Friday, April 06, 2007

Rakugaki fun

First of all, I would like to wish a happy Easter to all, and to wish you all some good times then.
As for news in my life...
Well, last night I got a visit from my old friend Nicotine. I did not see him for 7 weeks.
I am not too proud for allowing him back into my life and I hope that the visit was breef. However, we spent some quality time together and these here sketches are the result of our reunion.
So this post will be short as my urge to blabber greatly deteriorates while he's arround.
Hidden amongst the random sketches and some desigh research is a page specifically designed to offend many, from all walks of life.
Let's see if you can spot it :)
And let's hope that you few who visit sometimes do not get too pissed off because of my tactlesness.
I would just like to point out that my aunty is a Catholic nun (who declared me lost long ago) and that she prays for my soul on a daily basis. So, as you can see, my salvation is taken care of by the best in business :)
Cheers to you,

Milenko

21 comments:

Bruce said...

Hey Milenko,

I try to be offended when I visit here, but I'm usually too entertained to be so. Maybe one day. Besides, you only have one person praying for your soul? Everyday someone somewhere is telling me something along those lines! I'm such a heathen...

So, which should we be offended by? Long weekend Jesus? Tonto ass slap? Or maybe the childhood trauma? You're truly twisted. in a good way.

Dela said...

I quit smoking when I was on two packs of Players light large king ,
50 a day ,one night I just woke up and I couldn't breathe .Strange feeling.Next morning I just didn't
smoke.My friends in the pub didn't notice that I don't smoke for few weeks.All the other habits stayed the same ,just without ciggies.
Ah memories ,I still remember collecting tobacco from the ashtray and rolling the cigarette in toilet paper.
Keep this brush ,it works perfectly
Jesus is my favorite, and happy Easter.
Cheers Milenko

Ana Banana said...

I, for one, find this VERY offensive and distasteful!

I'm never coming back again!

Ana Banana said...

NOT!

hahahahaha! see anabanana can make joke too!


MILENKO! NO!

Are you serious?! -- about you and your rendezvous with nicotine?

oh geez...you should not be proud, Milenko... 7 weeks was good. what made you do it?! I hope it wasn't our discussion about whether or not you were an asshole. And even though you try really hard to offend, you are just a little cute 'ol teddy bear inside...albeit maybe a teddy bear on Methamphetamine. Now I think you should tell your friend Nicotine to go back home and to stay there. You see, Milenko, he does not have your best interests at heart. Although you and he are guilty of a moment of enflamed passion, the short-term pleasure he provides you with will in the end be your demise.

By the way, now I understand, Milenko, your peculiarities and weirdness is all explained with the little picture of your Aunty and you as a young boy. Yes it must have been very traumatizing...

Now are you the cowboy or Tonto?
I know underneath all men have at least a little curiosity in that regard...hehe. especially the ones with Testosterone overload!

PRAISE JESUS! Well since I have every day off it's not that big of a deal, but I guess I owe him thanks, anyway.

Ana Banana said...

by the way, I would tell you that these are great sketches, but since they were done under the influence of Nicotine, I will not until I know that Nicotine is gone for good. One can only serve one master at a time.

FerdinandKreozot said...

