New Stuff 2

I'm doing more Moebius inspired/derivitave work. For hoots.

I used to draw a lot of futuristic people and machines etc etc when I was in highschool, probably from reading RIFTS and similar things. I've been tracking down and reading more old Heavy Metal stories, mostly the first issues with Moebius, Cortland and Philippe Druillet.

I'm planning another big series, but there are still a few details to tinker around with. So, until then (2012), enjoy this drawing.

Also, Merry Christmas.

FREETEKNO

Howdy. I'm on wizard solstice sabbatical, which, despite sounding metal as hell, actually involves electronic beats. I've just finished work on some ADHD sample-based dance stuff which I've been working on for the last two years, between art projects.
Genres are totally useless here, but it's basically southern rap acapellas + large basslines + dozens of samples of minimal techno + noise + awful trance + electo + chamber music + video games + slow beats. Basically. The average tempo is 77.25 BPM.

I will release at least one more of these EPs, probably soon.

http://www.mediafire.com/?o0aiqa557flvxim

New stuff

Hi everybody. Apa khabar? Saya tidak boleh cakap Bahasa Melayu baik.

I'm working on a few odds and ends before January starts and I get back to "serious art time". But until that happens I'm working with some different styles and themes, and doing figure work for the first time in two years.

This is the source photo I worked from, pulled off one of the thousands of crust tumblrs, so obviously no one can tell anything about the history of this image. The woman is a Berber, a group of peoples living in Northern Africa. I redrew it in a kind of Moebius derivative style, with an emphasis on texture.

Moebius is an amazing French comic artist who, among other achievements, made an influential comic Anglophones call The Incal, with filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Thys Scyence Maie Not be Taught to Everyone

There is a good deal of info for the show I am in, on the LE website. You can view all of the art I have in the show from one webpage, and also see works by the other artists, and read a summary of the show as a whole.

Blogger will not allow me to present LE's website to you.

A show, you should go, bro

I have an opening in a show this Friday at LE Gallery. The show is based around work inspired by alchemy. My work is inspired by and made through alchemy.

The show itself is Friday December 2 at LE Gallery, 1183 Dundas West. The opening is 7 to 10 pm, and the show stays up until December 18. Regular gallery viewing, Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6.

Also, thank you to my fans in Russia.

Study #7

Hi.

This is the final study I will be posting. Number 8 shall be unveiled in the real world. It collages two reapers from Holbein's Danse Macabre series, with hatched lines in the background and a horseman from Bruegel's Triumph of Death in the foreground. The two figures on the left in this image appear faintly in the upper background of the Plague Wind piece. This is the only study completely devoid of text. Plague wind is an odd piece to me; neglecting the bottom inch, it has almost no English, and in my mind sits a little apart from the three other large drawings. I think this study preserves that.

Study #6

This is the sixth study, the second study for the Siege Drop Dead piece. It's more or less the gluttony and sloth panels from Bosch's Seven Deadly Sins and Four Other Things. The main area is pretty faithful to the source material, but the little bubble has been altered for maximum Siege references.

Sorry for the glare, but with great stippling comes great glarability.

There are two more of these studies, then I am drawing metal logos and dogs and ice cream and monsters for December.

Details on the show will follow.

Study #5

This is a study for the Plague Wind drawing. That drawing was based loosely around Bruegel's Triumph of Death and the album art of the band Skaven. The Skaven are a breed of rat like humanoids from Warhammer, who will take over the world. Ideally.

The floral motif works well with the black death; people actually believed roses and chrysanthemum would cure or at least slow the onset of the bubonic plague.
These flowers appear in the original, and in the lower right corner of this piece. I plan to use these two symbols again. The top one is Japanese, and the lower one, the chrysanthemum, is my own.

I think that Plague Wind is the most abstract drawing of the series, the drawing just looks like one giant symbol and, despite the English text at the bottom, it still seems very alien. The study was fun. The large text in the middle is another ambigram, present but smaller in the original.

Study #4

This is the fourth study, accompanying the DADG APES piece. It's one of Durer's woodcuts from the apocalyptic bible series he did around 1498. The woodcut has been called "The Avenging Angels", though I suspect this is a case of historians giving posthumous titles to things.

This is probably the most literal of all of these studies I have done so far. I'm almost done the fifth, but it's taking longer than planned, due to x-treeem stippling.

Stippling is extreme.

Study #3

This is one of the studies for the Siege DROP DEAD piece. It's an expansion of the illuminated Siege title in the top left corner of the original drawing, done to resemble a manuscript. If monks copied out Siege lyrics by candle light...things would have ruled.

