stamp!

custom stamps got made for next time i send postcards!






woot.
&rew.

Old tricks die hard to water, but you can't make em drink.

...Or something like that.... :-

I haven't done any eye candy like this in some time. I still owe two people tats, so these are practice I suppose.

One of them is sort fo a joke and the other isn't. ¿Well, sh_t, what isn't a joke in this universe we call life? M_ther f_cking nothing. That's what.

be seeing you,
&rew.

It's princess peach. Get it? HAH

and here are some in progress shots:

Time for a head count. ¿Hands on Dejah Thoris?

ad4ad2.0 is pretty much done. As you read this I'm at a friend's wedding in some g_d forsaken land without the internet plugged into all of the itty bitty hotels. melting like a g_d damned candle stick in this sweltering heat. yes, there are air condition units but they're in the spendy suites. g_d damn the suites.

These are snippets from the painting that I've done for the contest. Like the tron print, I'm going to be selling 18x24 giclee prints of the piece on really nice paper. They're going to go for 50 dollars. I'm thinking of a run of 10-15.

Shoot me an email if you're interested in pre-ordering. If I don't get too many emails, I'm sticking to 15 or maybe just ten. I'll also be doing postcards but I'll drop some of those for free a couple weeks after I get the posters out.

Again - Thanks to everybody who participated in the Postcard offering in the last post. I sent all but 1 of them out. So expect those soon. If you haven't gotten the hint, I'm trying to get people involed in the art process - and that means getting lots of free stuff, and occasionally selling some other stuff so I can make more. I'll be doing more stuff like that as I get more product made.

Art Director for a Day number 3 will be coming up sometime next month, so put your creativity in the charger I'm going to need all the juice I can get.

cheers,

&Rew.

¿Did I Kill Bill yet?

I painted this pic for That Girl's Site
her BF commissioned me to do it. I really had fun. Basically he wanted me to paint
her into Kill Bill scene. So I'm posting the banner, and then the alternate paint job I did with the "Uma Thurman" Bride.

There are postcards available, but as you probably already know, I'm not good at making things available unless you show up at my doorstep.

¿How about this - if you email me your address tonight before midnight, I'll send you a free one with a drawing on the back? That's interesting. I'll even cover the postage to prove I'm not a grumpy ass bastard. But don't expect me to tweet about this. That would just be dumb.

edit: Alright to the dozen people who emailed me or posted to the comments, you're in like flynn. So gimme a day or so to pop stuff in the mail. To the guy in the UK - don't sweat it, i got you covered this time. \( * O * )/ Thanks for being part of the interactive art process. You're very welcome indeed.

And in case anybody is waiting for the AD4AD2 piece, it's done, i'm just sitting on it while one of my buddies critiques it to death. That'll be up soon.



&rew.
genie@fourthwish.com

Samus of Metroid fame.

I posted these long ago, but they deserve to be next to peach. Samus designs I did for my buddy Grant Henry of "Metroid Metal". Heard his music? If you like Metroid, it's an absolute must. He does covers of the metroid tracks heavy metal like. (Hence Samus with a guitar) Can you dig it?





be seeing you,
&Rew.

A break from That for some of This:

This is a piece I just finished. I have prints of it but no real motivation to put them up and into a store. Can you tell which pop culture ref this is from? It's pretty obvious yet nobody noticed when I had the print out.



Eric Marachal strikes again. He's been so gracious to paste me up again. Thanks Eric - you're helping art spread like a virus.

And here's a pic I've been meaning to post for a while, it's Doug Artus's racecar. If you see him racing it A. cheer for him if he's in a race. B. Don't tell the cops if it's a heist.

That's how we roll.



be seeing you,
&Rew.

ad4ad2: Everything but the girl

I went through several iterations on the composition and then the palette. Some artistic "colleagues" such as Ture Ekroos http://www.orankidesign.com/ Drake Brodhal and Chris Bishop gave me some great criticism and paintovers - now the piece looks like this. Don't fear though, Dejah Thoris is on the way.



be seeing you,
&.

ad4ad2 : Another set of buns and an *ulp* sword

Poster crop size and a postcard crop size. So far so interesting...



