That -is- a sweet puppy pic.

Vel, your monster is so cute.

...what, exactly, is going on in that third one?

IIRC, that was a poster map from GTA:San Andreas which was on the wall, and which I forgot to take down. the photo was taken two years ago.

It was intended to be an evil pose, which... was stolen and used by Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible character. 

So, I haven't posted any of my chalk art here since that first week. Here's my progression since...


This one was actually a bit of artful stealing...the pencil - in spite of the rain - was still there from the previous week. In fact, it was part of the winner's drawing from said previous week...Pinocchio on one side of the wall, with his nose extending around the corner, where it was revealed to be a pencil writing something about the artist that started the chalk competitions. Anyway, I decided to hijack the remains (everything not the pencil is drawn by me...and I did have to freshen the pencil up a bit). Lance, the artist who drew the Pinocchio pencil, loved the theft/incorporation of his piece into mine.


A rendering of a flickr-happy cell phone photographer who's at the chalk-off every week.


A reference to the Shel Silverstein poem.


The giant orange arm represents the character of a multiple-winner of the chalk-offs (he drew himself as a tiny man in a giant gorilla suit for an online "battle art" picture, and it took off, bieng incorporated into a lot of art - by himself and others - since)

And a closer view of the tiny characters...

The guy in the turtle helmet (if you can tell) is supposed to be the artist who started the chalk-offs. Depictions of him almost always involve winged turtle helmets.


This was from the week the founding artist, R.R. Anderson, was missing due to a baby being on the way.


A follow-up of the last one. The fountain in the park was turned off, so I decided to take the opportunity to chalk where it's normally not possible to do so. Bad idea. The surface was more rough than any other surface in the park. But I did have fun drawing an around-the-corner drawing (if you can't tell - due to the picture being directly at the corner - the baby's on one side, the alien's on another side, and the unwrapped baby-carrying cloth is directly on the sharp corner of the fountain).


The same week as the one above, one of the artists was drawing variously shaped spirits/ghosts around the park, and got everyone else to contribute, too. This was my contribution, placed in the bottom of the empty fountain.


"Dr. Horrible & The Evil League of Evil Bloggers": unfortunately, the week I drew this...I was still drawing after all the cameras left. Though I got someone to take a still of the final piece, I don't have access to that picture. So the only evidence of the fully-completed version is in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ujEoBTdVBc


This week some guy named Teddy Haggarty (I misspelled his name) was filming a five-minute documentary for the Tacoma Film Festival. Everyone made a real big deal about him, and I didn't know why. And nobody would give me a straight answer (at least until afterward) as to why he was a big deal. But apparently he's real famous in Tacoma.


So an artist in the previous week had drawn with something that didn't wash off...even after an hour of scrubbing by the artists who were out for our weekly clean-ups. Somebody said "acryllic chalk", but I don't know if that's accurate. In any case, it gave me an idea to somewhat steal a previous week's artwork again, as I went down with no plan in mind.

So now we arrive at this last Friday, in which I incorporated the sponsor, The Weekly Volcano, and a number of other chalk artists (taking their visuals from various avatars, representational characters and battle art that's been made)...


Close-up shots...






I'm really frickin' proud of this most recent one.

Adam, you draw faces and hands like I wish I could.

I am forced to agree with everyone who thinks Adam's stuffs is awesome.

My Twin would not give in to your threats, even if he agreed, because he is stubborn like that.

PRETTY!

I haven't been able to figure out how to do a byzantine weave yet. I also haven't done any maille work in a really long time. I should clean off my desk and see about making a few bracelets again.

I've attempted to use those very instructions time and again, but I always hit a snag somewhere along the way. I need to practice more. ^_^