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Issue #43, February 2003

 

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LANCE SELLS: Nonessential Despondency

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title : business man
medium : pencil, adobe photoshop
date : 2002
description : This quick sketch is my initial thought of what a business man is. All A-OK's with a small penis. The image is a pencil sketch colored digitally in Adobe Photoshop.

 

 

title : female conceiving
medium : pen and ink
date : november 2002
description : Female Conceiving is one of my latest works in which i tried to show time and motion in a still image. Much of my current work uses this same technique where i use overlapping and conjoining images to tell a story. The composition is also something i've been using quite frequently in which i cut part of the image off at the end of the page to give the feeling of a glimpse of what's going on rather than a whole emphasis on the subject matter.

 

 

title : hours of medical transition I (california)
medium : pen and ink, paint pen
size : 11" x 14"
date : 2002
description : After living in southern california for seven years and then leaving there are quite a few things that stand out in my mind. One of those is plastic surgery and the amount of women with fake breasts. With this piece i've taken the fake breasts and exaggerated them into these giant things that are growing and multiplying off of the womans chest. For sale at YouWorkForThem.

 

 

title : hours of medical transition II (california)
medium : pen and ink, paint pen
size : 11" x 14"
date : 2002
description : Another piece in the california series. This one depicts a woman getting some form of facial cosmetics. I tried making her face look like it was being ripped apart with blood droplets coming off after seeing a documentary showing what some of these surgeries look like when performed. For sale at YouWorkForThem.

 

 


title : man being shot and dying
medium : pen and ink, adobe photoshop
date : september 2002
description : Here's a work that was put together digitally off of a simple black and white inked illustration. The concept here is a man getting shot and then dying. To give a small sense of time i gave the man three different faces and reactions. The first being a look of fear(the moment right before he is shot), the second that of pain(the moment he feels the bullets tearing through him) and the third of his final breath before he passes. Once again, i composed it where part of the image is cut off to hopefully give the viewer a sense that they are seeing this as a quick glimpse into this mans death rather than his whole life. The red X at the bottom is symbolic of the man being "X'ed" out of existence/life.

 

 

title : man fighting cancer
medium : pen and ink, adobe photoshop
date : september 2002
description : This digitally colored pencil sketch is a representation of a man fighting a cancer that's eating it's way through his body. What i tried to show here was while his body is degenerating he is still putting up a fight against it.

 

 

title : my oh my! (console convulsion)
medium : pen and ink
date : november 2002
description : This is part of a series of illustrations in which i had a basic concept but planned very little in terms of what the piece would look like. Whatever hit the paper basically stayed on the paper with little to no thought of composition or form. What this piece is showing is one of my friends seeming obsession with video games at that moment. It's a shape built of many faces and limbs all trying to desparately reach for the x button.

 

 

title : overweigh elevation I
medium : pen and ink, paint pen
size : 8"x 10", 5" x 9"
date : 2002
description : The first in a series of illustrations experimenting with the juxtaposition of multiple frames. I really enjoy how this piece came out in terms of experimenting with multiple frames. The artwork is mainly a man becoming more and more weighed down with grief.

 

 

title : unnecessary resting leads to a bloated individual
medium : pen and ink, paint pen, inkjet printer
size : 11" x 14"
date : 2002
description :This is a piece I did In collaboration with Mike Young - WeWorkForThem™. More of an experimental piece in collaborating our works than anything. It started
off with Mike giving me a shape to work with and me going off on that.

 

© Lance Sells 2002-03

 

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