Gotta run out to do birthday stuff, so no more updates but I'll try to get on this when I can.

-- there's a perfect spot on the postcard for "Visit Mars!" text or something goofy like that. "Wish you were here..." "Greetings" "Come for the volcanos, stay for the executions!"

whatevs. you get the picture.

be seeing you,
#6

ad4ad2 : Volcanos and chains? You've got to be kidding me.

Frazetta is awesome. I don't aspire to be like him - he's too damned good. When I was little all I wanted to do was paint bloody swords, sparkling scorcery, and women dripping with sexuality. At some point I realized that my conan was shit and I had the drawing abilities or a blind chimp.

I do love it when I get a chance to ape fantay artists and I think this may be one of those opportunities.

I retooled the sketch now that I've had more than 30 minutes to make it. I think this is the one, and if it's not, it's damn close.



be seeing you,
&Rew.

ad4ad2 : Dejah Thoris , Stone Angel, Giant Lizard sketch.

super rough. I'm just trying to get the idea down. Something like this:



And I think I wanna make it into a postcard or something. Good? Bad? Ugly?

be seeing you.
&Rew.

AD4AD2.0 winners

I picked the winners and I have a really good feeling about this piece. I'll throw up a thumbnails as soon as I get a chance to pull it off.

William Vega:
sexy Dejah thoris princess of mars

Clear:
Stone Angel

Anonymous:
Giant Lizard

*you have to tell me your name so that when I make prints I can sent you one, BTW!

And Nicole ZG:
Prebarbarous Centaur

I was going to go with that but the other seem to fit into something I have a really good idea about painting, so I'm using them, but you get the honorable mention.

I've got to get cracking right after comic con is over! Some see me if you still haven't!

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Ad4ad2 and comic con

I'm at the san Diego comic con if you wanna swing by and say

Booth is i-3. Here's a map I hijacked:



The booth is called brand studo press. I'm the white kid in the red shirt.

I got all the emails about art director for a day 2.0. I'll post the winners shortly so stay tuned for a wacky painting.

Be seeing you,
&rew.

Art Director for a Day 2.0 Contest: 3 things painting

Hey kiddies, it's time for Art Director for a Day 2.0

¿Do you like my art style, but wish I'd paint something really specific to your tastes?
¿Do you wish that I'd paint what was in your head instead of what's in mine?
¿Do you see my doodles and think, "You idjit, why didn't you do it like THIS?"

The offer this time:
Email me or leave a comment on the blog with a noun and an adjective. For example: Radioactive Patnies, Expensive Wristwatch, Overweight Samurai - whatever, some thing you like. I'm going to pick 3 people's ideas and integrate them into an illustration of sorts - then I'm going to make prints of that image and send them out to you for free. Just like I did last time, i'll make a few extra to sell on the net.

Send an email to: genie (at) fourthwish (dot) com

Tell me "a thing" you'd like me to paint by leaving a noun and adjective in the comments field or in my email this weekend. As usual, if it's something super fcuked up, i'm going to have to pin the responsibility on you.

I'll pick the one that I think is the most interesting for me to work on

I'll accept emails entries until July 19th
The painting will be done as soon as I CAN, but I'm hopinh mid August

I'll post my in progress shots of the painting, so you can see how the process works.

1 left.

Thanks again you guys for picking up the posters. I'll mail them out tomorrow - the packing material came in today. 1 Tron poster at my place up for grabs is anybody still wants.

Oh - one more thing. Anybody want me to do another art director for a day contest? or was that a complete fail?

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Pirate Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl

Hey guys and grrrrls,

thank you very much for the orders. there are only a couple posters left, so if you want em, jump on it. i'll be sending them out shortly, once the uline tubes arrive. (as well as those two books that were ordered).

I whipped up this sketch because i'm working on a random pirate girl design. i have about a dillion paintings in my head, but this one crept out tonight.

be seeing you,
#6

sTRONg Finish?

Ok.

So here's the piece in all it's nerdish glory:

The poster is 18" by 24" and it's printed on really nice stock.

I popped it into a show at Gallery1988's crazy4cult4. It was a really rad show.

