SKETCHBOOK #3, page 56

this is a drawing i did of our french exchange student, Mathieu.

SKETCHBOOK #3, page 55

SKETCHBOOK #3, page 54

SKETCHBOOK #3, page 49, 50, 51, 52, 53

Another multi-pager - these deserve an explanation. Scroll on down for it.




As mentioned previously at some point, I played guitar in a "band" called "The Funky Croutons" in high school. During my senior year, I was also exploring my interest in filmmaking... so it was only natural for me to try to come up with an idea for a music video. This is what happened. These are storyboards, in case you didn't immediately recognize the format, for the video we never made. It's not a particularly groundbreaking or orginal concept, but I really do wish we had shot it so I could provide a YouTube link right now. Oh well.

The idea was that each of us bored-at-school band members would cleverly escape our classes under the guise of "going to the restroom." Then, as it was obviously a planned plan, we'd all produce the implements of our instruments, which had been previously concealed on our body. Some of the larger items would be retrieved from car-trunks. (this was so I could insert a Quentin Tarantino trunk-cam shot... little did I know at the time, but I later found out that Freshman video students LOVE Tarantino. Hey, maybe I got it out of my system when I was a senior in high-school. Ever think of that?) That Tarantino thing wasn't the only homage, either... as the clever reader will no doubt spot, the amp knobs all get turned up "back to the future style," meaning in one sweeping arm motion, I guess. And then I guess we'd rock out the bathroom while the other kids are in class - and a teacher wonders, scratching her head, "Hmm... Charlie's been gone quite a while..." The rest of the video in general would be a nod to Motley Crue's classic "Smokin in the Boys Room." The storyboards pretty much trail off at this point, with the last panel just a grid captioned: "various shots of band." I was either tired of drawing or figured the rest of the video would be self-explanatory.

The only thing holding us back was that we hadn't really written a decent song that we could play all the way through. Plus, we wanted to shoot at school, with students in classrooms, etc. It would have been a tough sell. Not to mention the small problem that we had no means to edit video other than cabling two VCRs together with a rigged up CD player for audio overdubs. (I do have some good material somewhere - but that's for another time.) This is as far as this project got.

SKETCHBOOK #3, page 48

Hey look! Color!

This is a rare experiment with magic markers... back then, I tended to stick to black and white. However, I do start using color a good bit more later on - so there's something to look forward to.

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SKETCHBOOK #3, page 44

This is by Mickey Ladd... he didn't put this in the caption, but when he showed me the drawing, he told me that it was me riding the canon and my sister Abigail pushing it.

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