Showing posts with label #greytrash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #greytrash. Show all posts

Saturday, April 16, 2022

Sharpie Scribble Style drawings from the last year... 4/16/2022

For quite a while, I wanted to draw a set of eyes real big, just to see how it would look in my style.  I asked a Facebook friend if I could draw her eyes, since she had beautiful green ones.  She knew me well enough to not get creeped out, and sent me a few selfies to work from.   To help her green eyes pop, I looked for a way to make the background red or near red.  My idea was that she was peeking through an a hole created by a missing brick, in an old brick wall at her boyfriend, in a broken down part of the city.  But nearly everyone who saw this finish drawing thought it was creepy.  It wasn't meant to be.  

The words in the background in the bricks are a bunch of quotes from music and literature about eyes.  I was actually stoked on the final drawing.  But this is one of the ones I lost when I couldn't afford to keep paying my storage unit rent last year.  Bummer.  I drew this in 2020, or early 2021.  I planed to save this for an art show.  But I lost the original, and never got a copy to my eye model.  18" X 24", #sharpiescribblestyle

This taxi driver drawing was one I did just for myself, to remind me of my 6 1/2 crazy years driving all kinds of people, from homeless people, to a billionaire, from proper church ladies, to porn stars, from stone cold sober, to drunk maniacs.  I lived in my taxi for 5 1/2 of those years, and I have hundreds of pretty crazy stories form those days.  I actually got into a cab one day, and another driver had written "Drive, Die, Cash" behind the visor, on the roof, in pen.  Those three words seemed to sum up taxi driving better than anything else.  Unfortunately, this is another one I lost when I lost my storage unit last fall (2021).  Again... bummer.  But shit happens.  18" X 24"
I did this drawing, and put the original on a skateboard deck, for the 2020 Boozer Jam.  That's an annual BMX jam at Sheep Hills in Costa Mesa, which started as a fundraiser for Mike "Boozer" Brown, who was paralyzed at a race in 2011, I think.  Mike died in 2019, and so the 2020 jam became the first memorial Boozer Jam.  This deck was raffled off, and someone later mounted a small clock in the top of it.  
Not a Sharpie drawing.  This is one of my "M.C. Escher Skatepark" drawings.  It's a freehand pen and ink drawing, blending my high school drafting isometric skills, with a little absurdity.  I started drawing these while working at BMX Action and FREESTYLIN' magazines, way back in 1986.  I hadn't done any in years, and drew a couple a few months ago.  They were quickly snapped up by a Facebook friend, after I posted them.  9" X 12"
I first drew a Grey alien in about 1998, and started drawing them smoking cigarettes in 2009, I think.  Sparked by learning about NFT's, and all the generated art series, I started drawing a bunch of my aliens small, all with funny sayings.  I even came up with a little backstory on them, and I call them Grey Trash, like trailer park aliens.  These are 5 1/2" by 8 1/2", and done freehand, in my #sharpiescribblestyle.  I've done about 35 of this latest series of these, and I post them on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest, from time to time.  

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Friday, March 25, 2022

Grey Trash pic of the day- 3/25/2022


 "It's 420 somewhere."  It's Friday, so here's a drawing for the stoners out there.  I only smoked weed for a year or so, right out of high school.  But I'm 100% pro legalization (for all the the states still behind the curve).  

I have a new blog now, check it out:

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Grey Trash drawing of the day- 3/22/2022

"If you don't think you can make a difference in the world, far tin a crowded elevator and watch what happens."  One person can change things.  Somethings, anyhow.  #greytrash, #sharpiescribblestyle .
 

I have a new blog now, check it out:

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Monday, March 21, 2022

Grey Trash drawing of the day- 3/21/2022


 The older I get, the more I believe this idea.  "Most progress in the world  comes from the freaks, geeks, dorks, and weirdos."  Cheers to all the other weirdos out there.  

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Grey Trash: It started with Norbit


 This is Norbit, one of the three aliens that crashed in 1947 north of Roswell, now living in "Grey Valley" mobile home park, in a canyon hidden deep on a military base.   

After going down north of Roswell in 1947, one crew member died in the crash, and the second died in transit to a U.S.  Army Air Force Base in Roswell, months before the U.S. Air Force was created.  This guy knew very little English, he was the engineer of the craft, not the crew chief.  When the military asked what his name was, he thought they were asking him where he came from.  He said, "In orbit," in the best English he could manage.  They misunderstood him, and thought his name was Norbit.  The name stuck, as the weeks passed, and he learned English, and the government personnel learned of his world and ways.  

Yes, the Roswell crash was 75 years ago.  But Grey aliens have a natural lifespan of about 150 Earth years, and Norbit was 35, in our years, when his ship crashed.  At 110 years old now, he's got plenty of life left, comparable to a 60-year-old here on Earth.  

