversed through the Alpha and Omega…. It’s seen the Yin and the Yang, the bang at the beginning and the crunch at the end, the event at the horizon, Buddha’s fingertips like dark matter monoliths holding up the universe…..the place that tongue can’t tell.

The spaceship has  also burrowed trans-dimensionally through each and every pocket and layer of the under and over worlds.  Hummmmmed through every spectrum of frequencies, leisurely crossed an Einstein-Rosen bridge and seen that cool spiraling light show in galactic time.  You haven’t truly lived until you’ve hopped hyperdemensionally through pockets bounded with surfaces of time.  Jay’s SPaceShip travels through what I would like to call the bleed and it has taken notes….and some doodles….

Sci-fi enough for y’ah?  Are you entangled in this quantum state?  I’m sure you could figure out what I’m talking about if you’re willing to go there……. Anyway, I want to to talk you people out there…..  Who is watching Lost?….  Love that show!

What’s the deal? Can we start a discussion on my website?  Can we find some cyberpunks, anybody on the web to throw some comments out there?  This corner of the cyberspace is waiting already. What the F#@%k?….. What does it all mean?…… Say whatever you want, just comment.  Say something cool.  Have fun.  Say something that’ll inspire me, you, or anybody to draw or paint something…..Talk about whatever you want.  Are you ready to jump on this rocket ship?!  We’re all going interstellar……  If you’re ready……. it’s time to Be Free Create and Grow Roots.  I have a secret plan tentatively called the Community Art Project 1.0.  Watch out for details.

Your neighborhood friendly artist Jay Zuckerman signing off till next time and leaving you with one of my favorite songs of all time….. Maggot Brain!

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Jay’s Twisted Art AKA Xibalba

by JayZuck on March 23rd, 2010
Posted In: Sketches
Jay’s Twisted Art AKA Xibalba

It’s mine.  It’s twisted.  It’s art for its own sake.   I draw things as I see it on paper and I draw things as they are in my minds eye.  It’s sorta of a Magical Realism piece.  There’s no need to straighten anything out just entangle my intertwine.

I’ll let you interpret the rest and allow you to see whatever you see.  I’ve told you too much already, but a penny for YOUR thoughts.

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The Other Shaman: A Deleted Character Design

by JayZuck on March 19th, 2010
Posted In: Sketches
The Other Shaman: A Deleted Character Design

“He was born to be dead, but now he will live” ~ An Inuit Shaman

In my series of layout sketches and concept art for Jack Down the River, I ultimately settled on a different shaman character design (See Related Posts Below).  This was my rough pass and it never went any farther.

The Other Shaman is more Mark Twain with a pipe and a straw hat.  I can hear him telling Jack at some point, “to put that in his pipe and smoke it.”

It’s a lot of fun to keep things organic, loose, and lively.  It makes the whole Shaman character more satisfying in some respects than if I had polished him up proper. Maybe you can see some connective tissue with ole Rafiki.

As always, If you have a thought, drop a comment.  I want to hear what you have to say.

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Ralph the Homesick Martian

by JayZuck on March 15th, 2010
Posted In: Sketches
Ralph the Homesick Martian

“Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one’s own being” ~ Carl Jung

What reminds you the most of home?  Maybe it’s smell?  Anybody by chance, know what Mars smells like?

The fact is that once you leave home, often there is no going back.  It is funny how far the heart drifts in the great expanse.  You gotta be that rollin’ stone and put on that smilin’ face.  Like the Joker said, “Why so serious?” Speaking of which where did I put my happy face pin?  I think I lost mine in the theaters watching the Watchmen.

Ralph’s happy face emblazoned on his suit, I envisioned as a kind of an overly optimistic and happy A.I. that always puts a positive spin on any dire event in a hostile universe.  I was thinking along the lines of a high-tech version of Wilson from the movie Cast Away.  Pardon me on my third popular movie reference, but I still got one more for y’ah.

They say Forest Gump invented the smiley face or so Robert Zemeckis would have you believe, but it is totally intergalactic and yes, I just threw that out there.  Come to think of it, Carl Jung must have totally taken over a small corner of my brain since he also said something about explaining the “symbol” (i.e. retro smiley face) as if you were a man from Mars.

Hope you like the new sketch.  I drew it back at my old home.  It kept me company on a real late night contemplating how things are never the same and yet there’s no place like home.  Ohmmmmmmm…… why don’t you meditate on a little Bob Dylan now……

E.T. Phone Home:

You still here?  Bless your heart!  I’ve been thinking about tweeting or putting out facebook status updates with little iPhone snap shots of process work.  I was even meaning to put this up to tease this post.  Here’s the test and don’t forget to connect with me on twitter @SimianZ for future peaks of Martians and otherwise.

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Pooka :: ALien Language

by JayZuck on March 13th, 2010
Posted In: Sketches
Pooka :: ALien Language

This creature is an alien in the spirit of that benevolent trickster spirit of Celtic tradition.  He bellows that alien musical language and dares us lesser beings to understand his wise harmony.  I know you all remember the melody from Close Encounter of the Third Kind.

I got sick over the weekend and in half delirious state watched a series movies including Harvey.  Yes, I know this isn’t exactly Jimmy Stewart’s 6 foot 3 and 1/2 inch white rabbit Harvey, but then again who knows?  The Pooka is a shape-shifter after all: to some a white rabbit and to others a trans-dimensional hopping goblin.  Maybe we should check a dictionary…

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