Mr. Ryan.

had to teach two point perspective to my classmates because the teacher didn’t use a ruler during the five minute demo

Thanks for filling the niche, but you gotta know something’s wrong when the folks who were cool with no bookmarks and gifs being uploaded as videos are upset with you now

bluesky devs, if you’re reading this, you’ve always been doing a shit job. People just said otherwise because they were desperate to have something other than Twitter and you fill the niche.

the morning cortney

nakie

cortney

filled da page

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the morning cortney

muppet marker scribbles

the sketchbook tonight

cortney dressed up like a witch

you're gonna get turned into a bug (2021)

thank you!!

in two days, 2,000 people have looked at chapter 1 of The Perfect Weekend. i don't know if they read all of it, but 4,000 eyes on my work, is all i need to know.

thank you

anyways shoutouts to New York

we get the opposite of that with the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie suits (made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop) looking pretty great on screen, but have deteriorated beyond repair because they were made to look good on screen.

time's gonna march on regardless, but please not during my life

a good example of treating the final product as the point of the work is that recently bluesky-viral photo of a Calvin and Hobbes original that is just as much white paint as it is ink. The white doesn’t get photocopied, so we see Watterson not mind the mistakes

a concept drawing of the Muppet Show logo sign, with Kermit the Frog sitting in the enlarged opening of the letter O in “show”

“storyboards” for the intro of The Muppet Show, drawn on lined yellow paper. The sequence of drawings is timed with the lyrics of the intro song, ending with Gonzo hitting a gong. The intention from the start would be Gonzo doing various things to cap off the intro, as the final caption is “many different Gonzos”

the real actual physical logo sign used for The Muppet Show. It’s smaller in person, but big enough for a Kermit the Frog to comfortably sit in the enlarged opening of the letter O in “show”

a closeup of the sign. It is scuffed and covered in paint and marker retouches, just close enough to the original colors to look good at a distance

something I flip flop between liking and loathing about entertainment is the impermanence of items that go into the production of the work, because the final product is the art.

The logo looked fine on the camera with marker fixing the line work, so you get to see the imperfect humanity in person.

Jim Henson was out there DRAWING, dude

some Dark Crystal concept art that kicked ass

the animatronics inside a Gelfling (I think this one is Kira)

the costume worn by David Bowie in 1986’s Labyrinth. The pants have a visible crotch bulge

anyways, The Bulge of the Goblin King will always be with you

I could easily kick a Skeksis’ ass, but I don’t know if I would be able to handle the consequences of my actions. I can dodge roll, I could take a Garthim in a fight,

but two?

I was actually under the impression that I was going to be seeing more than just the one Skeksis, but what I saw really was incredible. So much of the outfit is intricate and ornate but also grounded. It feels like something I could make if I put the patience and time into it

seeing a Skeksis, and then concept art of a Skeksis was like seeing an angel

The small pebble that would tumble down the hill to make the avalanche that is Kermit

a conceptual drawing of Scred, from an adult-focused Saturday Night Life skit headed by Jim Henson: The Land of Gorch. Looking like a plucked vulture, Scred has as distinct odor of primordial Skeksis to him

the puppet of Scred, essentially a felt, foam, and fabric version of the concept art. Again, a very primordial Skeksis

there’s something about seeing concept art next to the physical thing made from that concept art is inspiring, and I wish it was more common

They had some plastic figures? toys? concept carvings? But no puppets of that specific version of Kermit

Storyboards for an old Wilkins Coffee ad that Jim Henson worked on

Concept art for Statler and Waldorf

concept art for the Swedish Chef

concept art for Dr. Teeth, looking much more rotund than his usual lanky self

seeing the muppets in person was definitely incredible. Seeing their fuzzy textures closer than I ever had before, being reminded they’re real and crafted by hand, was inspiring.

but seeing their concept art and storyboards, might have been a religious moment.

I think in most screen appearances, they’re Frank Oz’s hands

Miss Piggy puppet on display. She is wearing her wedding gown from The Muppets Take Manhattan

Met The Queen today