They Live... on 4th Street.

I only have a few pictures from the other night, but MAN it was fun. So many good costumes, so many great people, and way too many recipes for fake blood!





I'm a pretty lazy photographer, so if you wanna see way more (and better) pictures, visit Pink Cow Photography's Zombie Walk Photoset.
And if you're looking to buy a t-shirt from the event, check out the MondoCelluloid store HERE.



Also there is this:

Ink-scratch delight

Some more work for my favorite client; I feel so lucky to have gotten a gig like this...

Check this guy out

I was digging through some old D&D books the other day (yes, I was an even bigger nerd once upon a time), when I rediscovered an artist that was a huge inspiration for me.




Probably half the reason I kept buying those books was because he'd been given more and more page space as the franchise grew. I could never figure out his signature on the paintings, and never really pursued looking him up until recently.


His name is Wayne Reynolds. Dude works almost exclusively in acrylic! I've always been attracted to his sense of shape, contrast, gesture and characterization, but now that I know he's still working in traditional media... I mean, look at this stuff!

Zombiewalkthrough

Here follows an intoxicatingly detailed rundown of how this year's LB Zombie Walk poster was born...

The back of my receipt from dinner at the Taqueria on 4th, where Garry pitched me the idea and we started sketching...
(If you've never had their Lengua burrito, check it out; pretty messy, but damn good!)

Out of the billions of reference photos I took, only a couple ended up being useful. Had to come back a few times to get all the angles and details I wanted.

More photo reference, ended up straining muscles in my palm I didn't even know I had!

Final approved sketch...

...Taken into photoshop and massaged into a workable value study...

...Blown up and transferred to midtone charcoal paper.

And the fun begins...



Throwing in some tasty sinew and gristle action on the pelvis, ribcage, and so on. Some light touch-ups and texturing in photoshop, a TON of typework brilliantly executed by the fine people of Phone Booth Gallery, and...

BAM. ZombieWalk poster.

More info about the event here.

Something rotten this way crawls...

PBG Live Paint

This video was taken at Phone Booth Gallery, right down the street from my apartment. 10+ artists, two 4' x 8' panels, 5 hours to rock some sweet art together. Had a great time, great people, awesome atmosphere and AMAZING turnout! I've heard rumors of a second one in the works, I'll post info here if you wanna come see it.

Also, one of the coolest remasterings of "Ziggy Stardst" I've ever heard. Great soundtrack, Garry!

Labor of Love

The latest van Bommel shoe ad, TONS of fun to do. The one part that took the longest to iron out was those damn flowy shoelaces!

There are two or three monster homages mixed in with my own stuff here, I couldn't resist. Basically just an excuse to watch Tremors and Enemy Mine again.