SPOOL: TheComic

So, sorry again for posting something other than promised comic,...

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:52:10 -0400

So, sorry again for posting something other than promised comic, but - HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!

Made this for my wonderful mom who likes the turn of the century. It’s a newsboy in front of a burlesque house where the women of the burlesque house have taken the roles of mothers and left him a care package - Or hat in this case. You don’t have to give birth to be a Mother!!

spool-comic: spoolcomic: Sneak Peek As many of you know, this...

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:41:31 -0400

spool-comic:

spoolcomic:

Sneak Peek

As many of you know, this blog is called SpoolComic. There’s another one called Spool-Comic, same thing, minus a few random posts, but I’ll always be sure to post the actual art of Spool the Comic, on both.

I got a little burnt out on the comic after working on it so hard last summer and then school started up and with all the stress and deadlines, I wasn’t able to work on my passion: a jackrabbit, in a patchwork spandex suit, fighting for justice with his voodoo power to wield fabric.

You may have noted that I’ve put some really bizarre posts on here that were probably annoying and made no sense, because at my school, we’re required to have a blog and post responses to required reading on that blog as well as homework assignments (which I thought would at least be SOME kind of art while you were waiting so patiently for the actual comic to reappear [I can dream]).

Luckily, my artwork has improved considerably over the year [exaggeration]! And I’m happy to announce that I’ll be putting new pages for the comic up SOON! I’ll be posting a few sketch dumps of my boy Spool later today. You’ll notice that his design has probably changed a bit, but the spirit and my usual style is mostly still there.

Thank you all for following. I truly, truly appreciate it and hope to get a compelling story out there eventually for you to read on the can or when you’re bored at work.

Have a good mothers day. It’s sunny! Eat pie!

Inspired by The Hobbit and coming home from a long visit to mom...

Wed, 08 May 2013 02:09:00 -0400

Inspired by The Hobbit and coming home from a long visit to mom and dad’s where the food is plentiful, I discovered an almost empty fridge consisting of half an onion and 3 carrots. So, keeping in mind the dwarfs when they arrive at Bilbo’s and raid the pantry, I made an amazing soup with whatever was available. I can’t stop eating it.

I also consider myself a Hobbit….I’m short and very hairy for a girl. I’ve also gained WAAAAAAY too much weight over the passed year. I think it’s time to lose some weight and live from the Earth like a Hobbit would.

I’ve written it down. Do enjoy it soon. It warms the soul.

Hobbit Soup:

1 clove minced garlic

1/2 onion chopped

3 carrots diced

3/4 cup lentils

6 cups water

parsley and rosemary

pepper and salt (more than pepper)

bay leaf

let come to a boil and taste it, realizing it’s just a bunch of carrots and onions floating in hot water then…

add 1 can strained kidney beans (or if you’re awesome; dry kidney beans that you have pre-soaked)

add 1/2 cup salsa

2 tablespoons tapatio

cumin

chili powder

more salt

Disclaimer - I know there are dwarves pictured above, so just assume they are so happy, because Bilbo made them this soup. Also, this is an unofficial Hobbit Soup, I don’t own the Hobbit nor did I write it blah blah blah.

The Raccoon Kid

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:36:00 -0400

Batman Returns came out when I was 7. That’ll be 21 years ago. And it’s when I discovered the magnificence of Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman. Her electric blue eyes and stitched vinyl and tragic beginning, made my wild childhood imagination soar. After seeing Anne in the latest version, a lot of people have been putting Michelle’s cat down. I’ve heard her called a “whore” and just plain “bat shit crazy” (whoa….a pun? Is that a pun?), but I gotta be honest, Anne Hathaway, really didn’t inspire me to pull the Raccoon Kid out of mothballs (or from underneath the sink for that matter) to fight crime.

Who is the Raccoon Kid?

Well, I wanted to be Catwoman, but I knew I was too young and pudgy to be the lovely feline in my imagination, so I decided maybe a character that mirrored Batman’s Robin would be appropriate for Catwoman. Maybe Catwoman needed her own Robin: The Raccoon Kid.

