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Monday, November 1, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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APE 2010
Hey dudes! So APE starts in a few hours. Here are 5" x 7" gouache originals I'll be selling at our illustrious booth, manned by the illustrious Bang Gang.
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"Pliplop"
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"Cindy Sherman 1977"
I just learned about Cindy Sherman a few days ago - bear with me pls.
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"Other People's Problems"
This is painted from an AP photo of the Bangkok riots from this spring.
I'll also be selling some REALLY old 'zines that I dug out of my parents' house. Embarrassing but fun! See you at APE!
Saturday, Oct. 16
11am - 7pm
Sunday, Oct. 17
11am - 6pm
Monday, August 16, 2010
Lonely Rolling Star
Here is a thing I did for the upcoming "KATAMARI" show that Floating World is putting together on September 2nd.
Of all the kickin' jams that I like to roll my Katamari to, this one is probably my favorite. No, wait! It's this one! Or was it this song? They're all so good, really:D
Monday, July 5, 2010
Bridge of Birds 01
"I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world."
So whenever I can, I want to illustrate little scenes from one of my favorite books, Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart. It's a sprawling adventure set in "an ancient China that never was."
Things begin on a real high note, when protagonist Number Ten Ox wakes one day to find the kids in his town stricken by plague.
"The boys at the riverbank were staring wide-eyed at Fang's Fawn, who had turned pale as death. She clutched her throat and gave a sharp cry of pain and toppled from the water buffalo to the grass."
"Not one child under the age of eight and not one adult over the age of thirteen had been affected by the plague, but every child - every single one - between the ages of eight and thirteen had screamed and blindly clawed the air, and now lay still as death in the infirmary that the abbot had set up in the bonze's common room. The weeping parents looked to the abbot for a cure, but he spread his arms and cried out in despair:
'First tell me how a plague can learn how to count!'"
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Some Scifi For You
I'm talking at those of you cats (that's right, YOU) who are attending Wiscon this weekend. My friends Anthony (Ha) and Alice, along with some other writers, are reading tomorrow afternoon at the con. Anthony wrote the comic "Empire" that I illustrated - he's got a talent for building worlds and I am very proud that he gives my name a good name. Alice's latest short "Beautiful White Bodies" is a satire about high school girls and infectious (literally) beauty - it's real subtle and creepy and funny all at once.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Fashuuhn
I like to think that the designer of the 2nd shirt from the right calls that pattern "Star Barf."
Saturday, May 15, 2010
The Future means more Articulating Parts
The po' of today and the po' of tomorrow.
These guys have something to do with these guys, but I haven't entirely figured it out yet.
On an entirely related note, this is what some lucky Italian police get to ride in. RAD.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Tangents, Monsters
Hey all! Some bits of news:
Ryan Sands and Michael Deforge put together a Lady Gaga fanzine called "Prison for Bitches." Above is my little contribution for it. Check out their site and get yo'self a copy!
Aaannd...
Giant Robot SF is hosting their 6th Tree Show this coming Saturday. In honor of trees, I painted monkeys and peaches and stuff. It sounds like a fun show so be sure to drop by if you're in the city!
Tree Show VI at GRSF, May 15, 2010 - Jun 9, 2010
Reception: Saturday, May 15, 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
GRSF
618 Shrader Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
gr-sf.com
415-876-4773
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Game Over, Man.
2 little gouache paintings for the Game Over III show at Giant Robot SF.
from ICO:
Details:
I'm liking this loose way of using pencils, inks, and gouache together - lots of happy accidents. When I look at these paintings close up, I see some "oh shit no" moments that actually turned out pretty nice-looking.
Details:
Can we talk about Grim Fandango for a second? The above painting is a mashed-perspective version of that scene where Glottis (right, big orange) is tooling around on the piano in Manny's (left, skeleton) hotel lounge. Manny has been scouring the Land of the Dead for a woman he wronged, and he settles in this port city to wait for her. He gets a job there as a hotel janitor but is so restless that he can't help but work his way towards owning the hotel. Here Manny takes a break from running things and hangs out with his friend Glottis, whose fingers pluck out some half-melodies from the keys. On the game's soundtrack, Glottis's music is looped. But by the way the scene is staged, the music feels continuous and improvised. If Manny stands idle for too long he pulls out a cigarette and just listens. You could leave the game on this scene for an indefinite time and it persists like a fishtank screensaver, except ten billion times more amazing. This game be art at its finest, maign.
The show:
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Duhn Duhn DUht DUht DUh DAAA!
What's up, explorers. Last month, Jake Parker's comic book Missile Mouse: the Star Crusher came out. I helped color it, along with Jake and my roommate Jason Caffoe. Above is some fanart I did for MM in the vein of the 90's Saturday-morning cartoons I used to watch. Does anybody remember Fantastic Max? Or what about Potsworth and Co.? My very favorite show back in the day was Tailspin. I liked the idea of those animals having adventures in their tricked-out planes while going back home to a town that felt more real than the secret bases or mansions or whatever that other cartoon heroes lived in.
ANYWAYS. Missile Mouse! Here is a trailer that Darren Rawlings put together about the book:
Pretty fun, right!? Missile Mouse is this bull-headed military agent that breaks faces across the galaxy to keep the peace.
We're working on the sequel right now. Stay Tooned.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
That Part with the Island
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Here are some storyboards I did, over the course of one day. It's a low-key wordless scene from "Life of Pi," which has a lot going on under its seeming uneventfulness: Pi goes through a buttload of emotions because he's seeing land for the first time in months, and the island has a sinister quality as the reader discovers that it's not made of your traditional rock and soil. SO I wanted to get all that stuff in there, and keep the shots interesting without being too incomprehensible.
This sequence happens pretty late in the story so I assumed that the viewer of this hypothetical movie has already spent a lot of time with this boat, and would probably want to look at it from more novel angles. I wanted to open the sequence with a shot that shows how comfortable the boy and tiger have grown since they first met. In this shot, Pi and Richard Parker are both lying down facing each other, and they almost look like they're snuggling by the way the camera is angled. If this was an actual clip being viewed by a Life-of-Pi-newbie, the audio of the ocean lapping against the bow should be enough to cue viewers into thinking Pi and tiger are on a boat without having to begin with a wide shot.
It's also neat to think about how effective audio cues and color pallettes are in giving the viewer information that pure composition doesn't. This scene probably has a sort of "drumbeat" in the sound of the ocean waves (up until the boat beaches), which might influence how the shots are timed.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
When you look at old photographs
This is a bad part of the spaceship to get drunk at because the mirrored floors would really mess you up.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
The Electric Ant
Okay so a few months ago I teamed up with writer Anthony Ha to make a short comic for the Electric Ant 2 zine, edited by Ryan Sands. Anthony (Ha) gave me this wonderful script that was reminiscent of Asimov and Phillip K. Dick. He wrote about steely business dudes playing hardball over space-commodities and the ethics of their ventures, set amidst a backdrop of man's early colonization of the solar system. Our story is called "Empire."
It was great to to do some sci-fi work (which I love) without lasers and mecha (which I also love) - whose absence was a nice reminder that future-space can be populated by the same characters that inhabit our more subtle fictions. Um, I guess it felt good to draw a story about people trying to make money instead of lasering their enemies. In the words of Captain Hammer, "not my usual, but nice." I want to do more stuff like this for sure.
Space surgery - uuggghh!! Happy new Decade, everybody!
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