IRONMAN

I have been reading tons of great comics lately!! Marvel has its claws on me right now and I'm digging a lot of work out there. Over all i think one character is in the middle of it all right now, Ironman. He's kind of a cold blodded bastard that has a serious case of powertripping. He basically got captain america killed and recently got completely demolished by the hulk in World War Hulk, which is amazing and I recomend it to anyone! So i've been meaning to do an ironman piece and I finally got around to it. Struggled with this one for a bit at the end of the process, but overall it was really fun to do something purely for myself for a change. I feel inspired right now and I'll try to continue this momentum with other pieces. Till next time I hope you enjoy the piece and feel free to drop a line.

Freelance and ©oncepts

Hello all, sorry for ignoring this blog like a bastard child, I do apologize. I have been soo crazy with freelance and work and also enjoying the summer by staying active. These are concepts and illustrations I had to do for a property called Pretty Freekin Scary developed right here in American Greetings. I am one of two illustrators working on 4-5 books for Penguin publishing and they are due out Sept. in bookstores and wallmart among other places. Fun behind the scenes stuff. Will resume with the personal work very shortly, maybe even tomorrow, but for now enjoy this filler and no, I am not dead...just blog-lazy.

ASSHOLE MOUTH

Everyone knows one of these guys....now wipe your mouth.

Sorry for the lack of post lately, been crazy busy with freelance and other stuff. I've been wanting to do another framed piece and I thought this would be a good oportunity for one. Kind of discusting i know but they all kinda are. I'll try and make sure to post more often. I got a sketch-o-rama coming soon so be on the look out. Peace out!

THE RHINO: Spiderman Villain Contest

Quint over at Ain't it Cool News had a contest to design to design an excisting Spiderman Villain for the next movie. The winner will get a couple of cool busts of spidey and venom. I decided to do the Rhino and really give his costume a cool new look. We also had to cast them for the movie, so I decided to go with Dwayne Johnson A.K.A the Rock. I think he would bring charisma and a level of fun that these villains need for the Spideman franshise. I love redesigning these characters and give my take on them. I had tons of fun with this image and it was a completely different way of working for me. I created paths in photoshop for each and every section of the suit to give me the cleanest possilble result. I love it. I hope to work like this more often in the future. Big things to come soon!! Till then stay fresh☻

ROBOCOP!

FINAL

Initial sketches

Photoshop sketch

Tight pencil drawing
My latest post for Sketch-o-rama. This one took a while to develop but I'm pretty pleased with the result. I've started to sketch out the initial concept in photoshop because of its flexibility to make a cool pose without being restricted by the edge of the paper or anything like that. I also like to skew things and experiment in photoshop until I get something I really like. I then took this piece and did a tight pencil then a quicky digital color job. I'm posting an initial sketch as well to show were my initial look for my version came from. I'll try and post even more frequently, but till next time...peace out!!

By the way who's watching the big fight on saturday?? i got my money on Maywheater!!!

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.