Inguen!

The Spider Choir

2011-10-22T23:26:00.000-07:00

I looked through all the sketchbooks within arm's reach of my desk, and this is the only drawing I could find that was in any way related to this painting, which really brings it home that I need to either start sketching like an actual artist or stop having a sketchblog, b/c it's more a collection of derpy doodles than anything, at this point.

The Spiderman Chorus is vry sophisticated these days!

Wonderland Show at Leanna Lin's in Eagle Rock

2011-08-12T21:34:00.000-07:00

Opening tomorrow nite, c'mon out!
I finished another couple paintings for it too:

Wandafuru Species : Hentai Tentacle Death Bunny

Sugoi Species : 9-Tailed Fox

Wonderful Species

2011-07-05T21:29:00.000-07:00

First of (possibly) more for the Crowded Teeth presents Wonderland show at Leanna Lin's Wonderland in Eagle Rock CA. It opens Aug 13, so come out and say hi!

Leanna Lin's Wonderland

Wonderful Species: Ratrabbit
graphite/watercolor/acrylic on wood

Haha...it may be time for me to just admit that I don't plan out any of my paintings.

Hopin' For Hugs

2011-06-29T20:59:00.000-07:00

Cute little dude for the Nozomi Hope for Japan Charity Show.
Nozomi Art Show

Hopin' for Hugs
Graphite/acrylic on wood

Shave and a Haircut Show

2011-05-20T20:29:00.000-07:00

A seriously mustachioed boobbear for the Shave and a Haircut show at Monkeyhouse Toys in LA...some months ago. My things to do folder is getting seriously OOC. MUST ORGANIZE. Later.

'Stache!

Meth & Hotdogs 2 Show at LIFT

2011-05-20T09:12:00.000-07:00

A couple paintings are still available from LIFT gallery in Royal Oak MI, if you're lookin' for a piece: MHD2

Born to Scoot
4x4 mixed media fruit salad on canvas

Blind I Bunny
8x10 mostly paint of varying sorts on canvas

Sweeter Than Candy
4x4 mixed media fruit salad on canvas

Pins or Needle

2011-01-17T02:13:00.000-08:00

Was really reasonably pretty sure I'd already posted this, but judging by it not being on here, I GUESS I DID NOT. It was one of those using-up-leftover-paint type paintings that I often do, b/c I am a terrible judge of how much paint I actually need at any given time.

I think this happened sometime in the middle of the painting.

Um...hey and here's the painting...!

Heart in Soul

2011-01-17T02:07:00.001-08:00

Tried out some woodburning on this one (the outlines of the ribs. I know, you can't really tell in real life, either.) and an a LOT of marker crosshatching.

Little nub arms are one of my favorite things ever.

Art House Sketchbook Project pt2

2011-01-17T00:08:00.001-08:00

Yes you are. Good work on that.

Sooooo yo.

Sea Urchins are basically plants. What.

FUCK I LOVE NEON. FUCKKKKKK!!!!

Not sure I could eat someone who was glaring at me like that.

Bugs should have fuzzy ears. Everything should have fuzzy ears.

TOO BAD BUDDY.

Seriously that flower looks like a French tickler.

Art House Sketchbook Project pt3

2011-01-16T23:57:00.000-08:00

'Poppy' is so close to 'poopy', and yet I refrained.

I scanned this too small but the So has a little dude as the 'O' who is saying, 'WHAT'. OMG LAYERS.

In my house, it's ALWAYS fucking spider time.

I would grow them if only I could.

Watching too much Discovery Chanel has pretty much completely ruined me for scifi.
Nature is out of her mind.

Silver pen doesn't scan well, so just imagine the faces on the clouds.

I love that the way to go guy totally steals all the focus from the drawings.
Plus he smells like spearmint!

Some sort of farting tentacle-faced caterpillar (non-fuzzy).

OMGAH FINISHED.

Art House Sketchbook Project pt1

2011-01-16T23:20:00.000-08:00

Some pages from my Sketchbook Project. Which I managed to procrastinate until THE WEEK BEFORE IT WAS DUE. AAAHHHHHH. My Art House Coop page is over here:
http://arthousecoop.com/users/inguen

My theme was The View from Up Here, to which I added 'Looking Down into the Garden' so I could print out some of the pritty flower photos I've taken and fill up half the page with minimal effort. Also I rather like my pritty flower photos, so fuuuuck you.

That purple guy is basically me.

KEEPIN' IT CLASSY UNTIL ABOUT TWO PAGES IN.

What if you're planted next to another tree, who happens to be a real asshole? You're stuck there beside them forever and you can't kick their ass. I guess you pray for a lightning strike, but that's not terribly likely.

Now made with real leaves! I tried doing the iron-it-between-sheets-of-waxed-paper trick, but apparently I got some safety wax paper or someshit, b/c it would not melt.

