Inspired and fitted for this article, my mid-term for drawing class is to create four 4×4 and one 10×14 ink illustrations. It’s important to have the square ones be somewhat thematic and all of them to convey the same (if not essentially my) style. I drew these thumbnails (the teacher imagines we’ll be making quite a few to hone in on the best solution) and I noticed some themes as I read and drew the article. With all the ridiculous charicatures of people and as the Sandia Mountains as a background location, how can I not end up with something overtly Ralph Steadmanian?
Some themes– throughout the 10 page article, the prose is punctured with
architecture: mention of adobe house structure, the SCAD (suspended catch air device) labeled “Zero Gravity” (which is a daring thing if I have ever heard one), the fMRI scanners, the skyscraper metaphor
animals: asp catepillar, humpback whale, snails (3), turtle, tiger, dog, rat, songbird, elephant, hummingbird, fish in a bubble
morbid: a little girl’s fractured skull and spine, the rhythm of a helmet bouncing on sidewalk, being bit by poisonous catepillars, jumping off a roof
portraits: Brian Eno’s pixelated-edge-glasses, Eagleman’s square-toed ankle boots and mod sideburn, the longponytailed girl with small circular glasses, the guy wearing a black shirt with a purple sword on it, Francis Crick’s “senile” facade,
artifacts: the broken russian watch, the card-deck sized chromometer, the scrawled multi-colored formulas on the erasable green walls, the EEGs
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