a bunch of tradish pieces.

here are several pieces that I did recently. I'm trying to get a good feel for a way to do traditional pieces that have a splash of color in them and are interesting to look at. Traditional isn't the easiest, but it is so open ended and the possibilities just keep growing - i really have a good time exploring in real media.

These ones are all paintings of Red Sonja. If you don't know who that is - it's sort of like Conan's female counterpart. She was dreamed up by the same writer. She had a movie staring Bridget Nielson (i think that's how you spell her name) and Arnold S. was in it too.

At any rate, I used to love her comics when I was little. They had monsters, swords, and boobies. It's pretty much a perfect combination. I'd never yet done any pics of red Sonja and now that I have - it's all i want to do. (^__^) I'm working on another one for the Crazy4Cult show in LA next month. It's shaping up to be a really fun piece and I can't wait to post it, but before I post it - i have to finish it.

I'll find some time and get back to you on that one.

cheers,
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Oh yah, and in case you were wondering - they're ink washes, a little water color, and some acrylic and then they were mounted to board.

what would we do without music?

I made a joke the other day about a piece of music - I said "this song is so good that it should be the only song on earth." It's not a terribly funny joke - well, it's not funny at all, but once I said that I realized just how awesome it is that we get more than one song.

I think it's one of those things that we all take for granted - and it's easy to take for granted because it doesn't make logical sense that there would only be one song... but, well, imagine a world with only one song and then open your eyes to the real world - infinite possibility. it's fantastic.

The same thing goes with visual art. So why do I keep doing the same thing? I like it. I'm trying to keep each of these images different enough so that they're interesting.

When I fail at that - don't be afriad to call me out. That's what the anonimity of the internet is for.

On the other hand if you enjoy the art. Here's another song painted into black, white, and red.

Do have a good day.



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searching for that midnight knockout punch

crazy ass week.
crazy ass weak.

this is for all the artists out there who didn't make it.
yet.



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Idea Illustrator cover

Idea Illustrator cover
Originally uploaded by artist.andrew

This is the cover for a magazine that I was just included in. It's called (as you can read) idea illustrator. they liked my black and white silhouette pics, which is great since I've been working hard on them for a long long time.

I'll post a few other pics - the art you've seen on this blog, but it's neat to see it in print format.





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Artdition (art + addition)

Here's a red sonja piece i did. It's a nother practice piece to try out this technique. I've done 10 of these pieces. There for a show that's coming up. I don't usually add color to my traditional pieces and I've really wanted to for a long time, so I bit the bullet a month ago and started doing it.

Let me know what you think. Criticism is always welcome here.

I'm a big red sonja fan, so 5 of the 10 pieces are red sonja - the other ones are VG classics. (^__^)

this:

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any way the wind blows...

...doesn't really matter to me.



I did have enough time to do this today.

I slept on my neck wrong, and now it's got this cutting pain. i wonder if anybody at worked noticed that I didn't turn my head without turning my neck today. all day long I was doing those full body turns when people call for my attention.

chances are - they didn't notice.

i've got to remember to stop sleeping in bizarre positions.

have a good day, and a great night.
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I've been getting raped.

No posts lately, I've been working on ... gulp... MORE TRADITIONAL PIECES!!!

And I started adding color toooo.... I know I know, what's the world coming to? Non digital colors from Andrew? Yup.

Well I don't wanna post stuff until I have a bunch of it done, but what the hell, I'll post a little.

Here's an animated gif of a piece:


This one is a test of sorts. I wanted to try to get a very specific look. i didn't quite hit it, but I hit it on the ones that followed. I'll post some of them soon. I promise. ok?

&rew.

no TOO tight...

time has the slip on all of us, but sometimes it is the pain of time's choke that makes us move.



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aladdin plus

I did these a while ago but didn't have any time to UL or post them. They should be pretty obvious. The bird isn't so creative, but he does have my post-it pet spin on him. I should have taken it further, but that happens from time to time. Not everything can be totally crazy and different, right?





