Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Dali as an angel – surreal pencil sketch
Salvador Dali as an angel – pencil sketch by Darren Daz Cox
It’s funny how I really can’t draw things that aren’t organic, curvy and cute, at least when I just let my mind wander the results are generally pleasant even they are surreal. I don’t have a lot of nightmares and I remember my dreams just about every night so perhaps this why but I think it’s because I consciously chose a target audience for my art and that audience is not how I was when I was an angry young man. Before I was an angry young man I was a pretty damn happy pre-teen who really wanted to learn how to draw, and who wrote poems and stories and read a whole lot of science fiction.
Here’s another sketch I did randomly, the found bird. It would be really special if a bird you had let out of a cage found it’s way back to you! Pencil on paper and colored in Photoshop.
The Found Bird, just some cute art to make the world a better place by positive intention.
this groovy monster appeared randomly when I mirrored the art! yea for monsters!
Oh and the coolest thing ever, well, not ever, but pretty awesomely cool, my friend Jenni from when I lived in Hong Kong scanned a copy of our 1981 yearbook and it had a poem I wrote in there that makes me happy!
My Best Friend by Darren Daz Cox age 12
My best friend is kind of weird
he has no hair, eyebrows or beard
He even has light blue skin
(No don’t tell my next of kin!)
What I tell you is no lie
My best friend will never die,
He’s a mutant from the stars
who has a zombie ranch on Mars
(he keeps them in check they say
by feeding them plutonium hay.)
We met at a lunar convention
while I displayed my new invention.
To study humans was his intention
to study him there’s no need to mention.
I told him of the Earth so green
He told me of the places he’d been.
We talked and talked until we were through
Then I went home and he did too.
I’m really proud of this poem because it’s very me and very Spike Milligany who wrote my favorite poem …
Porridge
Why is there no monument
To Porridge in our land?
It it’s good enough to eat,
It’s good enough to stand!
On a plinth in London
A statue we should see
Of Porridge made in Scotland
Signed, “Oatmeal, O.B.E.”
(By a young dog of three)
Spike Milligan
Jenni was a mutant slave and I was the ruler of the mutants in our school play at St. Georges School called The Second Coming, which was an awesome sci-fi spectacle and the finest thing put on stage since, no, it was the best play ever.
My sister Sonja was also in the play as well as my friends Jamie Anderson (big Judas Priest fan!) and Alex Speed (first guy to suggest Led Zeppelin as a cool band to me hehe!).
I have some really awesome memories, am very happy right now and look forward to an awesome rest of my life!
Originally posted 2009-07-18 20:34:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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