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.

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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!