Happy easter to everybody celebrating it. This is usually such a good family day. I'm about to go hunt for "beer eggs"... well, I've been told it's something like that that's hiding around in the surrounding territories.

cheers,
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Go Time

My figure is almost done and I'm really excited about it.

If you came to the Seattle Comic Con, I had a prototype sitting out. And if you stopped by and said hi to me then I really really appreciate it. I met allot of cool people. Wade and I had a great time.

Here's an unpainted pre-mold version. There are a few bugs with the paint job but as soon as I get all the kinks ironed out I'll put it up online. I'm doing a run of about 100 figures and the final price will be determined by how much I can get the glass and shipping for, but I'm shooting for less than $75 and it's going to include a postcard and a copy of my imaginary kingdom book.



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Emerald City Con

Wade and I will be in Seattle for the Emerald City Comic Con Saturday and Sunday.

We're in artist alley and we're A NUMBER 1.

Literally - we're in the A-1 area.

I did this piece for the con book:


As usual - come by and say YO!

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Tonight's show

Tonight is the Idiot Box show at Gallery1988.

Come by and meet me, Mr. Beldin, and a ton of other cool artists.


As a doozer dos (does)...
Here are the pieces I'm putting in the show. I hope that you enjoy them. If you don't know what they're from, it's pretty simple 80s puppet stuff. I LOVEd that show. It's really awesome and Henson is a part of my heart after having seen so much of his work. I was really influenced by his creative spirit and hope to oneday inspire other people as well.


Greetings from Outer Space...

¿Do you know what show these are from?

be seeing you,
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I'm seeing red.

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more SxSW film

I've recently seen
Observe and Report (awesome)
Lesbian Vampire Killers (super)
New World Order
& Trust Us, This is All Made Up (rad)




So far so good. Here's an answer key to my bag art for SXSW Film. I'm also posting some photos I snagged from Harry Knowles at the aint it cool website. I'll replace em when I get a chance to photograph the bag myself at some point.

SXSW is really awesome, but when I go back to watching movies at my local theaters (like Landmark Hillcrest and the Ken) I'll be sad to be watching these movies without all the camaraderie and even some of the actors or directors in the theater. That's a feature that seems to be making these movies seem better while I'm watching them. I fear that I'm enjoying them too much just because people who worked on them are in the crowd. Well, that's all over today as most of the bigshots have headed home.




be seeing you,
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south by

I'm currently at the south by southwest film festival in Austin Texas. It's pretty rad.

So far I've seen:
I love you, Man
Adventureland
Best Worst Movie
Winnebago Man
Drag Me to Hell
& ExTerminators

To be honest, they've all been good to great. Best Worst Movie was impossibly cool for a few reasons I can't explain right now cause my head is bangin from Asahi Black and I just got out of Sam Raimi's work in progress - Drag Me to Hell - which was really funny/ jumpy scary. It was paced really well and I had an awesome time. Directly to my left, Raimi, was sitting across the isle. I tried to take a picture with my phone but got scared when the infra-red scope bouncer was looking at me.

That's how it goes sometimes...

oh yah - this pic is art i did for them. i'm too tired to go into what it is and who the pics are, but i'll post when i wake up and am no longer drunk.

be seeing you,
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hostile

i saw hostel tonight. i had netflixed it a million years ago and it was super low in my queueue.

F minus...

i'm a dude, and i likes me a few boobs, tail shaking, violence, and revenge. hostel though? no. i guess i've just been watching too many good movies lately to settle for that one. what's a good comparisson? it's like taco bell versus really-good-bertos-hole-in-the-wall mexican. And if you're not from So. Cal, or one of the other south western states - you may not know what a difference that is. down here they name all the restaurants to end in "bertos".

enough words.

i did another disney post-it pet. i promised a dude a long time ago i would do this guy, so here he is. kinda funky, but i do hope you enjoy it.



be seeing you,
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Saved by the Belding.

This is a piece I did for the postcard for an upcoming artshow.

