Cods of the Universe

Here they are! The 6 crotch shots of characters from Masters of the Universe I did for the Gag Me With a Toon 2 show!













































































































Who knew they were so easily identifiable just by their underwear?

These guys are 6x6 acrylic on canvas and in yo' face!!!

Soon I hope.

Dude

Yo dudes here is a drawing of a dude.















Things are good, I have a new computer up and running at my place. I tried to install my scanner and the booger sniffing clown noses over at Canon never made drivers for my OS. So I have a perfectly fine scanner sitting there wanting to scan so bad. Dude, what a bunch of sad crap. If this is their way of making me buy a new scanner, well then I'll purchase an Epson. I have a lot to scan and show you all. I'll get on it quickly.

For now here is some new stuff.





























I've also been busy with a project for my boring closet doors. When that is complete I'll post it up.

Still Standing Around

Excuse the absence. I have plenty of work to show on here but I haven't fired up my computer since I moved. It's clunky and virus laden. I anticipate getting a new one soon. In celebration of getting that new computer I will scan pages of a sketchbook I have been working in.

Put in a few extra hours at work tonight. We've been super busy. Still found time to do this one.

Critter

I found a nice brush combination in Flash that worked for making excellent wiry hairs (a.k.a. pubes). Then this thing kind of came from that discovery.

Weekend

This image pretty much entails multiple things that will occur over the course of my weekend. Make of it what you will.

Show Saturday!

Come check out the Gag Me With A Toon 2 show this Saturday, May 2nd at Metldown Comics. Opening is from 7pm to 11 pm.

Below is a work-in-progress snap shot of the pieces I'll have in the show. There are tons of other great artist in it. Read up about it here:

Gag Me With A Toon 2
















See you there!

Quadclops Cop

Last night's South Park episode had these cool looking space police guys. So this is inspired by that.

Arrowed

GRAAAAWL!!

A Drawing for SuperKate!

I did this drawing for Kate, she is a sound engineer at Titmouse. She asked me to do this drawing of an African queen as a prop for a play. It's 18 x 24 and I used the old standby #2 pencil. Then made it more solid with conté crayon. Sprayed some finish on it too so there are no smears. My hand was super filthy when I finished it up, I'm left handed so I smear everything.

So this be it, this is what happened.

One Last Scan

This is one last scan before everything gets relocated to Pasadena. Time to get out and far away from this noisy ass Hollywood apartment. We better not have an earthquake in the next 12 hours! If a big enough one hits this place is built so shitty that I will most likely die. Probably wind up snagged between a car from the garage below and the upstairs neighbor's bed post or fat calloused foot jammed into my head. This drawing depicts none of that.

Violent Edition

Non-Violent Edition

These two drawings are a little less violent. Maybe because they are on two separate pages of my sketchbook. Should they ever meet who knows what she'll do to the poor boy. He does look a little concerned. Probably thinking he may wind up like Jim Class.

SF4 Weekend

This weekend has involved a lot of Street Fighter 4. Can you tell? I fought my sketch book and pulled off my Ultra Combo Finish and unlocked this drawing. Perfect win. In-daaah-struck-tabaaale!

Wednesday's Mold on a Window Ledge

Yeah there is mold growing on the inside ledge of my bedroom window at my fantastic apartment. Luckily it is hidden by the blinds. Maybe even shielding my lungs from the horrificness. This place doesn't stop delivering the goods. I'll be out of here soon, looks like Saturday is a Pasadena lease signing day!

Aside from that some new stuff! None of which have mold :)

She is in a Catmare. The gym class dodge balls try to claw you. Or soccer with no shins about to kick that thing...ow. Maybe just dwelling along with the animal you feel you can embody the most. In any case you only get maybe two hours of sleep and have to wake up for the next day.
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This next one I did in my sketchbook. It's about feelings, chain reactions, ultimate outcomes, stuff I like drawing, having fun inking, and Heroes being completely fucking boring and just slipping into being on in the background while making stuff.

Jim Class Beat Down

It's Sunday but feels like Saturday and that's pretty cool.

Chew!

Last night I was hanging around the studio and did some drawing. Below is what happened. I'm handing the pencil and ink off to my friend Jeremy Polgar in return for a cool ass drawing I got from him.

Super Page!

Pen nibs I love you. You can knowingly pull poetic drawing right from my carpal lobe.

Becoming Death Ray

The Death Ray, featured in Eightball #23 by Dan Clowes, is a costume I've wanted to do for a while. It looks so easy to do, yet the pieces are specific which makes it tricky to put together. I did a few weekends of hunting and managed to luck out most of the time. One thing I learned: living in Southern California makes plain long pants and sweatshirts hard to track down.

First off here is all the pieces for the costume:

Panty Hose! American Apparel had the color I needed.












A blue V-neck sweater. I found this at Ross for a couple bucks.












A striped shirt. This piece looks yellow in the comic. This is close, but it's more on the green side. H & M came through on this one.




















Blue pants. Finding long blue pants was really hard so thanks Dickies.com!




















A red belt that I found at Ross.




















Some killer superhero boots I found through Amazon.com












Oh yeah!




















Red gloves. I found these at Ozzie Dots, an awesome costume store.












And a ray gun (thanks again Ozzie Dots), a toilet paper tube(thanks bathroom), and a funnel (knew you would have these Home Depot!)!












So the shirts, pants and boots help me to at least be halfway there. I started working on the mask.

Panty hose on head: Successful!












Not being see through: Fail!












Painful: Success!

So to get the mask to work I had to get two layers of hose on my head. That helped out enough. Then I had to figure out the eyes.












I tried making a light charcoal outline while looking in the mirror. Pretty hard to do. After that I took the mask off and used white acrylic paint and a sharpie.












Eh not quite working. Kind of rushed it too.

Sticky eyes maybe?












Death Raytarded.

Later on when I wore the costume to work my friend Jackie traced the eyes on lightly with pen. Then I was a little more careful with the white acrylic and sharpie approach. It worked out fine.












I was thinking red kitchen gloves had to exist but I found nothing. I was facing having to spray paint some yellow ones red.




















I had a feeling the gloves would chip and shed red paint all day. That would be lame. Luckily I found those red gloves at Ozzie Dots and they did just fine. If anyone needs household gloves I have some in my closet now if you want them.

The gun, as you saw, involved 3 parts. I did a little modification to the gun by taking off the nozzle. This made it easier for the funnel to fit insde.












Then I cut the cardboard tube down a little less than half. The little glue rings made it easy to track and keep the cut even. Then I fused them all together with hot glue.




















I used yellow glossy spray paint and soon had my very own Death Ray! POP!












Finally pulled off the Death Ray costume! Here is a group shot of some Titmouse staff dressed up for Halloween.












I hope to be getting more pictures of my costume from friends and I'll post them up here.

If you haven't read Eightball #23 you should it's an awesome story. I also read that Jack Black's production company, Black and White Productions, has a movie in the works. So there is probably a Hollywood warehouse that, this whole time, had everything I needed.

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!