I have 5 of them for sale. They come signed and numbered. If anybody would like one, there's the link. I'm limiting the printing to only 30 pieces. And 20 of them went to the gallery where they showed - 5 of them have already been spoken for and I haven't even put the link up yet! If you buy them directly through me, they're discounted, BUT there are only a few left. So if you like it. Act fast. It looks real purdy in person.

Now that took a freaking long time. I'm thinking of doing another art director for a day. BUT I want to push a deadline on it for myself. Cuase it's no fun to watch grass grow. Right?

Ryon, youre free print will be on the way next week once I get the poster tubes and protective sheets in the mail!

cheers,
&Rew.

Hell or Highwater (or Failsquad)

Fail.

I have been working for months on a book for the san diego comic con. When I say months, I mean that I've been coming home from my dayjob and working till the wee hours of the morning to move colored pixels around.

I had known it was a bad idea to start something so late and push so hard. If it would have come together it would have been allot of luck in additional to great skill. Now, I know I have decent skill, but nowhere near what it would have taken. I also have some luck, but not enough to pull this project together.

It came down to the final days and a printer's proof. When the proof arrived in the mail, it was so terrible, that I have to seriously question the printer used or I have to question my ability to see and order a new pair of glasses. There were so many problems.

Let me list them fo ryou to see.

Bad art - the art is fucking terrible. rushed and ragged and ugly.
Bad layout - the layout had glaring inconsistencies. things that looked like they were thrown together just to get the job done. it's offensive to look at.
bad print clarity - maybe it was the paper? IDK - fact of the matter is that everything had a fuzzy edge. I have to question the art at that point EXCEPT for the fact that the number of the page were fuzzy.
strange artifacts - there are stepped edges to many curves - even curves in the text which should be vector and thus have no problems.

The project was chaos.

So.... I'm putting it in the can. Right now, after a week and a half of mixed anger and sorrow, but mostly sorrow, with a clear head I can see that anybody who saw what I had and wanted me to push it forward was a little too eager. So to my close buddies helping me, don't take offense, but maybe you were being too complimentary to my art to see how bad everything was coming together. It touches me that you're so kind, but don't let friendship get in the way of goodness!

I will pick up the project and arrange it into shape in the future, but it's going to be ALLOT of work. 120+ pages does not go down quickly.

Good news is that I can move back on to things that I actually LIKE to do... like sleep. :-) and also like THE TRON PAINTING. Which is now finished(ish). I'll post it up later this week, but I had to get that fail out of the way because it hurt and cost me allot of life. It'll all be worth it when I wrap the f_cker up, but I'm not making any promises. This may take me a decade. (*___*)

be seeing you,
&Rew.

some good and some bad/ugly

This is something I had worked up to go into or on the book, but it just didn't make any sense. Maybe I'll save it for something later.

And here's a mockup for the book. I want to do a 12"x12" hardcover with spot gloss on it. Color on the front B/W on the back. The pink on the inside of the covers - i want that to sorta be like the inside of a mouth, and then the white is like teeth. You know?



Maybe it doesn't make sense, but whatevs.

&Rew.

2 things.

Thing 1.
For anonymous, here are the posters that I sell in no particular order. Thanks for picking them up BTW, you're helping support my habbit of making them.

Thing 2.
I've been away from my blog (this time) because I'm working on a new book. I'm working on it damn hard too. Every frickin day. Every single frickin day. And, you see, this is going to be the most work I've ever put into anything ever before - easily. I think it's about 5 years of practice and work. So if you like this blog but hate the internet, I'm going to have just the thing for you. Scout's honor.

In the meanwhile I'm working on the tron piece when I have free seconds.

To summarize the recent A.D. - looking good BUT perspective not so good. I'll put up a post soooooonish. Don't believe me? Neither do I. (^___^)

be seeing you,
&Rew.

tron's living room.

OK. I've got the living room painted. I'll need to do the characters on top next but I figure this is a good place to make some changes.

So what do you say?

&.

CALGARRRRYYYYYYYYYYY!

Ok, so I was in Canada for the last half week. It was awesome. You canadians are way cooler than most of my neighbors and friends (but not ALL of them).

