Friday, August 28, 2009

Another slice of progress.

Little by litte, that's how anything gets done I suppose. Everyday I'm trying to create a new beast.

Progress pictures are fun although a time lapse would be more cool - I don't have that sorta setup. So here's to second best:


birth to death for this part of the image.
I gave this wild thing a skull nose. I love the idea of using a skull as a nose and I don't do it often enough. It's not so easy to tell and it sorta looks like a mushroom (grrrrr) but other than that, it's all good.
be seeing you,
&Rew.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

another movie poster post.

Ok - i listened to you guys. I'm likely to add some NSFW elements. (insert evil grin) I can always blame it on the blogosphere - YOU guys made me do it.

Today I prepared another figure to gesso onto the poster:


inked, cut, and then I like to use an old sharpy and cover the edges so they're black and not paper colored. It makes the thing look more polished.

I'm probably going to add six or seven more character cutouts to the poster and then some little tiny random ones. It all depends on how much time I can make and how it looks when I secure all their positions over the art. I have an idea in my head on how I'm going to do it, but life has a way of getting between your head and your canvas.

There's still plenty of loose time for tragedy.

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

another post for the movie poster blog

I drew up a few creatures that I'll be adding to the mix.

Today I don't feel like talking much, so I won't, EXCEPT to say, that this is much more comfortable now. I'm working on that menu stock, which has excellent tooth and the tone is so freindly and familiar.

If you want to see pieces I've done in the past on the stock - check here:
http://fourthwish.com/thumbnails.php?folder=chipotle

there's innocent stuff like this:http://www.fourthwish.com/post/greetings_from_outer_space.jpg
and unnocent stuff like this:
http://www.fourthwish.com/post/low_rez_058_commission_ice_cream.jpg

here's some iphone photography of the art:


a "creature" of sorts






a "beast" of sorts

Speaking of innocent or un-innocent - if anybody reads and wants to comment in the comment fields - which was should I go with this piece? I'm always tempted to put a little bewb and booty action pieces, but I'm not really sure.

If anybody is brave enough to put their opinion on the comments field or on my blog - i'll take it into strong consideration.


And I didn't want to talk this morning....

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

A journal entry about creating some art for a show

ok.


Andrew Wilson here. (&Rew.)
Age: 1 millioin
Likes: Monsters, nudity, tempura, scotch, snow flakes
Dislikes: human flakes, mold, sunburns, mushrooms
Poster: Wild Things


Gallery1988 SF gave me an assignment: paint on a poster for a show. i got a poster a long time ago, but i've been super busy forever and a half. Last weekend I started working on stuff to see what would happen.


The movie poster is kinda slick and I only paint with markers, ink, watercolor/ ink washes etc. I use acrylic but barely. What does that mean to you? You don't give a f_ck, right? Well that means I can't do my typical thing cause it would slip off the slick paper.


I DO however, know how to use a knife, since I was trained as a knife fighter since birth. So I'm gonna draw/paint (or whatever) on something that I know how to deal with - and then mount it to the poster.


I tried vellum:

This was my vellum sample page. I just did some random doodles and was going to gesso them onto a magazine to see how they held up.


The paper curled up like one of those party favor whistles - you know "foooooooooo". Those ones. It curled up like the wicked witch of the east's toes when she got hit by a f_cking house. As we all know, that's a good thing for everybody but the witch - and currently, I play the witch.

Result: F minus


I'm sad because that would have looked awesome on the poster . And my idea is to do 7 monsters plus a certain "king" of the monsters and gesso them over the poster.

IDK if I wanna crop it down or not though, cause this thing is HUGE. And I may want to mount it to board or something. Cause that always looks nice.


So I think, f_ck it. I like drawing on chipotle menus. I have a stack as tall as an elk in my room. I'll make art on those and exacto them out with my knife skills. And try gessoing THAT on.





Pre-knife sh_t.




post-knife opperation.


So I doodle and then cut and and the paste. It works like a charm. The next thing to do is to see if I can paint white highlights over the gesso (which is a likely yes). Now I have an idea, and I have a plan.


I guess this story is to be continued.


I'm adding these posts to my personal blog as well, but if you want to check that out it's:
http://www.andrewandavid.blogspot.com/


&Rew.

Sunday, August 09, 2009

¿in the nick of time?

i said i'd do a post it pet this week and it's sunday - so does it count if I throw one up tonight?

here's a piece I did for a friend this week:


It's a dragon.

I like the thought of a dragon you fly with harnesses and shoot fire out his head like it was a canon - hence the metal aiming crosshair thingies. I should have done once with a wooden steering wheel. Oh wheel, there's always next time.

&Rew.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

¿werD?

some people informed me that this image is straight up dirty, and that it made them feel like bad people for looking at it.

good. just wait till I "throw up" my next piece.



next week I'm going to bring back post-it pets.

damn straight.

let's see if I've still got any juice left in me.

be seeing you,
&Rew.