Rage comic faces

Rage Comics were popular on the internet a few years ago. They are considered a 'meme'; an image or series of images which are shared widely on the internet and then manipulated by others. This repeats over- morphing, evolving and constantly generating more memes and funny pictures for people to share.

These 'rage comics' tend to have been drawn hastily on microsoft paint and all have a similar but not identical visual theme. Rage comics express extreme emotions that we all experience but struggle to actually express because they are so extreme. Take a minute to look at a few of these expressions, I'm sure you can empathise with how each of them feel even though their features are over exaggerated to the point of abstraction.

I used charcoal to sketch these 'rage faces' down. I chose charcoal because it's fast for getting your ideas down and the lines are nice and thick. If I was going to develop these (which I might) I would probably use a printing technique. I could use mono or lino printing but Greg has recommended screen printing them or maybe even animating them (inspired by Jeff Scher).

Screen prints are wonderfully flat and look almost digital. I could try using a bamboo ink pen or a nice long-haired brush and a pot of black sign painter's one shot.
Each of these three materials get a great hard-edged, opaque black line but each would come out differently.

If I did an animation I think that I'd use Microsoft Paint like the originals to make each frame, one by one.

Here are a few examples of screen printing they are by: Shepard Fairey, Andy Warhol and Jean Michael Basquiat.