Thanks for the warm welcome. If I met you at the show and you ended up stopping by my blog - i'm glad you're here.

Here's a finished piece for the calgary artbook I worked on:

Also, I now have postcards for sale. I don't know how to add a link to sell them but I'm thinking that for a stamp plus a buck or two, I'll draw on one and mail it to you. People seemed to like them at the show and I'm looking forward to mailing tons of them out.

be seeing you,
&.

Another day another direction.

Art direction:
First, the good:
Lovin¹ the colors! I think the earth tones in the living room will really
let the figures pop out. The characters look like they¹ll fill out really
well, too. I¹ve only seen one Tron Legacy babe, and it looks like you
captured her perfectly. How about maybe adding in one more cutie, or two?

The concerns:
I didn¹t catch this the first time around, but being in color has helped
bring out a potential pitfall. At this point, the Recognizer tv screen is
half the image. All the other components are dwarfed by it, and it¹s the
other components (especially Flynn and Sark) that should be getting more
attention. Can we make them taller/bigger? If we need to, we could push the
Recognizer a little further back/up since we have some room at the top that
the wallpaper is taking up (nice pattern by the way!).

Smaller changes:
I get the reference for the Daft Punk outfits. Let¹s keep the outfits, but
change the helmets to look like these:

Production issues:
Is poster size too much?

-Ok. I upsized the characters and slightly scaled down the enforcer. I do like his monolithic size, so I took the focus off him by dropping him down a couple notches in scale and also in value. I also gave him space on his sides so he's part of a wall instead of A wall.

-I also made the 'bit' drinking a beer. IDK what yet, likely I'll switch to martini, because that seems more high class and I imagine this particular bit to be of privelaged upbringing.

-Speederbike looked dinky to me and everything was evenly sized - fixed that.

-I WAS going off a picture of tronstyle Daft but went with the classic helmets. I'm a bit torn but I'll go with the shiney ones cause I like chrome lately.

-On adding another character, i'll see if I can fit her in without cramping it too much.

oh ya - and poster size? werd. Canvas size is now: 5400x7200

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Update the tron sh_t already m_therf_cker!

Ok.

so work has been really really intense lately. i have have -0- time other than sleeping and working at my day job. the game i'm working on will be awesome though - no doubt. i've been really really tired.

today i was workignon another painting and put it down to do this:

Ryon, lemme know if it's on a good track or if you want something changed and I'll oblige.

i'm having fun with it.. Both chicks are from Tr2n. Sark and Flynn are in like... flynn(t). (^__^)

this is just a prelim i was doing to get a palette in there, but it turned into a little more cause i was enjoying painting.

1. more thing. Ryon, how big do you want this thing? What the hell am I printing? A business card? A billboard? When I rez it to paint the detail and really start to get down, how many pixels do you want me to work with?

&Rew.

Tron 1.01

Ryon emailed me with his direction. I'm pasting it as follows along with the layover sketch he did on my original sketch.

• Flynn or Tron vs. Sark
Let’s make it Flynn, for reasons listed next.

• Giant screen underneath one of those enemy droid things
I had to look this up; it’s called a ‘Recognizer’. I think the placement on this is perfect. Having one serve as a mantle around the TV made me chuckle. I think it would be great if a chunk of it’s foot was missing though, after Flynn throws his remote in frustration. It would be a nice ‘nod’ to the movie. I’ve sketched out what I had in mind. I hope the red corrections don’t bother you. Also, the Recognizers in the movie don’t have connected pieces, were you planning on leaving his pieces spaced out?

Also, maybe the Recognizer could have some empty glasses on it, and some water rings.

http://www.fx.clemson.edu/~cdoehli/BrokeRecognizer.jpg

• Either pong on an Atari or a multiplayer NES game on a nes console.
I’m torn here. Pong on the Atari is more reminiscent of the Tron graphics, but the NES is like Holy Grail of my generation. Lets stick with Atari, though.

• White russians on the table (tron discs as coasters) (jeff bridges reference)
Love it!

• MCP lava lamp (the spinny CG guy in tron1)
The MCP demoted to the position of a lava lamp. Ha!