It's at Gallery1988 and it's called Idiot box - it's an arts how dedicated to T.V. shows we all know and love or know and hate... Like Saved by the Bell or Knight Rider or Alf or Fraggle rock. (*__*) I LOVE ALL THAT STUFF.

from the Gallery 1988 LA site:

"Idiot Box" will feature almost 100 artists depicting their favorite television guilty pleasures. The shows you can hardly admit you love, but in all honesty, you LOVE the shit out of them. And yes. On April 2, the night of the opening reception, Dennis "Mr. Belding" Haskins will be hosting the extravaganza to not only celebrate the Gallery's milestone, but also the 20th Anniversary of Saved by the Bell! "Diff'rent Strokes." "Small Wonder." "Double Dare." "Flava of Love." It basically doesn't stop.

I painted the saved by the bell kids on top of an actual 8X10 that Dennis "Mr. Belding" Haskins gave the gallery owner to use. I thought it was kinda fun.

I hope you like it and I hope you go to the show and say hi, cause I'll probably be there unless something really big or serious comes up.

The commish

This is a commission I did for Jorge D.

I don't usually do them - as a matter of fact, this has to be the second or third one ever. But he was really nice about asking and I had a little free time. Thanks for you patience Jorge, I know I took a long time on it. Hope you liked it man. (^__^)

I hope you guys/girls like it too. It's got nipplez, so if your'e young, look the other way! (as if you've never seen em before).





be seeing you,
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duh duh duh duh duh duh duh

bet you can't name that song.

new silhouette art from me.

and whatdayaknow - i remembered to label this one. wooohoooo.



make sure you have a great evening.

cheers,
&Rew.

i shouldn't have left you

without a dope beat to step to...

more art - more GIRLIE art. (*___*) IN GLORIOUS BLACK AND WHITE - with a splash of reeedddd. I do love me girlie art. I've been so busy doing things that I "can't show anybody" until they drop, but i'll give you a hint - there's a bunch of it coming to http://clandestineindustries.com/

i've been doing designs for them. it's been really cool. i've seen a couple of pics of the final products (shirts and hoodies and whatnot) but they should update to the new line soon, then I'll spam my blog with designs and shizz.

i guess i'm gonna start tagging these with labels. last time i started doing it, it lasted for like 3 minutes. This time i'll make it last for a week at least. A week.... we shall see.



be seeing you,
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Getting crafty

I spent several hours today both in the aisles of Michael's craft store - wandering around and looking for just the right color threads and some sort of manual on how to use it - and stitching with a little needle and said colored threads in front of the television.

I have a pretty comon laptop bag, and I wanted to differentiate it from any other bags that I may see on the streets of the world.

I thought to myselef, "Pixel art is just like cross stitching." And with that, it was TO THE INTERNET! To find a good template for stitching something I like. I picked out Boo from SNES mario. He's so cuuute.

Here are the pics of my adventure. I will definately be doing more of this if the opportunity ever arises. It's so fun and relatively easy.







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Solo show at Culturator (Seoul, Korea)

Today I have the honor of showing in Seoul Korea at this awesome gallery -here- It's called Culturator or (Gallery + Ctrt) for short.

I'm really excited about it because it's the first place I've sold superhuge canvas prints of my characters. They look really nice, so you should stop by the site and take a look if you get the chance. (or if you're in seoul)

I didn't get to t=go to the show cause I'm busy with my day job, but I would love to oneday stop by there and meet the gallery owner Wany, who is a pretty chill guy. I really hope the show does well for his sake of setting everything up and coordinating over such a long distance. I'll put some pictures and link of/to the show when I have a chance to pick some cool ones out and upload them.

It's open till late January, so you still have time to stop by. (^____^)

be seeing you,
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merry christmas yall.

This painting is a result of a really interesting project.

I owed a favor to somebody and they called it this christmas.

The request was to paint a "christmas" card, and upon my asking, the person who wanted it didn't tell me to stay away from any particular issues or imagery. So I took all the liberty I wanted and just painted santa and a couple little CMYK elves (it was for a printer).

Funny thing was that the printer didn't get back to me in a timely fashion and by the time there was only half a day left before they needed to print the cards - they finally wrote me an email saying "Ok well I like it but my boss needs it to be more non denominational, he is Jewish..."