Well I am fucked, I wrote long and informative post but then I hit the wrong button and lost it all.
And I can't be bothered to writeagain.
So, long story short:
Thanks all.
First of all,
Jesus is my friend, so I just tease him a little, he's cool with that. he told me so in a dream :)
Bruce thanks for the comments, you're one cool dude :)
Dela, my worst tobacco stories come from my fifteens, wandering the central buss station at 4 PM piss drunk, looking for half smoked cigarettes people threw when their busses arrived. With all the saliva and germs from previous owners dried on the filters, I would fill my pockets with them and take them back to my drinking buddies still sitting in Baltazar's basement, and while Baltazar was making us some camomille tea, we would smoke filthy cigarette butts while making drunken plans about beating up someone the next day. New primitivs we were :)
Anarhija all over Bascarsija.
Bullshit.
And then the war.
Roasting a green tobacco leaf on the stove, crumbing and rolling it into a toilet paper in summer, and smoking ground tobacco trunk in the winter.Btw, smoking tobacco trunk was the same as smoking a sawdust.
Aanyhow,
My recent nicotine affair was breef, and I know we will meet again every now and then, but we're not moving back together. My friend got mouth cancer, he's toothless, bold and with half a jaw and 36 of his glands missing and fighting for his life now, and it scared the shit out of me.
Ana, if I had gay tendencies, in my 37 years, I have not met the man of my dreams yet. And, with my rotten luck, even if I came accross him one day, I would probably not be his type. And I did try to lok at some footage a while ago, but it did nothing to me.
At the same time, anything that remotely resembles a female shape, including manequin torsos in the ladies shops and dodgy hourglass shaped paint splatters gives me a stiffy :)
Hell, even if you put some lingerie on a watermelon, it would do.
On the other hand, you put some lingerie on a guy, my stomach gets upset.
Not to say I have anything against people who fancy lingerie that way. I am very tolerant and God knows I come from the country where tolerance is embeded so deeply in peole's genes.
Also, it just came to me, your name is not really Ana, is it?
BTW my mom's name was Ana, not that it matters.
She was the best!

Cheers to you all,

Milenko

Ana Banana said...

well you never know, MIlenko, he may still be out there (the man of your dreams). Yes, but I agree with you, you seem too testosteroney to have gay tendencies, although you should see some of the gays here in Castro District...big bulky guys -- really handsome, too. Makes a girl sad really.

I am glad that you prefer girls and watermelons dressed in lingerie.

Should I believe that you were involved in the Croatian war during the 90's, Milenko? the story about your friend holding half his brains? I don't know. Is this Slavic humor, too?

You are very smart, Milenko. In regards to my name, it is my name although it depends on who knows me. I've gone through several names...each one a different face for each of my different personalities.

I like the name Ana -- full name is Anastasia...beautiful Russian name that I gave myself several years ago. I don't remember what name is my birth name it was so long ago. Rose is, I think, maybe one of the real ones...

Your mother... is she passed away? if you don't mind my asking...I am curious about you especially because you hide in all of that Slavic humor of yours, Mr. Milenko. I see you, too...as Slavic as you are!

Sasha Arsenic said...

Zdravo Milenko.
Hvala za komentar, drago mi je da ti se svidjaju moji crtezi kao sto se meni svidjaju tvoji. Najdraze su mi one ilustracije fantasy ratnica, zatim popaye itd.
Sasa

GeeBee said...

That offensive page is one of your best, Milenko !
More, pleaaazzz !
One question: is that the same Aunty
(nun) you referred to in your text ?!

Jean.

Alexei Martins said...

AWESOME works!!!It's so dynamic!! And Jesus...I’m not even offended....hehehe...but hey, he’s not blonde...

Cheers

Alexei Martins said...

And hey,

Stop visiting your old "friend" Nicotine, and happy Easter!!!!

LFW said...

That is the most offensive drawing of cartoon snake being shot by someone I have ever seen, I thought I knew you man. We are no longer friends.

It's like I've always been saying to you dude, you act like a total asshole to people, curse their families and bloodlines, insult their genitalia and they still love you to death saying, "oh, that milenko, he's just such an awsome guy deep down."

I make one single idle comment about some small little thing and people think I'm some kind of criminal. I hate you only because of this, ha ha :).

Wicked sketches by the way, keep it up, sorry to hear you cracked like a little girl and went back to smoking. Oh well, we'll catch a movie or something.

cheers

-LFW

FerdinandKreozot said...

