Gen-Pop Art
This post first appeared on Regretsy in August of 2011.
Speaking of prison art, I thought you might enjoy this little collection of pencil sketches.
Not from Etsy, but weirdly enough, 1st Dibs (“The Most Beautiful Things on Earth”), comes a soap-dropping portfolio of prison art. You can choose from depictions of demons or fur-suited barbarians, depending on your decor. It’s a tough choice, but fortunately almost all of these pieces include a girl with big tits holding a dagger.
The drawings – some of which are framed – sell for $150 each. It might sound steep, but it seems fair when you consider what $150 buys on Etsy these days.
Click the image below for the whole set.
July 28, 2012 at 9:33 am
the last (3rd) one I swear is a Nagel
July 28, 2012 at 11:28 am
In the top one, is that… Is that Renee Zellweger?
July 28, 2012 at 1:18 pm
I was thinking Ice T and Coco.
July 29, 2012 at 11:50 am
Hot hot hot!
July 28, 2012 at 9:49 am
I’m fascinated by the muscly, clawed arm that comes out of nowhere in the second photo. Does that woman have a third, mutant arm growing out of her back?
July 28, 2012 at 9:52 am
It left me pondering, but I think it is the dragon’s leg.
July 28, 2012 at 10:01 am
Picture #2 has so many mysteries. Why does the snake have human limbs? Is the guy riding the snake or killing it? Is a bed of the skulls of your enemies really that comfortable? Will he be mad at the girl later for sticking her finger up his butt right before the picture or was he into it?
July 28, 2012 at 7:25 pm
And yet it is still better than the $150 ballerinas.
July 28, 2012 at 9:50 am
Someone told him he was the next Frank Frazetta.
July 28, 2012 at 10:07 am
Judging by this storyboard excerpt, the movie version of “The Hobbit” is going to be really different from the book.
July 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm
…and with a loud cry, Bilbo fisted the Orc, screaming “VICTORY!”
July 28, 2012 at 10:11 am
I said it before, but I’ll say it again:
I gotta buy a van.
July 28, 2012 at 10:22 am
Loincloths are SO last season.
July 28, 2012 at 10:31 am
These are more artful/anatomically-correct than half the shit on Etsy. Seriously, do you see that mound of skulls? So yummy.
July 28, 2012 at 10:35 am
That being said, WHO exactly profits from the sales of these lovelies? I hope the artists do, not the warden.
July 28, 2012 at 11:46 am
Why they get out, they can have a great career doing comic book art. This stuff is tame compared to most comic book covers these days.
August 5, 2012 at 10:41 am
I collect old Dungeons & Dragons books, and this art is only slightly worse than what was being published by professionals in the 1970s and early 1980s. He totally could have have gotten published at the fanzine level, at least.
Somebody should start a “Convicts to Game Artists” foundation. Collect some donations, get guys like this the “one more art class” they need to learn anatomy, and turn them into productive members of geek society!
July 28, 2012 at 10:41 am
Inmate #1: “Would you rather demean your art by making a drawing of me with exaggerated musculature, in a setting that reinforces my heroic self-image, and with a fantastically endowed woman to accentuate my masculinity or should I just rape you?”
Inmate #2: “Ummmm, let me just get my pencils.”
July 28, 2012 at 11:02 am
Perfectly good grounds for keeping this guy in prison…
July 28, 2012 at 12:19 pm
I think the top one is of No-Neck Joe’s not-so-great-great-great-great grand daddy just before the ice age.
July 28, 2012 at 1:20 pm
barbarian #3 looks so sad.
July 28, 2012 at 1:38 pm
These remind me of the back glass of pinball machines in the 70/80′s. Bally’s Lost World machine comes to mind.
July 28, 2012 at 1:59 pm
I think I know what I’m buying next. “Oh, that? It was made by a guy on death row. I know, the demon looks a little too happy while the girl(?) dressed in only a loincloth seemingly fists him. Classy, isn’t it?”
July 28, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Yes, she might as well be fisting him, since we don’t know what happened to her hands. But there is also the problem with the proportions of both her legs, and the twisting of her hips and her waist in opposite directions.
July 28, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Clearly drawn by a man whose only “experience” with females was messing with his sister’s Barbies.
July 28, 2012 at 7:49 pm
The women here are mostly an afterthought compared to the lovingly rendered muscles on the men/barbarians.
You know what they say, draw what you know!
July 29, 2012 at 12:16 am
Homesick and nostalgic for highschool art class, and out of beer, Brunhilde turned to Etsy for comfort.
July 29, 2012 at 12:20 am
Homesick and nostalgic for highschool art class, and out of beer, Brunhilde turned to Etsy for comfort. Sadly, Etsy failed to satisfy, but 1st Dibs came through. Sort of.
July 29, 2012 at 12:22 am
What the hell? Sorry.
July 29, 2012 at 1:04 am
Luis Royo had a baby with the guy who airbrushes aztec warriors on tailgates. At least, that’s who this artist aspires to be.
I should go to prison. I’d get so much art done. And be paid in cigarettes! Win/win!
July 29, 2012 at 1:30 am
I’ve just realized the dude’s face in the first drawing looks exactly like someone I know in real life… who used to dress up in medieval armor on weekends while his wife wrote fantasy adventure books. If I’d spoken to him at all in the past 8 years I’d forward this to them…but I think it might be awkward at this point.
July 29, 2012 at 1:32 am
If I said exactly the same thing a year ago on this post, I claim brain parasites.
July 30, 2012 at 3:18 am
The second one… So his penis is a giant snake that is about to eat the big-breasted woman, so he is going to save her and decapitate it with an axe… yes?