The banner and some pics of Emerald City Comic Con

This is how the banner came out.  Figured some peeps might want to see it undistorted and clean like.

It came out rad.  Props to the printers.

Don't lie. You've never seen a better banner.

 These are some of my favorite cosplay pics from in front of the booth.
 
Look at dat awesome banner up there behind everything.  Word?

SO CUTE!

Also SO CUTE.  Look - she's like Mario but sweeter.

Met this girl and her buddies and they were super fly (tm).

These two girls were hilarious and super cool.  Skills at cosplay.

Mother f_cking BOB'S in the house.

Best family ever.

Sleeping Beauty versus Maleficent

I'm working on a Sleeping Beauty for fairy tale themed pieces.  The painting is well underway, but I don't wanna post any of the colors until the time is right.  Here's the thumbnail I ended up going with.  Complete with the little RGB fairies (hiding behind the door) a bunch of pig like minions, Maleficent, and of course, the sleeping B.

Sleeping Beauty vs. the evil bitch queen Maleficent

cheers,
&Rew.

Elena (sf3) gets some pin up love

Over the weekend I drew street fighters for a potential T-shirt idea.  It's weird how many online images there are of Elena that AREN'T CUTE.  I googled so many images and couldn't find many good looking ones except the official stuff.  She does a bunch of high kicks and is rather lanky.  Almost all the pics are crotch shots.  That's ok, I get it. BUT WHY NO CUTE PICS? Her face and hair are always super lame.

Well, dear internet, I'm correcting this error.  She's lanky, half naked, and rather crotchy, but let's make a cute Elena for once for fuck's sake.  You're welcome internet. What would you do without me?

Elena from SF3.  It's like a spider with boobs. (*__*)

I won't be coloring this as it will likely be screen printed AS HUGE AS POSSIBLE.

Enjoy the pic.  More street fighter pin up art to come in the form of another Cammy. Thanks for dropping by.

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Alice in Wonderland: worst teaser ever.

There's allot of "stuff" from the Alice painting, but I'm sleep deprived.
This is what I do to a perfectly good painting.

The Alice in Wonderland painting is finished. I tweeted a thumbnail when I was about half way done, but I slaved on it over the weekend and finished it tonight.  I'm really excited about this one and I won't to give away anything cool in advance.

On the other hand, I want to be a tease, since it's fun to do that on the internets.  So I'm putting up this image.  The thing came out pretty much just like the sketch you know, but it got all sorts of paint on it.  At some point, while I was painting the roses, ehem... red, I lost my head - as one tends to do when painting Alice.

Now I'm left with a whole bunch of colored pixels.  But I don't think I should let them have their way with your eyes just yet.  Let's wait until the show is on, I believe in March some time.  Yes, let's do that.

Until then it's on to the next art in a long list of arts that need to be created.

Wish me luck,
&Rew.

Pin up girls

These are a few more pin up girl paintings for my buddy. I knocked the nurse out this week and the other one is a revamp from a painting a few weeks ago. At some point I'll be doing a few more, but I have to first get to the Alice painting and then there's a certain girl in armor - like Joan of Arc that I promised somebody I'd work on one hundred years ago.

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Alice in Wonderland: The Queen of Hearts

¿Do you like Alice in Wonderland? I do.

This is the Queen of Hearts.

I'm going to be drawing some Alice this week to get ready for a painting/print soon, and some not-so-Alice as well - like the Queen of Hot. Let's call this Alice in Wanderland, to stick with the whole "All who wander are not lost" theme.

Let's see, there's the Mad Hatter, and the Cheshire Cat, and the White Rabbit. I'll probably turn them all into slutty big headed cartoons. If you had a problem with that, you wouldn't be here reading this.

It has been done and drawn to death, but it's my turn dammit. And I promise I'll bring something new to the table, even if it's only some strange platform tennis shoes and hats with skull pieces and horns and candy colors - Yes, please.

be seeing you,
&.

Portal 2 Chell pin up, the cheese cake isn't a lie.

Portal 2 was awesome. Actually, it still IS awesome. So go buy it if you haven't. It's puzzles plus clever humor, not that toilet humor that promulgated in most modern games! Speaking of bad taste, here's a pin up I made of the main character, Chell, along with her companion cube.

Yes, she's got booty shorts. Yes her head is ginormous. But is there really a problem with that? No. There isn't.

But seriously, if you haven't done the portal thing, it's short(ish) and rewarding.

Otherwise you'll miss out on all the internet memes, like "The cake is a lie." and a bunch of stuff about lemons and Cave Johnson. You'll see.

case closed.
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MegaMan tribute piece

Udon is publishing a MegaMan tribute book. I had the honor of being included in the book which is chalk full of user submissions and professional invitations.

I really had fun with this illustration. This year I've gotten much better at painting full scenes with a little more composition and allot more polish. Aside from my recent Crazy 4 Cult piece, this one was one of my favorite's this year (including all the postcard illustrations).

Andrew Wilson's MegaMan Tribute piece.

Although I've got to tell you that I'm working on something that should kick the crap out of all these other paintings. But we'll keep that a secret until next week. Shall we?

Here's some info on the book that's coming out:
MEGA MAN TRIBUTE LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER

-the book is premiering at the San Diego Comic-con at the UDON booth (#5037), July 20-24

-for fans not attending the show, you can preorder the book at UDONstore.com (http://www.udonstore.com/Mega-Man-Tribute-HC-Udon-Store-Exclusive-p/mega-man-tribute-exclusive-hc.htm )

cheers,
&Rew.