• A hottie from Tron 2 trailer in the foreground parlaying with Daft Punk
As an avid fan of Daft Punk, I completely approve of this idea! Though, how about one of them putting the moves on the Tron 2 hottie (maybe he’s showing her an electrical plug suggestively), and the other one could be talking with one of your black and white silhouette girls. Maybe she’s got some Tron glowies on her, but I’ll let you decide how to place her into the scene. I know the stylizations are different, so if placing one of the silhouette girls can’t work, maybe the second Daft Punk guy can be looking at a magazine with a silhouette fold out.

Seeing Daft Punk robot helmets in your painting should be pretty awesome.

• A speederbike tipped over
Perhaps a line torn through the carpet from where it’s tracer path was? This may not convey will in the painting, so leave it as something you can easily remove.

• Floating bit dude somewhere in the scene (yes yes yes no no no)
Bit? Yes yes yes!

• Tron girl from tron1 on the couch (i need cuties in my paintings)
I think we all need cuties in your paintings. The placement of more is completely ok with me.

• Wallpaper - something nerdy. I don't know what - something oldschool though. I may even use the wallpaper from when I was a kid in the 80s living in New Mexico.
I’m still trying to think of some wallpapers I remember from the 80’s. Most were tacky floral patterns, but I can’t recall a ‘nerdy’ one. I’m going to defer to your judgment on what you choose.

Possible Addition:
How about a portrait of a Tron family on the end table or coffee table.

I think this is going well. I came close enough on the first pass to not have to start over again... You can expect a new sketch at some point this evening.

&.

IT IS trON 1.0

• This is the sketch I came up with. It's a loose thumbnail that was originally going to be more loose before I started thinking about all the detail I wanted to include.
  
  

1. Flynn or Tron vs. Sark
2. Giant screen underneath one of those enemy droid things
3. Either pong on an Atari or a multiplayer NES game on a nes console
4. White russians on the table (tron discs as coasters) (jeff bridges reference)
5. MCP lava lamp (the spinny CG guy in tron1)
6. A hottie from Tron 2 trailer in the foreground parlaying with Daft Punk
7. A speederbike tipped over
8. Floating bit dude somewhere in the scene (yes yes yes no no no)
9. Tron girl from tron1 on the couch (i need cuties in my paintings)
10. Wallpaper - something nerdy. I don't know what - something oldschool though. I may even use the wallpaper fromw hen I was a kid in the 80s living in New Mexico.
    
    Ryon,
    So at this point it's your call. Tell me what you love or hate. Scrap the whole thing if you want. Leave it as is and start making palette recomendations. Anything goes. Change the perspective. Move the characters around. Add or remove ideas. Art direct it. You can leave it as comments or email me and I'll integrate it into my next post. I want everybody to see this piece grow from your paragraph into a full art piece.
    
    Anybody else,
    This art is interactive. Feel free to picth things in the comments. I like to connect to people and this seems to be as good a way as any.
    
    cheers,
    &.

It is on.

Ok. I made a choice. Choices suck because picking one thing means not picking a bunch of other things.

This is sort of messed up too - because the guy who's idea I'm picking is an actual art director. The reason that sucks is that he's probably going to put me to the grind, but it's also cool because I'm really curious to see what comes of this.

His idea is to illustrate characters from Tron playing oldschool video games against each other - something like Donkey Kong or Pong etc. or looking goofy using a wii. The painting makes heavy use of glow - something i love to use. And includes a reference to heavy geek themes and pop culture. I'm imagining Flynn vs. Sark in front of a hug oldschool projector style TV or something in a really 70s looking living room. Speeder bikes parked to the side. Maybe one of THESE guys:



I want to use old atari joysticks and an atari with a fat cart sticking out of it. Since most kids don't even know what that is - it's like hmmm, it's like... ummm, it's like a Klondike bar, but it's plastic and has a small video game inside of it. Printed on a "circuit board" or something.

The runners up were (in no particular order):
Joel Julian,
GLEN at a digable planets address,
Aric Sangruchi

If you guys want to email me you addy's - i'll put something in the mail for you.

&Rew.

I sat down...