The text is an interview from 1984 done by Suburban Punk.

RIP Screamin Kev Mahoney.

Thrash>Google

I hate technology. I draw by hand...

Paint and PS are convinced that a 2000 pixel image I have should print out at about 3 inches. Google is experiencing infinite redirects, so I'm actually using internet explorer. From 1997, google. Google, you hear me?

Anyway, I wish life could be more like this picture., by which I mean "oldschool and gnarly"

Study #2

This is the second study for the Ignis Sacer title piece. This drawing expands on the image at the center of the original piece, the part that looks like a band logo and says "Ignis Sacer", Latin for "holy fire", in a kind of metal font. The logo is an ambigram, that is, it can be read the exact same when it is flipped upside down. The entire drawing is an ambigram, too.

There's also a snippet of Durer's St. Anthony, and a lot of Current 93 lyrics in the background, which largely summarize the ineffectiveness of prayer in curing off plague.

The best part, I feel, is the drawing of my naked self fighting a serpent representing worldly evil. That part is based on a book cover made by Eric Gill. Gill is a controversial, but undeniably talented engraver/printer/typographer (ugh) whose work I discovered at a Jesuit museum in Chicago.

CIGARS

This a drawing I have made, whose inspiration should be obvious to those of you who grew up with cool public libraries. It's based on The Cigars of the Pharaoh, which is great because it introduces Thomson and Thompson and has way more geographical/cultural accuracy than the preceding strips. Also, Egypt.

Study #1

This is a study, or companion piece for the Ignis Sacer drawing. There will probably be about two of these studies for each of the four larger pieces. They will be much simpler, and will have maybe one or two images from the larger drawings in them, but in greater detail and clarity. The idea behind this is to give a bit more context to the individual parts of the larger collages.

This piece shows part of Insect Warfare's World Extermination LP, especially the word "insect", which is used to make "ignis" in the larger title piece. There are some other details in this drawing, because I feel that these smaller pieces should stand on their own and not simply be xeroxes of the things I look at to make my drawings.

Mana Leak

Patrick Kyle asked me to be in a zine he did called Mana Leak. The zine features work by myself, Dan Rocca, Rowan Tedge, Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme and Patrick Kyle. And it's risographed. I have a bunch of copies, they should be for sale at The Beguiling and Suspect Video.

http://www.mother-books.com/
http://www.patrickkyle.com/

It had to be done...

These are previews of the Siege piece I am working on, the last of the "big four" in the series I am finishing up. Call me whatever you want, I say Siege was one of the greatest hardcore bands of all time, they were incredibly fast and their music still sounds fresh; they were decades ahead of the curve in 1984. Napalm Death site Siege as (one of) their biggest influences, hence the song "Siege of Power".

The drawing itself is modelled after Bosch's Seven Deadly Sins and Four Other Things. In my case, the sins have been replaced by Siege songs, and the four other things are seminal album covers. The top two are from bands which came before, and the bottom two, after Siege.

The two banners at the sides contain lyrics, the reapers above them are from Cleanse the Bacteria and a Japanese bootleg. The background will likely say "DROP DEAD" over and over, eventually turning into "DEAD" at the bottom, like the beginning and end of their only record.

KOYAMA

Anne Koyama of Koyama Press has a project where artists redraw her logo in their style. I had a go at it, and in the face I've put a collage of Noothgrush related things. I don't know if and when I will ever complete a Noothgrush collage, mainly because a piece of fine art with Star Wars and Dr. Seuss references might just be totally ridiculous.

I seem to be the only artist who hasn't used red, and now I feel like I broke something.

OMI

This is a parody I did of Shepard Fairey's OBEY/Giant logo. In ink!

It's done in ink because 1) I can't use a computer and 2) "The Great Omi" was one of the first heavily tattooed western men, certainly one of the first to be tattooed on the majority of his body in one pattern. Born Horace Ridler, Omi was a sideshow performer who, essentially, modified his body until he became sensational enough to make a living and, later, get very rich off of his performances/appearances. His schtick was that he was captured in New Guinea and forcibly tattooed all over. Right. But this was the early 1900s.

Anyway, it's a cute pic. Expect more of these smaller pieces until I'm done this huge one.

Then expect more small pieces.

Another one bites the dust...

Bomp bomp bomp. Bunna na na na nah.

Here are two photographs of the last drawing I have completed. There is one more large one to go.

