Haven't done a painting in so long. It's so nice to pick up a brush, feels just like home. I did some painting outside in the sun, that was fun, but way too hot! I changed the tattoo she has on her arm at the suggestion from a threadless member. I'll be up for voting soon.
This was originally designed for the band Dr.Acula. I have yet to hear back from their manager, oh well. Many more to post. Just too lazy to get it all together right now.
I wanted to do some patterns in my latest illustration. And I found a lot of inspiration from henna tattoos.
Had to play around with the perspective a bit. I took so many pictures to see which angle would suit this design best. I settled on this one.
Here was a rough sketch to see what the character would look like.
Done. Finally! It's a wolf (although it kind of looks like a cat...) playing hopscotch.
But I guess you could say it is little riding hood, trying to find her way home. And walking through the woods; her worst fears are in her own head, hence she is her own big bad wolf.
I have wanted to do a pirate themed shirt for a long long time. But I just didn't have a theme. Then the subject of scurvy came up not once but twice in class/clinical. Still, this did not draw any inspiration on me at that point. However, while sitting in my Pharmacology lecture last monday, with my attention span completely depleted past half of the lecture, I doodled this:
It was then that I thought of making the pirate into a spokesperson for scurvy. And I knew I needed to work on this ASAP.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Pretty excite about this new piece I am working on. This is not really a part of it. This is just the pattern I need to make, to import into photoshop to use as a texture. Inspired by the Arabian theme of Craig Thompson's new forthcoming graphic novel Habibi. I am currently working on 3 art projects simultaneously. Only one week left before I have to go back to school so I have to make the best of it.
Felt like it needed something else, so I added in these poison dart frogs and some girly flowers. I wanted to add the cryptic skull on the frog's skin. This is an idea I want to further develop on my next painting.
"V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a young woman in a white dress on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945...Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the celebrations he didn't have an opportunity to get the names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either person involved in this embrace and several people have claimed to be the subjects."
This piece was inspired by such a spontaneous display of the human spirit; in a time of much needed morale. Conveniently, I finished this piece around the time of Remembrance day. Up for voting at threads click the link below to vote and stuff.
In the 1950s, the Chinese government underwent an serious self-improvement campaign to increase the efficiency of its nation. A part of this plan was to annihilate all pests in the country: flies, mosquitoes, rats, and SPARROWS. That's right, Sparrows! Through research, scientists found that if a Sparrow were to stay in flight for more than a minute straight, it would die of a heart attack. So Farmers from all over the country were "encouraged" to bang pots and pans, and scare sparrows they saw into staying in flight.
Millions of sparrows were killed in the following months, and as a result, its natural food source, the locusts thrived. With few sparrows around to eat and control the locusts, the latter species thrived to the point where they were eating most of the crops of China. Millions of people died as a result of the ensuing famine.
This was the premise for the 2006 album from the Red Sparowes which I have heard all these years, but didn't know the whole story about until now. The names of all the songs make a lot of sense now. Anyways, what a random fact about them. Neat. They might seem pretentious, but if that's what you view post rock as, you will hate every post rock band no matter how unpretentious they really are.
Here are some of their songs from the 2010(best album of the year) and 2006 album:
"The Incredibly Mixed-up Toons Who Were At Some Point Cancelled And Went On A Muderous Rampage Anyways!!"
The following is a log about the making of my latest shirt design. I really hope it becomes a threadless tee. This design kinda came out on it’s own, and evolved through many stages to be this final product. Originally, I was just going to do a bunch of my favourite cartoon characters as zombies. It was only after I drew the care bear that I remembered Alexmdc just had a design about them printed recently. So I chose to get rid of him. I would have really liked to have the bear in there, but I also like Alex’s design and there would be no point in including something so similar to it.
So I got rid of the care bear and replaced him with good ‘ol Astro. I also decided to go with my alternate idea ( at the suggestion of my friend Shawn -> aka brownstar) of having only characters of cancelled tv shows. Only problem was I really liked how the futurama guys turned out and technically they were on the air again. However, techincally they were cancelled, so its ok (technicalities are sometimes a good thing). So I was forced to take out Cartman, and aded other canceled toons. All the toons being killed are still on the air ; )
I decided that only Heffer was needed to represent Rock’s modern life, and went with The Brain instead of Rocko. I also thought Andy French could look a bit more beat up.
It was brought to my attention that Heffer looked too much like he did on the show, so I decided to redraw him, and add the rest of Kenny’s body into the mix. I liked how he turned out after the redraw. Added hatching. And Bam! Done!
On a shirt.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Partition the empty sky (Photography and digital media)
The location for this photograph was somewhat unplanned. It was a hot and humid day as we made our way to Riverdale farm, to do a photo shoot at the Necropolis cemetery. We had to cross a bridge overlooking the via rail tracks, and it was pretty much a must shoot situation. I am pretty happy with our choice, because railroad tracks, although somewhat are cliches, still make great shots.
I wanted to do some patterns in my latest illustration. And I found a lot of inspiration from henna tattoos.
Had to play around with the perspective a bit. I took so many pictures to see which angle would suit this design best. I settled on this one.
Done. Finally! It's a wolf (although it kind of looks like a cat...) playing hopscotch.
It was then that I thought of making the pirate into a spokesperson for scurvy. And I knew I needed to work on this ASAP.
Originally, I was just going to do a bunch of my favourite cartoon characters as zombies. It was only after I drew the care bear that I remembered Alexmdc just had a design about them printed recently. So I chose to get rid of him. I would have really liked to have the bear in there, but I also like Alex’s design and there would be no point in including something so similar to it.
So I got rid of the care bear and replaced him with good ‘ol Astro. I also decided to go with my alternate idea ( at the suggestion of my friend Shawn -> aka brownstar) of having only characters of cancelled tv shows. Only problem was I really liked how the futurama guys turned out and technically they were on the air again. However, techincally they were cancelled, so its ok (technicalities are sometimes a good thing). So I was forced to take out Cartman, and aded other canceled toons. All the toons being killed are still on the air ; )
I decided that only Heffer was needed to represent Rock’s modern life, and went with The Brain instead of Rocko. I also thought Andy French could look a bit more beat up.
It was brought to my attention that Heffer looked too much like he did on the show, so I decided to redraw him, and add the rest of Kenny’s body into the mix. I liked how he turned out after the redraw. Added hatching. And Bam! Done!
Partition the empty sky (Photography and digital media)
