CRACK. Skull. bob.

Our instructions for this assignment from our professor was to review a few art design blogs and pick our favorite of the bunch and explain why it happens to be our favorite.  Knowing myself, I am not surprised I picked the one with the most absurd title: Crack Skull Bob.  The title alone made me smile, and once I began to read to the blog I was not disappointed.  Ruben Fletcher is pretty funny.  All of the comments on his drawings, pictures, sketches, etc. were witty and clever.  


I hope that my sense of humor carries into the critiques of my own artwork as Ruben's clearly does.  However, one could argue that I do not have a good sense of humor and should not aim to express that on a blog where I will be graded on what is written.  I think I might give it a shot anyways.


The thing that most appealed to me about Ruben's actual artwork is the humor that is portrayed in his drawings.  Perhaps I was attracted to this because I am jealous.  I find that my artwork is rarely comical and usually fairly straightforward.  I rarely cartoon and when I do I look at my final work and I typically decide that I shouldn't have bothered trying to cartoon in the first place.  Perhaps for one of our future projects I will try to do it entirely in a cartoony style.  Hopefully I won't get frustrated and throw it out...which is what normally happens.


The majority of Ruben's drawings are done in a cartoon fashion (mainly done on the computer, I believe).  I love this.  His sketch Reportage: Ferry shows this technique.  The humor in his stroke is apparent.  He does, however, have some sketches that are not as humorous in the drawing themselves.  His nudes, for one, have a formal and detailed feel to them, although his comments about the drawing themselves are filled with his voice.


My absolute favorite thing of Ruben's blog is his Sunday Morning Talking Heads.  These cartoons that he makes about politicians each Sunday are both clever and amusing.  They are brief sketches, but their existence each week really seem to tie the blog together.  I did not notice another blog we were told to look at that had something of this kind.  The closest thing was in Andrea Joseph's sketch blog where she drew a multitude of shoes.  But this did not have the same encompassing feeling that Ruben's Sunday cartoons have.


I hope to be able to allow for this same sort of expression of myself to come through in my blog -- not just in my artwork, but in my comments as well.  I would like my personality to come through.  And I'm not entirely sure I succeeded in doing so for this entry.  But, to be honest, I have all semester to work on it.  It'll turn up sooner or later.