Mckfoul and the Huntsman

Far away from human power

Striding hard in rainy showers

The huntsman paused to smell his prey

A pungent odor vent of decay

Unsheathing thus his might sword

Wrapped most well in cotton cord

Dashed off was he to where he may

A stronghold place that none would say

He caught the scent and there he goes

A thoroughbred stallion on his toes

Of danger and peril he cared not

But simply that he earn his lot

To live and work and breath and eat

The huntsman moved quick on his feet

From Ravagaz to Ovonkon

And Xarwaxim and Kubinekong

From Morphanx mines and sewers gritty

To Kobal mountain and stone city

To hunt elk and deer and Buffalo

And monsters crude like none before

At last, he came to Asantron

Deserted castle of Kings long gone

Foul thoughts were in the air

But it would not shake the huntsman’s stare

Of river, hill, and tree and flower

This was the time and this the hour

To slay the hungry beast Mckfoul

To rid the night of its cruel howl

Mckfoul was strong with might a plenty

Nine-teen claws or maybe twenty

A long thick neck like a mighty oak

A strong wide mouth to swallow folk

Its fur was green mud-slick and filthy

He won’t survive this peril will he?

With lightning speed and sudden reflex

The huntsman fired on its anal cortex

The arrow did little Mckfoul aroused

He craned his neck with screeching howls

And while the huntsman stunned stood reeling

Mckfoul plunged him into the ceiling

But stones could never break his soul

The huntsman delivered his thoughts in full

You’re no monster you rubber mechanic

You’re an undersized lobster or a gofer titanic

You can’t compute a phrase of eloquence

Like “pass the tea” or “mind my elephants!”

Pass the tea repeated Mckfoul

I don’t need such language he said with a scowl

I eat people for fun I do it with glee

I don’t have to bother with Elephants and tea

Is that so replied the huntsman

Recovering now the celling blow bloodstained

“Would Sir Jac Mckfoul please pass me the juicer

And while Mckfoul stood all confused there

The huntsman plunged his sword into foul’s heart

I’ve learned your ways too he said with a start

You value surprise in every battle

I’ve just beat you to it with one foot in the saddle

You beat me I’ve lost growled the old weary villain

I’m sorry for all of my gruesomely kill’n

I hope you’ll respect me for our unsportly duel

And tell kids the tale of old great Mckfoul encounter

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Dear Readers,
I am a big Jackie Chan fan. I love his stunts and fight scenes. Watching his movies inspired me to make my own action sequences. They are on my YouTube Channel, Director Wolf. I don't have many videos, and you shouldn't expect more in the foreseeable future, but feel free to go check it out.

Men In Black International

Here I drew the poster for the new Men in Black: International with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I liked the first Men in Black movies. I think it will be hard to improve upon Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones' great chemistry.

Men in Black is a great opportunity for me to embrace the grave of my pen mentality of not using pencil in my final products. All the sharp suits look really good in ink.

For those who were expectant for the James Bond picture I gave a preview of, I must say that the project dived. I don't expect to finish it anymore. But I will post it up here if I do. I'm really sorry about that.

Lumière

I drew this two years ago, but I was going through my sketch book, and said to myself "Hey! This is really good. I should put this on my blog!" So I did.

Dreamy Mountains

These are some pacific mountains I envisioned when I was trying to lull myself to sleep. I pictured this as from the point of view of a bird flying through these mountains.

Comment on how pacific you feel it is on a scale of 0 (no peace) to 10 (perfectly peace stimulating).

Buffalo

This was a fun silhouette picture I liked out of a "stay away from the wildlife" pamphlet from Yosemite.

My Pencil's Grave

I have posted many pencil sketches on this blog and some of them are really good. One of the keys to making maximum use of your pencil is contrast.

You can get the best contrast by making your outlines in a light pencil led and slowly working your way up to darker pencil leads as you shade more and more. You can't generally get past 4B pencils, which are softer and darker than regular 2B pencils.

That is the foundation for my story. At career night I decided to bring my notebook and sketch the speakers. It was a really good idea and gave me something to do.

The first few speakers I drew in pencil, as you can see and then I transferred over to pen. The comparison is rather clear to me. The pencil is drab, boring and smudgeable, while the pen is crisp and contrasting.

There is, of course, that lingering doubt. "What if you make a mistake?" While there is still argument for me, I haven't noticed myself making that many mistakes. If I do, I can still correct it with more lines or with white-out. I put my picture of Louis Armstrong to show how my fear of mistakes is generally not in step with reality. (I did, however, make some minor mistakes with his lower trumpet pipes.)

This is why I want to put my pencil to rest. I will still use my pencil, but I want to move on from creating finished products of carbon lines. I want to use pens, and markers, and my computer too, to make art in the future!

The Love Equation

I happen to know a brilliant scientist and psychologist. He is somewhat well known as Florenti Drakeiovitch author of "We make small things out of big things," and "To tapdance upon an electron is to be idiosyncratic." A number of years ago he walked into a completely unrelated session at a convention I attended. From his brilliance to his pen flew calculations that will always stick in my mind, and perhaps one day, become a man's entire career. He wrote the equation that calculates love.

In which p is the number of entities in a closed system and greater than one. G is the love constant. m_e1and m_e2 represent the emotional mass of person one and the emotional mass of person two. Which is divided by the distance between them squared. Within the parentheses, you have money per hour times shallowness times attractiveness on a scale of one to ten.

Since the mighty Drakeiovitch did not provide the Love constant, you cannot immediately begin calculating love, however, you can estimate love and back-solve for the constant. You now also have the mathematical relationships that will let you increase the love in your life, or decrease it if it's getting out of hand.

