Frazetta's Conan

With me its all about Frazetta’s Conan. I am doing magick, here. I am trying to use altered states of consciousness to conform reality to my will. My intentions are more likely to manifest, if they aren’t scattered all over a broad range of things, but rather concentrated into one goal like a laser beam.

So like I said, for me it’s all about Frazetta’s Conan. That one image of Conan the Barbarian is one icon that wraps up what I want. It’s not one thing, its many things, though, all wrapped up together and concentrated to a fine laser like point.

For example, I have fitness goals, career goals, relationship goals, personal transformation goals… But they are all the same goal.

I am not dedicating 50% of my energy to my career as an illustrator and 50% towards fitness. No. That would dilute my energy. Its all one goal. I am going to transform myself to a close approximation of the Conan archetype. Its all connected.

Take this two men, Howard and Frazetta. If you look at them you can see they had a lot of Conan within them. They channeled this energy and brought it out. It was already there. They simply accessed it and manifested it, outwardly.

Check out this article and look at the photo, you can see Conan the Barbarian peeking out from Howard's eyes:The Tao of Conan There is a Striking resemblence between Howard's face and the painting above.

Now, look at the photos of Frazetta on this site.

Frazetta’s Art really resonates with me. Let me give a little insight into the man. He is a very kinesthetic artist. He was also a bit of a street fighter, when young and had some serious athletic ability. He had a hot sexy wife. His art was magick and it was sexual. It was sexual in the sense that it sprang from his sexual center. The seat of creativity. The art was like a homunculus, in a sense. It was imprinted with strong psycho-sexual energy. This added a layer of reality to his work that only the greats artists have. He reproduced living breathing psycho-sexual energy and transferred it to the canvas. He reproduced himself. Conan was him.

I can feel his art in my body. His characters have this soul. He breathed life into them. They have a very real energy, a very physical energy. The eyes are the window to the soul. Well his characters have fierce warrior souls, burning through their intense eyes.

Where does that come from? It’s magick. Not all artists really have it. Frazetta is a conjurer, a shaman.

Its not just shapes and colors arranged in a pattern that our brains recognize. Lesser artists do that. They may have some technical mastery, but the eyes of their characters don’t look alive, there is no tension, and the body language is stilted. This describes most Wannabe Frazetta clones.

I have a little insight into his creative process, because I believe I have some of this magick ability with my art as well. I inhabit my sketches. I shape shift. If I draw a wolf, I become a wolf. I feel every hair, every muscle of a wolf; I see the world through wolf eyes. This gives a lot of insight into anatomy. It makes things a lot easier because if its off it won’t just not look right, it won’t feel right. I’ll sense that my leg won’t function right if I design it wrongly.

I have this strong mind body connection through my art. The two work together in a positive feedback loop. I sublimate my psycho-sexual energy into my art and end up feeling more alive and physical and sexual in my body.

In fantasy illustration, graphic novelists, comic book artists-that whole genre, sex and violence is very important. It’s the fuel. All the artists I admire have a strong erotic element. Personally, I am a snob. I think most graphic novelists suck.

I prefer European graphic novelists, my Favorite American is R. Crumb.

Actually three of my favorite artists are

Paolo Serpieri,

Robert Crumb,

Frank Frazetta.

Three old guys. What do they have in common? They like to draw women with really round firm asses. Ghetto booty’s. Their women have junk in the trunk. They don’t render Barbie dolls. Its because they are sensualists. They draw women with the qualities they desire sexually. They are fetishized images. Like the cro-magnon carvings.

Once again Fetish is a magical term.

Now, Back to Conan, Conan is a guy. Is that homoerotic then? I think more accuraltely its auto-erotic. Its auto. Conan becomes me. I want to become Conan, not posess Conan, or for Conan to posess me.

Intertestingly, though, Druuna appears to be Serpieri's female doppelganger. So really he becomes Drunna through his art. If you look at the face you can see him. Very very highly sexually charged work, and it makes it really really good. Its frame of his graphic novels look awesome and really come alive on the page. Once again the best graphic novelists have a really strong erotic element. Another artist, not a graphic novelist but in the genre of fantasy is Geiger. Very dark, very erotic. Its sex magick.

So there it is, Art Physicality and magic all tied together. I want to become a barbarian, channel my inner Barbarian, and live through my art, which I intend to make into successful career. I am throwing my entire being into this goal. That's why it will manifest.