no shit

things are getting worse

a drawing of mine is in the newest issue of ruis magazine

http://www.kraak.net/en/ruis.php

Hand drawn covers
44 pages b/w copy paper (A5)
Edition of 50
€8 + postage
R We Alone? Dean Sullivan, Ignace Wouters, N'Roll and Tvrbo.
R We Alone? 2008 ©
Info:
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this was put together by R We Alone? - erik tangerud and chris magnusson

chris - http://flickr.com/photos/chrismagnusson/
erik - http://flickr.com/photos/14239009@N08/
rwa - http://www.myspace.com/rwa

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eat and sleep

DRAWINGS

if you don't feel like downloading aparagus....

i broke my right thumb or something like that...i can't bend it and every time i do i get a horrible pain in my hand...i can't draw because of that...so its been a weird week...the only thing i can do is read and watch movies...i downloaded this massive collection of animations so i've been watching those...its gotten me really into the idea of making one...its just a ton of fucking work and lots of drawings and i don't even know what to do...i saw persepolis and it was much better than i thought it would be...i'm really into this animation called asparagus by suzan pitt...here's a download link if you have the patience...it's pretty large...

http://www.2shared.com/file/2937930/65f355e3/asparagus_-_suzan_pitt.html

i'm goinng to start school again in the fall...not really sure what i'm going to take...a fine art degree would be nice...i might learn a bunch of stuff i don't know...but the idea of being self taugh or whatever doesn't bother me...



sometimes i get really down on what i'm making and it usually ruins my day...



i've gotten to this point over the past week or so that i don't need to feel rushed about anything...nothing needs to happen this instant...

sometimes i go onto my flickr account and see the most amazing shit...it's really crazy...i'm starting to really admire people who can paint...because of that i'm committing to making a painting this week...of course i'm not sure how it will turn out but i'm going to take my time and figure out exactly how i want to do it...painting is another world for me...and it's been out of my grasp...

the 'death and shit' show happened this past weekend...everyone's art looked great...as expected...here's a link to their flickr with photos of the show and art to buy: http://flickr.com/photos/domybooks/

my favorites

kerozen


irana


f.f.


yar


ola


matt

so i got this idea from matt lock's journal
stupidest things done while i was young:
1. olllied off a roof because of jamie thomas' leap of faith ollie leap of faith
2. took acid during school...i don't know why i did this and it was my first time...i think i ended up leaving after a few classes but i don't really remember
3. went to one of those teenager clubs for some girl...first and last time i've been to a club...i don't remember what happened to the girl
4. shaved my head bald on a dare...
5. actually played that game suck and blow...
6. stole a shirt that i really wanted from a fucking thrift store...i could have just gone back the next day with money and it was a fucking thrift store and the shirt was $2 so i'm not sure why i did this
7. shouted out 'i cunt hear you' in front of my mom when i was 7 without knowing what it meant...
9. on my tenth birthday a friend punched me and i ran off crying...this is more embarrassing than stupid when i think about it


i've been wanting to draw in pencil for a long time now but i can never make a good drawing...i think this is the best one i've done so far...hopefully i can make more...

so i guess that painting i submitted for supertrash got accepted...but everything submitted got accepted so i doesn't really mean anything...i posted it below...
1. i don't really know why i picked this movie...i guess that when i saw it it got me thinking about animal cruelty...i'm a vegan and this movie had a lot to with me becoming one...it's an ethical thing for me...i'm not trying to say that people who eat meat are bad or unethical or whatever because they aren't ...i hate when people are preachy about this...
2. i've always liked the covers...the worst thing about this is that i think it's too close to the original...sorry
3. i like the way it turned out though and i learned a lot about painting from this...
4. that the type of shit in this movie happens amazes me...quote i like..."remind yourself daily of the suffering from which you spare yourself the site"...
i feel pretty dumb for choosing this movie though and am going to do something else for the book



older drawn shirt




more drawings

it's raining right now which is usually a good thing for me because i like the overcast...it makes me forget that i live in a swamp...i had the flu for a week which stopped everything i had going on with drawing...i can't function when i'm that sick just thinking or concentrating is incredibly difficult...it set me back a bit with some stuff i needed to do but hopefully i can make it up since i don't have a job
i finished this big drawing and it's probably the last of this type of drawing i'm going to do...i really like the way it looks but i think i've used up the idea...it's a really bad photo which is why i uploaded it so big...



i'm coming up towards the end of all the stuff i had due...i have to focus on the islands fold thing now...i'm making drawings but still unsure if i'm going to have a theme or whatever...
right now it's really difficult to come up with good ideas...for awhile there i had a lot of stuff going on in my head but it just sort of stopped...i don't know why this happens because nothing's changed...