Not much to say about this one, altho I do kinda like it.

Actually, those are hearts.

Self-loathing Daisy.

Small Deer in a (Very) Large Space

2010-12-26T01:07:00.000-08:00

20x24" commish of the original Small Deer painting, only NOW, IT'S PURPLINAL.

The Illustrious Jonathan Inguen

2010-12-03T10:51:00.000-08:00

Commissioned painting of Jonathan, acrylic & liquid watercolor.

Playing with the random sentence generator

2010-12-01T15:52:00.000-08:00

"The settled stomach attempts a yeti."
Is for sale on etsy!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/63420436/the-settled-stomach-attempts-a-yeti

THE EGGPLANTS ARE WATCHING YOU

2010-12-01T15:38:00.000-08:00

I love the Eggplant Wizard SO MUCH. Also, too bad angels don't have any junk. Poor Pit.

Sugar, Sugar

2010-10-03T11:57:00.000-07:00

Painting for the Day of the Dead themed show at Cactus Gallery in Eagle Rock this month!

It seems like this should have been right up my alley, but it was actually a hard one. There was much swearing and putting it off that went on throughout.

Since sugar skulls are basically what I spend all day at work trying to avoid having to draw, I kept being reminded of work, and then I'd be like YOU KNOW WHAT I SHOULD DO I SHOULD ORGANIZE MY POTS AND PANS and then no painting would get done, again.

I do still exist...

2010-09-19T17:17:00.000-07:00

I'm just FINALLY trying to update my website and plus the rest of my life is being ridiculous at the moment so making new things is not even on the map.

HOWEVER. Since I'm going thru all kinds of old art, I am uncovering some SRS GEMS, like this awesome little ball cozy I made for a friend I was rooming with a few years ago. I found this weird little half sock thing on the floor, and decided that what it required was fabric paint.

Project Ethos: Love Sick paintings

2010-07-17T14:59:00.000-07:00

I got an email asking to be featured in this year's LA Project Ethos 10 days before the actual show, so there was some amount of AAAAAAFUCK PAINT that took place over that week and a half. Luckily, I came up with a bunch of new paintings, and things turned out pretty surprisingly decent.

Burnt Out

H.T.D.B in LOVE

Royal Drop

All So Wrong

Boobbear

Aanda!

Show Flyer.

And some photos from the show:

Sketchy Mini Paintings

2010-07-05T17:08:00.000-07:00

A few little dudes from last week. These things are the perfect size for my attention span, which is NONEXISTANT.

Oh those butts! Who doesn't love em?

I won't be entirely satisfied with my life until it involves a porch an' a jugband in some capacity.

Octopi should have eyebrows. They just should.

Very Tiny Paintings

2010-07-02T00:18:00.000-07:00

I found a small hill of Candyland cards in one of my boxes of random potential art supplies, and having no idea what they were originally for, decided to make them into little paintings.

PETER, I NEED YOU TO SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH YOUR TRAGIC IRONY EMO RESPONSIBILITY BULLSHIT FOR TWO SECONDS OR I AM GOING TO THROTTLE YOU WITH YOUR OWN TIGHTS.

I imagine at some point, that had to have been all MJ could think whenever Petey started in about ol Uncle Ben.

Don't get me wrong: I looooooove Batman. But even I will admit, there's gotta be a healthier way to deal with your parents' death than collecting youthful wards and making them caper around in tights.

You want monster head? I have many kinds!

If there's one thing I hate, it's shirts on girls.

Small Paintings for sale!

2010-06-19T23:24:00.000-07:00

Equal parts trying to goad myself into making things and trying not to have even more shit pile up in my house, I've decided to start selling stuff again!
My etsy store has the full list, and here's a few recent ones.

And This, Again
3x3" canvas

Ohhh, I See
3x3" canvas

Slimer Says Boo!
Sold!

Alright, OK
3x3" canvas

No, and No.
Sold!

Oh shit, forgot some!

2010-06-17T08:26:00.001-07:00

Watson's legs were definitely better than mine-you will not catch me dragging after my leggy-ass bff over 6 miles of goddamn pasture just for funsies. But still, I like to imagine he had massive, awesome scars, because UNF.

I just forgot to post these last time.

THAT'S RIGHT, MORE SHERLOCK HOLMES BITCHES

2010-06-08T21:30:00.000-07:00

I think this is the first time one of my nerdy loves has suddenly become popular, and I have to admit, I'm excited about Holmes having a retarded internet fandom. I've already read a zillion official pastiches & essays, and frankly, some (many) of them are just LJ fanfic that found a publisher, so I don't understand some of the snooty old fan hate going on. CAN'T WE ALL JUST HUG IT OUT AND MAKE MACROS TOGETHER???

