Moo mini cards: Kirby your enthusiam.

Wakka wakka... That's right folk. Kirby.  It's on.

Is there any other marshmallow shaped hero this cool?  I surmise that there is not.

Kirby, the old-school NES hero is back on the warpath.

He's really gonna f_ck that tree up.  That's what you get for being nature! DIE.

Why don't you make like a tree and LEAFVE!

More to come if/when I ever have time.

cheers,
&Rew.

Everything but the girl

Sometimes I do smart things. Today, I did 'a smart things'. I recycled the BG from the last painting, but moved stuff around so it would look different. I just need to do the giant gashes on the plane. Plus I mixed up the palette so that it would be more unique.

oh ya - and I added a magical boomerang on the side thurr, sorta like the bobomb on the last piece.

everything is done but the pinup hottie, so now for the 'good' part.

cheers,
&

Whatever you do, don't look down.

...And don't stop. Momentum is really hard to gain.

Over and out,
&!

AD4AD2.0 - Noseart Mashup Remix

Ok, now that I've got a reasonably wacky title out of the way, to the art.
This one is Mida based, or maybe I'll go with princess Zelda, but she gets all the love and I'm kinda doing the B-siders with Daisy and Luigi and all. The cool thing about Midna is that she has a Ganon looking color palette with the green pale blue and orange. It could look really cool I think, although a little off.

I've got the Zelda series refs on there. Slashes instead of bullet holes. Fairy in a bottle instead of 1-up, etc.

I think it will work. I just have to decide which damned version to go with. Hoody or no hoody. Sticking her tongue out or not. I'm thinking number 2, but the top one is sort of unique and out of character, which is a cool aspect.

Either way, I've got to jump on this quick so I can get it done and out. I want to print a set of 2 cards and I can't do that if only one card is finished!

bee seeing you.
&.

Mario/ Princess Daisy Pin up AD4AD4: Closed Case.

Phew, what do you know, I DID finish it in time after all. I made Princess Daisy just about as hot as I could make her.

Gotta do a backside and then I'm thinking Samus or Zelda or something next week. I suppose I need to have a pair of cards to print! Or what's another nintendo game vixen that needs to TLC?

Thanks for the concept ZG.

be seeing you,
&Rew.

I'm up I'm up!

And I put a little time into the piece. This went down so quick it kinda makes me want to do a few more like it.

Of course, it's always easier said than done.

Expect the final up after lunch sometime. Then I guess I need to decide if I'm going to do another or send this one straight off to the printer to make postcards. Then ask all you peeps for addresses if you'd like me to send you one.

AHHH - but of course, I forgot about the backside! I still need to do art for that!

cheers,
&.

Just in the nick of time

I got home from dinner and had just enough time to do this before I pass out to some Netflix bullsh_t.

¿Finish her off tomorrow?

If you're not with me, you're against me.

out,
&Rew.

Shaded

Ok. I don't always do a B/W shaded version but I wanted to for this one to get the values right. So the main character is now rendered. On to the BG later on. I'll try to get her all colored up by the end of the evening. (crosses fingers)

&.

Super minor tweaks

I scaled to image to fit on a card, added a few little things while I'm making lunch.

After lunch I'll hit up the final paints and see if I can't get this painting nailed, but don't expect an update for a long while when I go to finals!

cheers,
&.

Flats

You know the drill.

Make shapes.
Fill em in.
Cross your fingers and hope it 'aint ugly.

&.

Give 'em hell, Daisy

"Mario-fied"


Be seeing you,
&.

AD4AD4: Ok.. let's get started (and promptly finished)

Art director for a day number 4 is on!

I picked an email entry. It took me so long because secretly I wanted to do ALL the choices. Thanks to all you guys for emailing me or posting choices. I really appreciate the participation.

So on to the art. I wanted to finish THIS WEEK. Which means til Sunday, but there's no way that will happen, will it? Shoot - maybe!

So the one I picked is "Create some old WWII airplane nose art. The pinup stuff that is kind of racy. Use a character or theme from a video game for the girl and stickers on the plane, and give her s slogan on the side."

Soooo I really love this idea. Looking at the ref, I have it all figured out. Here's a plane vanilla sketch. I'm going to spend the next 30 minutes making it look like it's from mario brothers. We'll see what happens. I'm goign to try to get it all the way through flats and to some of the final paints by noon.

cheers.
&Rew.

New art director for a day. OMFG

Ok peeps. I want to run another art director for a day, cause I haven't in forever, and I really REALLY loved those.

Same deal as usual.

¿whooowhat? Post your idea in the comments section of this post or email me. My email is in the profile section of the block on the side there (under email). - if you email me, title the email "I wanna be the Art Director" Only send one idea and make sure it's follows the theme. I will pick my fave to get illustrated.

¿The theme? Well, I love cult movies with interesting character (like labyrinth, 5th element, 4tc), monsters, desert foods, and video games. I want to do an illustration with cute girlies, so keep that in mind too.

¿The deadline? I'll take ideas until this weekend.

I'll likely do a postcard or a print at the end of this and I'm probably going to use the illustration for the cover of a postcard book I want to print and sell. (some of you have asked me about this and I have a list of folks who I've mentioned it to at the Seattle con).

look at the art director for a day tag if you're confused right now. Reading through all those will clear your poor poor head. (^__^)

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Hey Sexy Sexy Lady Lady.

The blue swan

again another photoshop painting, not the final version of the painting, cause I want to save that for when I send out cards, which again, will be late, but it's at the printers... yo.