I have wanted to document this in the past. I hope people will appreciate this scientific truth which has for years layn concealed in the notebooks of myself, and the few others at the convention.

Barack Obama

I think it's pretty good, but to really make it the last 10% to perfect I would need to do something different with the proportions. Proportions are really tough to get just right.

Spencer

This is a doodle I did in Biology class. I think this robot is really neat. He would make a good face for a mining company because his drill displays their industry while his friendly right hand is free to shake hands with all the executives on television.

He is party based on R.O.B. the robot. R.O.B. was part of Nintendo's "entertainment system" that they realized about the time Atari went bankrupt (the American Video Game Crash of 1938). The American population was rather uninterested in video games, however Nintendo's "entertainment system" included R.O.B. a cool toy robot. After many people bought the system with the robot in mind they enjoyed the video games it included and video game sales began to grow into a industry that still booms today.

This is R.O.B.

Skyfall Teaser

The large gray spot is a defect of the scan, which was amplified when I
brought out the lines in the drawing.

This is a still from the James Bond movie Skyfall. I enjoyed this movie. If you want to watch it, I recommend using VidAngel. It will filter out any unsavory content you like.

There is a strange correlation between the movies I watch and drawing pictures. I had taken a movie sabbath recently and I think my art took a significant dive in production. But now that I watched Skyfall I felt compelled to draw a striking picture of 007.

Finally, to answer the question you might be asking, yes, this is just a teaser like the title says, so I will be adding details and shading to the car, surroundings, and 007 himself. I hope I have whet you appetite for the final product.

Louis Armstrong

I drew this picture of Louis Armstrong as a part of my US History class. He is one of the icons of the roaring twenties. I don't think I captured his looks very well but I think I did very well with drawing him quickly and efficiently. I first sketched out his outline in pencil and then went over in pen. I like his hand grasping the trumpet, and the stark contrast of the dark pen on the white paper.

A Traveling Man’s EDC

I submitted this article to my favorite emagazine called the Art of Manliness. They will notify me in three to six weeks to tell me if they want to publish it. I certainly hope they do, but I know that it is a very well known online magazine, and they must set the bar quite high. Even if don't success I can publish it on my own blog here. I hope you enjoy it. (In case you are new to the acronym EDC stands for EveryDay Cary. The tools or objects you carry everyday.)

From the day I stepped into existence I loved tools. Not necessarily using tools, but having them around just in case. By the time I was ten, I had bulging pockets: pocket knife, keys, wallet, phone.... I ended up carrying so much that I got blisters on my thighs from the rub of it all. I soon moved on to a fanny pack. It quickly filled up. Because of my shabby ten-year-old clothing, my family nicknamed me “the Hobo”. I had gone through two fanny packs and was using a third when I realized I needed a real upgrade, something that wouldn't clunk around as I moved, something more fashionable.



I got a messenger bag from a local store. It has several advantages over backpacks and fanny packs:

• You access everything in it without taking it off
  
• It doesn't swing around like a fanny pack
  
• It looks good
  

This is the perfect bag for the world wide traveler. I've carried my traveler's bag on trains, airplanes, ferries, buses, subways, taxis, and bicycles. It gives me access to my things while I'm in transit. Traveling involves waiting and lines that can be very long on the best days. Having to fumble around with a backpack for your passport and ticket can be frustrating and embarrassing. With a good traveler’s bag you can be a more debonair man who glides through airport security. I don't pack pocket knives or other items that are not allowed on flights or border crossings.

What I Carry

Small items

• Pens and pencils.
• Magnetic pointer. It's just so cool.
• Cough drops.

Medium items

• Magnetic detective notebook.
• Tin of mints.
• Small magnifying glass. To unleash my inner detective.
• USB drives on a string.
• Matches in an empty floss container.
• Hand sanitizer.
• A length of cord. For knot practice.
• Pocket size sunscreen. Great for impromptu recreation.
• Camp spork.
• Small length of string.
• Handkerchief. The five-hundred-sneeze tissue and cup sleeve your grandfathers used.

Larger items

• Toilet paper roll. Get the kind without a cardboard roll. Most third world bathrooms don't provide toilet paper. When you need it, you need it. Toilet paper also doubles as napkins, gauze, wipe rag, and possibly emergency rope.
• Sunglasses. In a case with a microfiber cloth, I use them all the time for driving.
• Compact Bible. I have a compact version with both the New and Old Testament.
• Phone.
• Wallet.
• Krazee. A baffling puzzle from my manly grandfather.
• Deck of cards.
• Comb.
• Adjustable belt. It works as a backup for my normal belt. Very versatile I used it on a camping trip to hold a bundle of gear.

Secret Pocket

• Money.
• Laminated photocopy of passport. This can sometimes be used as ID in place of a real passport, allowing you to keep your passport in a more secure place.
• The words to my favorite song. Mine is A Mighty Fortress Is Our G-d.

Rear Pocket

• Rain coat. While it keeps off the rain its close-knit fabric keeps heat in pretty well especially for its small volume. An emergency blanket could fill this role well, but I like not having to look like a hurricane refugee if I get cold.

Final Words

My traveler's bag has been just what I was looking for. It looks good and gives me quick and easy access to the tools I need as I travel. It also provides me with simple entertainment in many of life's long waits. It has equipped me for many adventures. In China, I pulled out a deck of cards and played with strangers on a long train ride. While everyone’s resources, needs, and preferences differ, I hope you can better build your own to be prepared for wherever life takes you and the adventures that await.