:)
Ana, I am very cool with who I am, and with the world in whole :)
I was involved in Bosnian war, but more in a spectator/victim, than in patriot/tough commando fighter role. But as Dela said, fuck that.
It took me a lot of forgetting and memories opressing to get where I am atm, and only sometimes it raises it's ugly head. Joking about everything helps me deal with crap.
My mom died 7 years ago. She was 59 and died from heat stroke. Silly way to go :(
She was one cool lady.
Anastasia is nice. Sure sounds better than Rose, but Rose sounds ok too.
Saha, cao i dobrodosao :)
I added a link to your blog, as I beleive your work to be worthy of my recommendation, only problem being that my recommendation might not be worht much :)
But either way you're welcome.
Slucajno sam naletio na tvoj blog, i svidjeli su mi se tvoji radovi, definitivno imaju dodir "osobnosti" i izgledaju fino.
Geebee, thanks for cheers:)
Aunty in my sketch is a different one, she is reasonably overweight and she was very comfortable with her body. When I was a kid I had sleepovers at my cousins' place which may have scarred me for life.
She would cook dinner in her nighty and sometimes forget to weear anything else.
Not a pretty sight.
She was one of those ladies who often had a "public-toilet- dress-stuck-in-panyhose" style accident and she did not care much about those either.
Alexei, MrJ was a pale-skinned blonde-haired hunk when he visited me in my dream. And most people would love him to be so, so I was just catering to the tastes of most :)
And nicotine is gone again. I tend to think nowdays that the key for everything is moderation.
LukeFW haha
You're funny. And you spotted the snake well :)
About the asshole thing, it took me a long time to figure the way to be an "asshole" to people without them being offended. I beleive the key is to never actually mean what you're saying, and to let others be "assholes" to you too. Also, not giving much shit about what people think of you and not regurgitating and re-digesting what others said and "meant by that" helps a lot.
Your probelm might be that when you're being asshole to others, you actually mean it. people have the "smirk detectors" built-in you know :) now, I know you are not one of those, but with your serious face, other might be getting you wrong.
The fact that I have a bushy curly hair and a face of a clown helps me get away with a lot too. And also the accent. It sure is my friend. people often think I am retarded because I sound silly and society forgives retarded people a lot nowdays.
Catchamovie son then :)

Cheers to all again,

Milenko

Ana Banana said...

Thanks, Milenko.

I appreciate your candor. I understand a little more now.

You are a very intelligent man. Your great sense of humor and wit is proof of that.

Your mom must have been very cool with a son like you.

I'm sorry if I at all offend with my curiosity.

Cheers and Regards.

pbcbstudios said...

love em all -

Mat Brady said...

In the last bunch of drawings there is a quick sketch of the "bandit queen" (I forget her actual title you gave her) and she is shooting off to the side.

This image really deserves a blown-up hi-detail version. It's such a strong energetic and beautiful pose. With that as a base most of your hard work is done for you.

Brilliant stuff.

Monkeyfeather said...

GREAT sketches Milenko. Your stuff just plain rocks, the fact that it always gives me the giggles, and the occasional guffaw makes it even better!

flaviano said...

i miss this blog for few days and now i see great stuff! the Manara homage is most sexy than the last work of Milo. :)

dzuka said...

milenko, hi!
all this drawings are gorgeus! and very often hillarious! :)))
will you be visiting your old country soon? it would be great to meet you in person.
oh, and i've got nothing to say about mr. nicotine, he pretends to be my friend for more then 20 years now. :(

Ana Banana said...

Where are uuuuuu?

I miss my dose of slavic humor.

;o)

are you and Nicotine rediscovering each other again?

so little to say this week.

FerdinandKreozot said...

Ahh, it's good to be back. It was cool doing that other stuff too.
Everyone, thanks for your replies.
Pbcb, thanks man.
Mat dude, Her name is Ishe, the labyrinth queen :). I have big plans for her.
Also, I am lookng forward to catchin' up with you.
Your exercise looks sweet.
monkeyfeather, thanks for your kindness, I like your work a lot too.
Flaviano, thanks.
Goran, thanks for your nice words.
I was aware of your work for some years now, and it was very good to see it all on yer blog.
I will share your link, not that there's much benefit for you in me doing it, but it will be easier for me to find your site when I want to take another look.
I will be visiting my family in the old country in August this year, and if you're serious about getting together, I am all up for it. I was thinking about getting in touch with Macan as well. it would be cool thing to do for sure.
Nicotine sure makes a good friend in those lonely days, and I miss him a lot.
Ana, I am back, as you can see, and rants are more than ever.
Cheers to all,

Milenko