Enjoy the piece (or not!) whatevs. It's thurr fur you.

sexy lady mixes, cause chun li and those thighs? RADiculous. Like a giant nut cracker. ¿Werd? Go get em Chun-Chuns. Make them b!tches pay.

If I did streetfighter they might be a little more chubby and cute, but they'd kick so. much. ass.

dopemix:



o.g.:



be seeing you,
&Rew.

Happy Halloween!

As of today....POSTCARDS ARE UP.

Here's the final. Win lose or draw - the cards are already printed up so there's no stopping me. I hope you guys and girls like it.

Email me your home address if you'd like a free postcard set with a sketch on the back. I'm accepting the first 50 people.

Put "Halloween Cards" in the subject title for the email and please be polite. It makes things happier on me!

Wednesday midnight is the deadline.

Here's the email you need to use:
Last time I got a bunch of spam cause I typed my email. Lesson learned - thanks Chinese spammers. although i did like all the pictures of cute asian girls in panties - i don't like spaaaam. *note that the spam was all in chinese and I google-translated it, just to make sure it wasn't a human! :-)

Molli
NathanGraphics
&
Sammi S.

I'll make sure to hook you guys up with something special since you either won or were a runner up.

I'll be doing another art director for a day next month so check back in a few weeks so you can get in on it.

bee seeing you,
&Rew.

The short of the long

This is a paintsketch for the final. The colors may change a bit but I'd like to keep it moody, dark, and blue. This'll work well. Now all I gotta do it PAINT IT.

Watched Gremlins last night. GREAT movie. Super dated now - more so than I remembered.

Also - MUCH more violent than I remembered. Phoebe Cates is hot.

Also I wanted to say thanks to everybody who entered. I'll put something together for you guys (and girls!) around the time I mail out the cards. I'm hoping that I can get the painting done by mid next week to get it to the printers.

It's gonna be a close race.

Did I mention how hot Phoebe Cates is?

be seeing you,
&Rew.

And they're off!

Gentlemen and Ladies,



It's on! I'm VERY excited to be painting this piece. I decided to throw a few more references in there, and I also swapped nightgown out for t-shirt and panties. I hope nobody minds that I'm painting panties into the piece. I for one, do not. (^__^)

I've got to hurry up and get this out so I can mail them for Halloween. My friends have expressed doubt in my ability to get such a task done, so I'm going to need luck and faith from everyone on the blogosphere.

I'll keep you updated as I"ll be painting on this every night around midnight.

If anybody has the mp3 soundtrack to Gremlins, it would be MUCH appreciated. (or poltergeist). I need all the inspiration I can get please.

thank you
&rew.

Thank G_D

I started doing ad4ad contests to try to connect with people and create art in a more community sense. i'm not a member of facebook or deviant (as of yet)or any major web communities so it's like this blog is a little hub for me to connect to peeps. That's also another reason I love doing the postcards.

Half of art is its creation and the rest of it is sharing it with people.

So thanks to you guys and girls who are participating. I'm really happy to let you guys be a part of the art process. It's way more fun when you get involved.

Here's another sketch of the pirate girl i posted a ways back. I changed her hair and tweaked a couple of her bits.

i'm not sentimental, but i AM an artist for f_cks sake. (^___^)
&Rew.

Get CRACK-a-LACKIN! / I made a Gummo Shirt

I need submissions!
You! Ya YOU! Right thurr reading this post.

Email me with your idea for artDirectory for a day3.0! So far there are 2 entries! I demand participation. Email me or comment it into the block. Just like I stated in the last post:

Come up with an idea for a set of postcards and a matching stamp. If I pick you you'll get free art! I'll give it a few days to a week for entries depending on if I get many more.

There. Nuff said.

Sammi, if nobody jumps in, you're still in high standing. (^__^)

Also, I made this shirt. It's a gummo shirt. Gummo is a movie that's pretty hard to watch but it also pretty fun to watch. It's cultish and it's got some akward moments before that stuff was completely mainstream. Things I like about gummo inclue - the nipple tape scene, the rabbit vs. cowboy scene, and the char wrestling scene (although that might be from another movie but probably isn't). The rabbit boy and the movie gummo might not be for you, but it's definitely worth a netflix, yo.
It's based on a screen grab from the movie gummo. I think it's arted enough for me to call it mine.!

Hurray rabbit boy.

cheers,
&Rew.

Art Director for a Day: Halloween Edition

To everybody who emailed me for a postcard, they've been sent out (on Saturday) so that should be all good shortly. Also - posters and books have been shipped, although there are still a few books and a poster that will go in the mail Thursday.

There are still a few posters left here:


Now for something interesting, AD4AD3.0: I love postcards. I also LOVE Halloween

Email me or leave a comment in the comment box with your idea for a set of Halloween postcards. Please use a subject like of "Halloween Postcard Idea" I will be doing 2 that will link up next to each other (like the kill bill cards). On one card I'd like you to come up with a really cute/sexy girl and a scary monster for the other one. I'm also going to do a stamp for the occasion so make sure to include that in your thought process.

For example:
Frankenstein chasing after his bride with a creepy spider in his hands and the stamp would be a little spider staring out at you.

Or a girl dressed up as wonder woman with a paper bag, and on the other cards Dracula opening up his front door. The stamp could be a jackolantern or something.

All entries will get a set of cards w/ artsy stamps. The ideas that wins plus a couple runner-ups something else like a signed print or a book with some candy.

And here's some art I did a while back when I was trapped in a room for a weekend... I never had a chance to post it until now. There are a few more, but they're as of yet unfinished.





be seeing you,
&.