When asked what I should do to make it right for her and her boss, I was told (and I'm quoting all of this from email) "Shit I am not sure either maybe throw some Jewish shit in there..."

I was pretty offended. I'm not jewish but to just throw around culture like it's a bag of garbage is not really my style. I don't like to hear people belittle culture like that.

At that point, I realized that I was dealing with a person without class, so I just painted a bonfire over santa and called it a night. I still liked this version, and I hope it doesn't offend anybody. But the next time this woman calls asking for a favor for her work i'm going to have to say "Shit no...maybe you should learn some more politically correct shit."

Oh well... Shit, you live and you learn.



&Rew.

is it a crime?

¿to draw black and white silhouetted naked chicks all the time?

if it is, then I am guilty...

exhibit A.


be seeing you,
&Rew.

and now for something.... completely similar....

I didn't think I'd have time tonight, but I put on some buckethead and painted. it was an older album but damn was it good.

if you haven't checked out his music, he's just damn good. that's the only way to put it. pour yourself a nice tasty white russian and listen to it now!!! are you still here? the genre isn't my fave, but then again, he can play damn near anything. and I do so respect a good musician.



be seeing you,
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inspired by a shooting star...

This one rounds out my pinocchio series. there are several other characters from the movie, but I think Jimminy, Pinoc, Geppetto, and the Blue Fairy are the "classic ones" for that. There's the fox and the cat, stromboli, and the whale, as well as the jackass kid, but I'm gonna stick with these four then move on to... say.... ¿Aladin?

who knows, I have enough work lined up to keep me busy till 2010, but i always find a way to slack off just long enough to paint fun stuff. (*__*)



*i added tags, so it's easier to search out these disney inspired pictures. sometimes this blog is like a unkept closet and that should help a little.

be seeing you,
&Rew.

inspired by a carpenter

you know the drill.

And Happy Thanksgiving for those of you that celebrate it.

If you don't, go ahead and use it as a reason to think of something you're thankful for.

(^__^)



&rew.

smokin' ace

i had this design in my head today and had to get it out.

thought it was kinda morbidly funny.

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sketch poses for a maquette

i'm going to try to get a figure done. here are the first sparks of the creative movement. we'll see how far (or short) this one goes, but i'm gonna give it a good shot. scout's honor.





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slip into some more comfortable art...

I got tagged by Charles Goatley.

Tag rules
- You must link to the individual who tagged you and post the rules of TAG.
- Post 7 random facts about you
- Tag 7 bloggers and link to them
- Let them know that they have been tagged by leaving a message

random facts about me:
music is my favorite thing.
i usually avoid capital letters.
i will eat almost anything save mushrooms.
bicycles concern me.
i purposely avoid creating art influenced by my favorite artists in order to respect their style.
i rarely, if ever, speed unless fast music is on or i am in dire straights.
i am better at keeping secrets than anybody who is reading this.

and i am tagging:
joonasjoonas
Teemu
deboda
justin
fenton
veronica
patrick
beatriz

follow the rules people, i want the random facts.

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¿what have you if you haven't your word?

i told somebody i'd do a few more of these, so it's back to practice before i come up with anything worth actually resting eyeballs on. gimme a week.



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let your conscience be your guide.

¿does it work?



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there are no strings on me.

i always liked this character. i suppose this is no way to treat him... but after the way he treated his own father, he deserves such a thing. and in the book - i do believe that he burned his own hands off (i have been corrected, it was his feets. ;-)), though i'm not totally sure. i think that happens at some point after he kills the cricket.

what a tale.



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inspired by some chipmunks

this one was tough, and it's not entirely obvious, but i think they're sorta cute, so i'll keep em.



see ya real soon!
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inspired by a steamboat

uno mas.



be seeing you.
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inspired by the yellow dog.

guess who.



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goofing around.

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Go fly a kite, you!

I did this last night to just pass the time.

Now that I think about it - I never really could get those kites to fly right. I remember running around with the kite string in a field in New Mexico when I was about 3ft. tall.

