Emerald City - if you're there!

Hey - my good friend -WADE- is gonna be at the -Emerald City Comic Con- Saturday and Sunday.

Stop by and say hi to him - he's a really friendly fellow.

And if you'd like, i have copies of my book available with sketches I've drawn in them with a little Emerald City gem and a character inside the cover. (I sent about 20 books to him and he'll be selling them since i couldn't make it)

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street fighters too

Udon is doing a streetfighter tribute book. it's going to be hundreds of pages of fan art by both pros and submissions.

i did a piece for the book, and they've asked us to keep it secret, but here's a small crop of the entire piece to try to entice you. (^_^ ) hahaha


Here's the pre-order page if anybody is interested in the Hardcover:
http://www.udonentertainment.com/streetfightertribute/

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all we are...

is dust in the wind.

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get up, you bastard.

thanks to everybody who stopped by and said hello, and even more thanks to those that helped take those books off my hands, it made my luggage so much lighter on the way home. (^_^ ) i really truly appreciate it and i hope i showed it.

I told Peter, at the calgary expo that i would do some more silhouette paintings cause he really liked em.

well, here's the first one in a long time. it's not so great, but i need to get back into the swing of things. if you take a while off from painting like this, it becomes more difficult and it'll probably take two or three to get back to full speed. i might even have to use some reference. i hope not, but it is a possibility.

so i'm gettin back up... here goes nothin.
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look what i made!

it's a cardboard cutout. i'm going to try to get her to go out and sell copies of my book in calgary at the show.

i'll let you know how it goes.

she's about 2ft tall, but her bite is worse than her bark.

(*__*)

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Calgary Ho!

i'm going to a convention in Calgary Canada this weekend. this is a piece i did for a charity auction they will be having.

it's black and red ink wash with white prismacolor pencil.

i had a blast last year and this year should be no different, but i think the show is gonna be one day longer than before. not sure...

if you can find me, bring a napkin and i'll doodle something on it for you. that is, if you'd like the napkin to be totally ruined. (-_- ) never the less, i'll be at a booth with a sharpy and some napkins providing people with something to blow their noses with. heheh


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human canvas

i recently received an email from a tattoo artist asking if they could use some of my art. my reply was - sure, if you can find anybody who would like it enough to put it on em - then why not?

the truth is that i'm very flattered that somebody put my owl piece on her side. i have had a few requests to use art, but this was the first time they had gone through and sent me a photo.

The tattoo artist's site is http://www.devilsinktattoo.com/ and his name is ran. he did a really good job on what i suspect was a difficult task.

*also - give it up for sideboob. ( (0) )( (o) )

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art in your blood and blood in your art.

i'm currently working on one of those projects that either completely destroys you or makes you strong - i think kanye west has a song about something like that...

the project... it's not leaving me any time for "free time art" which is mostly what i post here, but i'm really hoping that it's going to be worth it.

here's a piece i did for no reason:
i hope to find time to do much more nonsensical art for nonsensical reasons, but that seems to be on the horizon very far away.

oh ya - and kids, 'broc lee' might make it look cool to smoke, but it's not that cool and perhaps not even cool at all.

eat your green and have a good day.
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i heart gauntlet.

"amazon needs lovin'."

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get your red hot Metroid Metal shirts.

i made some shirts for metroid metal.

i posted them a while back, but now they're done.

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death should have no pets.

some pieces from that show i did a couple of weeks ago:




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in the uk

i'm currently in london, but i stopped at a friend's house tonight and he let me use his wacom, which is actually got the label "bamboo" on it... so it's a strange of brand.  it makes smooth strokes hard so i had to try something a bit different.

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come to the art show.

i'll be in NJ on the 15th at a show. it's my friend alberto's show, but he invited me to put in a bunch of stuff. The gallery is called the crybaby gallery.

if you want to show up and say hi - please do. i like to meet fellow bloggers. it makes the world seem smaller and personal.

i'll have a few pieces in the gallery including these:




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all play and no work.

working on a massive painting right now, but i may as well show the blog some love. and by massive, i mean about 4 ft big, which is way bigger than the post-it size i usually use.

not so easy to go from post-it size to four feet. we'll see how it goes. i'll be sure to post it when i'm completely done in about a zillion years.



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xylophones.

this is what they would look like if i were to design them.

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