About two hours ago and started writing back to those who emailed me with ideas. If you posted in the comments I got your ideas! I just wanted to confirm people over email.

I really appreciate you guys and girls wanting to share imagination space with me. It's a cool idea and I'm looking forward to working on something neat.

In the meanwhile, I did this drawing in a sketchbook for a guy at the emerald city comic-con:

I really liked it for some reason, even though it was a quick sketch. I snapped a photo so I could redo it a bit. I plan on using her in a story I've written that's about a million and a half years away from being published. I have to cut the story so it's about 30% shorter cause everybody falls asleep while reading it - then I have to draw the f_cker.

It involves LOTS of eating, cuteness, color, and... well.... poo.

You wouldn't believe how dirty I can get. You might think ya know.

but you don't know...

cheers,
&rew.

Entries so far

Ok it's the 9th. 6 days left till the entries are closed and I have to pick one.
I'm going to list out the ideas I've gotten so far.

There are little over a dozen ideas submitted. That means as of right now, you have around an 8% chance of being picked! That seems high, right? It would give me hope, that's for sure. I'm exited to pick one and get started.

Also, if you emailed me something: I got it and THANKS! Allot of you said really nice things and I appreciate the support. I'd like to reply back to everybody personally and I hope to get to that this coming weekend.


Here are the ideas so far in no particular order:

How badass would it be to see tank girl square off against alice from superjail? thats what i would Want to see... an epic battle between the two in the middle of the australian outback with unsuspecting innocent people witnessing (and maybe involved in...) the awesomeness.

A pair of really tanned blonde chicks riding a unicorn (type thing) on a path made of rainbow through a glass tree forest.

A grimy monster coming up from a creepy ass pool of something gross. With only the eyes, and partial head/face visible.

Medusa resurrected sitting on a statue of Perseus (Freaked out face and hunched over cowering).

She's also using his shield as a platter for wine and food. Give her an eye patch for good measure.

I always wanted to a clockwork orange illustration but with a twist instead of the droogs, i'd have them be girls (droogettes if u will) cool sexy babes with an attitude doing some of the ultraviolence

With the new Alice in Wonderland movie opening soon, I think it would be very cool to see some of those characters in your unique style. And while there's a bunch of characters to choose from, I'm thinking of Alice & Cheshire Cat in particular.

I would like to see an epic-sized ninja vs pirate battle. Ninjas swinging onto a pirate ship from a wooded coast line- swords clanging, nun-chucks waving, hairy bearded pirates AAARG-ing...

A Cute Dentist - they're alway portrayed as bad/sinister

okay i think you should do a roller derby poster. two hot chicks in skates getting ready to go at it. You can throw in my local derby team - the soul city sirens vs. whoever, maybe the Forgotten Kingdom Friends.

A pinup girl for the gastank of a bike that's being built. I've decided to call her "Fat Yama" because of the Harley Fatboy wheels and Yama, cause it's a Yamaha. I have always liked the comic book style drawings along with pin up styles.

My thoughts was to incorporate these two styles into something for the tank.

- Offset circle on the "show side" of the bike

- In the circle have a "fat pinup" asian girl.. not ugly, just voluptuous.. small waist, big butt, hips, etc..

- Have her sitting on Yama. The font will appear to be buckling under the girls weight

- Fat in the same font following the top half of the circle.

- Color ideas, seafoam green, off white, suggestions?

- Gold pinstripe outlines to make the tank pop

A toned down version of one of your chipotle menu girls. And the reason for toning it down would be because I don't really care for a full on painting, I want to get this tattooed on my left upper thigh and naked girls are usually looked down upon when getting a job. Along with the girl I would love for there to be other creatures (I'm partial to hippos and elephants)in the same style, which I would want to be up to you. The theme of my other tattoos are simple line drawings and would like to keep the lines of this simple and easy. The less shading the better and zero color. I'm a black and white kind of gal.

if u could do an illustration of all the female characters from Quentin Tarantino films some of which u've done before, it's a very geeky wish..but something i would definitely love...

And BTW - These are pictures of art pasted up and photographed by Eric Marachal in Naples I believe. Thanks eric, great choices as usual. You rock man. I'll get you some new material soon.