Commissions – Kitchen Art
My friend was looking for some kitchen art to hang up on her wall. I offered, with due hubris, to make some in her desired style. It ended up being some half-breed of my own style and the sample, but here they are anyway.
Commission – Zatanna & Emma Frost combined
I did this for a friend’s birthday (which is why you see ‘name redacted’ instead of the actual name).
Aggregate Moleskines
Oompah, it’s been quite a busy year so far, with a publishing job, museum work, a visit to Paris, and law school. All that left not enough time to scan moleskine pages. I did find some time today, so here is a smattering from between March and now. I am so behind on my scanning that since I last posted, I filled up an entire book and started a new one!
A lot of these were efforts at exploring other artists’ styles, and where they were copies I shall endeavour to note them as such. I would, however, appreciate any reminders in the event that I have missed one.
Entirely mine:
(Above, some people I saw on the T. I loved the man’s nose!)
(Above, James Hacker, portrayed by Paul Eddington in Yes, Minister)
(Above, one of my original characters, Adelice Kalani)
(Above, don’t know why this scanned so badly, but it’s the Seine.)
Entirely others’:
(Above, from JLA Shogun of Steel)
(Above, from Lackadaisy)
(Above, from Lackadaisy)
(Above left, Doctor Who in Charles Schulz style. Above right, from Nextwave)
Some of mine, some of others’:
(Above left, from Lackadaisy)
Judges jail youths for profit (NYTimes)
A recent federal hearing revealed that Judges Ciavarella and Conahan took more than $2.6m in kickbacks for sending teenagers to youth detention centres run by private parties. That’s about 5000 juveniles who may have been sentenced wrongly, including
Hillary Transue was sentenced to three months in juvenile detention for a spoof Web page mocking an assistant principal…[Susan Mishanski's] son, Kevin, now 18, was sentenced to 90 days in a detention facility last year in a simple assault case that everyone had told her would result in probation…
This case hits close to home because I was assigned to represent the government in my moot court oral argument in my first year of law school. My task was to defend the constitutionality of juvenile court orders, so that they could be counted as part of the number of prior convictions required in order to reach an enhanced sentencing for a repeat violent crimes and possession offender who was now of age.
Juvenile courts are an interesting constitutional conundrum. The system keeps these proceedings private to the general public to not only protect the privacy of juveniles, but also to lock the records after they have become adults (I’m not sure if this happens in all states). Hidden from public scrutiny, the welfare of these juveniles is purely in the hands of officers of justice. Juveniles have the right to counsel, the right to proof beyond a reasonable doubt (in the eyes of the judge presiding), and other rights which can be waived. In this recent case, all the officrs of justice who might have intervened were too ‘intimidated’, according to the Marsha Levick of the Juvenile Law Center, to object.
It extends, I surmise, beyond mere intimidation. There is little incentive not merely on the part of judges, but on the part of these officers (parole officers, public defenders, etc.), to act in such a situation. They are commonly inadequately paid for dealing with heavy workloads and a wide range of bewildered (joke Web sites) to problematic (violent) offenders. It is not merely monetary incentive they are lacking. They are working in a system that lacks the capacity to handle juveniles with the full moral and legal probity that we owe to all minors.
The NYTimes raised the question of requiring counsel (instead of allowing it to be waived) at juvenile proceedings. It may be a step in the right direction, but I fear it would not be enough.
via NYTimes (link)
Thursday – Pigma Brush experiments
The lack of brush control in the ink Sakura Pigma Brush means I’m only ever going to use it for shading/inking. I much prefer my sumi brushes for actual painting work. Dur.
Wednesday – Harvard COOP, Pete Wisdom
It’s starting to get hard to keep up, and to think of things to draw that aren’t completely ridiculous. Whenever you see a comic book character, it means I’m being lazy.
