Vigistry Gallery 1994
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Slither
After a year of painting portraits from photo references, I tried something more fantasy-based. Most people would find a python coiled around their bodies rather burdensome, but this lady, in all her naked naturalness, seems carefree about it. This was my first pin-up touching the realm of erotica, a sign of things to come.
Rasnaka
Not only is this my first color pencil drawing in about ten years, it's also the oldest pencil illustration on Vigistry.com: a kingdom scene intended as the opener for a Good vs. Medieval comic book. Note how my painting experience didn't apply to this medium: it was a fresh start, and it was bad! Good enough for Good vs. Medieval standards but still bad. Rather than be ashamed of my early work, I find it nostalgic, fascinated by the evolution that has taken place throughout the years.
Riding in Style
How were celebrities chauffeured around in the old days before limousines? Probably with white horses and Cinderella-style coaches, but this is Good vs. Medieval we're talking about. I think what they have here is pretty decent in its own right— good for them but not the driver, who happens to be a comic self-insertion. Damn those hills!
Susan
This was my last enamel painting for a while. The canvas is a T-shirt, by the way. (There's some history as to how that came about, involving model figures, Testor's paint, stains on my clothes that wouldn't wash out, and a short stint of painting custom apparel thereafter. Eventually those designs evolved into paintings like this.) Somehow I didn't position the canvas correctly for this piece. Therefore, the painting intrudes onto the seams of the sleeves, which turned out great after all because it adds a bit of novelty and really demonstrates this unusual pairing of medium and substrate.