Sunday Sortie

It was another humid warm day on Sunday and I was exhausted after doing laundry, then going into Manhattan to get a haircut, then grabbing a bite with Dutch in Chinatown. On my walk home from the train, a girl walked past me, in her own world. She carried a small foldable lawn/beach chair, with colorful stripes. The fun little chair belied the grim "fuck you" look on her face. "Geez, why do people wear flip-flops in the city?", I thought, as she hurried forward.

Above her is Ronnie, my little assistant, now fully dressed. I gave her a sort of 60s mod Cilla Black/Patti Boyd look.

-Henry

Everyday People

Some recent sketches on the subway drawn from memory.

-H

Finished up a cd cover design last month for Beeware. Will post pics of that tonight. Sketched up some tattoo designs for a friend's friend. This is the first time I've ever done any type of "classic" cursive lettering, so some of the letters are unbalnced and uneven. I'll try to draw them more even and practice more in the coming months. Maybe buy some of those instructional "how-to" books on tattoo lettering.

-Henry

INDY VS> no

Watching the NFC title game. Finished up one of two wood panels. It's a nice coincidence that the panels are the same proportions as an MTA subway car. Things just sort of happened. I used Post-It notes to mark the dimensions after doing some research on different train models MTA uses.

More pics at my Flickr page.

It's gonna be a busy week at work. I plan on working on my business card design tomorrow, as well as following the Fashion Week stuff coming up soon.

-Henry

Purple People Eater

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Cloudy. Cold. Here are a couple of tattoo designs for a client I'm finishing up with. The inks were scanned in and traced in Illustrator, then brought into Photoshop as vector art and colored.

-Henry
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12.30.08 pt. 2

More outlines and noodlings from the past week.
The drawing above seems to go very well with the January '09 NYLON cover w/ Lily Allen...
"Ronnie" character is ©2008 Henry Ng.

Tunes: Gang Gang Dance, Brian Eno, Taylor Swift, Hercules & Love Affair, Steve Earle, School of Seven Bells, Tetsu Inoue, Hot 97 radio, KCRW Simulcast.

I'll Take You There

What up. Pete Rock and CL Smooth is pumping through my speakers and summer jams abound. A year ago I was in the middle of an "alone-ness", spending time by myself and lost in a dreamworld. It was fucked up, son. But I'm much better and things are much better now, especially the money sitch. I'm still alone, but I feel happier inside. I got mad shit to create and places to visit.

It's muggy and supposed to rain this whole weekend. The sun is actually shining through the thick silvery clouds this Friday evening. I wish I were out at an outdoor cafe writing this, but I don't have a laptop.

Finally made a Krolewskie Jadlo tshirt for myself. I get food from there a lot and it's really tasty and affordable. Hell, I'm chomping down on some bigos, mashed potatoes, and mushroom pierogis right now. I chose a mint-colored American Apparel shirt to be summery and had it printed at T-Shirt Express. It's a hole-in-the wall with stacks and stacks of shirts and stuff everywhere, and they mainly do screenprinted shirts, but they did a great job with a simple heat transfer. The super bonus was that they knocked out all of the white areas automatically from my flattened Photoshop files, something I had to do myself when I hand-cut my own heat tranfer prints at the place I used to go to in the LES, which is closed for good. T-Shirt Express is on the outskirts of Chinatown, so I spoke with the people there directly in Cantonese. Hell yeah.

-Zheik