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Posted by Mark Fisher at 9:06 am on June 29th
Even Science can't help this one.
Another installment of 8 new drawings await you at the Whiz Bang Gallery. I am still outlining found inanimate objects and filling them with a bit of organic life. Perhaps next I will try outlining some living objects and translate them to mechanical entities. Any volunteers?
Too Much
Posted by Mark Fisher at 10:47 pm on June 13th
For the Antiques Roadshow T shirt image this season I presented a few ideas, the one they chose was of an old tattered broadside with the cities they will visit. I completely got into the design of the letter forms and the stylization of the paper so much to the point of loosing the feel of the original sketch. The client pulled me back a bit and I refocused on the sketch which they really liked for it's simplicity and energy. I find that when jumping from a sketch to working in a vector program it's too easy to take things a bit too far and finished too fast.
Trash Drawings 2
Posted by Mark Fisher at 4:51 pm on May 23rd
Eard Par-Ray
I am continuing to do drawings based on the outlines of collected shards of trash and assembleing them into pictures. I collect lots of pieces of scrap machinery parts and such with the intent to assemble them into objects. Doing these drawings is a new and exciting means of dealing with them. Go over to have a look at the latest ones in my Whiz Bang Gallery. Enjoy!
Trash Drawings
Posted by Mark Fisher at 10:51 pm on May 3rd
The letterforms on Neptune kill
On my walk to work at the mill each morning I find a lot of street trash and interesting things in junk bins. The objects get picked up and saved for sculptures. What I have been doing lately is laying them on my sketch pad and drawing around the objects with my pen. This eliminates a lot of detail and makes for unusual shapes. I will combine a few objects to arrive at more interesting forms. I then fill in the shapes as I like and computerize them. The Whiz Bang Gallery has 7 of these new images. Go on over and take a peek.
Shapes
Posted by Mark Fisher at 11:01 pm on April 26th
I started doing a gigabyte of work for software and hardware companies back in '84 but it wasn't until 14 years later that I started working on the blasted devices. During those years people repeatedly said my style would translate well to being computer generated but I continued with airbrush, gouache, an inking pen and colored pencils. The paint was sputtered out at 16 lbs. pressure to get a grainy textured effect. Back then so many of the articles were very bland and technical but all pretty much pushed the same idea that 'Computers are our friends and will make the future so much better'. Ha Ha. Often I kept computers out of the image and instead tried to use some abstract imagery and shapes to illustrate the articles. I cant remember the particular articles messages but here are a few where I played around with some fun shapes.
Mini Comics
Posted by Mark Fisher at 6:59 am on April 13th
My first comic book if you can call it that was published back in '72 ( Ike Lives) and since then I have occasionally produced others usually as mini photocopied booklets. Most of them were produced in very limited numbers and sent out to some clients, friends, comic collectors or given out at small gallery shows. IT'S ME! was in b&w and billed as an 8 page coloring book of 'Crazy Creatures to Color.' There is a new gallery of the book. http://drawger.com/fisher/?section=gallery&gallery_id=658&
