Nick Gazin is a well-established illustrator in the New York rock/comic world. A regular contributor to Vice, Gazin finds time for various artistic ventures, like Photos of Girls, Wavves comic books, and concert posters. Now he's taking his art to a new medium: smart phone games. It's only natural Gazin would be killer at Draw Something, but he's taking it to a whole 'nother level of depravity. After seeing the random Draw Something Porn posts on his instagram, we decided to make a bigger deal of it, because it makes instagram worth checking beyond hating your friends' meals and worldly travels. So we asked him a few questions about his (very professional) process. Here are the results of that conversation for your enjoyment while you tactfully peruse his Draw Something art.
Why do you draw your Draw Somethings as porn pics?
I tried to play the game normally at first but after a few rounds I started getting asked to do the same words and the game got pretty dull. I was also going through a dry spell with girls and felt like just indulging in being a pervo. I think that Draw Something's popularity came and went because it was fun but taking each turn took a while. First you guess your opponent's drawing and then you draw one and it just can take forever if you let it. After awhile drawing the pornographic images made me sad and I felt very lonely so I would draw people kissing or dancing together. Then I just started drawing nude women with the object I was supposed to be drawing as their heads.
What was your first?
I think it was the one of the pink faced girl sucking the turquoise penis (“Wedgie”).
How many are you up to?
I have done hundreds although I don't save all of them since many are bad even by my low standards. I have definitely done at least 200 drawings where you can see a woman's butt or boobs or vadge using my telephone at this point.
Do you use porn in every one of your games of Draw Something?
No, because sometimes it's just impossible. Also, the game kinda sucks now. I'm still getting a lot of the same words. They need to cycle the words in and out.
Has anyone gotten offended or upset with you?
I don't know. Probably. Everyone hates my guts and wants to kill me. My revenge is my reality. If I piss someone off that's just tough fuckin' shit.
Have you been flagged at all? (does that happen on Draw Something?)
It seems like it must be possible but it hasn't happened to me yet. Maybe I have been accidentally drawing porno situations at minors and Chris Hansen is going to bust in and send me to child corrupter prison.
I think my favorites are the ones without words, do you find yourself trying to find ways to draw them w/out words? Frustrated when you have to use them?
I don't think about them. That's what makes them fun. When you do any sort of creative endeavor the usual goal is to be able to do it for a living if for no other reason so that you can do it all the time. The thing is that once making art becomes your job it can be hard to take the same sorts of chances or enjoy it as freely as you did when it was your passion that you did in between working.
Mishka asked me about making a T-shirt with a bunch of them on it, but cancelled it when I told them I was going to make a blog with them for Vice since they felt like I was ripping off their idea of showing people things I'd made. I am talking about a specific guy at Mishka who I am close friends with, but we've had a tricky professional relationship at times.
People have told me I should have an art show out of them and stuff. If someone wants to show my Draw Something porno images that's fine with me. I don't personally care enough to pursue it since it's not “my real art.” I am also concerned that people would like the very easily understood, simple joke drawings more than the stuff that I take seriously and that I would be known as the “Draw Something porn” guy.
Any future plans for them? Installation? Contact Draw Something directly?
I am kind of surprised that you're interested enough to ask me about them now. I think they're kind of funny and I think that maybe two or three are really pretty, specifically “Cross Bow” and “Avocado”, but who gives a shit? They're totally disposable. I guess that's why people like them. I do them because they're stupid and people like them because people are stupid.
If anyone reading this would like to give me a show or sell prints or something with these stupid drawings then please contact me about it.
