Category: Work (Page 6 of 8)

So here’s the result of my second stab at a tattoo drawing.

Thicker lines, lots of crosshatching. For those interested, here’s how I went about this:

• doubled the initial sketch on a separate piece of drawing paper with a pencil
• rubbed my chinny-chin-chin
• attempted some crosshatching voodoo (see moonbug crosshatch his way out of the proverbial paper bag!)
• scanned and corrected some stuff in Photoshop
• created legs for the female on a separate piece of paper and Photoshopped them in (the guy-in-drag effect was an unintended comedic side-effect)

Whew! Onward.

Initial study: angelic mother with cherub-like children.

Need to extend the mother’s wings…

This collage incorporates a little bit of everything of the early Cucamonga years: Zappa emerging from under his suffocating California desert tombstone, monster movies, pop cult, and the promise of great musical achievements to come (click the image to enlarge!).

You’ll recognize the drawing… everything else was assembled by way of Gabriela‘s evil touch of genius.

Can you tell we’re having heaps of fun with this?

In the early 60s, Frank Zappa wrote a movie script which was to feature Captain Beefheart in the main role. The title of the script was, quite appropriately, Captain Beefheart vs The Grunt People. The story involved the Captain taking a pony ride to the moon, where he ends up confronting The Grunt People. Shock! Horror! Partial nudity!

Not so surprisingly, the project never came to fruition and all that exists to this day is a typed out scenario. For the upcoming Cucamonga documentary, Gaby and I were asked to design an imaginary film poster. Behold!

The drawings and some of the coloring are my work, Gaby did the collage, lettering, and added the “aged poster” look. Here’s the original Cpt. Beefheart drawing:

… and here’s a detail of the colored version: