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2009-10-12T18:53:00.000-07:00

So the other day a fellow blogger by the name of kingcoyote left me a message on here asking where I been. Consider it a Blogger kick in the ass. I agreed with him whole heartily I have been slacking with the posting and the art for that matter. I have made it a habit of coming home from work and making excuses to not draw or do any other type of art and it has truly effected me!
Not only am I not producing art for this here blog, but I think I am losing some of my ability!
Anyway, excuses are done. I must do some art.
Until I crank on the machine enjoy this image...

Wolverine.

2009-06-21T15:00:00.000-07:00

So I have been trying to get some art in so I actually have something to post about and well here it is...
For some reason at work I have been sketching a lot of wolverine... I am really absorbed with his hair and the thought of his claws and his hands. As I discussed with my wife ( actually more of me just talk at her not really discussing the subject) I hate that people think his claws are uber long. When not out they rest in his forearm, so logically thinking about it they could not be more then say 6". I love the creativeness and outrageousness of wolverine with these crazy long claws... but logically that does not compute.

I think I like this one the best. I think it is a clear representation of my style. Kinda zany and stringy... and depressive. I have a thought for a Sabertooth one that I came up with at work... you come to think of it, I need to bring all my random sketches from work so you guys can see that stuff. Anyway until next time. Peace bitches.

Fruits of my loin... I mean labor! Fruits of my labor! yeah thats right...

2009-06-13T16:25:00.000-07:00

Well, well, well. Look who decided to come back and join the land of the bloggers!!! Yeah that's right, I'mmmmmm baaack!!! So it is no surprise that I have been missing and for those of you who look at my blog every so often, I apologize for my leave... but I have been slightly busy. Well I and my wife, and my in -laws, and everyone else within enough distance that we could put them to work... so much thanks to you all. And in return I will show off the reason I have been gone...
This is my latest project. It took about a month and a half to complete, but how sweet it is! My wife and I have been working on this little colabo for some time, painting, cleaning, ripping up carpet, clearing tile... you name it we did it. we would basically work then work on this go home ( in-laws house ) sleep and get up and do it all over again.
This is looking into the living room from the hall. We had the hardwood floors refinished and they turned out amazing!! Originally there were carpet over them and we thought they may not be salvageable, but we were wrong! We have some big plans for the walls in all the house, but this room especially. we are both looking forward to covering the long grey wall with art! mine, hers or someone else's, who knows. if you go to the end of this picture you turn right into the dining room, the back wall is the whole length of that and all in all is about 50 feet ( slight exaggeration I am sure, but you get the point)
This looking back at where the above picture was taken from. We have this super FAT couch that we got from crate and barrel. if you are shorter then say 5'10" if you sit straight in it you can not touch the ground... amazing! anyway there to the left you see back down the hall. Typical hall stuff, 3 bedrooms and a bathroom... oh and a closet. The stairs there on the right take you down to the 2nd level!
Immediately down the stairs to the right you will find my wife's studio. I am standing at the back looking out taking this picture. There is actually more space then what you see, in fact this picture does not do the studio justice. behind me there is a massive closet, to the left is her shipping/printing area, and to the right are 2 8' tall metal racks filled with all kinds of goodies. She was actually behind me, and there was a picture of her and what I just described... but it is Saturday and she was not that "presentable" her words not mine, so I chose not to display that picture.
So opposite her studio from the stairs is my studio/theater area. Please note and wall you see in any of these pictures we painted... in fact we repainted the whole damn house. Not to mention ripped up carpet in the whole damn house as well! the floors here are not actually wood, but a floating floor that looks like wood. Actually the farthest thing form real would you could ever get. My studio is not as organized as wifey's mainly because we just got my side done last weekend. We were still waiting on some carpet and could not actually move things around until that came. And now there are empty boxes in there because I just put together a futon.
This futon to be exact. This is in the same room as my studio we divided the room in half. Half studio. Half theater. This part is going to be a work in process, but man when it gets done I might cry. This has always been a dream of mine and to have it coming true...well what can I say. eventually there will be a platform built behind the futon with actual theater seats on it ( craigslist 10 bucks a piece... score!) I will also slowly build a better sound system, now I have a good receiver but speakers from a home theater in a box kit, and though I have a nice tv now I am gunning for a 50 something inch that I can mount to the wall... I debated on a projector, but in the end the price my be more then I (my wife) is willing to spend. In the back of this area there is a huge closet that we may make into a concession stand, with various treats and possibly a keg-a-rator... and some posters of naked chicks. Nothing better then boobs, beer, and kung-fu exploding zombies that rock the neighborhood!!!!
Here is a pic of me standing by the picture looking into my studio. Not much to see now, just trash and unpacked boxes... maybe tomorrow I can burrow a hole and do some art!

And here is the coupe-de-gra. I always told myself if I had a huge deck I would show anyone and everyone... well world check out my deck! This is one of the things that sold us on the house... do you what kind of things you can do with a deck this big? I mean think of all the people that can be entertained on this and around this deck. It even has a reach around part. It wraps from the side of the deck all the way to the front of the deck! at some point we want to put a fire pit on the reach around part, I mean who doesn't like a little warmth on their deck, am I right? Maybe these pictures don't do it justice, but if this deck were fully extended it would be longer then the house... that's a hell of a deck my friends!

Well that is enough about things. If you are ever in the neighborhood swing on by, if you bring beer I may even let you sit on my deck... if your lucky.
Until next time... oh and if you were wondering, yes that is a toilet in the last picture. I did some plumbing. Twice. Who would think changing a toilet was so easy?!?

XBOX 360 Gods Bring Greatness!

2009-04-29T16:49:00.000-07:00

So it has been anounced on two of the great websites... www.newsarama.com and www.gamespy. that Capcom is going to unleash Marvel vs Capcom 2 for the XBOX 360 as an arcade title

If you don't know, this is awesome! Just thought I would share the news. Now if only I can find an arcade stick controller for the xbox...

Gruncher!!!

2009-04-25T19:10:00.001-07:00

So the other day Tom ( fellow Blogger) issued a challenge, by say the name The Gruncher and then leaving it up to anyone who felt creative to come up with idea of what that "being" would look like. I LOVED THIS IDEA. This is one of the reason I wanted to start a blog. I wanted to find creative people and see how differently they did things, bounce ideas around, and enjoy each others skills. So go to Tom's blog if you want to see his ideas : http://traversart.blogspot.com/
Now on to some sketches...

When I first saw the name I thought of a rock. Don't really know why, but that was just the first thing that came to mind. So the first skecth is a rock-golem type creature.

I did this sketch at work while I was on the phone with AT&T, really loose, but you get the point. The Gruncher- living rock. As this idea mulled around more in my head I tried to do a more polished version thus the second drawing:

Once again, drawn at work. I really like how this one came out. He went more from a rock creature to just a creature. This reminds me a lot of Grendel from Beowulf. Gruncher, may not be as cool of a name as Grendel, but it works. On a side note. Doing these drawings at work reminded me how much I LOVE drawing on lined paper. Can't really explain why, it just feels good.
Anyway I love this second drawing and am really proud of it. I may come back to this rendition later when I have more time to flesh it out. On to my third. As I sat there at work I wanted a completly different idea from " the Gruncher" creature idea and I came up with this:

Not "THE" Gruncher, but Grohaum Gruncher, son of Glorad Gruncher. Conqueror of the nine lands, Destroyer of the 4 Gods, and Heir to the Kingdom of Groland. I love Barabarins. Had to throw one in somewhere, plus it has been a while since I drew one!

I have decided I may have to get a scanner soon. Right now I just have to take a picture of my art and then adjust it with those fancy picture programs... helps to have an emmy award winner graphic designer for a wife :)

Cherrio!

One man's trash...

2009-04-19T13:02:00.000-07:00

Wow! It has been almost a month since my last post. To say I have been busy would be an understatement! Still working two jobs = busy, buying a new house and starting the remodel = busy, add the two together = Uber-busy!!! If you want to check out the house, go to wifey's blog: http://www.stitchriprepeat.blogspot.com/
I won't lie, I love my in-laws, but it is time to get out! Not to mention I am going to have my own studio and a theater room!!! Plus it will be cool to have a house that we can call our own, and hang up some of our art work. Oh and did I forget to mention the deck?!? Enough about that on to the important stuff.
So a couple weekends ago I went and hung out with a buddy here and he posed an interesting question... "Jason would you like some comics?"... um can ninja's punch through peoples faces with one kung- fu punch?!?!?!?? HELL'S YEAH!!! So long story short I cam home with a box and a half of comics. Now these aren't prize comics by any means but they have 2 advantages. 1. they were free. 2. they are comics. Below you till find some of the treasures...

There were A LOT of The Punisher, various 2099, and other various marvel titles that I have not heard of or would never pick up... but once again free + comics!

Here are some of the finer points. I am not much of a DC man, but in the pile was a Green Lantern from the 60's. Anyone who is anyone knows that now most money makers are from the 60's - 70's era. However here is a rule that I have learned, had knowledge of, and seem to of forgotten in a matter of minutes. NEVER USE SCOTCH TAPE TO TAPE THE PLASTIC DOWN ON YOUR BOARDS. I wanted to look at that GL and see what kind of condition it was in... well the damn tape got caught on the cover and ripped off some of the page!!! BLURG!!! On Ebay it is going fro around 40 - 50 dollars. DAMN IT!! Moving on...

Here are some of the real GEMS! Kid-n- Play! The A-Team, and a William Shatner comic... I don't know about you, but I am pretty sure with the release of the new star trek movie, that is going to jump the price up on the market fo' sho!

This picture here was from some TMNT comic I found in the pile. Here is my beef. I know I am not the best artist out there, but look at this! Maybe I am looking at it wrong, but the jaguar dude has a crazy eye!!! What the piss?? This comic was full of bad art, the turtles have some weird skin texture that make them look like they are fifty! No to mention the bad angles and unproportianate anatomy. But hey what can I say... dude got published fro marvel... doing one of the biggest franchises from the 80's. Two thumbs up ya lucky bastard!

All said and done, I love comics, I was pleased to take these off my buddies hands and will gladly do it again! Plus there are some amazing covers on some of the issues. I am really thinking of somehow rigging the walls of the new house so that I can display them (almost like wall paper without destroying the comic). Who knows. So moving on...

Here are some sketches I did one day when I had a moment. I, for some reason, am obsessed with octopi right now. I think it is just something easy to draw while I am at work and it has transferred over into my personal life. There is so much freedom and spontaneity you can do with a squid like creature.

So with these sketches I have actually started on a painting. See below...

Close up of the actually subject.

If you can't tell the picture is of a dude with a octopus on his head. Yeah it doesn't make sense... but I don't care. I like it. You don't... well poop on your face. What really sucks is I painted that like 2 weeks ago. Haven't made much progress as you can see. Man being a grown-up sucks!

Until next time... Cherrio!!

Oh My

2009-03-29T08:52:00.000-07:00

Damn it has been forever! So I have been MIA and I am sorry. It has been really hard getting in the grove of things now that I am working so much, however I have had an encouraging word from a fellow blogger, and have decided that I can make things better. I have not really done a lot of sketching in the past week so I didn't really have much to put on here.

This is not the best quality, the picture is really light to begin with and when I tried to adjust it ... well it didn't come out much better. I may have to go back and darken the lines and re-try... I guess that is what you get when you use a H grade pencil!

Dude with an axe about to chop a zombie... I actually use myself as a reference here. I stood in front of a mirror and would act out the motion. Just quick sketches.
This final picture is one I did recently, in answer to Joe's challenge of taking a fav cartoon and re doing it in your own style. I chose the Smurfs. I am pretty sure they weren't actually as cute and friendly as they were shown. I mean come on they lived in the woods, nothing that lives in the woods is friendly! The way I see it that guy that was always trying to catch them was actually a friendly old man who was tormented by them!! They would steal his socks and try and kill his cat all the time. I could see this remake being show on adult swim... they have some crazy ass cartoons on there.

Originally I made this blog in attempt to create a piece of art each month. Well the other day my mother-in-law called me out! Saying it is almost the end of March and she hasnt seen a new piece lately, BLURG!! So not only am I going to be better about sketching on a regular basis I am going to actually try and produce something from it! In fact as soon as I get done typing this I have an idea I am going to start on.

Alright until next time... Keep it sleezy.

Little Quickies

2009-03-15T16:29:00.000-07:00

So now that I am working an ass load, my drawing time has slowly came to a screeching halt! However I may have to take sketch pad to work with me, as I did through out school, I find myself doodling on my pads of paper as I sit in various meetings and on important phone calls. Oh lined paper how I love thee! Anyway since I feel I am about to hit a creative wall, I sat down today and did about 30 min of doodles. Last year my wife found these amazing BIC ink gel pens. They are very simple and cheap, but they produce some very dark lines. They are really fun to draw with and do some sporadic line drawings. Enjoy...

I have been trying to read some classic books... aka Bram Stroker's Dracula, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I won't lie I haven't made it through Dracula... that classic way of writing is driving me straight crazy! Frankenstein isn't much better, but I am almost done. Some of these sketches were inspired by said books. My personal favs are the Frankenstein that is facing down, the vampire that is hunched over and the spider eyed mutant (all on the second page).

Well I say poop. I am hoping I won't hit the creative wall, I have a BIG ASS canvas that I want to start working on. Wifey and I are are coming close to closing on a house, and I want to hang up some art in the new house... what better to take up space then a 36x60 painting of a zombie eating the stomach of some one!

Where in the world is Jason???

2009-03-08T09:46:00.001-07:00

So its been like a week since I last posted. I am sorry for such a delay! I have started my new job and well I have to get up really early for that and by the time I go to my second job, I am exhausted by the time I get home. Therefore there hasn't been much time for anything other then sleep... Hopefully I will get things in order and be able to post more often, I have found that I may have so time at work to crank out some sketches, I just need to remember to bring them home! Anyway here are some sketches from last weekend that I never got to post.
This first one is just of some body, I do love drawing some muscles! So when I have nothing else inspiring me I draw things like this.
This second one is of the hulk, though I really don't like it! In my mind the hulk is a big dumb brute, and as much as I mess around I have trouble conveying that in his face. Though I have carried this problem with me to work, and on some down time have got a couple sketches of him with more of the look I was going for... alas I left them there, so maybe I will show them off later.
The last one here, is going with the theme from the last post. Superheros verse each other till the death. This is Magneto vs Hulk. To me Magneto would win in the end. Yeah if Hulk could get a hold of him he would win, but Mags is smarter then that, I mean come on he survived the Nazi's! Anyway with his power of magnetism he could slow the blood flow of the hulk, thus calming him down. We all know what happens then, he turns back in to puny banner this equals game over. Some may ask, what slow the blood flow?! I thought he controlled metal?! Well I think there is iron in your blood, right? Anyway he pulled it off at the beginning of the Age of Apocalypse storyline to an out of control Bishop... so why couldn't he do it again?

Well that is all I have for now. PS go watch the Watchmen!

Umm... possible challenge?

2009-02-27T11:59:00.000-08:00

This week has been kinda weird, I have actually been busy! This was my last week at Best Buy, and they actually had me work more then one day! Also as a side job I am an adjunct teacher, so the combo of the two has left me little time to sketch... I guess I am going to have to get use to this since I start with the state Monday!!! Anyway this first sketch is really sloppy to be honest, but something I have always wanted to pursue. I have always thought it would be cool for a series to have an actually comic where the heroes/villains fought to the death. The basic premise would be that the ancient mutant Apocalypse has taken over and wants to see who is fit to survive in his world. it is only natural since his motto is the whole survival of the fittest thing.
So basically in my mind he would gather different characters and put them in a natural environment and tell them to fight. It would be easy to say oh well some people won't fight... well then they die period. This would be a series that is outside of normal comic continuity so who cares who lives or dies... the only thing would be that it is semi realistic, meaning it isn't based on favoritism... the winner is solely based on the fact that they would actually win in a fight! A perfect example would be above sketch: Spider-man and Daredevil. I personally think it is clear that Spider-man would win... All he would have to do is lay out some web catch daredevil and pund the hell out of his face! I think it would be a close fight any other way... Spider-man is stronger then DD and if he could just catch him by surprise he could knock his block off! That is something that most people "look over" with spider-man... is is stronger then a normal person... a couple punches = broken faces!
All the sketches of Wolverine and Sabertooth that have been floating around got my mind thinking about this again and thus waiting for my students I laid that sketch down. I would love to here who you think would win, so leave a comment. This idea got me wondering what some fellow bloggers could produce... Tom, Joe??? Oh man did I just call you guys out on the World Wide Web?!?!?! Actually if I am going to throw a gauntlet down I am going to have to up my skecth quality...HAHA.
Well moving on, as I was searching for a hidden art supply I came across some of these sketchs... enjoy

I was reading some Conan stuff when I did this one... CROM... I hope they don't try and remake that movie, Arnold was the best!

Pen and Ink, Kick ass dude!

Still in the whole barbarian kickassary phase... pen and ink

This was actually something I made into a t-shirt. My wife was taking a silk screening class and talked me into drawing something. we actually tried to make them at home... made quite a few and actually sold them! I think we actually used different lettering for the complted project, but the was the original concept...Ninja, Please!!

Until next time!

Superheroes abound

2009-02-22T17:10:00.001-08:00

So here are a few more sketches of Sabertooth... enjoy
This one could also be a drawing of a crazy ass crazy dude also!

I think I like this last one the best. And as you see below, I started sketching so various marvel characters...

This was a pencil sketch, then I inked over it with some Indian ink and a calligraphy pen with a split nib... so says wifey.The ink is really really amazing, very dark and gives great quality lines.

I personally have never really messed much with drawing DD, but I think this quick little sketch turned out nice!

This Coloussus honestly looked a whole shit lot better before I inked over it... that, is usually my downfall. I do some kick ass sketches then I think "oh this needs some form of color, or refinement" then disappointment. Oh well maybe next time!
Cheerio!

Thus is life... part deux

2009-02-20T11:31:00.000-08:00

I recently saw some new trailers for the up coming Wolverine movie, let it be said, it will either blow hard causing me to go into a berserk rage stabbing people with my imaginary claws, or it will be so flipping amazing that I leave the movie theater even more convinced I have a healing factor and run around popping my claws with a pack of wolves for a year. With that said I did some sketches, not about Wolverine, but his nemesis and possibly one of the best villains ever, Sabertooth!! In a way he is so much cooler of a character then good 'ol Wolvie, but he is the bad guy. Who wants to read a comic/story about a serial killing, bad ass, pyscho, who just so happens to have a healing factor... uh me... Enjoy, I have a feeling there will be more...
Here is a link to a blog that I just started to follow: http://traversart.blogspot.com. He has some pretty wicked sketches of Wolverine on there... I am jealous, back to the drawing board!!

Thus is life...

2009-02-20T10:58:00.000-08:00

When we first moved here, I got a job with Best Buy as a geek squad member, though my illusions of this job were grander then the actual job it did inspire me to do this little piece. Also as a side note, I never actually got this uniform, at some point management dropped the ball... I have always been interested with black and white images, and I wanted to try and create one where the negative spaces defines the positive space.
So after a couple months, I realized that even though Best Buy is where I have, and will, spend a lot of my hard earned money it is not a place to work and even think about having/starting a family. The fact that I was older then most, if not all, the management there didn't help either...dreams 0 reality 1. So after some struggle, I have found another job, This coming week being the last at Best Buy... I still have time to work the discount! I will be starting my new job with the state of Missouri. Thus this piece of art...

Same concept as above, this one was tricker though I really wanted to be wearing a suit, but couldn't figure out how I would pull it off with the whole black/white thing.In my mind I am now a government agent, and I am pretty sure they are going to try and put me into the weapon x project and I will be made into one of the world's greatest killers. Now snap back to reality... I am going to be sitting behind a desk dealing with different state employees cell phone problems. Memory implants, the skeleton laced with an unbreakable metal, and the pure bad-ass-ness of it all... can someone hand me some toilet paper, cause dreams are being flushed. Maybe I can convince them to let me have a nine millimeter with a red dot sight atleast... I mean is that really to much to ask for a government agent???

I am sure I will have to take an oath giving my allegance to the man, but if I happen to walk in on a coversation with the words " the outbreak is under control" or " it seems to be a form of rabies" I am out that bitch with the quickness!!!

Peace

36"x60"

2009-02-17T11:40:00.001-08:00

So if you read my last post, this weekend we went to the art store in Kansas City and I bought the biggest stretched canvas I could fit in my car... it was 36"x60". Think of the possibilities! I have two ideas for this greatness. The first three sketches are different versions of the same picture.

I sat down one day and just started to draw a very fluid movement with the thought of a woman in mind. My idea was to draw a very curvy form that very sensual and voluptuous. In my mind it would be something very " 70's " disco in style with some crazy colors in the background.

In the process I was drawing arms in various positions to see how I wanted it laid out. Then I realized i liked the thought of four arms, almost like a modern Shiva statue.
If I chose this option, I am thinking of having the background black and the form being white. Very simple. I am going to do some smaller versions of this first... It is a big commitment to put something on a canvas that is almost as tall as me!
My second idea came more from the art museum we went to, we were in a part that was displaying some expressionism art and I got inspired. I saw a painting of some zombies eating the shit out of some dude. With the art I was looking at it was very raw and emotional strokes that represented face and people. Not that cool actually, but I thought about how raw and crazy I could get with a zombie painting. I came home and started sketching right away. My thought is going to be something like the above pic. A human being disemboweled by the dead. Once again it will be a background of black but with a lot of color.
My only trouble is do I want it to be very lose and raw or try and define the figure and the horror of being eating alive...

This is were I wish I knew how to oil paint, I could do some serious damage to this canvas. Anyway I will keep you posted.
Peace

Supplies and rants

2009-02-16T16:46:00.000-08:00

So this is going to be a quick post. For the big V-day wifey and I went to Kansas City to go get some art supplies. Living in the sticks sucks when it comes to art, the closet "art store" is Michael's or Hobby Lobby... what a drag. Anyway so we went to the art store and i got the biggest canvas I could fit in my car. I wanted a bigger one, but it didn't fit, so I had to settle... such is life. I went with the 36"x60" stretched canvas!!!

This thing is almost as tall as me!! I have two ideas of what I want to do with it, I will post sketches for the ideas tomorrow.

Watch out here comes the RANT... another part of our V-day outing was the art museum. Here's my beef. Who knows what an artist was thinking when they did a painting, Why do some egg heads get to define what art is!?! Why can't art be done and displayed on the basis of being neat. As we walked through the museum I over heard some scholar talking about some form of art and what the artist probably meant when they did this type of brush stroke... I call bullshit! pick up all your cards! Van Gogh was a crazy bitch, you think he was thinking about what kind of movement he was making when he painted... piss no, he was just painting. I want to go to a museum and have some one say " I have no idea what this painting means, we just liked the way it looked!", in the same aspect how can someone put a hand print in cement and say they are expressing the way the world closes in on them... WTF!

After hearing this third party conversation I went on a crazy rant about art and why can't I be a famous artist and what would I need to do to get in a museum blah blah blah. Which to Beth just nodded and agreed with my mindlessness, knowing that I would stop if she did. So here is my proclamation. If I make it big and die, or can't talk and defend myself, and any of you who read this ever see my stuff in a gallery. If you by chance hear someone talking nonsense about my art... just tell them that I did it because I f'ing wanted to! There is no rhyme or reason to my madness. I did art for the sake of art. I do what I do, because I like it. Period.

Well that is all. Probably doesn't make sense...sorry. Look for some sketches tomorrow!

Peace

Squid!!!!

2009-02-13T11:59:00.001-08:00

So I was cleaning around my "studio" area and found these works. I like to look through my sketches and random pieces of art every now and then to see if there is some inspiration hiding somewhere. I am looking to do some art today, and started to straighten things up and found these. This was actually what inspired the painting " I think I am turning Japanese" that I did for my mother-in-law. I love the organic feel of a good tentacle.
There is something creepy, yet fun about drawing one. I think it is the feeling of movement you can convey with a tentacle. When I draw them I find myself in almost a trance swaying this way and that, trying to imagine what it would be like to be the tentacle. Very freeing.
On the creepy side I try and imagine the thing that it is attached to and what it would be like to have the slimy, sucker covered grasp pulling you down into a bottomless void.
On the above doodles, I personally enjoy the top (sketch) more then the colored version. I find that in most of my art I like the raw sketch look better then a more refined product.
I think I may do some more work with tentacles...
Enjoy

Inspiration..

2009-02-10T10:49:00.001-08:00

So This weekend I was inspired to do a painting of a nice scenic nature picture, I was watching a movie called Teeth, and they showed a scene something similar to this several times. For those of you who don't know the movie is about a girl who has Vagina Dentata, umm that is she had teeth in her... no no place. Not the greatest movie, but interesting... Anyway the played it up that possibly the fact that she had two nuke towers in her back yard may of caused it. I think she was an alien, but who knows. I liked the picture so I thought I would re-create it. Also if you get on one of the local roads here and drive off you can see something similar to this. On a clear day it is actually a really neat sight, the smoke against a bright blue sky is almost poetic. I think may use this as an inspiration on some upcoming drawings, I have been playing with the idea of mutants, and "adaptations" of humanity.

Overall not the best piece of art I have done. Materials were gouache paints on a piece of 10 x 14 high quality water color paper. I actually didn't do much sketching on this one, did light pencil marks and then started painting.

Peace

Return of the Kool-aid Man!!

2009-02-05T12:09:00.001-08:00

Hello. It has been a while since I posted anything, so if you have been looking at my page I am sorry. Life has been rather busy. Moving on. I have recently got back into drinking Kool-aid. I had forgotten how awesome it was. It was a staple of my fridge for most of my life through out college and I would consider myself a Bad-ass when it comes to making said aid. So as I have been sipping on this juice of the gods, I started to think back of the glory days. Days when there were actually cartoons on tv and you could catch a glimpse of the Kool-aid man busting through some poor families wall.
As much as I love the drink, I'm not going to lie, if some big red thing came busting through my wall unexpected screaming "OOOh yeah" I would straight up shit my pants, drop to the floor, and suck my little baby thumb! Guess those kids had more balls then me...
Anyway, You don't see much of this dude anymore, probably because "real" people think kool-aid is not a viable source of nutrition anymore. What do they know... it has water in it.
So I redesigned big red for a more... updated audience.
The picture above is the pre-colored version, just sketched with a pencil then inked with my tech pen, on a piece of 10"x14" high quality watercolor paper. The one below is the colored version. Done with gouache paints.

This Kool-aid man supports not two, but four arms, each with some form of asskickery. Dude is packing mad heat with his two uzi's, a samurai sword, and a cybernetic cannon. Well equipped with ninja boots, for straight kicks to the maw, and showing off the skulls he has collected over the years. PS one of his arms has been replaced with a robot arm... not only can he punch through walls, he could also punch through 3 faces of people stupid enough to stand in a row right in his way of delivering the goods.

Oh yeah, some may ask what flavor he is... red you dumbass, the best kind!

Now that your all charged up on greatness, go drink some kool-aid and kick something!

January Picture

2009-01-23T12:08:00.001-08:00

So here is the picture for this month. For those of you who do not know, I live with my in-laws here in Missouri. Tough my wife could give you a list of the disadvantages of living here, I personally don't thin it is so bad. We get hot meals, have a roof over our head and we don't pay rent... not to shabby a deal yo!!
Anyway even though it is still cold as butt cheeks out side, there is an abundance of woodland creatures that gather around the feeder in the middle of the back yard. One day as I sat at my drawing table I looked out and saw this squirrel. So I started to draw him... and well this is what it turned into. for Christmas I got this industrial/professional pen set with different sizes tips and wanted to try them out. So I sketched the little guy and then inked over it with the pen. Then in the theory of "branching" out in my art ability I used some Gouache paints that I had laying around. Gouache paints, are basically a watercolor paint but with more thickness to them. Think of the ability of a watercolor, but the consistency and thickness of paint. You can get a darker fuller color, or use water to thin them out. I used a piece of 18" x 24" heavyweight drawing paper... not official watercolor paper, but it could handle it with no problem. The drawing itself does not take up the whole page, but I wanted to use a bigger piece of paper then the original sketch was on. Hope you enjoy and come for more art and next months image!!

Random Drawings

2009-01-16T17:39:00.001-08:00

So here are some random sketches. These are drawings that I have done in the past months or so. If you notice at the top of this page you see the title. She. Hate. Me. some may ask what does that mean? Who is she? Well that relates to my wife. Both my wife and I are what some would consider to be artist, however sometimes my wife doesn't understand why I do what I do. Thus... She.Hate.Me.
You see even though we are both artist, I do art for the sake of doing something creative, I do something because I like the way it looks, I want to display something from my head to something visual,or I want to display some form of emotion. I have no purpose to do it, other then because I want to. My wife on the other hand does art with a purpose. She sells it. Not that she doesn't create things to do it, it just has more of a purpose behind it. We have had a battle over this for the longest time, and I finally came up with the thought "She hate me."
She actually doesn't hate me, or my art, she just doesn't get it. Some people don't understand why someone could spread paint all over a canvas and that be considered art, well she doesn't understand why I would want to draw a zombie, ninja, or some other abstract creature.
The greatest thing about artist is that they see things and can convey them in a different way. You may look at a building and just see that, I may look at it and see some grotesque form, and someone else may not even see the building at all. That is the great thing about art, you are free to do whatever. Next the sketches for this month's art!!!
P.S. my wife has mad skills, if you haven't already, check out her blog: www.stitchriprepeat.blogspot.com

The Jump Start

2009-01-08T13:51:00.001-08:00

So what we have here are the pictures that I did for my mother and mother-in-law for Christmas. The one with the robot is titled : The AK goes "Choppa Choppa". What the hell does that mean you ask? Well I guess you can think whatever you want, but when you shoot an Ak-47 it makes a noise... I choose to think it is "Choppa Choppa". I got the idea from a rap song, in which the lyrics say that. I then started sketching and this was the end result.
The second was for my mother -in-law, as of right now it has no true name, though I like to think of it as "I am turning Japenese". I am kinda jealous that I gave this one away, I was really impressed with myself after completing it.

These pictures are what gave me the idea for this blog. I really enjoyed doing the two pictures and wanted to do more, but I didn't want to be the only one to see my amazing skill!! So I am willing to share it with the world, behold my greatness!

I think the next post will be of some random sketches, I am trying to figure out what I want to do for my first piece. This may prove to be tricker then I first thought...

Origin story

2009-01-08T13:23:00.000-08:00

So everything in this world has some form of origin story, mine is not as glamorous as any form of standard superhero, but it is a origin none the less. I was born the product of two young adults, who some may say, were still children themselves. The year was 1980, which looking back at examples from TV, were much simpler times. My father was in the navy therefore there was a lot of moving, discipline, and detachment from a "father" figure. Most of my child hood is cloudy, either because I chose to forget, I didnt actually have one because I am a government experiment, or I live in the matrix. Which ever will make the story better for you. I was a quiet child, never making trouble or stepping out of the role I was placed in. I hated school, in fact I did what I could to get through it and go home. I loved to draw. I found that art was my way to escape reality, I could do or be whatever I wanted. So I drew a lot, that and played with toys. Iminagation is a wonderful thing, to bad kids now-a- days don't use it so much.
Anyway 16 yrs pass dad retires from the navy, we move to TN, I re-create myself breaking all bonds with my preivous self,keeping only my art. Grow up more, go to college, work hard for my money...meet my wife, move to Missouri. The end.

Not very exciting, but now you know a little more about me... let the fun begin!

First Post Ever!!

2009-01-07T14:00:00.001-08:00

Hello and Welcome!

If your reading this I say "Good day to you". My name is Jason, and welcome to my blog. I have followed in the footsteps of my wife and created a blog. I consider myself to be an artist and am going to use this great place to display my artwork for all to see!! Actually this past Christmas I was asked to create some art for my mother, and my mother-in-law. In that process I tried some new things... mainly painting. Creating that art gave me the thought that I am awesome, and forced me to remember how much I love to create and draw. Some how I had let the one thing I could always depend on to slip from my life.
Well one thing lead to another and I declared my New Years resolution right then and there... I would use 2009 to start producing more art work, in fact I will attempt to create a big piece of art every month. Hopefully by the end of this year I will have lived up to this project and created at least a dozen pieces of artwork!
So enjoy, come back and check it out, and allow yourself to look outside of the boxes that life puts you in.