Playlist At The End

Time to add some songs the Boy At The End playlist!

Oct 02, 2023

FOOD FOR HEADPHONES

A few years ago I started a Spotify Playlist for my ongoing project/subject/hopefully a book someday, Boy At The End. For the last decade and change, Boy has been my go to subject to explore many thoughts, questions, ideas, feelings, nothings, and all the things. He’s a great little vessel to dig into the human condition and how that can fit into storytelling. So far, I’ve mostly used him in single image narrative pieces. I know everyone is ready for a book. Trust me, I am too.

This playlist is on during almost every Boy drawing session which means I’ve REALLY exhausted them. It’s about time to add some new songs and I hoping you all can help me out with that. Take a look at the playlist I having going, give it a listen if you want, post your suggestions in the comments. Your songs can be inspired by my playlist or by any of the Boy At The End sketches I’ve done over the years on Instagram.

I can’t wait to hear what you all suggest!

A REAL BOY

As I’m prepping to get my hands dirty with an actual Boy At the End book, I thought it would be helpful to get a 3D model made of my guy. You see, when you design a character that has a mask that a circle/half sphere, 3 circles on the circle/half sphere, and then put that on a full sphere, add a hat with a weird shaped brim…well, that head is hard as fuck to draw from certain angels. Which is why I draw Boy straight on and profiled most of the time. I figured a model will give me some ref to use when I need to move this kid around more.

I hit up my good buddy Scott Mosier for any 3D modelers he might know that could help me out. I mean, he directed this tiny movie called THE GRINCH and is working on some super dope projects of his own right now, so I knew he was aware of some artists out there that could crush it. He had someone on board for me in less than 24 hours. Everyone needs a friend or two like him.

Ehren Bienert is the artist that answered the call and I couldn’t be happier with what he did! I sent him a folder of my favorite Boy pieces and he was able to build from those. He got SO close on his first pass. I did a few draw overs with notes and he nailed the next pass. It’s too cool to see this character I’ve been drawing for 13 years realized in 3D like this. Check him out!