Crazy 4 Cult 5 show: Goonies, Predator, Never Ending Story, Big Trouble in Little China

This is the Crazy 4 Cult 5 piece that I did this year. As stated before, it's 18"x24". I'm calling it "1984-1987". Depending on who you ask, those were good years for movies.

These are going on sale tomorrow at Gallery1988 in Los Angeles. I currently don't have a "to purchase link" so you'll have to email the gallery if you want one, but as soon as they provide me with a link, I'll put one up.

The edition size is 88 (as in gallery 1988) and they are actually going to be on sale for $70 as opposed to $88.

The prints are giclee and done by a REALLY quality shop on nice paper so they're worth every penny. I can also guarantee you that if you like my art, you'll love this print. It's one of the best pieces I've cranked this year and it took me weeks to do.

Share the love of this piece if you like it and pass it around to your friend(s). I don't want it to get lost in a corner of the internet because, well, I poured so much life into this piece...



And for those of you who are "age challenged" the movies are:
Predator
Goonies
Big Trouble in Little China
Never Ending Story

cheers,
&.

Crazy4Cult 5 art show is coming up

Ok, so I'm going to drop a little about the show and the piece I did for it.

This coming Friday in LA is the annual Crazy4Cult art show. It's at Gallery1988 and if you CAN get there and haven't been before, it's fucking awesome.

This is the fifth year and I did a limited edition 18x24 print for it. There will be 88 of them available.

Here's the postcard for the show with a small version of the image:



This thing is JAM PACKED with references to 4 80's movies which I hold very near and dear to my heart.

I had been planning this piece for almost a year before I forced time in to work on it and I think it's one of my best piece yet, but to be honest, you've got to see the print. It's ok in pixel form, but it's way better actual sized and in person. So you've got to go to the event and check it out.

It's called "1984-1987 at 1988" - There will be 88 prints available and they're going to be going for 88 bucks a piece.

There's a framed hand embellished piece in the gallery that will be going for $150.

Here's the digital sketch I made before I started the piece. I'll post up a big version of the final piece tomorrow.


Oh - and do not ask me what movies these are... cause you better f_cking KNOW. (^__^)

cheers,
&Rew.

Metroid's Samus Aran Pin Up Art

Submitted for your pleasure - the finished version of the Samus Aran art.



You may notice that she's got the color scheme from the original Metroid (not the zero suit). Although the zero suit was an obvious choice, I like to call back to the most retro of retros. Gas tank is an "E-tank", The "Bailey" on the side refers to a code from the NES original metroid "Justin Bailey" Which isn't a name but a description, but I won't get into that now. Narpas Sword is also printed on the side.

There's a super missile there popping up next to Samus and she's hugging on to a Metroid, of course.

I will make a postcard of this one at some point, although the whole point of these was to find a design for the front cover of the Postcard book - which doesn't seem to be happening, especially with the new Chell Portal 2 art I"ll be doing.

You will have to bear with me though, it will be done dammit, but every other illustration just adds something cool to the book. It's not a loss but a gain.

cheers,
&Rew.

Portal 2 Chell Pin up

You asked for it. (Death and FBT). You're gonna get it.

Portal 2 Chell Pin up sketch:
be seeing you,
&Rew.

Game Over

&.

One More Time

Another another take.

Impractical sexy army soldier girl number whatever-the-fack-number-I'm-on.

&.

Another take

Dear Humans,

Postcards are on the way.

I got batch 2 done today and another batch will be going out tomorrow. Photos following the sketch.

Also, I did another take on my slutty cartoon war heroine. (Is that how you spell it? That looks druggish). At any rate, this one is a fly girl. I may do another. I can't seem to settle on something I'm 100% in love with, though I do love the curls. I think that's working.

I may get hung up on this and never ever ever ever ever stop sketching these. This one is also based on some stupid Halloween costume. I wonder if the models in those ever brag - "you know, I was sexy witch number three on the Halloween N' Fap order booklet."

Heheh. Ok, that's enough typing for one evening.*



be seeing you,
&.

Sexy Military Outfit Phase 2

Please, no comments about how this outfit would never work on the battlefield. Because, frankly, we both know that it TOTALLY WOULD.

Also, I based it on a Halloween 'Sexy Military' costume, and none of those are practical for anything other than _u__ing, which if I do say so, is a very practical activity.

have a smashing day,
&.

Military Pinup Video Game Girls Mashups

Somebody emailed me and asked for a wallpaper, so I'm posting this. Also I started a sketch, I kinda want to do a hunter girl with dear horns and print a shirt with it. Is that too much to ask for?

It's all black and light cause, well, you've got photoshop... you can tweak it if you want. this is how I wanted it at the time. It's Sunday and I feel like inverting things.


Eh, here's the correct way, I feel like posting it after all.
Here's the base sketch, super roughy. I'll get to the finish oneday. maybe. (probably) ;p
be seeing you,
#6

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.
&.

Goonies painting. We're gettin thurr

Characters mostly done now. BG is kinda just thrown in, so lots of tweaks there. Although mostly, I think that if I finish it and it has these values, I'll be happy. I'll do a glow over the edges to make the characters look more directionally lit from the outside.
Now I've got to go run a bunch of errands I spaced on!

no time to say hello goodbye, I'm late...
&Rew.