Post #711643 by Tiki Shark Art on Wed, Mar 19, 2014 8:42 PM

Aloha Tiki Tribe!

Well, back to the book report...

"Eponymonstrous" by Brandon Ragnar Johnson.

Great stuff! New book. Ragnar. Me big fan. His design work is so wonderful, I felt he must have no self doubt as an artist, he is just so damn good! ...at the end of this huge hard cover slip case book, showing sketches, doodles, finished vector graphics, paints, and photos...all his huge amazing talent...show casing his career since 2000, ...at the end he says he "just came out of a terrible depression" and had hard fight & struggle with his inner demons. You do find out more about him.... he's always been "less is more, no words more art. We learn, that like many of the rest of "The Tiki Tribe", he was a punker.

Wow! ...and here I thought he was bullet proof ...and stainless steel!

Turns out he's an artist full of self doubt and prone to depression just like the rest of us!
Hmmm!
Just about every noted artist in "The History of Art is Western Civilization" is the same; depressed, a drunk, a drug addict, or plain out crazy!

Love his early slim books- many of the same graphics in a much bigger and better to gawk at.
But this book has such a great "feel". Hard cover. Slip case. A master work.

My other big art hero (besides Ken Ruzic aka LLT, and Big Toe) is Todd Schorr. Funny, he also talks about depression and having a nervous break down when he was trying to make it as a gallery artist,

...that's in THIS book.
"Secret Mystic Rites" The Art of Todd Schorr

Gosh.... we artists are a sect of misfits and weirdos who don't fit in, and we make art to help the world make sense to us.
If I didn't make art, I'd be a skill-less bum!

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-03-19 21:03 ]