I found some old brown and black eyeshadow, wetted a brush, and went to town on my face. The result, dried my sorry virgin skin so much that I looked like a bag lady. And, after it started to burn my eyes, my crime fighting days were over. But the legend still remains, and I thought it’d be a fun idea to have the character in a few of my mock comics.

So, in conclusion, Michelle rules my heart as Catwoman and I am the Raccoon Kid.

What i’m working on right now. Someday, the space bunnies...

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:59:30 -0400

What i’m working on right now. Someday, the space bunnies and mermaids shall have peace.

Me as a Mermaid.

Sat, 04 May 2013 15:30:00 -0400

Me as a Mermaid.

Hello everyone. Here is a mock educational film I’ve been...

Wed, 01 May 2013 05:36:08 -0400

Hello everyone. Here is a mock educational film I’ve been working on for school called “Fatherhood”. Gentlemen, you’re welcome.

It’s finals week and after this week, I’ll pay a visit to my family and then start making art. Spool comic book pages, creature dolls, stop motion; hopefully these three things lay in my future.

The Rabbit’s Hole Dance - My Final choreographed dance and...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:50:36 -0400

The Rabbit’s Hole Dance - My Final choreographed dance and costume in front of my mini club. Yeehaw

Core Studio Concepts Imitation and Invention vs. Deconstruction: Third attempt

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:57:00 -0400

Alright, I think I understand now.

Deconstruction disturbs him, because being an inventor doesn’t work when you have deconstruction on the mind the entire time you’re working on your art.

In his example, he speaks of a girl who was supposed to bring her art into a class specifically to be deconstructed.

She can’t put her anguish or invention in her art, because she’s thinking about how it’s about to be deconstructed the whole time she’s making the art, so it ends up being fake or hollow.

“As such, however, rather misunderstood and badly assimilated, deconstruction is merely the symptom of the disarray of a generation of art teachers who have lived through the crisis of invention and have never themselves been submitted to the discipline of imitation. The result is that students who haven’t had the time to construct an artistic culture of any kind are being tutored in the deconstructive suspicion proper to our time.”

I believe this is saying, students are taught imitation for SO long that when they finally meet teachers who have been working artists and in the real world, the students are confused, because they don’t know what deconstruction is. They don’t understand it. They only understand imitation.

Core Studio Concepts Imitation and Invention vs. deconstruction: Second examination of required material

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:42:00 -0400

” I have seen one art school (not that long ago) where the first year course (what used to be the foundation course) had been transformed into a seminar in which the point was to “deconstruct” anything entering the classroom. One week it was an advertisement, another week it was the policy of this or that public art institution, and yet another week it was a student’s work - a work done at home, that is, as if no assignment had been given to her beside the unspoken injunction to produce material to be deconstructed in the classroom. The ensuing paralysis was not just sad, it was revolting.”

He’s saying that, students make their work in order for it to be deconstructed and examined and picked apart.

Yeah, I’ll admit, sometimes I think it’s dumb that we make our work, just to bring it into the classroom and have it analyzed. But, what else would we do at school? Present our stuff and everyone claps and then we get on with life? Then again, I think deconstructing and analysis, isn’t that great of a thing. Why can’t we just be judged on whether or not we put effort in and our technique, rather than a group analysis of the meaning of one’s work?

Also — What is wrong with invention? What is wrong with being different? Why do we need to imitate. I didn’t really understand this.

Core Final: First day of The Rabbit’s Hole Bunny...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:30:00 -0400

Core Final: First day of The Rabbit’s Hole Bunny Burlesque

Wow. I’m really ashamed of myself and am really glad I have a tent to hide in. I can’t see out of the mask I made and so my lovely choreographed dance is total crap when I wear the mask, because without my vision, I get really gun shy and kind of stumble about. Also, because of this, I forget my steps, because I’m so enthralled in not killing myself.

My best show was when I just went out and ditched my choreographed dance entirely and just kind of grinded around in front of these two ladies to “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”.

