tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-360740592011-04-21T23:08:00.667-04:00I live in New York City. When I'm not painting, I'm usually going to gallery openings, and other odd events. Some are actually interesting! Check out fredharper dot com for illustration and fharper dot com for the fine art. Stay here for photos and commentary. FredFredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-45397606305660595502009-01-20T19:59:00.002-05:002009-01-20T20:05:49.130-05:00

Hi Salty Bastard and anyone else stopping by. You can e mail me at fred@fredharper.com or check out the caricature site at www.fredharper.com

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Just updated the website. New blog is there. This will probably become a less focused blog for me. I can only write so much! HA! The fine art site (probably not work safe) is here. The new illustration blog/website is here. I will be here.

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Covers for The Week Magazine. The Obama one was never used. It was a back-up in case he was actually able to close the deal in one of these primaries.

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You'd think it's "running for president" season!I call this one "Mudslide". Pretty clever huh? Mud and a slide in the back ground. I just ooze jean-yus!I cropped this one, but my favorite part was just doing some silly feet in the for ground. Type was put over it, but I know it was there! HA!This wasn't my idea at all. More subdued than I tend to be. The Week said if aliens land on the White

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-91383888959541784862008-01-15T19:31:00.000-05:002008-01-15T19:36:21.954-05:00

Just had an interview come out on Barren Aaaron's Garbage Pail Kids web site. Click the Fred Harper interview

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-36732613563945715862008-01-12T19:20:00.000-05:002008-01-12T20:45:00.702-05:00

This is one of the first two I did for Topps.The other of the first two for Garbage Pail Kids. This one took a few tries. It was challenging to keep to the style guide and pack all the underwater goodness in there. Fortunately The art director, Jeff, was patient!This was my favorite one of the 4 that I did. The packs came out last week I think.

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This was fun. Nice and simple. Oil on panel.

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I attended the Philly Non Sports card Card show last weekend. Darth and his friends were on patrol. Man, you blow up a guy's Death Star and he just wanders around conventions aimlessly. I had a blast! Met a bunch of new (to me) artists that I had known of but not met. Joe Jusko, Jay Lynch, David Gross, Doug Koozer, and a bunch more. Everyone seemed to take turns buying everyone rounds of drinks

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I saw elk, deer, and family... Not necessarily in that order.

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This is almost 10 years old now! It was in a gaming book for White Wolf. I don't remember which one. Not being a gamer, I never really knew if I was making the appropriate art for the assignment. They kept hiring me, so I guess I was doing it right. Someone at the MOCCA fest requested it. I have a fan!... or at least someone that digs chicks with big ass boots beating the crap out of some poor

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The latest cover for The Week magazine. This will be out Friday. I finished it around 3:30 AM today (Wed.) Oil on panel. The underpainting was in acrylic. I haven't had to tweak a finished piece in a while for them. Today will probably be the day since I just don't feel like sleeping yet... It's 4am. I'll get a frantic call around 9am and have to change everything in photo shop and it won't look

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So I took a vacation of a sort. I went and visited family about a week ago. As I was in the car rental place in Manhattan, the pleasant lady behind the counter asks me if I want to upgrade for a "small" fee to a convertible... "We don't get many convertibles here!" she exclaimed. Well this must be my lucky day then!as I thought about the route I had decided to take through the upstate finger lake

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From Go Figure last Monday July 30.From yesterday's Dr. Sketchy's.And some cool things. I saw Sicko on Wed. Nothing I didn't already know. It was pretty one sided in showing the story. Well done though. It made me sick of course because it just reminded me of stuff I already knew. I wouldn't mind giving another system a try though. Saw the Simpsons Movie on Sat. It was the Simpsons. That's my

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Not crazy about this sketch. I think it was a 5 minute or a ten. At first the whole pose was very dynamic, but by the time my pencil wandered down the torso, she had shifted to a more static pose.Ran out of room to show the foreshortening on the leg, but I had fun with the hair and the stripes.I LUUUVED her profile! Her hair had grown quite a bit since the last time I drew her.This was the last

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Latest cover for The Week Magazine. June 29th - ?Time is sped up. Or speeding up... Or it's not moving, I am. I've been going to job fairs, and conventions, and art openings and even doing a ton of deadlines! So updating Blogger and Live Journal and My Space and all that stuff kind of gets to be secondary. I also got a new computer (finally) and it sucks all my available time to attend to it's

