While few would describe Will Laren's art as pleasing to the eye, his style -- ungraceful strokes, watercolors, and hand-written monologues providing the piece's humorous context -- certainly grows on you. His characters rarely fit common standards of beauty, either, often depicted with unattractive expressions, their hair a messy nest of lines, their mouths contorted, lips snarling. Still, there's something that draws us to their eccentric caricatures, vulgar patter, and rap culture allusions; we can't get enough of his work.
Very few of Laren's pieces have anything to do with video games, and none of them reference handheld gaming at all, but his canvases, ring-bound notepads and moleskine notebooks, sort of qualify as "portables," so that's our justification for featuring his art this week. Plus, the comics can be pretty hilarious. Flip past the break for a look.
Wow, that actually sounds pretty amazing! Check out the embarrassment and worry on the constable's face, his eyes wide and cheeks blushed. Knee caps! In view of the public!
The cattle herding outfit and anthropomorphic art reminds us of this old joke: "A ragged-looking hound dog limps into a dusty saloon. He hobbles to an empty stool, exchanges introductions with the barkeep, then announces to the room, 'I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.'"
Keep that joke on file; it might bring your girlfriend back the next time she leaves you for obsessing about Slippy Toad's ambiguous sexuality again. Seriously, kids, nothing ends the night early like Star Fox.
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1-10-2008 @ 12:45PM
Nigeria said...
I don't think "Will Laren" exists. I don't know why but I just have this feeling.
I think Eric is "Will".
I have absolutely no evidence to support this idea.
Either way these pictures are full of victory.
"Meow It's Time For Revenge" - that should be a title for a new film/game/book. Or blog.
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