Here’s the ninth installment of “Sketchbook,” a reoccurring section here on “The Blarg.” To learn more about “Sketchbook” and become involved yourself, click here.
The phrase for the ninth “Sketchbook” was: Fool.
Below are the submissions. Click on each image for a larger version of the art, and click on the artist’s name to visit their website.
Also, click below to check out previous “Sketchbook” assignments:
Sketchbook: “Dead Men Tell No Tales”
Sketchbook: “Mickey & Mallory”
Thanks to everyone who participated! I’ll be sending out the next assignment soon.
Good one coming,
SKETCHBOOK #9: FOOL
“Fool Joker”
“Tarot: The Fool”
Nuala Byrne:
“Fool Shark Pool”
“Quitters Never Prosper”
James Decker:
The Blarg 
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April 6, 2010 at 5:42 am
decker
Crap! I forgot to send mine in. Oh well, if a future Sketchbook theme calls for a latina wearing half a bunny suit holding a piranha and a rubber chicken, I’m set.
Susanne’s are very serene. Where does she find the time? The painting made me think of God of War for some reason.
Jorge’s has this striking confidence about the lines, as if he drew it in his sleep and does so often. I dig the recurring shapes.
Nuala’s is the Cirque du Soleil of stick figure carnage. Although restrain was shown by the erasure of a couple of figures. As if to say that the world has seen too much death today. Or was it self or mandated censorship?
Ralph: Leno is a fool. Court jester to America’s lowest common denominator. I may be missing something in the current affairs department with the deeper message in the use of the poster of the last Indy flick. Maybe I’m the fool for getting giddy as school girl about the movie, thus blinding me to the heartache to follow upon seeing it.
Jenea: In the words of the lovely and talented David Coverdale, (Shady is) a fool for your lovin’ no more. No more, no mo a oh a oh.
Like so many art history professors I endured in college I’m going to put words in your mouth, despite not knowing you or your true motivations regarding your artwork and pass it off as undeniable fact. What you are saying here is that Shady is the mirrored voice of the truth that you have no interest in hearing. You cannot see past your rage to your own inner beauty and the paradise around you. Therefore you must find and kill America’s sweetheart Amy Adams, by lynching her with the small intestine of Sybil Danning as is clearly displayed by the ornate mirror. Charlie Sheen, (not pictured, but evident in the line work on the hand) is deep in your heart, and your lust for him burns like the sun, being the only thing that keeps you from the brink of despair over that harlot Amy Adams and not going to med school. Your use of the beach setting indicates that although you do wear sandals, you are not fond of the way your feet look no matter what the color of the polish and refer to them as Barney Rubbles. You are also an acrotomophile. The way the middle finger was drawn is a dead give away.
Bill: Nice monkey. Quit huffing the prismacolor markers. It makes them dry out faster and you are not made of money.
April 6, 2010 at 8:32 am
jshady
If you want to send it over I can throw it up there. No sweat. Let me know.
And that paragraph about Jenea’s piece is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read. HAHA!
April 7, 2010 at 8:22 am
casinoskunk
Anyone who truly believes this is a fool…
http://www.wwtdd.com/2010/04/jay-leno-is-a-lying-pos/
The story behind the Indy thing is to show that even if you are past your prime and nobody wants you to return, you will still get rewarded. I should have also put Favre in there.
April 6, 2010 at 6:02 am
Paul Spooner
Wait, what?
Why didn’t I get the email for this one!
April 6, 2010 at 8:32 am
jshady
Sorry, man! It went out a few weeks ago!
April 6, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Paul Spooner
Maybe my entry was to forget to submit an entry – again – after being a smart arse about it last time, thus becoming the fool… maybe.
April 7, 2010 at 5:47 am
Jenea
Hey decker, I little don’t understand about what you say,butt…sounds funny!
Read to the end
A good joke from my favorite book that I am reading recently:
“When I was a young boy and swimed in river , someone steal my
clothes. To go undressed home was inconvenient, and waiting for the
dark I taking pleasure from the time carving my initials on the apple
trees’s body.
A long time goes, I choose a beautifull girl and married with she.
Imagine yourself what happened when we entered for the first time
in sleeping room. My beautifull wife out of emotions take out the jaw
from mouth and put it in glass with water. Then she took out the peruke
and show here’s bald head. From bra she took out the huge peace
of cotton – wool. My princess in time transforms in garden scarecrow.
But this is not end. This scarecrow dressed off her’s skirt and in calm way
unscrew her’s leg. And on this leg I saw suddenly my initials.
And what a fuck if these are not the same initials what I carved someday
on the body of old apple tree, when in childhood somebody steal my clothes.”
April 7, 2010 at 8:00 am
paulyS
What did you use to carve your initials?
April 7, 2010 at 7:07 am
decker
Jenea,Thanks, that is a damn good joke. What is the name of the book?
It would make a great stop-action animated short film.
Shady, fem-nazi McKell was possibly the worst of all the art history professors at putting words in the mouths of long dead artist and often went so far as to put words in the mouths of the people in the painting. She hated me, because I argued that the Renaissance and most of the work she taught was illustration not just fine art. Does the Sistine Chapel tell a story, if not several, stressing the subject more than the form? Yes. Were the artist instructed to depict within parameters to the customer’s requests? Yes. Was the art created in a venue for any and all to view and enjoy? Yes. Were the artist paid for the work commissioned? Yes. Then it is fucking illustration. Her big sticking point of illustration was that the artist was was paid and that the art was sometimes mass produced for the lowly masses.
If I included the word “illustrates” on a test she marked it wrong. I’m pretty sure she hated me because I have a penis too.
April 7, 2010 at 8:50 am
Jenea
@Paul- I use Long fingernails!:)
@decker-It’s very cool idea! maybe in one day I will make this cartoon! But till Oscar, are still a lot of time =)
April 7, 2010 at 10:47 am
jshady
This conversation is officially making me uncomfortable.
April 7, 2010 at 11:16 am
Jenea
Hihihi! No sweat. I am sorry! :)
April 8, 2010 at 1:42 am
decker
Uncomfortable, like the back seat of a Yugo?
April 8, 2010 at 2:28 am
Jenea
Hahaha!!! Yugo!!! Hey Decker, this joke is from one russian awesome book– ” Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip”!!! I think in Net, you can find this great story book! ;)
April 8, 2010 at 8:52 am
Jenea
Aloha again Decker! Your art work is just fantastic! Very cool idea! Maybe you can drawn something for me too??? :)
April 23, 2010 at 8:51 am
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