ah but wait it gets worse.

a few non-donkey show pics. theres also two paintings in the running. one design for silkscreen and a never done zine, and some other things in pipes. im not cleaning those pipes, its sunday. this is an update from my mini holiday.

the way problems can move around in a drawing, the sections of trouble change and swim. i cant keep up with them. and the haunting bit of, you shouldve taken your time more-so in the beginning before rushing to ink. you shouldve penciled it in further. you shouldve really fleshed it out as a whole and not bit by bit. why didnt you? did you think you were better then the folk who came up with that old plan? did you think this was gunna go all avant-garde for the 1600s?

but this is the best figure in the piece so far, and i like to work on him upside down. his tonalities come out better that way.

why does wordpress update so much, i dont wanna update now. and some plugins want updating i can see too.

and here is the current, second bird-girl duo. i have needled this little area of paper into utter ruins, 80% of the original paper fibers have been relocated to refugee camps to the east.

which is at least as not as bad as the severed mutilated smiles of this one. —

god that was awful.

and now the current region of destabilized ink,

which is a shame because in its pencil heyday it was the finest piece of sketching, simple and too the point, —> [its here] but since that, its been up and down. now i may have scratched away too many layers of ink in an urge to increase level of lights or some such plan which seemed so clear in some jitter bug routine. soon there will be an update on this site, yes this site, of sketchbook stuffs, non donkey related, and perhaps a voluminous essay on the arch linux nerdery. .

its summer time, why dont you use some color you asshole?

1. from the studios of menglef inc. ,current workspace set up is the ’summer mode’, migration happens a couple times a year one side of the house to the other and back and forth and in the process sweeping can happen which alleviates much of the atmosphere of rank.

2. applications have been handed in to de ateliers [fingers crossed {been rejected twice, yet i run back again}]  and waves of tension moved off the shoulder blades.

3. the donkey show was rescanned for said application and so i have some new pictures. plus a little story i wrote for the description bit. {see #4}

4. I’m sitting under this tree you see?  And I have an axe and a dream. To join the happy bird and the [once] happy girl. So sad her face went black.  But she has the beer and the smokes. I have the axe. And time. And a propeller beanie which is the epicenter of disappointment, You see I am too heavy to fly anywhere with this beanie. I cannot get up so high with all this weight.  So the plan is to cut off my head, and dispose of this body in donkey shit, then I can fly up there and go and get drunk with that underage girl and huge freak bird.  Did you think I would cut down the tree? No, too much effort. Imagine the calorie intake required.

as it seems, writing applications to get some of this governments cheese. is it the lowest? should it be taken, oh sweet sweet subsidy? are you the foulest treat of all, will you turn all of us sour, make us wish for days of churning butter? well if you must ‘make that money’ then you should perhaps go for broke, why ask for money from the government when you could as well ask for it from burger king, for sure they are no more evil than any national body?

in this spirit, and the spirit of taking a break from writing application time, menglefian advertisement agency presents “have it your way” out first in a series of ads for burger king.

in an unrelated notes, from the archives with a dash of fresh digital color, the “beans and macaroni” comic idea was slightly brought back to life last night, here is an example of the “townies” from this once blossoming idea snuffed out so swiftly.

and finally, though some progress has occured in ‘the donkey show’, it is still not finished and remains on my desk restrained in layers of loving tape.

escapism. dog doodles in hell.

earlier in the start of the summer i felt i needed to make more cartoons in my sketchbooks and color them in on the computer, try to develop a quicker style to make stuff in, to make comics with as well. here is some of that.

and last week i got a book of stock photography and it is full of material. so i started this study of sorts.

also this seems to have come off of tim burtons desk or something. i believe it says, get out of the house.

i hope youve enjoyed this more colorful edition of menglef.org today. this posting was also brought to you in part by procrastination unlimited.

i will show you drawings by using computers!

i like articles about multitasking. i know it is bad. more confirmation makes me more likely to walk away from the screen and just sit at the table and draw in that slow motion mode.

right now: 1. drinking coffee. 2. writing this while eating cereal. 3. thinking about how much time i should spend drawing today and when i should get to doing that instead of multitasking from the buttbrain. 4. chatting 5. watching tv. 6. making homemade ice cream, sambal flavored. 7. throwing bubblegum out the window at passerby. 8. attempting to pick up a variety of sticks/straws with my toes. 9. clenching and unclenching various anatomical bits in caffeine jitter. 10. looking over a list of todos and lists made in the last week for groceries, laundries, sundries, bread makers tasks, favorite brands of nacho chips, and finally my list which keeps track of how many pencil leads are left in the various mechanical pencils laying around.  also i am wondering why my computer seems to be choking slightly. maybe it has eaten a bag of mixed multitaskings and is now semi-brain dead too.

In 2005, the BBC reported on a research study, funded by Hewlett-Packard and conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London, that found, “Workers distracted by e-mail and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers.”

i remember when i had a notebook and a sketchbook in a bag and i would use one or the other. never both. and i had a lot of focus on which ever it was, and seemed to think i had much more time to do either without ever measuring time spent.

so enjoy this article —-> [and you have to read it without multitasking or you lose points]

The Myth of Multitasking

now that youve read that, you can enjoy this soviet cute bear cartoon:

{afterword}

this has been part of an ongoing series in ways to offend time and excuse myself from the donkey show and its ongoing horror of trip-ups.
see figure b-2; ‘the horror.’

may the lord shine some light upon this fucking skrew up. end prayer. unhappy accident.

but. at least the donkey has recovered from what once seemed like a intractable mess of shit.

and themes being of hope and all, if the donkey managed, perhaps the rest of this ever deepening inktrocity can be reconciled.

if and when the image is starting to get a bit too bogged down, too tightened, or too close to the finish line but somehow a fake finish line, an imposed one, then it needs fog, blur, and a bit of room to stretch. because when it started there was so much of that sort of room and it was certainly more fun to work on everyday. but when its winding down and the sense of being in the corner and having to make those last bits pull together in a boring linear fixed sorta way, the ‘how to draw comics the marvel way’ finale comes back to bite my ass.

a favorite escape is tape, tape can tear layers off of the page which aren’t working, second, duplication of needed elements cause i got them wrong on the first try. now this is being applied in the “donkey show”.

lets see:

her face was getting chewed off in some crappy overdone shadow between her and the bird, causing her to have lost the chubby cheek cuteness that was in the original sketch [you can click, but you could just scroll a bit down]. this possibility of wiping some of the face off with some tape is tricky. and after lots of attempts at fixing the face, the tape face mutilation was last resort. it opens the possibility of redrawing the face back in, but the paper is shittier underneath the top layer. so, duplication should be done too, there may wind up being three of these girls at the going rate, the story doesnt really work without her/the bird, so better to repeat it 3x than get it wrong once and accept it or hope no one notices the gross stylistic mismatch. the new one on the right was traced in from a print out of the original sketch which had been scanned in. this could be a doomed beginning. uncertain.