ME AM NO BIZARRO

Hello again. I feel inspired as of late. I need to post more often and keep myself on a good pace with creating new artwork. I decided to do a Bizarro piece, because what is cooler than a retarded version of superman? I love the concept of bizarro and the endless ways you could interpret him. I did this piece entierly in photoshop and i like certain aspects of it but I'm not at all ready to give up the traditional goodness. Next up is a redesign of Robocop for the sketch-o-rama blog!! I cant wait to sink my teeth into this one, and check out the good work being produced for that blog. Till then enjoy and give a holler if ya feel like it!!


These are some hilarious stagings of my Bizarro having some terrible luck trying to relieve himself done by friend and animator extraordinare Saxton Moore. Yes, even Bizarros need to take leaks✪

The Thing Redesigned!

Now this was a fun one here. This is a piece for the sketch-o-rama blog. The theme this week was fantastic four. I originally intended to do mr. fantastic...or my version of him Mr. Fantastico! After much sketching I started a painting of him but realized that with my schedule at the moment I would not get it done. I desided to do The Thing instead and Im pretty happy with the results. Let me know what you all think. Till next time. Peace world...we need it!!

8 MAN HOURS & Sketch-o-Rama

Hello everyone! Back again with goodies for the eyes and mind, well maybe not so much for the mind. On Wendsday I was hanging around the studio and sat down on Jim Gromans chair conversating with a co-worker, when out of nowhere Saxton Moore pops up and points out how Im sitting on the chair in which Jim put a good solid 8 man hours! It sounded really discusting the way he put it, so I jumped up and thought of Jim farting on the chair amongst other things...hehe. Not that Jim does any of that, hes is quite the gentleman and a great guy (quite clean too!!) I got the funniest picture in my head of Jim sitting in his chair after a long day and him reverting back to Barbarian times, being as manly as ever! I was cracking up! So I had to do a charicature of that in which the character looks nothing like Jim but it is inspired my his nice mug! Jim please don't kill me but I had to!! Anyways enjoy my silly antics!!!


By the way I'm a part of the group blog sketch-o-rama made up of AGP artists. These are for that blog and we are having a blast with it and the work is pretty amazing. Please take your time and check out the good work. It is on my links at the bottom. Peace to all!!

Transplant Show/ Opening Night

Entrance of the gallery

Sign that the owner of the gallery created for the show

People enjoying the work

Art review from Scene Magazine...click and read. Funny stuff!

We did live painting during the show

Me painting during the second session of the live painting

Cube painting for the transplant show

Saxtons cube painting

Sax and Dave painting.

Artist Dave Savages wall.

Painting titled "Childhood in Waiting"

Detail of panting.

My wall with my ink drawings.

Kids love the Transplant show!

Me and the beautiful Beth Brettell, thank you so much for all your help!

Me and Jorge and Chris Ryniak by my section of the gallery.

Picture of the carousel at the show.
We'll finally I'm Posting pictures from the opening night at the Asterisk Gallery of the Transplant Show. It was a great turnout and very exciting for me. I learned a lot from this experience both bad and good. I won't do another show until the work and I are ready. It was great to hear the peoples reaction of my work and a very special thank you to everyone who showed up. I didn't get a chance to photograph the work because of the rush I was under just to get the show together. I will as soon as I get a chance but for now enjoy these pics. We also got review on the weekly cleveland SCENE magazine. The review was overall good even though the dude called me an evil nazi vampire, but I guess that for my first published art review it could have been worse.

✱Transplant Art Show~Tell Your Friends!✱

I will be a part of a group show coming up March 9th thought April 7th. These are the images for my promotional postcard for this show. If you are in Cleveland during this time please check it out. It will be at the

Asterisk Gallery

in Tremont. I will post the pieces on this blog as soon as the show opens. The video is from the window display we built and set up in Big Fun, a really cool toy store here in cleveland to advertise the show. Enjo¥!!

Props to the beautiful and talented Beth Brettell who designed and layed out the type and elements for the postcards and who had tremendous amounts of patience to deal with my art direction. Check out her blog on my links, you wont be sorry!

War of the Colossal Freaks of Frankenstein's Planet™

Another promotional image for The Collosal FREAKS!!! This one depicts the reptilian race warrior in his natural environment. These are too much fun and there is a ton of stuff I should be doing instead but oh well. More to come, much more to come.

This is a promotional piece for this concept. The freak in this illustration is one of the elite warriors, looking over the land that he dominates, but for how long? I am currently working on a painted version of this piece so stay tuned. The logo was the creation of Jorge "Parcecles" Lacera. ENJOY!!


This is a concept me and a couple of co-workers came up with for a show that never went up. Anyways I did a whole lotta drawings and a couple of digital paintings which Im displaying in this post. The reptilian with the sword is a member of an underwater clan of freaks and the other blue warrior is from the aristrochatic section of the world, a high ranking warrior with many destructive ablilities. I might update this post with pencil drawings that never made it to photoshop. Hope you like and keep a lookout because there might be a secret surprice to come in relation to this concept.

First Post of 2007/ Happy New Years to All!

Well the new year is here and for once I have a good feeling about this one. I had a great time in New York celebrating with some of my best friends and fellow artist. Man that city can really wear you out! This post consist of sketchebook drawings of the random kind. I have started to really get into animation and it's history recently, therefore my drawings are transitioning into a more animated style. I learned this great technique from Saxton Moore for drawing and designing characters. The technique consists of drawing solid random shapes of all forms and sizes and then fitting a face into the shape. I think this technique allows for simpler and more pleasing design while staying away from your old habits, therefore a more original fresh look. I want to wish everyone the best for the coming year and please enjoy the work.

P.S. New and exciting stuff in the works so please check back soon.

SKETCH DUMP

So I pretty much sketch co-workers everyday, most of the time people that are unfortunate enough to be in a meeting with me. I tend to exaggerate WAY too much so please if you are the subject of a drawing here don't get insulted. I like finding shapes and having confident lines. I work with quite colourful characters so if the sketches have personality it is because of them not my drawings. Saxton Moore sits riht next to me and works with me in many projects so I find myself drawing him quite often. Check out his blog, www.sacks10.blogspot.com. I hope you guys enjoy these, I know I did.

P.s. just added a couple of sketches I intended of posting earlier, one is of good friend and co-worker Jim Groman. The other is of writer extraordinare Rick Rising. Hope u like, and Jim, please don't kill me.

Cinderella Painting

I'm back at oils again!! I am so happy to have been afforded the opportunity to paint in oils again. I got commissioned to paint my interpretation of cinderella. I wanted it to have a classical feel and felt inspired by J.W. Waterhouse. I learned many things about painting in oils in a short period of time. I had minor problems with paint not drying and preparing the piece for framing. Everything worked out in the end and the person it was for loved it so I feel like I accomplished my goal. I will keep on track and start on a number of new pieces. Man digital does NOT compare to painting traditional. Hope u guys like it!

Darth Vader Redesign

INTERIOR: REBEL BLOCKADE RUNNER -- MAIN HALLWAY. The awesome, seven-foot-tall Dark Lord of the Sith makes his way into the blinding light of the main passageway. This is Darth Vader, right hand of the Emperor. His face is obscured by his flowing black robes and grotesque breath mask, which stands out next to the fascist white armored suits of the Imperial stormtroopers. Everyone instinctively backs away from the imposing warrior and a deathly quiet sweeps through the Rebel troops. Several of the Rebel troops break and run in a frenzied panic.

Me and a couple of co workers(Jim Groman and Jorge Lacera) thought it might be cool to redesign Darth Vader. It was fun to think of it as if he was never designed before and all we had to go by was the passage that first describes him in the script. I was hesitant at first because how could u hope to redesign something so cool and iconic but then i thought fuck it lets do it. It was more fun than i thought and i hope you guys like it.

HAIL TO THE FREAK!

So finally a traditional painting once more! This is the painting I spoke of in the last post. The show failed to go up because of some stupid shit but thats besides the point. Going back to acrylics wasn't really as hard as I thought it would be. It was a lot of fun and I kinda just went with this drawing without too much thought behind it. The show was supposed to be about freaks so it was an excuse to do a fun character. I didn't have much time to do it so it made me work fast and not overthink or over noodle shit. I am hoping to do quite a bit more in the immediate future. Till then enjoy this one and feel free to drop me a line.
P.S. This is the final custom vinyl toy I did for the Grumpy Freak Show held here at the American Greetings world headquaters. The show was awsome and it raised a lot of money for a good cause. Check out the blog from my links to see other great Grumpys.

VENOM!!!

We'll this one was lots of fun! He is just a fun character to explore and i like pushing things to make them my own. Another semi-quick painting in photoshop. I think once the texture was added the whole picture really pulled itself together. I hope you guys are enjoying these villains. I think for the next few posts i'm going to mix things up. I recently completed an acrylic painting for a busted show that failed to go up...oops...wasn't my fault. Now this painting resides at my workarea in AG. As always feedback is appreciated. Hope you like!

Watch OUT!!! It's the Penguin!!

Hello everyone. Again this is a quick painting done last night for fun and practice. Keeping up with my theme of villains this is my interpretation of the Penguin, Batman's classic villain. I thried playing with the composition a little more but since it was quick it doesn't really matter if its not the greatest composition. I had fun and i hope you guys like it. Feedback always much appreciated.