I’m so mad at myself!! I’m a better dance than this. I just can’t see to prove it. I think this is a very important lesson for me, because as a dancer I’ve always kind of relished in showing off and improvising my steps along with my choreographies. Now I can’t really do that because of my blindness and I keep forgetting the steps, so just dancing in the moment and throwing all the anal things I’ve been taught to the wind is where it’s at.

Also, being here for several hours on a Monday before a test, does not help: especially when there’s only two people viewing the gallery every few hours.

I hope I can get this dance down before my family arrives. This is really embarrassing. Sorry for rambling.

To make myself feel better, here’s an example of what I can really do pertaining to dancing. I’m the one on the right in blue.

The Rabbit’s Hole coming to life. My mom helps me make...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:46:23 -0400

The Rabbit’s Hole coming to life. My mom helps me make curtains while the bunny head I’ve been working on waits for my attention. My dad helped me immensely in building the stage and PVC tent that will house my personae and my little hiding area. Can’t wait to get pictures of it when it’s all put together.

coffeeandcockatiels: in between AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I love...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:00:13 -0400

coffeeandcockatiels:

in between

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I love this. SO MUCH

Core Independent Project Peer Help Report

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:51:26 -0400

For Thursday I got into a group with Brian, Fritz, and Koo

Here’s how it went:

How were your peers able to help you?

No bunny ears on the guests

No reproduced strip club

Don’t separate from your audience or try to make them comfortable by bringing them in on the joke.

Peer 1 name: Brian

Describe his project: Brian is building a video installation that will emulate a material called Bismuth, which is an angular rock type material that grows in perfect square spirals. He will build this out of welded metal shank and place a video of blood cells splitting apart within the structure, because both things are naturally occurring.

Peer 2 name: Fritz

Briefly Describe Project:

Fritz is taking multiple exposure photographs with a self made camera. He would like to take a picture of people standing on a glowing grave. This would be life sized.

Peer 3 name: Koo

Koo and I are already in a class together, so I didn’t feel this was “legal” but Koo is making a 3D light cover out of letters to her parents and then utilizing lemon juice to write another letter in which light will shine through. (Kind of hard to understand)

So there’s my report!

Thanks,

Candice Taylor

WIP stripper rabbit concept

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:50:25 -0400

WIP stripper rabbit concept

The final product will have panties hanging from the ear on the...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:36:36 -0400

The final product will have panties hanging from the ear on the left and a dollar bill hanging from his mouth.

Not every day you get to design and create a strip club sign in...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:56:28 -0400

Not every day you get to design and create a strip club sign in the name of education. The book and film canister are to weigh the glued parts down, although I think Mickey approves. WIP for strip club at this year’s gallery show.

Music to Strip to - I’m studying the history of stripping,...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:17:42 -0400

Music to Strip to - I’m studying the history of stripping, deciding if I want to do a modern strip-tease or a silly old fashioned burlesque version to throw people off. I think the latter would be more funny; which is the goal here.

Found this on katrinkatube

WIP for Rabbit Stripper Performance at the Cornish Gallery

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:34:22 -0400

WIP for Rabbit Stripper Performance at the Cornish Gallery

Han Dai-Yu - Core Studio Concepts

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:04:15 -0400

Han Dai-Yu

Description: Han is a master (just ask him) at drawing life and the figure. His many drawings and paintings could be either considered photo-realistic or a stylized version of photo-realistic. He has done some abstract work, but for the most part, the human female is his favorite.

Analysis: Han has made it his life’s work to draw the figure. He has said that once someone tells him he’s great at something or it was a success, that why should he keep doing the same thing over and over again if he is good at it?

Interpretation: Han does what he loves and continues to explore the depths of life drawing, occasionally trailing off on the abstract, but for the most part, experimenting with the body. He is not ashamed of his favor of the female form and the unusual beauty of each face he draws. He is not ashamed to say aloud that he is a Master. Han is charming and it’s not unusual that it would be easy to be a model for him and it would seem his Chinese stories translate into the concentrated and listening expressions on the women’s faces that he draws. He is a social butterfly and it shows in his work.

Judgement: I would love to sit with Han for seven days and just listen to him talk. I would love to learn from the Master that he says he is. I whole-heartedly agree that he has earned this title.