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I was at my friend Dan Springer's "Go Figure" drawing group last night. I came home to a broken Wacom tablet. This has been my mouse for the last 6 or 7 years, so at 11 pm I couldn't use my computer due to I had NO idea where a real mouse for my keyboard was! So I went to the Apple store on 59th St in Manhattan to pick one up. They're open 24 hours a day, so it was no problem. But being night,

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Just because I don't post much, doesn't mean I don'tlove you all. OK, that just sounds so bad on a bunch of different levels.... .. If I don't post much, that usually means I'm just pretty darn busy. Not always with jobs, but job related stuff. This was how the Voice thing went. It turned out to be an interior full page and my by-line was in larger type than the little caption that ran under it!

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I'm still experimenting with lighting when shooting my art with the digital camera. I used floods this time. I thought they were tungsten light, but I realized after a few test shots I was using lights made to be used with photo umbrellas. I loved how bright the 300 watt bulbs were but the shadows didn't have much detail or color. The reds don't glow in the photo like they do "in person". I think

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I've been working on some portraits for the Topps Celebrity Zombies set coming out in the end of May. They asked for a self portrait to go with the artist profiles on their website. Once I began, I started to get into it more than usual. I added the paintbrush through the head thing as I went. I was almost done and realized I needed a coffee reference. So I added the cup of fresh brain, (light 'n

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I just stamped and labeled 1800 postcards over the weekend congruent with doing 8 finished black and white drawings and one detailed under drawing to get approved for Monday.I'm still doing a few things fro Topps. When I dropped off the art to be shot on Monday, they showed me a little You tube type of animation that was really sick and funny as

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Cover for The Week Magazine coming out this Friday. Everything else I've been doing has to stay secret for now. Yes, there is a rifle scope on her fishing pole... laser site and everything. It even has GPS and a small dish on the other side of the reel. Also not shown are her sensibly heeled wader boots behind the arsenal of lures at her feet.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a pirate holding soldiers for the cover of The Week Magazine. I know I posted the Bob Dylan before, but this is the latest card I just sent out.Last Friday was great! Met some people at Topps and had a good meeting with them. I'm doing some celebrity Zombie cards for them. They have about the same

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-17203078913844600812007-03-25T20:38:00.000-04:002007-03-25T23:38:05.963-04:00

Some of these folks I know, others... I didn't. I have some good shots of Storm Troopers mulling about. There were 3 Boba Fetts, I counted 2 Darth Vaders, and a whole bunch of Jedi's of various shapes and sizes, at least 3 Supermans from various incarnations. 1 Flash, 2 Green Lanterns, and a bunch of anime' characters I don't know. I enjoyed all the visual stimulation and hanging out with some

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Just unearthed this under a pile of papers in a box I haven't looked in for a while.I don't know what I was thinking. It's at least 7 or 8 years old, done at a bar with my fancy brush pen while drinking wine with a fellow juvenile adult. (who was actually 10 years older than me!)

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-83140884790620952642007-03-22T13:41:00.000-04:002007-03-22T13:50:21.739-04:00

U-TUBE alien debateMy friend Jen got slashed by the editing person in this. I was in the audience and although I enjoy thinking about aliens and the science fiction of them, she won the debate. And Friedman is a real life rocket scientist!

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A few of the latest spots and what not. In order: The Week, Westword, Bank Technologies News (last 2). Got a mailing out over a week ago of the 1st Bob Dylan card. Met some art directors at the Society of Illustrators by chance while lunching with my buddy Steve Ellis. I of course stuffed them with my latest cards. My other friend, Ray Lago, wrote a really nice (short) e mail to an art director

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My latest set of promo cards. The order I'm sending them in is old Bob to young, one month apart. As a joke the 4th card could be a baby playing with a toy guitar.

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Tons of Deadlines! Missed the Comm Arts DL. frustration. I've been hitting the client DLs. Contests seem to come out of nowhere!

