Garbage Pail Kids
As I posted in one of my previous entries, I thought it would be fun to try and paint my own Garbage Pail Kid. Most people remember these as the little gross sticker cards from the 80s that were a parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids.
I was always a huge fan of the cards as a youngster, and would pester my Mom to the ends of the earth to buy me "just one more pack" each time we went to a 7-Eleven, or gas station, or anywhere for that matter ("They don't sell Garbage Pail Kids at Denny's, Boy!")
As I got older and began to dabble in art, Garbage Pail Kids continued to hold their appeal to me. I began to appreciate the technical merit of paintings by John Pound, Tom Bunk and Jay Lynch. Sure these guys were painting poop and pee and vomit, but they did it really well!
Just a few years back, Topps began releasing Garbage Pail Kids again, and if you haven't seen them yet, you really should. Many of the original artists from the 80s continue to work on the new sets, and some of the cards are quite funny. Sure it's toilet humor in every sense of the term, but you can't help but giggle at some of them.
I still collect the cards to this day, and though I'm huge into sports and lifting weights and such, those cards definitely help me to release my "inner nerd." So when I heard that the new series was coming out this month, I got inspired to paint my own. Having just received a new WACOM as a birthday gift from my wife, I figured I'd give it a go.
As you can see, the arms and head are now mostly finished, though they need a bit more shading and highlights.
I'll post updates as I have them, but to all of you artists out there, you really should go dig a few of these cards up and study them. Believe it or not, you really can learn something from a painting of a kid playing with his own turds.
I was always a huge fan of the cards as a youngster, and would pester my Mom to the ends of the earth to buy me "just one more pack" each time we went to a 7-Eleven, or gas station, or anywhere for that matter ("They don't sell Garbage Pail Kids at Denny's, Boy!")
As I got older and began to dabble in art, Garbage Pail Kids continued to hold their appeal to me. I began to appreciate the technical merit of paintings by John Pound, Tom Bunk and Jay Lynch. Sure these guys were painting poop and pee and vomit, but they did it really well!
Just a few years back, Topps began releasing Garbage Pail Kids again, and if you haven't seen them yet, you really should. Many of the original artists from the 80s continue to work on the new sets, and some of the cards are quite funny. Sure it's toilet humor in every sense of the term, but you can't help but giggle at some of them.
I still collect the cards to this day, and though I'm huge into sports and lifting weights and such, those cards definitely help me to release my "inner nerd." So when I heard that the new series was coming out this month, I got inspired to paint my own. Having just received a new WACOM as a birthday gift from my wife, I figured I'd give it a go.
As you can see, the arms and head are now mostly finished, though they need a bit more shading and highlights.
I'll post updates as I have them, but to all of you artists out there, you really should go dig a few of these cards up and study them. Believe it or not, you really can learn something from a painting of a kid playing with his own turds.
posted by Dave Johnson @ 10:37 AM
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