At some point the kite took at down turn and smacked into the earth hard, which perhaps wouldn't have broken it, had the damn thing not gotten caught on a barbed wire fence.

Something tragic like that, although the memory escapes me just like the joys of flying the kite did on that day.

I kinda like the quip - "Oh - go fly a kite!" It's a pretty good one and it's not altogether too offensive. It gets the point over just so. Subtle, but minorly effective.

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inspired by the duck

you know who...

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inspired by the mouse.

i just spent a quite a bit of time living off the disney resort outside of paris.

this idea came to me whilst chowing down on some carbonara at the mickey cafe, while teams of children bounced around to a techno remix of the happy birthday song (sung by goofy and minnie to techno drums and bass). it was weird.

enough talk - here are some pixels.

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strawberry girl

another painting. i'm off on a miniature vacation tomorrow. we'll see if i have the time to post anything, but if i don't talk to you soon, make sure to have a great week!

here's a character inspired by strawberries and the color green.

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new ice cream man

Here's another one.

↕far less creepy than the first, no?

ya, this guy's a playa.



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ice cream dude.

I haven't been painting much that I can show online, which is good cause it means that I'm spending time working on stuff, but bad cause I like sharing.

Well, I CAN share this ice cream with you. Although he's so creepy that i'd never eat him.

That's ok cold old mr. Ice Cream man.

There's somebody out there with a warm heart for you.

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Sporelings

I spent part of my weekend playing with the spore creature creator. It's pretty cool. You can do about a million thing with it, though i don't like how you can only make symmetrical creatures. I could have also used fur.

It's like playing with Meta balls from old software packages. You pretty much HAVE to make mouths and eyes on them too, and i like little slits or small mouths instead of the gummy lippy jaw heavy choices you have in the creator program. It's a good way to exercise creativity though.

There's a feature to make avatars animations in it, so i did these ones:







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we all have our crutches

tonight i listened to some jazz.

i was driving home on the freeway when the car in front of me stopped so hard that it looked like his car was chained to a mountain. i pressed the brakes too and came to a gentle stop inches away from her bumper and quickly looked in the rear view to see a van careening towards me little silver car.

both before i starting cursing expletives at the top of my lungs and after i had peed myself i had a few magical thoughts spark in my brain. the car didn't hit me, instead i gassed the car a bit and steered into the shoulder, but i still got to have those life flashing images. you know the ones, the ones you get before the boulder smashes your head - about your first jump off the high dive or the time you ate oreo cookies until you could only see in black and white or the time you punched your sister in the back of the head for kocking down your sand castle and then your dad spanked the white offa yer ass for doin it... those thoughts.

it was really cool to live.

i thought of doing epic things when i got home like solving world peace or ending the credit crisis all by myself... then i remembered, i'm just artist and all i can do is paint.

and so i did just that.



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high energy post-it pets

it's been like a decade since i've posted a post-it pet. i've almost dammed near forgotten how to make them... except for the fact that there aren't really any rules, so that makes it pretty easy to do one after all. mostly i blame being busy on not doing any art for no reason at all.

i think i mentioned it in the past, but these are kinda like art push-ups.

enjoy it. i'll try to make more in the future unless my (A.) i'm so inundated with work that my hand breaks off or 2.) if after i go to sleep in a moment, i don't wake up.


cheers,
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F.O.B.

i recently designed a simple logo for "fresh only bakery", which is a Pete Wentz thing.
-link-

it looks like this:


it looks like this on Pete dressed as a crazy baker:
They're not for sale, it's just P.R. thing and he's giving them away in super limited quantities around the states. it's good to see my art in photos but funny to see them in tabloid style mad baker paparazzi attacks.

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my fingers are too tired to type a title here.

neither do they have the energy for anything interesting here.



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the gothic archies are awesome.

cheers,
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red white and black

i had just enough time to listen to the back to the future soundtrack tonight. what better to do than paint a picture while listening to music?

she's no flux capacitor, but she'll do for now.



&rew.