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Last night's work. I'll be posting some pictures from the New York Comic Con next. That is the reason I had to cram this week. I didn't get around to doing the sketches I was supposed to do. I had one illo due on Monday, 3 on

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Cover for The Week Magazine. Obama and Hillary begin duelling at dawn while Edwards holds their coats and looks on with a smile. There was a ton of bleed room on the top and bottom. I haven't seen how it printed yet, so I don't know where they cropped it. Of course I had to make a big change after I was finished. I didn't stray from the sketch, but in the process of trying to make Hillary less

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"Mek Beast" got accepted at La Luz! They're in Los Angeles so I don't think I'll make the opening on Fri March 2nd. It'd be cool to check out, hopefully someone will be there that I know that can give me all the fun and high-jinx that happen.Work in progress. Painting demons and goblins etc. for a Wizards of the Coast portfolio review at the New York Comic Con at the Javits center later this

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As I approach 40, my paranoid feelings that I've been growing since childhood are always finding new fodder to freak on. It's been my mantra for the last month or so putting me in a meditative funk whenever I have a moment to think. The brain is always on patrol ready to call in the national guard at the first sign of physical breakdown. What makes it worse is that I'm not in any worse

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Left to right, titles so far, "Itch", "Sightings", "What Body?".Wed. I bought a new digital camera to shoot my larger work. I'm not sure if it will do the job yet, but it looks promising. My friend Steve had mentioned he was sending some stuff in to Spectrum due Fri. AACK. I wanted to enter some things for that as well. I thought I'd try submitting some of my "Lowbrow" art (or whatever the latest

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Bank Tech News. Last name is Gibson. I don't know anything else about him.Mon day was a full day in a couple ways. Steve came by to work in my studio. He's about 6 ft tall and might weigh 140 with cement shoes. I didn't want to say "soaking wet" because that'd be a cliche' and cliche's are boring. So Steve came in wearing his cement shoes and I put us to work moving flat files and printers and

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This was a b&w for Westword in Colorado. They asked for Jimi Hendrix as an old man playing his guitar with a dark back ground. It's a pencil drawing with photoshop special effects. Bling bling!I took no photos at the Big Apple Con this weekend. I had been was fighting off a cold since Wed. and Fri was when the germs had made their most aggressive assault. I had a headache off and on all day.That

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Wonder Woman gouache study tune up for this weekend's Big apple Con.Thinking about stories. I have a character that manages to get hit by planes or blimps while taking a tour in a cave. His cat is actually an alien sent to observe human life and report back to his superiors on the home planet. He has various friends with personalities that don't quite fit in with societal norms... No, this is for

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I should have posted this a few days ago after I saw Jason's blog. He had a little girl named Ava Dawn arrive Jan 3rd? I'm going from my horrible memory. It's nice to hear friends continuing on and up! Jason does incredible caricatures with fantastic exaggerations. He'sgoing to be on the top of the heap for a long time. Jason being one of the 3 people who actually read my rambling blog,

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A little more glaze to finish this up from the previous post of it. So far the title is "Mek Beast". I sent in the final entry a few days later than planned, so who knows if they'll still accept it.I've got a table at the next Big Apple Con next weekend (Jan 19Th). I already picked up a little commission. The guy wants a scene with his cockatoo in with a barbarian guy (Ka-Zar) and a

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My Jan. 1st. I talked about the problems in Turkey with Molly until 3am. She traveled through Turkey when she was 18 or 19 by herself. She really got to understand a little bit about what is going on with the various groups that hate each other.After breakfast, I went back to my studio and attempted to paint a little art. Cooked some chicken for dinner and then went to see Jen Is Famous' comedy

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This is my latest for the pop surrealist crowd. I used my girl Molly as reference. She claims I always make her look ugly... of course I can say I don't have anything to do with her being ugly! HA! You can see her "ugliness" here. I'll be entering this in the gallery La Luz de Jesus in LA. There's a group show in March and now is the time to enter! I'm still working on the Bob Dylans and hope to

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Cover for The Week's year end edition.I'm not the holiday celebrating type of guy. I don't go to church, and I don't have an office full of people with various beliefs that come to a head at this time of year. I enjoy everyone's festive spirit though. In the past, family wasn't always very pleasant to be around during the holidays. Planning to have a bunch of guests over was always stressful for

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Where to start!?! Uma was just hanging out in a coffee shop the other day so I asked her if she'd sit for a quick portrait. I told her I was a big time illustrator. She should be flattered I wanted to paint her, 'cause usually I get 10's of 20's of dollars to do this! She said she was an actress or something. "Oh yeah honey, they're a dime a dozen in this town" I said. I wished her good luck. I

