This one is simple. It went like this *phone rings* It is someone I know so I answer* “Hey what’s up sweet thang!?, Yeah… I remember you’re doing that…. wait STAR WARS?!? SEX?!?…you need a Star Wars Sex Themed piece of art by when!? A few days? Okay sure, do, let me see what I can create. Yes, hmmm. p.s. I love you”
Pen & Ink over photograph 11″ x 14″
This one followed shortly after just for fun one day. Sexy Android Love:
On rainy days, my favorite thing to do besides pucker up & get kisses from my honey, is to put on some of my favorite tunes and just doodle. I never know what will come out of it when I start, but somehow my brain will focus on a certain verse or line in a song and it will entitle my pen to just make that lyric come to life, and by life I mean become a physical vision. Music is pretty much my lifelong friend, the truth behind all of my honesty & my inspiration for every step I take in life. So before this turns into a shitty Live Journal entry let me stop now and just post what the heck I’m blabbing about! These are from 2009. Pen and Marker over images manipulated in Photoshop.
I sometimes dream of my future. Currently I have a very structured plan with teeny-tiny pixels of fluid allowances that give me the right amount of freedom to let myself believe that maybe my plans could change. Alas, after obsessing over memes one day I came across a certain one that made me laugh more than I probably should have and I realized that someday I would like to own my own creative agency, only publishing sarcastic, arty farty noise and making a point to make no sense. It may be a small goal, one that may take years to develop and make no money, but now the seed is planted. I’ve come up with a few logos for my future potential dream escape based on an internet meme. (yesssssss!) Pantaloon Creatives! “Feel Free To Just Take It Off..or Leave It On..But Srsly Take It Off”
Meme Inspiration:
Rough Idea Of My Future Potential Identity:
It is always good to have a few back up ideas just in case the world decides to fart in your face. Right? The possibilities are endless when it comes to ducking the smell of failure.
Illustrations were done with my brain Ink and Letraset Markers on bristol paper.
Oh Winter, how I love you when I’m not driving! View more Hello! Snowmen on my Flickr
I am really sad that Season 2 of Boardwalk Empire has ended already! It seems like it went by too fast! But gosh, it was AMAZING! The more I thought about the show and it’s awesomeness, the more I convinced myself to do a painting in honor of the show I love so dear. I decided to go for an erie approach, much like the opening of the show should have been. I mixed my three favorite characters together ( Nucky Thompson, Jimmy Darmody & Richard Harrow) in a ghostly setting on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City, NJ with their ghost spilling out of an old whiskey bottle.
Never forget Prohibition. How could you? No one was drinking. #badjoke
Acrylic on wood. 16″ x 22″
So, I have this friend (who will remain nameless) that loves to come to Philadelphia just to “hipster watch.” Funny thing is, he does not realize that if another guy right next to him were doing the same thing, he would be asking my friend where he bought his Joy Division T-shirt or what his latest vinyl purchase was. For X-Mas, since he is a dear friend of mine, I decided to paint him some hipstermatic art that I know he will like. ( Hmm..I wonder why??) It was quite simple actually. I introduce to you…the Hipmulester!
Merry X-Mas you filthy animal!
Around Halloween, every art show I went to was some kinda zombie-monster themed. I had no intentions really on painting zombies, I wanted to paint friendly, cute children, but given the surroundings I was forced to be around it warped my image of what cute children looked like. Behold my zombie children! Just acrylic on canvas.
Let’s not forget the little ones!
And no, this did not help at all with my fear of zombies. I thought it would make the word seem “cute” and I was wrong!
As you know, almost everyone wants an interesting icon for their twitter-twatter page! I went on an addictive creative flight for a while a few months back turning my friends into personalized comic book style illustrations. The spark lasted a few-weeks and it was awesome. Basically I just doodled a sketch on a piece of paper, out-lined it with ink, scanned it into Adobe Photoshop, created a shit ton of layers and managed to poop out some colorful neat icons!
Example:
You can see more on my Flickr also!
Yes! Like every other hipster in Philadelphia, I absolutely adore the Beatles, but I did not do this one for me. A friend of mine has a dumb Beagle whom I love to death. His name is Toby (named after Toby from the office, and yes, the personality match is almost exact) Anyways, my friend is also a Beatles fan and commissioned me to paint for him a Beatles Beagles painting. I said, “Fuck Yes I Can Do That For You”
Inspired by these pictures I have in my living room:
I came up with this painting (using all of Toby’s faces for each Beatle expression)
I know this is a weird image of the painting, a better one to come once I remember to take a picture of it next time I am over my friends house! It’s been a hard days night and I’ve been working like a dog.
I’ve not sketched with pencil in a long time before this. Then my buddy asked me to sketch his tattoo for him, a “giant squid attacking a whale” inspired by the band “They Might Be Giants.” I remember he asked me probably 6-years ago to do this but since sometimes my brain has – million things going on and disorganizes promises, it obviously never was done, until now. I must say I am really, really happy I did this finally because I had forgotten how much I love sketching and shading with pencil. It was a led-filled reckoning!
After this one someone else asked me to design their tattoo as well, so I did because I was super-addicted to doodling with pencil again! He asked for a Yoda with an “All Seeing Eye” and praying and he did receive!
