SUPERCHIEF's Bizarre Blotter:Dorsal Fiend

 

Yeah... this is my second time in a row corrupting a symbol of "innocence." Whadda you gonna do about it?

It was so much fun to work on this, especially after the week I've had. It's been productive, but... Let's just say I've had to cloister myself away for a while.

I played with color here in ways I usually don't, primarily to add that "tacky dolphin art" touch. Within limits, of course!

I also used a ballpoint pen for the first time in this series, giving it a shot after doing a few great sketches in that medium. It doesn't always have the crisp, saturated look of other inks, but ballpoint delivers thicks and thins, tones and textures, responding to technique with more sensitivity than one might expect. Indeed, I've seen great photorealism achieved with it. Ballpoint was the way to go this time around.

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SUPERCHIEF's Bizarre Blotter:Holy Headbanger

Some fella thought it would be fun to shake and head-butt a statue of an angel outside of someone's house. He got busted and, to his credit, admitted how stupid the activity was.

This illustration is a bit crude, probably because I was thinking about Beavis and Butthead even before I started sketching. The best thing about it is definitely my doodle of Darkthrone's logo. Boy howdy, that was fun to draw! I'm so kvlt.

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SUPERCHIEF's Bizarre Blotter:Hypnochondria

When one Romanian politician claimed that another had attacked him by exerting "negative energy," I was as fascinated as I was amused. When emotions run high, an enemy's glance can pierce one's nerves. Nonetheless, this alleged accusation comes off as incredibly superstitious. As if the toxic telepathy weren't enough, the so-called attacker also dressed in purple on Thursdays, giving him even greater powers. According to the "victim's" assistant, that is.

The supposed sorcerer is Traian Băsescu, President of Romania. His "victim"? Mircea Geoană, President of the Senate of Romania, who lost the presidential election to Băsescu. Geoană claims that the sensationalist media has been putting words in his mouth, but that spin requires little more than a doodle of Geoană unvexed and unhexed. No, thank you — I'd rather draw Băsescu as a sinister mesmerist!

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SUPERCHIEF's Weekly Bizarre Blotter: D'ough!

A guy got busted for using a counterfeit $100 bill at a bar. According to the story, it was a painfully obvious forgery.

This drawing was a lot of fun, though I must thank my fiancée for convincing me that the sketch was actually worth inking, along with providing other creative consultation along the way. She'll make a fine art director someday.

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SUPERCHIEF's Weekly Bizarre Blotter:Crime Antler Punishment

This is me making trouble for myself again, switching styles unprovoked.

A man was acquitted when moose fur and spit were found at the scene of his wife's murder.

I chose to keep the image simple, foregoing the usual hatching. While it's good to get out of one's comfort zone now and then, it's challenging. I like to think that the result here is amusing.

SUPERCHIEF's Weekly Bizarre Blotter: Aitch Double-E Hockey Stick

During a fight, one woman attacked another with her stiletto-heeled shoe.

I don't know whether this action was justified in this case, but I like the basic idea. It reminds me of an essay by Anton Szandor LaVey, "The Witch's Shoe as Weaponry," from his book Satan Speaks. In the essay, LaVey writes, "By itself, with no modification, a stiletto-heeled shoe makes a formidable weapon."

I doubt that the attacker had read the essay, but she sure had a good arsenal and knew what to do with it. I just hope that she had a defensible reason for wacking the other gal. I can't exactly go by the news report, since self-defense is often labeled as assault these days. Damned hippie lawyers.

2010 Inaugural Drawing:The Seal of Belial

I like to celebrate holidays by drawing, writing, composing — creating in order to focus my energies and mark moments in a profound way. This drawing is an example of this practice.

2009 ended with a blue moon, an irregular, thirteenth full moon. I deeply enjoy full moons, and I love thirteens, so this was a perfect time for a particularly meaningful creative act. During the first night of 2010, I sketched and drew this symbolic piece, The Seal of Belial.

The piece is rooted in a design from an old grimoire, The Lesser Key of Solomon, specifically the sigil of Belial. Derived from ancient myths, Belial is a figure who symbolizes personal power, along with other concepts, depending on whom you ask. Belial, as I interpret him, is a perfect embodiment of the elements I want to enhance during this period of my life.

Students of symbolism may recognize the significance of elements within this drawing, including representations of individualism, egotism, strength, and more, all of which are woven throughout the image.

Just as significant, however, is the visual approach, which intensifies my experience of the concepts outlined in this hermetic "note-to-self." The "handwriting" matches the message. I love it.

This is going to be an excellent year and an outstanding decade.

SUPERCHIEF's Weekly Bizarre Blotter: Witcheroo

This illustration is my idea of minimalism. An African "witch doctor's" grandson placed a curse on a thief; the nature of said curse should be evident in the positioning of the pins in this voodoo doll.

I normally avoid cross-hatching, but actually preferred it for the texture of this coarse, dirty fabric.

The doll's face is made of cowrie shells.

If this curse works, it should be interesting to see how it all happens.

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SUPERCHIEF's Bizarre Blotter:Let it Blow

Having had no luck in finding a good Halloween story in time for that holiday, I'm very happy to have found the story of this unexpected Christmas incident. Why, the drawing practically composes itself!

Drawing the remains of a mechanical Santa Claus reminded me of my inquisitively destructive childhood, during which I disassembled many toys and devices, including at least two wind-up toys. My favorite such casualty was a hopping hen that once laid "golden" eggs, but was reduced to a stub, aimlessly kicking its yellow-painted, steel legs when its key was turned. I think I still have it somewhere in the basement.

Crank, click, kick, crash, kick, kick, tick...