Emerald City - if you're there!

Hey - my good friend -WADE- is gonna be at the -Emerald City Comic Con- Saturday and Sunday.

Stop by and say hi to him - he's a really friendly fellow.

And if you'd like, i have copies of my book available with sketches I've drawn in them with a little Emerald City gem and a character inside the cover. (I sent about 20 books to him and he'll be selling them since i couldn't make it)

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street fighters too

Udon is doing a streetfighter tribute book. it's going to be hundreds of pages of fan art by both pros and submissions.

i did a piece for the book, and they've asked us to keep it secret, but here's a small crop of the entire piece to try to entice you. (^_^ ) hahaha


Here's the pre-order page if anybody is interested in the Hardcover:
http://www.udonentertainment.com/streetfightertribute/

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all we are...

is dust in the wind.

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get up, you bastard.

thanks to everybody who stopped by and said hello, and even more thanks to those that helped take those books off my hands, it made my luggage so much lighter on the way home. (^_^ ) i really truly appreciate it and i hope i showed it.

I told Peter, at the calgary expo that i would do some more silhouette paintings cause he really liked em.

well, here's the first one in a long time. it's not so great, but i need to get back into the swing of things. if you take a while off from painting like this, it becomes more difficult and it'll probably take two or three to get back to full speed. i might even have to use some reference. i hope not, but it is a possibility.

so i'm gettin back up... here goes nothin.
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look what i made!

it's a cardboard cutout. i'm going to try to get her to go out and sell copies of my book in calgary at the show.

i'll let you know how it goes.

she's about 2ft tall, but her bite is worse than her bark.

(*__*)

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Calgary Ho!

i'm going to a convention in Calgary Canada this weekend. this is a piece i did for a charity auction they will be having.

it's black and red ink wash with white prismacolor pencil.

i had a blast last year and this year should be no different, but i think the show is gonna be one day longer than before. not sure...

if you can find me, bring a napkin and i'll doodle something on it for you. that is, if you'd like the napkin to be totally ruined. (-_- ) never the less, i'll be at a booth with a sharpy and some napkins providing people with something to blow their noses with. heheh


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human canvas

i recently received an email from a tattoo artist asking if they could use some of my art. my reply was - sure, if you can find anybody who would like it enough to put it on em - then why not?

the truth is that i'm very flattered that somebody put my owl piece on her side. i have had a few requests to use art, but this was the first time they had gone through and sent me a photo.

The tattoo artist's site is http://www.devilsinktattoo.com/ and his name is ran. he did a really good job on what i suspect was a difficult task.

*also - give it up for sideboob. ( (0) )( (o) )

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art in your blood and blood in your art.

i'm currently working on one of those projects that either completely destroys you or makes you strong - i think kanye west has a song about something like that...

the project... it's not leaving me any time for "free time art" which is mostly what i post here, but i'm really hoping that it's going to be worth it.

here's a piece i did for no reason:
i hope to find time to do much more nonsensical art for nonsensical reasons, but that seems to be on the horizon very far away.

oh ya - and kids, 'broc lee' might make it look cool to smoke, but it's not that cool and perhaps not even cool at all.

eat your green and have a good day.
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i heart gauntlet.

"amazon needs lovin'."

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get your red hot Metroid Metal shirts.

i made some shirts for metroid metal.

i posted them a while back, but now they're done.

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death should have no pets.

some pieces from that show i did a couple of weeks ago:




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in the uk

i'm currently in london, but i stopped at a friend's house tonight and he let me use his wacom, which is actually got the label "bamboo" on it... so it's a strange of brand.  it makes smooth strokes hard so i had to try something a bit different.

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come to the art show.

i'll be in NJ on the 15th at a show. it's my friend alberto's show, but he invited me to put in a bunch of stuff. The gallery is called the crybaby gallery.

if you want to show up and say hi - please do. i like to meet fellow bloggers. it makes the world seem smaller and personal.

i'll have a few pieces in the gallery including these:




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all play and no work.

working on a massive painting right now, but i may as well show the blog some love. and by massive, i mean about 4 ft big, which is way bigger than the post-it size i usually use.

not so easy to go from post-it size to four feet. we'll see how it goes. i'll be sure to post it when i'm completely done in about a zillion years.



