J Chris Campbell

I like having something brand new at every show I go to. It doesn’t always happen but I try. For ACE I continued my theme of Flowers and Robots. Ending up with 3 out of 5 being on topic. Not so shabby I guess.

What is shabby is the scan job I did on these suckers. The colors either get completely washed out or really saturated. Now I don’t have the originals to adjust them like. But hey, I was walking out the door so I’m glad I even took the time to capture them in the first place.

Can you guess the 3 that sold at the show?

My good pals over at the Dollar Bin have posted a video of me trying to draw. Watch in horror as I fumble my way through an entire drawing without the aid of my trusty computer. NFTWOH (Not for the weak of heart). If you think this is sort of movie magic trickery, then I’ll draw you a picture and mail it to you. I will except your challange for only 10 dollars (limited time only). Yes you can make a one sentence request, but nothing to fancy now. I’m not very good.

Get a one of a kind drawing sent right to your home. Just 10 earth credits (US).

Today was a pretty good day. A little bit better than yesterday but not by much. I’ve been hand drawing robots and from the looks of it I’ll be bringing them home with me. So let me know if you’d like to have one.

Electroburp

This one is my favorite. Mouthbot

Symbot

Lolly

My good buddy SteepleJack pointed me towards this guy’s ultra cool rocket sculptures. How great would those things look sitting on your desk?

Jack Brewer is the artist and he even does custom versions with your name/company on it. He’s a model maker for film and commercials and has worked on a bunch of movies including Nightmare Before Christmas, Men in Black & James and the Giant Peach. If I had known he was going to be at Comic-Con I’d for sure had put him on my 10 items list. I’ll just have to drool all over my friends.

I’m no Julian Beever that’s for sure.

No Vacation
Robots and Businessmen
by J Chris Campbell
April 1st –29th

O-cha Tea Bar
20 N Main St (downtown)
Greenville, SC 29601
(864) 241-6242

That computer you use everyday, it’ll never get to ride Thunder Road at Carowinds. It will never get to marvel at the huge naturalness of the Natural Bridge. Nope, it’s stuck there day after day. Working for the man.
Laptops have all the fun, hanging out in Coffee Shops all day. Surfing the net from the living room sofa. Chilling on your lap on a park bench. Unplugged, wireless and free to roam. You can work from anywhere on the planet.
Eventually, you won’t even have to work. You can kick back in your backyard, suspended between 2 trees, on your hammock. Your computer will do the work for you. Except in the future they will not be called computers and there will be no vacation.

————————————————

Sponsored by:
AdHouse Books & Wide Awake Press

————————————————

JCC’s 2005 Show At O-cha

————————————————

My sister came over today and we worked on family collage portraits ah la Claudine Hellmuth. Of course she left before I could scan hers, she did a really great job.

I wished I had spent a little more time on the content of mine. Had some little jokes in there or something. I guess it’s pretty neat even though I phoned it in. I should have printed the faces out darker. Oh well.

Foster was painting with some tempra paint and I grabbed a piece of black matt board and went at it. Of course it ended up being a happy running robot, but it was a neat fast 2 color job. I’ll try  and do another one next time we paint.
Click for bigger image:

Every Thanksgiving Day after all the eating is over, my mom has a little project for us to do. We’ve made miniature snow globes, altered journals and snowmen out of light bulbs.

This year we made Duct Tape Billfolds! Real, functioning billfolds with pockets for your credit cards and money. Some even had clear plastic for your photo idea. We even had several snazzy colors to choose from. It was pretty fun even if we are a couple of years behind the times.

I tricked mine out with a little pin striping of white and blue duct tape.

There are instructions and templates over at MAKE.

Yes I have a sketchbook! I can draw with non-mousey-clicks. No. Really I can, just not very well.
Recently I had to buy a new one and I like to use a square one. But the store I get them from stopped getting them. So I had to special order a couple so I wouldn’t be scrambling again.
Anyway, most of my drawings are usually just random headshots. I try and push myself to make entire bodies. But usually they just end up standing around yelling, running from nothing or holding coffee cups/laser guns.

Every now or then I’ll force myself to draw a scene.

Even more rare, I actually use some color!

I made up these little collage pieces to take to SPACE with me this weekend. I’ll be driving for 9 or so hours with my buddies Andy Runton and Rob Venditti. That’s guaranteed to be the funnest part. Oh, and hanging with Josh Cotter and Rob Ullman all day on Saturday should be extra cool also.