This piece uses imagery from two Skaven releases, as well as Bosch and Japanese symbols. There are a few things I completely made up. There are connections between the music of Skaven and the first instance of the black plague in Western/Northern Europe. As well, the Japanese and traditional Chicano flower motifs work well with the plague theme, as they were believed, erroneously, to ward off the plague. This was well before the germ "theory" of disease became widely accepted. And the pieces of the Malleus Maleficarum and Bruegel's Triumph of Death directly addressed the plague as it happened.

The next piece is about Siege.

logos

These are completed logos for Kayle Donner's noise project, Donnerhammer.

One is a stencil kind of logo, the other is the full Sanrio-style logo for t shirts and such.

Scans of other my other work will follow...

DADG APES II

It's totally done. Yay.

I'm going to work on some smaller pieces to clear my head.

The work is all in ink, from two different pens. It's 22x40". The images are culled from Bosch's Last Judgement, a Durer piece, sundry band images, an old west coast zine and album covers/inserts. The piece combines related words and imagery from Northern Renaissance and Italian art/images with Late 80's/90's hardcore words and imagery, all of which look at torture through history and its connection with the idea of "mankind".

Coming up: drawings of ice cream.

updates

The second piece (not including that last one) is almost done. It draws from a lot of West coast hardcore imagery, as well as some of Durer's apocalyptic work and pieces of Bosch's The Last Judgement. It is largely about torture under religious pretences and humanity's history, in terms of culture and evolution. And there's numerology!

Also, I'm going to start making smaller "companion pieces" for the larger works, which elaborate on my source material, and, while existing as art in their own right, helping to decipher the layers of meaning embedded/hidden in the much larger, more time consuming pieces.

It's done

I finished the largest piece of art I have ever made.

That means it is the best.

Hand drawn in pen and ink, It's a lot of band logos with other images drawn overlapping. The overlapping parts include book passages, demons from the "Art of Dying", large symbols I made up and Japanese flower crests.

I did a screenprint this size once, but the drawings/positives were made by enlarging a much smaller drawing, so it doesn't really compare.

Some good art to come, but more joke art in the meantime.

IMPERIAL LOVE GUN

Kisstroopers. Doi.

I will be done serious work in about 8 or ten days...in the meantime, here is some foolishness.

Kazuo Umezu.

This is a rough rough rough rough super rough drawing for a tattoo, based on Kazuo Umezu's Cat Eyed Boy series. I don't know how to draw tattoos. I am learning how to draw tattoos.

Updates OH BOY

This is a wheatpaste I did...which stayed up for about 3 days.



And this is a work in progress photograph of a large scale work using dozens of band logos as a grid to fill in with another image. The overlay is a combination of Japanese family crest logos and medieval imagery, based around the events of the black plague, depicting rats, fleas, mathematics and various quotes. More pics to follow on that, but it's going to be a long haul.

Holy Fire!!!

It's done. Now I get to draw more!

Like a Bossk

Scan of a birthday card for the illustrious Lord Wiesblatt. The bounty hunter's name is Bossk...

C.R.E.A.M.

I've had enough of this shit.

The glasses were a bit rushed, I apologize. I did it in about an hour.

Pure sludge obliteration to follow.

Ska Chusko, Pqweeduk!

Here's a pic of Greedo I did, stippled with a 0.05 Staedtler

Greedo is the bounty hunter Han Solo shoots in the cantina in Mos Eisley in the first Star Wars film. Actually they're really movies...

More to come.

IGNIS SACER

Here are some very nice, high quality photos of my work in progress. It's an inked collage of Bosch and Durer source imagery, Current 93 lyrics, No Comment imagery and band logos used to form the words "Ignis Sacer", holy fire. Dori Lynde took the photos. I don't have her site on hand at the moment...

It's about halfway done, stippling is slow, but drawing tiny Bosch monsters is also slow.

Lack of interest

I've been hermetically busy on an ink drawing. It's about a month in, but I'm obviously neglecting to make any worthwhile blog updates.

The comic is long done, but uncollated.

Photos to follow, the camera I borrow has a bad auto focus setting on.

Also, I'm trying to rap. EP coming out soon.

Developments

So, everyone has probably heard enough of this star wars comic I've started on.

IT IS NOT ALL TALK

I have page one almost inked. One issue a month, 12 pages, or so, with maybe a gag page too.

Here are scans of the main cast, as well as the two droids, 4-LOM and IG88, in their Wu-Tang alter egos, 4-Kwon and IGZA.

I'm serious.