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xylophones.

this is what they would look like if i were to design them.

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post-it creatures.

my girlfriend's boss's (is that too many S's?) kids drew me a monster picture, and i turned it into a post it pet. here it is. i don't really know what the deal is with him, but it's pretty good concept art from little ones...

and it's been long enough since i've painted one.


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i heart troopers.

g_d bless the empire.

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more samus again

here are some more samus pics i did as of late. it's for a friend who reinterprets metroid music. he's super good.

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happy valentine's day.

g_d i hope my GF doesn't visit my blog anymore... if she does i'm in so much trouble.

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edit: SLIGHTLY better judgment got the best of me, and so i modified the image a little bit in case little ones are looking, at least they won't be 100% corrupted. (*_* )

FORGOTTEN KINGDOM FOR SALE

i recently finished a book, which i have been selling at shows and to people i come in contact with, but i'm offering it online as of tonight. click the link on the right to order it.

the beauties are going for $10 and i'm charging $5 to ship

it's a bunch of my paintings of characters - half monsters and the girls that love them. it's got poetry that's basically a biography of each character. it took me a while to put together and i'm really proud of it. it's a small book at about 5" square and it's 72 pages with hard covers and gold foil on it.

i think it looks fantastic, but you are going to have to order one to find out for yourself. and just think - if you buy a book - you're supporting me making hundreds of more drawings of weird jellybean like monsters. you are in essence, investing in a universe of imaginary monsters.

that's my pitch. i'm no salesman, but i hope you pick one up. and tell yer friends about it too. these things make great gifts and if you order one, tell me i sent you in the special instructions blank on paypall and i'll make sure i draw something in the cover for you.

( ^__^)

have a great night!
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i need you to slow me down.

i was in a theater about to watch a movie about a haunted orphanage in san diego the other night - when i walked into the theater a song was playing on the speakers. it was a girl singing over a synthesized version of her voice with no beat or instruments other than her voice and maybe some sort of ambient strings.

it was totally awesome.

i went home and purchased the album on itunes almost immediately. before i had finished the first listen to the album i looked at the digital booklet that accompanied the album which was classified as "pop". i really dislike pop. why? i'm not completely sure but it has something to do with the music generally being very boring and i can only listen it a few times before i am uninterested.

i very much dislike judging things based on genre be it food, people, music, etc. so i gave this album a chance. the second clue that this was a dud was the album booklet. a half dozen pictures of the singer naked or nearly nude - she's really pretty, this is music - i don't want to fuck it. why do i care to see this nude 21 year old girl in a bunch of sheets?

obviously i like girl and the human body, so it's not that i disliked what i was looking at. i suppose it's just a credibility issue. i figure some suit told her that she needed to post pictures of herself if she wanted fans and that would add to her sales. i'm assuming that. supporting evidence is how bad this CD is. it's boring. the song i liked is good, but every song sounds the same. it also computerizes and multi-tracks her voice with limitless echos and way too much harmony. it's like eating bubblegum soup. blah.

2 or 3 good tracks though.

good to know that i can still write most albums off sheerly based on itunes willingness to categorize them as "pop" art.

if my art ever gets categorized as "pop" - please, find me and punch me in the balls.

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good thursday.

i listened to the secret frequency crew today; it's good music - something about the underwater adventure hop secret treasure.

i didn't realize even until just now that i painted a somewhat watery theme. it's not that i really painted anything at all, because it's just a bunch of lines and shapes that resemble the silhouette of a naked woman, but with a little imagination, it could be really watery.

i'm off the hunt/gather some food (whichever comes first).

i'll try not to spray mace at anybody today (sorry crystal!).

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¿color?

sure. ¿why not?



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where there's smoke there's fire.

playing with negative space is a really tricky/fun thing. i've managed to really polarize some of my different art ideas, but maybe one day i can combine them in a successful way. who knows/cares?

more art:



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M.C.4all

this is a painting i did for a gift to Crystal. she really digs polar bears - click to enlarge - you know the drill.

( ^_^)

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