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Last night's review... Last night started around 4:30pm. I have a studio guy, Steve, who comes in once a week to organize my crap. He also helps out my girl, Molly Crabapple, with Dr Sketchy's drawing at a bar in Brooklyn. Dr Sketchy's Rainy Day Colouring Book is her first book coauthored with John Leavitt and has been getting great reviews and press on the web and print. The official release

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I'm working on the art for my next series of cards for next year. Entertainers are more neutral to art directors. I'll take a pay check from either political side. I don't think they are looking out for me, so that's what I have to do! I've noticed that Bob Dlyan had/has a hair lip. His upper lip has become lopsided as he's aged. According to the biography I have, he did a ton of drugs in the 60

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Mailing, mailing, mailing! I mail things. Not every day and rarely two weeks in a row. Just 1300 postcards a month! It's a lot more manageable than 2600. I don't like mailing things. I don't like the post office. It isn't a horrible tragic experience, it's mostly just boring. Bushwick post office in Brooklyn seems like an after thought as far as POs go. Every time I buy postcard stamps

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I drew the under drawing at Wycoff Starr coffee shop. I made a make shift studio set up at my girl's place and painted all night. She wasn't feeling well, so that is why I was at her place. The actual painting went pretty fast. I did a little more than I wanted in photoshop to "smooth out" the ruff areas. I sort of planned it that way because I had a couple deadlines looming. The story is about

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...he is my neighbor who lives across the street from my building. He's from Puerto Rico and the details are garbled after that. He dresses like a thug... if that's a style. He came up to me spewing words about 300 per second. I was approaching my door as he walked across the street toward me. I thought it wise to give him the respect of listening to what he had to say.Basically what happened is

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-40817140345896151852006-11-16T03:51:00.000-05:002006-11-16T04:09:04.230-05:00

I finally joined up with the NCN again. They wanted a self portrait and a few other pieces to put up on the site, I hadn't drawn myself for quite a while. Lately I've had a lot of small black and white jobswhich I've been doing in pencil and playing around in photo shop. So I did my portrait from a recent photo. I'm starting to play around more with a decorative hatch mark.Gearing up for the con,

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I had a poor view of the model for this twenty minute drawing, so I drew Dan, the host of "Go Figure". The natural composition with the angle of the wall divide behind Dan (white wall on top, dark wood on bottom) and Dan's black bandanna on his head were too hard to pass up. This was done with a fresh disposable synthetic brush pen.The reason I couldn't see was my girl, the now author Molly

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It just couldn't put it's tongue back in it's mouth! I came up out of the subway onto the street by my new coffee shop (Wycoff Coffee) and this is what I see.The damn thing was so cute, the few people on the sidewalk were "oooing" and "awwing", so he wouldn't hold still for a good shotof his front. He was looking for the next scratch from a stranger as his owner was inside getting coffee. They

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-1163109289183421132006-11-09T16:31:00.000-05:002006-11-12T23:49:50.098-05:00

Gearing up for the Big Apple Con. I don't know if this is Electra's current costume. I'm so not a comic book artist anymore. I was torn on how to approach the value structure. Classic black and white comics is everything goes to black in the shadows. For me, there is no black, the darks are a color. I started mixing burnt umber with purple in some areas and letting it range from a dark brown to a

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Last night's work. I'm a zombie as I write. I barely followed the election. No time to really study what the politicians are actually about, and I find it never seems to matter. Someone gets screwed either way some how. The Week commissioned me for two pieces. One was for a democratic win. The other a demo loss. Guess which is which.Personally I enjoy drawing the elephant. Donkeys aren't as

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I'll be at the Big Apple Comic Con Nov. 17th-19th. I'll be in artist's alley or whatever it's called. My friend Mark Texeira put me on the list. I'm just testing the waters, maybe make a little cash doing some sketches for fans. Fans of characters not fans of me. It's been so long since I've done any comic books I doubt there is anyone around who would remember me. I was barely in comics when I

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-1162629128122144822006-11-04T03:32:00.000-05:002006-11-12T23:49:49.822-05:00

