Hugo’s Blog

Yes, a drawing...



Also, a sketch...

and I love Georges Pichard's work, so you can imagine how I feel about this...

Still putzing around with the color experiments. This was done with color inks...



Lately I've been trying to work with actual watercolor, which is a real bitch to control. Shit just wants to go everywhere, yo...



as evidenced by this awful drawing of the baby from Eraserhead. I fucked the mouth up and couldn't rescue it, for the life of me. Now it's just a random mutant, I imagine...or perhaps it could be the baby that appeared in the cheapo Italian rip-off of Eraserhead

A book I love returning to time and again is Mel Gordon's Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin (Feral House, 2000). It's an exhaustively researched and profusely illustrated exploration of a fascinating time in history (God, that sounds like I stole it from the back cover of a Civil War textbook, doesn't it?) Here's just a small sample of all the goodness inside. Isn't it always heartening to see that people have always been perverts?


My Domina (Rudolf Schlichter)


Max Liebermann








Flagellation drawing by a 17-year-old sadist, 1930








Off the Track (Fritz Burger)

Still playing around with watercolor and color inks. The skin tones are still a bit too orange; I think I need to buy more colors...perhaps some burnt ochre?
These are just sketches to practice mixing colors on, not really finished drawings in their own right. I think I may have unconsciously ripped off bougieman's character Plopsy Pete on this first one...