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Captain Kirkish 2010 Character Design

by JayZuck on June 24th, 2010
Posted In: Sketches
Captain Kirkish 2010 Character Design

“We’ve got to risk implosion. We may explode into the biggest fireball this part of the galaxy has seen, but we’ve got to take that one in a million chance.” ~  Captain Kirk in ‘The Naked Time’

In  the year 2010, Space Travel was possible. . . . But not very far.

Boldly going where no man has gone before was just a dream.  There was no Mars. . . .  no Jupiter moons. . . . .  no the wannabe planet Pluto.. . . .

Who thought we’d have flying cars by now?  Raise your hand. . . . . I know I did.

(Shakes a clenched hand up at an imaginary comic book thought bubble.  This jittery phantom of a thought balloon lingered like an electric smoke cloud above my head, with a bit of static like an old lit television, bleed through from an ancient dead channel in a parallel Universe.  It was the opening credits of the Jetson’s. . . . .

Starts singing the theme song like a kid again,   “Jetson’s meet the Jetson’s” . . . .   Coughs…… clears throat . . . . “  pauses….. Quickly looks around to see if anyone is watching while imaginary bubble disappears like a phantom.)

Anyways…..  What’s really  important is I have a new post to show you today.   Something retro.   Something new.  Something 2010.

It’s my take on a Captain Kirk-like character design.  Not exactly Kirk, but I think it has the feeling of that type of character.

Let me know what you think and Tell me how you imagined 2010 as a kid?  How did you see your heroes?  Any heroes that maybe you came up with when you were kid?  Any sketches you wanna share????

Anyways I hope you enjoy.  Until next time. . .

Beam me up Scotty!!!

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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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Angel of Death

by JayZuck on April 7th, 2010
Posted In: Sketches
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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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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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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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Movie Poster

by JayZuck on November 13th, 2009
Posted In: Sketches
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Movie Poster

It’s Friday the 13th and we’ve got a brand spankin’ new post: my version of a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Movie Poster.

I’ve been working on this for a while now.  I’ve been super busy getting ready to graduate school and I found the time to finish up and polish this piece which I am pretty proud of.  It’s kinda the culmination of all of my Fear and Loathing posts.

For those who are wondering, yes that is not the original Ralph Steadman lettering from the book or movie poster.  I made it myself with ink, brush, and watercolor paper.  It was fun as hell trying to recreate such iconic lettering.  I used the original as reference, but I wanted to bring something new to the table.

Below are some of the steps I took to creating the poster and character, Enjoy

Movie Poster Rough

above is a rough layout sketch, below is one of the final thumbnail drawings for the posterVeryroughmovieposter

below are some thumbnail sketches and silhouettes when I was designing the character Raoul Duke

Hunter Thumbnail Compositions

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Lonely Space Fetus

by JayZuck on July 31st, 2009
Posted In: Sketches
Lonely Space Fetus

It’s lonely out there drifting in deep space at least until your remember to embrace the void.

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It Came From Outerspace the Painting in Progress

by JayZuck on July 16th, 2009
Posted In: Sketches
It Came From Outerspace the Painting in Progress

I’ve been working on painting an old layout sketch you might remember.

I still have to render out the details but the main effect is communicated. I haven’t put up anything with too much color lately so here you go.

To learn more about the sketch clink on this link: It Came From Outerspace

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Space Phatso

by JayZuck on June 18th, 2009
Posted In: Sketches
Space Phatso

“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.” ~ Douglas Adams

You got to do more than just take up space.  The void of space is in fact so vast it dwarfs any human enterprise and even our entire existence at all.

So what do you think is it possible to mean anything?  Is it possible to be something more than another faceless space man trying to take up as much space as possible in an indifferent cosmos?

The urge to mean something amid the incomprehensible magnitude of emptiness is daunting, but let me make a bold claim:  it is fundamentally impossible from the viewpoint of the void for you to mean anything.

Now think about it for a minute.  Ty to resist running to your concept of god or some other spiritual manifestation of an all powerful, all encompassing being to give you the meaning you cannot find innately within yourself in your own skin.

I don’t want to offend any believers in absolutely whatever you want to believe in, but I want you if you could, to suspend your knee jerk reaction and continue down this rabbit hole of thought with me for a sec.

So, we’ve accepted that we don’t mean anything and from the standpoint of the universe you are just another faceless spaceman drifting in the void.

Why am I here?  What is my purpose?  Does everything I do and everything I am have any value whatsoever?

If there is no greater meaning, at first blush you might conclude, I am meaningless, but it isn’t that simple.  The human body is composed cells which are composed of atoms.  Maybe you remember from a chemistry class way back when that an atom is mostly empty space.

That’s right, you literally are the void! It is thus impossible to take up space because you are the space you seek to occupy innately by existing and by whatever magnitude of your human labors.  I am feeling kind of cynical at the moment and I am starting to wonder maybe the only meaning in this world is the meaning we create for ourselves.

I don’t have all the answers; not by a long shot.  All I can impress upon you from all of this is to implore you to go find that meaning and seek it within yourself, in your own heart.  If you can find that meaning and that purpose you can live a fulfilled life.

As I said, it’s just not enough to take up space so stew for a bit, and consider that it maybe time to embrace the void.

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