Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, Office Space, and Idiocracy, visited the University of Texas tonight for an RTF “Master Class” with John Pierson. I told John I was a huge fan, and he was nice enough to invite me. Of course, I brought my sketchbook.
Note: if you want to cartoon someone, don’t sit front row. Distance = better abstraction.
Mike lives right here in Austin, Texas, and came off as a really smart, down-to-earth and unpretentious guy. He was even nice enough to make a Sharpie doodle of Butthead in my sketchbook!
Last night there was a party in town to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Office Space (I missed it, but heard it was great.)
You can read some good quotes and watch some of my favorite clips by him over on my tumblelog.
Sorry, this is not an insightful or substantive comment, but… that totally rules.
That is all.
Ditto what Rob said. When we saw Idiocracy in Sept ’06 I was crazy about the movie and blogged on it, but faced with Mike Judge in person would have been reduced to saying humina, humina. Love what you did with Mike Judge’s mouth in drawing #3.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Great sketches!
Thanks, y’all. I wasn’t perfectly happy with the drawings last night, and looking at that doodle of Butthead in Sharpie has led me to make a manifesto of drawing for the rest of the month (at least):
1) Stay LOOSE.
2) Use BOLD instruments (Sharpie, Pen Brush, or Pilot G2 BOLD are my favorites)
3) SIMPLIFY
4) DISTANCE = ABSTRACTION – the further away from a subject you are, the more your vision distills the subject into essential features. (Don’t sit in the front row.)
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