February 11th
3:55 PM

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Originally I just wanted to draw “The Bat Girl”, like my earlier “Spider Man”. A girl with big eyes and long, webbed muscly arms and short stubby legs like a bat. This became kind of boring, even when I gave her the ‘look’ of a lovely girl with whom I used to smoke Marijuana and watch “South Park”. (Who said people who like Bats have to be gloomy?)

Then a friend of mine - a different friend - told me she used to suffer from Trypophobia, and I had to go and look up what that was.

Hee hee hee.

November 12th
5:01 PM

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Concept character sketches of two detective Marmots. I happen to like Marmots, and the drawing of them, though not easy, is certainly fun.

May 6th
3:43 AM

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CHARACTER DESIGN: “Sloth”

By this point, a terrible tragedy of my own had occurred: I was running out of paper. And so the last of the two Sins painted, Sloth and Lechery, are single-piece works.

Sloth is here shown too lazy to even look directly at Faustus; his feet shrivelled off due to malnutrition, and his skin is grey, as if being away from his beloved sunny bank has caused him to rot.

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FAUSTUS

What art thou—the sixth?

SLOTH

I am Sloth. I was begotten on a sunny bank, where I have lain ever since; and you have done me great injury to bring me from thence: let me be carried thither again by Gluttony and Lechery. I’ll not speak another word for a king’s ransom.

May 3rd
11:51 PM

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CHARACTER DESIGN: Gluttony

As Marlowe was writing for poor as well as rich audiences, the sin of Gluttony is written as the least of offences - his was the Sin that the rich indulged in and that the poor aspired to. Therefore his dialogue shows him to be an inoffensive chap, as do the relatives he mentions; unlike other Sins, he only grumbles at Faustus when denied the chance of a good meal. Hence I drew him as a short, round hedonist. Having seen pictures of people whose bellies seem to curl into the shape of lips, I added a larger grin on his stomach, not unlike the Blemmyas that Marlowe’s audience would have been familiar with.

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FAUSTUS

And what art thou, the fifth?

GLUTTONY

I am Gluttony. My parents are all dead, and the devil a penny they have left me, but a small pension, and that buys me thirty meals a-day and ten bevers,—a small trifle to suffice nature.

I come of a royal pedigree: my father was a Gammon of Bacon, my mother was a Hogshead of Claret-wine; my godfathers were these, Peter Pickled-herring and Martin Martlemas-beef; but my godmother, O, she was an ancient gentlewoman; her name was Margery March-beer.

Now, Faustus, thou hast heard all my progeny; wilt thou bid me to supper?

FAUSTUS

Not I.

GLUTTONY

Then the devil choke thee!

FAUSTUS

Choke thyself, glutton!

April 30th
5:45 AM

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CHARACTER DESIGN: “Covetousness”

Another deadly sin - Covetousness, known better these days as ‘Greed’. One sees grotesque homunculi at museums and in textbooks whose anatomy is exaggerated, based upon, for instance, how much of the brain is dedicated to processing the sensory input of each organ:

This is what inspired my portrait of Covetousness - one whose organs are exaggerated based upon his need to see things that are not his and take them away. This sin is involved with a kind of paranoia and frustration, so he is a stretched-out, hunchbacked figure; like Envy, he is constantly worried about what he does not have. I also added a Tudor-era ruff, as if he were once a gentleman whose physical status has deteriorated due to obsessive hoarding.

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FAUSTUS

What art thou second?

COVETOUSNESS
I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl in a leather bag,

And might I now obtain my wish, this house, you and all, should turn to Gold, that I might lock you safe into my chest.

O my sweet Gold!

April 28th
9:49 PM

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CHARACTER DESIGN: “Envy”

Since my last Sin was so well-received, and I’m rather busy with essays, I’ve decided to carry on posting them (out of order, natch), until I can muster up the energy to make something relatively new-ish. Perhaps I’ll even just re-design them from scratch once this is all over.

Envy is of course drawn green; however, the way Marlowe writes his speech, he seems to be as full of self-importance as any ‘envious wretch’ you’d care to meet. So I thought I’d draw him as a bit of an exhibitionist - very much in the vein of those in the modern-day who scream about their own paltry suffering in order to get over their envy of everyone else. He’s meant to evoke constant hatred of others and constant paranoia of his own failings.

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FAUSTUS
And what art thou, the third?

ENVY
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper, and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books burned.

I am lean with seeing others eat. O, that there would come a famine over all the world, that all might die, and I live alone! Then thou should’st see how fat I’d be.

But must thou sit, and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!