Mindworks of Whimsicality

Happy (belated) to one Caroline of Boston!

Anguel :: Graphite rendering

That’s right, now you can get a Cartoon-YOU! featuring you and your sweetheart, or best friend, or whoever you want! Head on over to the Tahn-Emporium for your own charming, unique drawing! You send me pictures to a public online album of you and your companion (or, if you’re getting this as a gift for another couple, then link me to their album); tell me the expression/mood you want the piece to be and I’ll send you an 8″x8″ 300dpi fully-colored, fully-rendered drawing such as the one above of Tess and Dimitri. For a little extra, you can even have a tangible print mailed to you

The Tahn-Emporium now offers a completely unique, custom drawing of YOU! (Or any single person YOU WANT!) Bah, it won’t be any of that insulting stuff that you get at the county fair. You tell me what expression you want, and you send me a link to your online photo album(s) (so I can study your features and figure out a cartoon from there) and I’ll then send you a high-quallity digital copy (300dpi, 8″x8″) and for a nominal fee, will send you a print-out of the cartoon YOU!

  We see a cat riding into Egypt on camel back.

This cat is a deity that rules all of Egypt.

But in Cairo, there is this very wise, intelligent man that helps and teaches the people. His knowledge could easily challenge the cat’s power.

The deity cat realizes this threat to his power, and does not want a challenger to his rule.

The cat realizes how important the wise man is to the people, and decides to immortalize him into a form that will not threat his own power.

And thus, the wise man became the sphinx.

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Paint :: basic film concept sketch; ballpoint pen and ink.

This piece is 10″x60″. Drew it with NuPastel; ~8-9 hours or so. (Final for my Color and Design class!) This piece had to have rhythm, repetition and draw the eye through the piece as it progresses to the right.