Night of the Exquisite Corpse wrap up...

Hello! The Night of the Exquisite Corpse show couldn't have gone more amazing. I am so pleased with the toy Chris and I designed. I am so happy with all the incredible artwork we recieved back from the other artists. I am so impressed with how the space looked all set up. The digital version of the show the Chris designed at www.zombioso.com/papercorpse/ is incredible. Lastly the turnout was fantastic, so thank you to all those who joined us opening night. The show will be up for a few more weeks at Light Grey Art Lab and toys are purchasable now in the shop. Get yours today before they return back to the grave!!

 
The live Digital Corpse.

 
What a great turnout!!

 
Me and my little zombie "Fumble". Check out more great pics from the show here.

Night of the Exquisite Corpse almost here!!...

Man oh man it is soooooo close! The "Night of the Exquisite Corpse" show is just around the corner! I am so very excited to A). See it all come together in a paper wonderland of undead chaos and B). Stop spending every waking moment of my life assembling paper toys...at least for a little while. Check out these sweet sneak peek pics of some of the work in the show. (Hint: One of those is mine! Woo!) Hope to see you all there. August 17th from 7-10 at Light Grey Art Lab.

Night of the Exquisite Corspe going strong!...

Hello everyone! The Night of the Exquisite Corspe show is coming along beautifully. I'm smack dab in the middle of assembling all of the amazing toys we've recieved so far(hence the lack of updates) and couldn't be more jazzed on how it's all coming together. We just got back our promo cards featuring the work of Michael Hacker, Manuel Kilger and Tougui. The show is opening August 17th! I hope to see as many of you there as possible. More updates as I get them.

I Choose y...Oh My GAWD!!!...

Hey everyone. I originally wasn't going to post this until the Pokemon Battle Royale show, but a lot of the other contributors were revealing their works and I got all excited to show mine ahead of time. Ha.
I was excited to get to do Charizard. Just this giant, bad ass fire breathing dragon thing that would never lose a fight. Then from what I saw of the cartoon they made his personality out to be this cocky asshole who would burn the crap out of Ash every chance he got. I tried to capture a little bit of that personality in this piece. I also loved playing around with the color on this one with the mixes of purples and greens instead of just making it orange. I hope you fans out there feel I did Charizard justice in this rendering and if you get the chance come to the show. It's going to be a huge amount of nerdy fun.

Charizard: 8"x8" Digital/Mixed Media

Sketch.

Weekend Monster! 08...fail...

Well I don't always draw perfect the first time! So here was where WM! 08 was going, but it sort of crashed and burned at this point. I just didn't like the pose, color, ink work...pretty much everything. I still like the concept but I think I need to go another direction with it. This is not the final WM! 08 but I will post the failed first attempt. Hopefully the second attempt is super awesome.


The truck looks bad too. Ha.

I Choose You!...

I am super excited for the upcoming Pokemon Battle Royal show hosted by my amazing friends at Light Grey Art Lab. I was lucky enough to nab the baddest of bad dude Pokemon Charizard! I'll admit it's gonna tough to capture just the right pose and emotion for such a beast, but I'm up to the challenge. After many attempts I'm finally on the right path. Below is a little sneak peek (and the only image I'll show until the show).

Weekend Monster! 07...

FINALLY DONE!! For whatever reason number seven took me forever. I think partly because I had a really different vision in my head, but then as I was making it, it changed significantly. The car, a Rolls Royce Phantom, was super boring to draw as well. It is done and now posted so enjoy!

Weekend Monster! 07...update

This one is taking me a little longer than I want...but, that's just the way it goes sometime. Plus I started a new excercise program that takes up all my time and energy. Still shooting for 52/52 total.
Here's a progress shot...

Weekend Monster! 07...sketch...

I've got some progress on this one but it ain't done...so here's the rough illustrator sketch. Should be up soon and pretty awesome too.

Weekend Monster! 06...

Okay I'll admit the car is a little weak on this one. It's supposed to be a Hemi Cuda...but it's late and I need to get it posted. I spent too much time sleeping and doing laundry this weekend. Blurgh...




I can't tell if I'm getting better at drawing cars. Ha ha.

Weekend Monster! 05...

Weekend Monster! is back (although I'm battling an awesome cold right now) and this weeks Weekend Monster! is dedicated to a certain birthday boy who's birthday was in December. The monster is of course Chris (as teenwolf) and the car is his little go-kart Honda Fit. I drove it the other night and I was impressed that it had so much juice under the hood.


Happy Birthday Oldmanwolfdude!

Weekend Monster! 04...

This week I did a little double duty. Creating a Weekend Monster! and participating in my friends over at Paper Bicycle's new holiday challenge.

For the monster I am paying homage to my favorite holiday monster, the abominable "Bumble" snowman from the Rankin/Bass classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I used the teardrop ornament dieline from the PB blog for the monster. For the car I thought the Bumble would probably cruise around in a big ol' snow cat...with flames and I used the christmas car dieline...sort of. I altered it to suit my snow cat needs.


Download here.

I added a second page for arms and legs. Download here.


Download here.

Here they are all nice and put together!!



*Update. You can download them now!!

Happy Holidays everyone!!

Weekend Monster! 03...

I gotta stop waiting till 6pm on Sunday to start these!! Here is Weekend Monster! number 3 as finished as I can afford to finish it. The car in this piece is the amazing Lamborghini Countach. The one and only car I ever had a poster of as a kid. Also, I found this image which was the inspiration for my slime monster. Enjoy.

Weekend Monster! 03 Sketches...

Man oh man! This one has been brutal. It hasn't been the car this time, it's the monster. I just couldn't get it right! (Although I didn't try too hard on the car. Ha.) I'm working on the finals as we speak. Check the sketches below.

Weekend Monster! 02...

Here it is. Weekend Monster! number two. Have I mentioned that I really don't like drawing cars yet?! In other news, go see The Muppets. Is it the best film ever? No. Is it a pretty fun, feel good movie that you'll enjoy? Yes. So go see it.





Sketches...

Weekend Monster! 01 Sketches...

It was requested I throw my sketches for of my Weekend Monster!s on here. Here's WM_01.

New Project: Weekend Monster!...

I'm getting a jumpstart on my New Year's resolutions.

Number One; stop eating sooo much garbage. I know that eight cheese macaroni and cheese with bacon looks amazing but I don't want to have a heart attack before I'm forty.
Number Two; I am going to set a new art project for myself called Weekend Monster! I wanted to challenge myself to practice something I hate to draw...cars. I balanced this out with something I like to draw...monsters. So the challenge is to post a monster and his/her vehicle of choice, every weekend, for a year. That make 52 monsters and 52 cars total. We'll see how it goes as I am pretty infamous for never, ever finishing art projects...ever.

I kick this project off with my very own MnS blog mascot and his sweet ride.




It's going to be a busy year...O_O

Daily Monster...

I recently had my students do a Daily Monster for warm-up practice. When I got home I did one too. Very fun!