Nothing like a good work out! I'm not setting any records. I don't do any cardio. I know I should. I just lift weights. I'm slowly picking up some extra weights here some other equipment there. The best things I recently bought were some weightlifting gloves that give my wrists a little extra support. The other is a weight "tree" to hold the Olympic plates I use. And the 3rd thing are 2 twenty

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-1162530856514295382006-11-02T23:49:00.000-05:002006-11-12T23:49:49.751-05:00

This was my Wall Street Journal job. They asked for color, but they ended up printing it in Black and white. I pushed the value range in photoshop, who knows what they did to it to get it ready for B&W. This is the first job I scanned with my new scanner.The color version is almost a raw scan.I can hardly wait for my neighborhood to be safe enough to have all night diners and

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UPS delivered my new scanner this morning! I set it up after I shot off a sketch for a Wall Street Journal job. I did the sketch in photo shop and a Wacom tablet. I'm going to take my time to paint it this evening. I think it might make a good portfolio piece. The mixing and painting has really been flowing lately.Here's a pitch for my girl's new book she wrote and illustrated.

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-1162355607701432312006-10-31T23:28:00.000-05:002006-11-12T23:49:49.608-05:00

The adventure of being alone in the universe... And in New York City.Crisis time came to the little studio apartment building nestled in the "quaint and soon to be gentrified," neighborhood of Bushwick in Brooklyn. " It all started with an e mail I received on the ol' computer thingy there." said new Bushwick resident artist Fred Haper (correction, Fred Harper) What seemed like an innocent

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-1162272917316095012006-10-31T00:22:00.000-05:002006-11-12T23:49:49.529-05:00

This came out on the cover for The Week magazine Last Fri. Oct. 27th. They asked for some stupid rays of light to be added, but I refuse to show that. I added them in photoshop. I don't know crap about Obama. From a caricature stand point, I wouldn't mind having to draw him for four years. At this point in my life, picking politicians by how fun it'd be to draw their face is just as valid as any

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-1161895052227409392006-10-26T16:19:00.000-04:002006-11-12T23:49:49.454-05:00

Some drawings from my head and from life.I just framed these and am currently procrastinating by blogging about it at this stage. I should be packing the framed work for a group show in Phoenix, AZ.I'm almost done.The clown was done from my head in a Moleskin with pencil and a little white gouache. It's a study for a painting I want to do. I've met a bunch of people who are scared of clowns or

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-1161626370488399352006-10-23T13:38:00.000-04:002006-11-12T23:49:49.370-05:00

This week is another light one. I lost about 1500 contacts with one click of the button! I'm going into The Week offices right now, just got a Fed X delivery of weights and gloves and a weight rack tree thing. The Fed X guy isn't a fan of mine.I'm playing around with skateboards, but only on paper. I'm fascinated with activities that will crush you or hurt if done carelessly. You Tube has so many

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-1161144343962557582006-10-17T23:49:00.000-04:002006-11-12T23:49:49.299-05:00

I went to a friend's drawing thing at a coffee shop in Greenpoint/Williamsburg last night. The model was really "Egon Shiele" looking to me. She also reminded me of the illustrator's work that did all the faeries that everyone has seen and yet I can't remember his name at all! I bought a really nice print of his at a comic book store in Paris this summer. I think it was actual size and it was

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-1161018533125678232006-10-16T12:48:00.000-04:002006-11-12T23:49:49.224-05:00

A ten minute pencil drawing done at Dr. Sketchy's at the Lucky Cat Lounge in Brooklyn. The model was Joey Hardcore from the Gotham Roller Derby girls. She was wearing rollerskates the whole time. The knee pads were very real and effective. To change poses, she went from a standing pose and just jumped up in the air and came down in a dramatic (seemingly) knee crushing heap on the little stage for

Fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088477669709263648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36074059.post-1160933484305958622006-10-15T13:06:00.000-04:002006-11-12T23:49:49.145-05:00

Looking back on the year and all the stuff I've done, the most interesting to me (at the moment) is I first heard the term "Black Eye" at Starbucks. I learned "Red Eye" at least a year or two ago, but had never come across Black Eye until this year."Red Eye" is a shot of espresso in a reg. cup of coffee. Yummy, right?I was a little sleepier than usual one afternoon, so I asked for a Red Eye with

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