Norbit has been working with various U.S. government agencies, mostly on engineering projects, since 1947.  And yes millennials, he smokes.  His planet actually has air that's quite toxic by Earth standards, and the Greys have adapted to it over thousands of years, and their bodies flush airborne toxins out much better than ours do.  He picked up smoking in the 1940's, when many of the humans he worked with smoked, and hasn't stopped.  He still shows no signs of lung cancer, and telling to stop smoking really pisses him off.

Norbit, overall, is really low key, like many engineers.  He doesn't talk a lot, he likes solving tough engineering problems, and keeps to himself much of his off time.  He enjoys playing backgammon and a few card games now and then, and watching science based shows on TV and YouTube. 

While he was the first Grey to live here on Earth, among humans, for an extended period, he's not alone.  It turns out that, as advanced as the Greys spacecraft are, our lightning here on Earth can really do a number on them, or at least the craft from a few decades ago.  As more and more craft crashed on Earth, more and more Grey aliens crashed in the 1950's, 60's, and since.  The survivors all lived in secret bases, deep underground, until the mid 1970's.  At that point they had a bit of a mutiny, and demanded to be able to live somewhere on the surface.  

After much debate, a well hidden little canyon,  a ways east of  White Sands missile range, in western New Mexico, was chosen as the site.  Government officials moved in a bunch of single wide mobile homes, drilled a well for water, and put in the basic necessities.  The 53 Greys in the U.S. at the time all moved in, and the place soon got nicknamed "Grey Valley."  

Since aliens don't officially exist, they can't travel anywhere in public, so they're pretty much stuck in Grey Valley.  There is a big cave next to their trailer park, with a pub in the front part, just out of sight.  There are several lower levels hollowed out in it, for labs, machine shops, and tech rooms, for the various types of work they do.  They had TV early on, and eventually got internet a couple years after it came out.  

So now most of the aliens there are active online, using aliases.  Several play multi-player online games, and interact with humans who think they're just another person on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram somewhere.  They also buy a shitload of stuff from Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and other online shops. Everything they order gets delivered to a main gate loading dock, miles away, then transported by truck to Grey Valley.  Most of them are into buying crypto as well, and several have become crypto millionaires, which doesn't make the U.S. government very happy.  But they do their respective jobs, and otherwise keep low profiles.  So the feds tolerate their online interactions, and crypto and a bit of stock trading. 

After many years living as a small group in a trailer park, though, some of them are getting kind of weird.  In the future I'll share with you my drawings of this odd, quirky group of aliens.  They are the Grey Trash.  Here are a couple more.  There are many more to come, with their thoughts on different things.  



Moron disclaimer:  Just in case you're a complete fucking idiot (and many of you are, judging by your online posts), this story is all FICTION.  The Grey aliens living in secret bases is an American urban legend at this point, and my Grey Trash drawings are my take on this idea.  I have no idea if aliens actually exist, if the Greys exist, if a UFO is what crashed outside Roswell, or any of the other things people have heard about aliens.  I started drawing aliens in 1998 or so, and first drew one smoking a cigarette in 2009.  It just made me laugh, and the idea of "white trash aliens living in a trailer park," began to form in my head.  

Thursday, March 17, 2022

The Grey Trash are coming...


 They live in secret, in a government funded trailer park, in an obscure little valley in the New Mexico desert.  They can't travel,  They can't be seen in public.  They mostly work for the U.S. government, and the ones who don't get a government check monthly, like humans in any other trailer park.  They are online with aliases.  They kick your ass in online games, and have made a shitload in crypto profits.  They're sarcastic, and getting pretty weird in some cases.  They are trailer trash aliens.  They are Grey Trash.  More coming soon...

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Grey Trash Sharpie art is coming soon...

I started drawing aliens in about 1998.  But the Greys smoking cigarettes started when I was experimenting with street art in 2007, and then with Sharpies in 2009, when I was living in a homeless shelter in Winston-Salem, NC, and looking for work.  I drew one grey wearing a wife beater tank top and smoking a cigarette, and it just made me laugh.  So I drew more.  These ones are on some skateboard decks I found by our dumpster in 2012.  The basic idea was, "What if there really are grey aliens living on some secret government base somewhere, and they got sick of staying underground?"  The Feds would build some kind of  small place for them on the surface, in the middle of nowhere, likely in mobile homes. 

So we'd wind up with a bunch of aliens in a trailer park in Nevada or New Mexico, and they wouldn't be able to leave.  Would they take on human trailer park characteristics?  Would they turn into White Trash aliens in a desert trailer park?  Would they become Grey Trash? 

That was the basic idea.  I started thinking about that, and then drew some.  So I've been drawing a bunch of these guys again.  With my laptop gone now, and a phone with no data, uploading photos is an issue.  But more of these guys are coming soon...

The quote on the last board below is, "I'm not crazy, and if I was, I'd send my invisible ninja leprechauns after you."  #greytrash, #sharpiescribblestyle

Kieran Woolley's "Opera" segment

I never heard of him before today, which doesn't mean much.  But this is a really cool skate segment, so check it out.   I do most of my...