Day 16 - Part 2

I couldn't sleep until I tossed this up. I guess that means I'm disciplined? Thanks for checking this out day to day whoever you amazing people are. I appreciate it. I haven't exactly been creating the most glorious and conceptually deep work in that past weeks, but eh I guess that's what sketchbooks are for.

Originals for Sale - Reduced Prices

Reduced the price on Peaceoffering and The Meat Market.

The following god awful photos are to prove that these pieces exist. All sales will be through paypal only. Send me an email (ray@jonesray.com) with the title of the piece in the subject line and include a mailing address and your name in the email. I'll get back to you with a payment request from Paypal. When I recieve your payment I'll send you an email confirming it, and I'll mail the piece out to you within 2 days if not the same day. If the piece is already in the process of being sold I'll let you know when you've emailed me asking about it or it'll be posted up here as SOLD.

If for some reason the payment request isn't paid within 48 hours I'll assume you're not interested/ changed your mind, and I'll cancel the request and it will become available for purchase again. Serious inquiries only pleeease. I need to eat. Thanks!



The Meat Market (16'' x 20'') + Inkjet Print of Illustration (13'' x 19''): $150.00 (includes S&H)


Peaceoffering (20'' x 16'') + Inkjet Print of Illustration (19'' x 13''): $150.00 (includes S&H)


The following are in the 8.5'' x 11'' price range and more then likely do not include a print, unless for some reason I find one, then you'll get the print free of charge.


Trees become the Wolves (12'' x 11.5''): $60.00

"Tree Skull/ Drown in the Woods/ Quiet Breeze": $60.00

Day - "14"

Sketchbook work in progress.... sure why not. I don't think I'll ever get tired of drawing these pseudo-wolf-bear-drooly-beasts.

Day - ... ?

I've lost count. I think I'm behind by eh, 1 -2 now? Playing sketchbook catch up... it's sad really, haha. Here they are.

Day 10 - ish

The PATH train during the AM hours has some very interesting people. On a side note Hellboy II is pretty good, worth seeing if only for Del Toro's creatures alone.

Day 8 -ish

Double Page... I tend to beat myself up, even in my sketchbook. Which isnt great considering its the only place I shouldn't be beating myself up ha. Another set of pages I'm not to sure about, just noticing some habits.

Originals for Sale

The following god awful photos are to prove that these pieces exist. All sales will be through paypal only. Send me an email (ray@jonesray.com) with the title of the piece in the subject line and include a mailing address and your name in the email. I'll get back to you with a payment request from Paypal. When I recieve your payment I'll send you an email confirming it, and I'll mail the piece out to you within 2 days if not the same day. If the piece is already in the process of being sold I'll let you know when you've emailed me asking about it or it'll be posted up here as SOLD.

If for some reason the payment request isn't paid within 48 hours I'll assume you're not interested/ changed your mind, and I'll cancel the request and it will become available for purchase again. Serious inquiries only pleeease. I need to eat. Thanks!



The Meat Market (16'' x 20'') + Inkjet Print of Illustration: $200.00 (includes S&H)


Peaceoffering (20'' x 16'') + Inkjet Print of Illustration: $200.00 (includes S&H)


The following are in the 8.5'' x 11'' price range and more then likely do not include a print, unless for some reason I find one, then you'll get the print free of charge.


Trees become the Wolves (12'' x 11.5''): $60.00

"Tree Skull/ Drown in the Woods/ Quiet Breeze": $60.00


Trial of the Jena Six + Print of Illustration: SOLD

Day 7 - 1

Drawn while waiting for my Laundry to dry today.

Day...six?

Six? It's the 8th now isn't it? I guess I'm making 2 tomorrow...today. Can't say I like this, but it's nice to get it out of my system before the Fall semester.

Day 5

Sometimes I worry about my interest/ease at drawing meaty animal doom without reference. Luckily I don't have nightmares that often.

Day 4

There's something I can't stand about this, but here it is.

Day 3 -sketchblargh

"I think ... you bring the rain with you." - Yuriko

Maybe.

Ouch

Almost a month since my last post! No good. Here are some sketchbook-ish works I've made in the last two days. Basically I'm just tossing ink on a page and then making something out of it, just to keep a habit of working. It's also nice to take a break from digital coloring.

There's too much free time over the summer, and free time is bad(sometimes good). I'm hoping for about a piece a day this month, if I can upload a new piece at the end of the day I will, but expect to see them pop up in groups of 2-3. By the end of July I'll have enough material to finish... something, or at least a pile of crap I can look at and admire for it's sheer quantity.

Day 1 (which may evolve into the cover of my book, whenever it creates itself.)

Day 2 (Nothing special to say about this. Just fun to draw.)

Thanks for checking out the work!

Peaceoffering_Renewal

Work in progress I think. Or at least the "start" of the finish of this book idea I haven't completely solidified.. the first in a series of potentially monochromatic pieces. I may have went overboard with the inks in this one, but a part of me enjoys the confusion. Thanks for checking it out!

I'm alive!

I've been moving over the last couple weeks and working through some hard times, I'll be back into a regular posting routine starting next month. In other news, I got into Grafuck 4! Which is pretty exciting! As soon as I'm done hauling boxes up and down flights of stairs I'll celebrate.

Some more trial and error..

A new piece, here's the bw version.


and color:

I'm sort of happy with the turn out, there's definitely a lot I enjoy about the piece but there's this ambiguity that I'm not sure if I'm okay with. I feel that it works in defining a figure but doesn't? Anyway, I learned from this.

NY Times Op-Ed

Sketch approved:
Pencils:

Ink+PS:


Published! (+type treatment)


To say I'm excited would be a ridiculous understatement!

Gah

I may be making a decent post in the next week or so but for now I have a slightly reworked piece-experiment. Real life/medical issues have slowed down my progress a bit, and the spring semester here at SVA is coming to a close so I'm trying to tie up loose ends, but the work is coming soon.


There's a lot of interesting and disturbing things going on as far as creatives and the copyright laws go on the internet lately. I just thought I should post this here. Book Publisher in China publishing copyright protected work without permission.

It'd be a good idea to read the article and check out the scanned pages of the images in the book to make sure your work wasn't taken as well. ESPECIALLY if you're a part of the LCS.

quick sketch

...of Yuriko K-r-a-s-h-tori. I know. Terrible. I said that earlier too. Shame! At least I knew it sounded stupid when I said it. She makes that worn out studio couch look really comfortable.

So I killed my last piece....

So I killed my last piece.... thanks to a few friendly crits and advice (Team Tiger ftw!). There were a bunch of things not working out, I may do something with it later... but for now it's retired to the dark place on my hard drive where work remains untouched for long periods of time. The piece taking its place is the one below, though I'm not sure which version I like more.


And here's a some unfinished chucks with a dancin' frog.