this was a package a put together for dynasty zine



i'm drawing two things in pencil which i haven't done in over a year...i love the way other people draw with pencil but so far i hate what i'm doing

shirt i made for tshirtmonthlymagazine




i have no friends right now...i know people and occassianlly talk to them...but i haven't gone or hung out with anybody in probably 4 months now...i might as well move into a cabin in the woods somewhere because it would essentially be the same thing...

yesterday was fucking horrible
i got fired from my job for opening a drink without paying for it first
i think this is a pretty dumb policy considering it's a grocery store and it happens all the time
first time i've been fired and it sucks pretty bad
now i'm wondering how hard it will be to find a job...it was always pretty hard anyway because of the way i am or whatever...i'm not well groomed and don't have "nice clothes" and there are tons more people applying who are considered normal or regular
the job was pretty good considering what i did
i was left alone and could draw all day - they fired me for drinking not drawing?
and then the painting i submitted for the supertrash show with floating world comics and fantagraphics was rejected...well i don't really know if i was rejected because the guy never wrote me back...i felt sort of weird when i wrote him asking if he was going to use it and he didn't respond to that one either...so i'm assuming the silence means he didn't like it
this shit seems to happen to me a lot...but there's fucking famine ethnic cleansing war poverty violence...so i can't be that mad...
i probably won't be posting the painting i made even though i think it looks rad
there were probably a few reasons it was rejected...among others the painting was way too literal and it was a very immature movie...

new drawing for the congenital dysplasia series


so today i'm going to start working on a large drawing 22*28 for the death and shit like that show
i'm not sure how i'm going to approach it but bosch panter and the inferno are all going to be involved in how i go about making it
oh..the show info is up on the domy books website if you'd like to look
and the ruby mag issue i'm in is up now too



doing that painting for the super trash thing got me thinking that i should paint more
maybe one painting a month for now
i didn't realize how long it took to make a painting it took me about five days of lots of hours doing it too finish it...i was up til 3am a few days in a row and then up early the next day getting whatever i could done before i had to go to work...oh and it was the first time i've painting something totally not using ink or whatever for the details

i've been looking up a lot of congenital malformations recently
and other forensic stuff with lots of photos and detailed medical descriptions
i really don't know how doctors can seperate the fucked up stuff they're looking at from the analysis side of things
i came across the first one on a thread about intelligent design....hahahaha...i didn't read the thread but i'm sure there was some idiot trying to justify it..
i'm going to make some drawings based around them...but i'm not really sure where it's going to go
here's the first drawing
Arcadius Anceps(chorangiopagus parasiticus)



when i really think about it
i don't have that much going on in my life
it's not a bad thing for me
but sometimes i think that i'm getting older and don't really have a life
i don't have a career or a lot of friends
i spend all of my time either drawing or reading or on the internet
i never go out
and that's all i look forward too




does anybody else have a problem with confidence?
i'm always questioning the shit i do
when i'm in my house drawing everything is fine. i might have agrophobia
i like the art i'm making
but i can't get the other shit that comes with it out of my head
if i didn't have the internet i'd probably be much happier
just sitting around my house day and night
making drawings that i know nobody would see seems ideal
i get about 3 hours of drawing done a day sometimes 4
which is a lot more than i used to get done so i feel like i'm on a routine
it helps weed out the shit ideas because not everything has to be perfect
and i can throw a lot more away or use something from a shit drawing
i can never seem to get enough done though i have a ton of stuff due already and then i got asked to do some other things with similar due dates
the worst thing in my life right now is i don't have a system of remembering due dates or emails i need to respond to
there's a due date the 15th that i remembered about today and i'm sure there are some emails i've forgotten
i just bought a calender so hopefully that helps

news:
-- i'm going to be in the next issue of ruby mag
http://www.ruby-mag.com.ar/site/index.html
-- i have a shirt coming out in january with tshirt monthly magazine
they make a shirt each month for subscribers
i think it comes with some other stuff
probably drawings or whatever
http://www.belluard.ch/en/teeshirtmonthly/index.htm
-- a taiwan publication due out in feb. called 'bad things'
-- i was in cafe royal issue one
they set it up as two artists per zine and i was with brent wadden


-- arnau sala is putting together a book that i'll be in
http://flickr.com/photos/arnausala/
-- i'm going to be in a show at domy books called 'death and shit like that'
curated by yar -- http://flickr.com/photos/yar/
there's going to be a bunch of amazing artists involved
i'm inspired by all of them
here's the list of artists
me, yar, Patrick Phipps, Matt Lock, Federic Fleury, Seth Alverson, ola, Carlos THomas, Stepane Piguent, and Mark Hesterlee
-- i'm going to be in issue nine of 'hopital brut'
i've admired the le dernier cri guys forever
total fuckedpussvomitherpesschizophrenics
we've talked about doing a book sometime next year
hopefully that works out
http://www.lerderniercri.org
-- i'll be doing a zine with islands fold
it's going to be ready in february or april
a limited edition zine with an original cover for each book
http://www.islandsfold.com/

here are some drawing i've been doing