HEY APATHY! Alternative Comics Illustrations
Holding a billboard like a credit card, a diabolically monstrous Deity of the Financial District looms over the citizens of the City of Gears. Excreting medusa-like mechanizations from his open cranium, the fiscal atrocity attacks the minds, hearts, and souls of both unsuspecting and willing victims alike. The infinite onslaught of the technological tentacles perverts language and devolves social activities in a seemingly indestructible assimilation of mankind. The enormous distractions advertise a new world of techno-triumphs as they hypnotically influence the streets below. All encompassing and extremely well financed commercialization of humanities lost, can be found in the even the most miniscule and least travelled corners of the vast and spiralling routines known as the metropolis.
"The Villain" is a 20 x 30 inch pen and ink drawing depicting comic book style personification of commercial influences and ideologies. Featuring a giant robotic business creature as an underlying urban entity, the drawing emphasizes the corruptive capacity of behaviours dictated by billboard advertisements. Of technical interest in this artwork is that while the majority of the drawing was done with fine point pens and extensive rendering, the billboard images reference my early street art and performance painting approach. The central advertisement shows an animated sequence involving a business mans head being removed by technological tentacles originating from inside the victims mind. These sequential storylines are made rapidly with brushes and often at a large scale infront of live audiences. The combination of the two techniques simultaneously permitted me to render multiple analogies within a single illustration as well as mark a point of reference in both the story arc and my own artistic development. more comics, myths, and art at http://www.heyapathy-comics-art.com/
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