{"id":44965,"date":"2025-04-22T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=44965"},"modified":"2025-04-22T07:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:48:10","slug":"teenage-beast-coming-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/04\/22\/teenage-beast-coming-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Beast \u2022 Coming Through!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I continue to carve out the Teenage Beast<\/em> story in my sketchbooks. In this case, I am finishing up a 7-inch by 10-inch Canson XL Mixed Media<\/em> pad. I pencil in my characters and then ink them in with my Sailor Fude De Mannen<\/em> fountain pen which is quickly becoming my absolute favorite pen.<\/p>\n

In this scene, my main character is turning into his more beastly persona as he goes against the flow of a mosh pit<\/em> at the local punk club. Mosh pits usually swirl in a counter-clockwise direction. The Beast<\/em> decides to mosh<\/em> to the beat of his own drummer and travels in a clockwise<\/em> direction sending punks flying to wind up in broken and bloodied heaps across the dance floor.<\/p>\n

“Dude?! What the F…!”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The punks don’t take well to this and a fight ensues which doesn’t end well for the punks. Pain, death, horror! Aaaaaghh!<\/em> CRUNCH!<\/strong><\/p>\n

They should have stuck to New Wave<\/em>, I guess.<\/p>\n

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Being that I have been drawing for as long as I can remember, you think I would know better than to draw while drinking coffee during allergy season. A sip of coffee and a sneeze turned my pen and ink piece into a mixed media work. Yes, the sepia splotches were not intended although it sort of adds to the punk aesthetic. I could drench the rest of the page with a cup of coffee, but I may start all over again with a variation on this one. Fortunately, I was using waterproof ink.<\/p>\n

This is a rough as are a lot of these sketches, and there are things I still want to work out. I have to work up the geography of the room and the flow of the punks a little better. In this sketch, I started with my monster and fit in the other guys where I could. Most all of this was drawn while seated on a couch with a cat and a spouse except for when I sneezed the coffee at the breakfast table.<\/p>\n

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