It always kind of nagged at me that most of L's screaming legions of fangirls didn't realize that his hot quirky little habits were lifted bodily from Holmes. Still, I was on board with Death Note up until the fall of L and rise of Near. At least the sloppy retcon that was Holmes' return could be blamed on ACD NOT EVEN WANTING TO WRITE THESE STUPID STORIES YOU GUIZ.

I question the length of his right arm in this drawing. Also, get your fucking feet off the furniture man!

I actually found a preliminary sketch to the SH is Wearing No Pants drawing. Meaning I felt this concept was important enough to merit a practice run to work out all the issues likely to arise when drawing S.H. sans pants.

I love when Watson drags Holmes to the country to not do coke and run around getting in fights 24/7, but Holmes is like OOH I SMELL MYSTERIES. Poor Watson. You fought the good fight, buddy.

The '09 movie made me like Watson much more. I much prefer him sassy to starry-eyed with scattered nagging. Also, let's be honest, he is kinda dingy in the books.

I feel pretty confident saying I'm the only nerd who discovered House while browsing the related works section of the Holmes Wikipedia page. I immediately emailed one of my friends asking if she'd seen this show, to which she replied with Hugh Laurie on the cover of Esquire and posed the excellent question, 'where the fuck have you been, they just finished season 3."

Speaking of Watson, and things that have been niggling at me for years, I always wondered if some of Wilson's mannerisms were based on David Burke's Watson. Or maybe it's just that there's only so many ways to look constantly exasperated with your BFF.

Painty sketches and paintingy paintings for sale!

2010-06-08T21:16:00.000-07:00

Still working on makin' stuff! Also, doing these made me realize how looong it's been since I've drawn any ladies. I became Boy Crazy Stacey at some point in my artistic career here.

Now Disliking
4x4" watercolor

I Have Some Frowns For You
3x3" canvas

Egret's Egress
4x4" watercolor

Mystery Solved!
4x4" chunky canvas

My scanner is judging meeeee

2010-06-07T20:39:00.000-07:00

My scanner is killing me. This is the same painting, scan on the left, photo on right. Somehow my scanner is managing to totally drop out any and all neon without changing the rest of the image saturation. Whyyyyyyy.

And the last of the misc sketches from my most recent sketchbook.

Restraints I

2010-06-05T11:19:00.000-07:00

I've been commissioned a few times to rework old pieces, and it's one of those things that I would never do on my own, but am always really pleased with when it happens. I like to forget about everything I make the instant paint dries. Soooooo, projects like this are probably really good for me.

I may have to do more of this series, I really like how this one turned out.

The original painting, from 2005, I think. I clearly remember it being one of the first Official Paintings I did, since it was on an actual canvas. It was also supposed to be part of a series of some sort, but instead was turned into...

this wallpaper. Man, back in the day of small squarey monitors. Feelin' old!

This dude was also used in a logo for a UK film co around 2006. The actual logo is long lost to hard drive death and my general failure at preserving anything, but I do still have a few related sketches.

Birds of a Feather show

2010-06-04T23:37:00.000-07:00

Couple little companion pieces for the Kids Rock benefit concert and nature festival deal, which you can get tickets and info for here!

Didn't really sketch anything for this one, except this little owl guy.

Blind I Bunny

2010-05-23T09:17:00.000-07:00

This guy is basically what I always thought happened to Benjamin Bunny. It seemed like he and the farmer had a full scale fucking war going on, and I imagine there were casualties on both sides.

True Story...

2010-05-20T23:49:00.000-07:00

At one point, roundabout 2005, I felt it'd be a good idea for me to try drawing consistent characters. SHOCKINGLY, this plan did not bear fruit; I'm bored with my own drawing style halfway through everything I draw. Clearly, I should have given my animation major a leetle more practical thought before going through with it.

This one's new - it's lookin' like my consistency has not improved at all in the last 6 years. Go me!

All the rest of these are from 2004-5. And then I pretty much never drew these dudes again.

I just remember this guy's name was Connor Meile, after the line of vacuum cleaners. Not sure why, precisely, but they are good vacuums.

After drawing this guy, a very nice girl was enthusiastically emailing me about him, which was a little weird to me, as I think of everything I do as an isolated exercise in a corner of my apt, and am somehow always shocked to find out other people can see these things, too. Also, it's a little worrying to think that people may be looking to me for inspiration, since I spend the majority of my time drawing the dumbest ball-related puns I can think of.

He's carrying is some sort of weird old poison bottle I wanted at one point, but was not willing to spend 150 bucks on, because that is ridiculous. I'm sure somebody did, though. The jerk.

I really like double-breasted coats, but only on other people. I don't have time personally for that many buttons.

Adam, who is part owl, despite having neither wisdom nor comically round spectacles.

A lot of people still give me that exact same look.

I'm not even sure what this look means, but I can relate to it.

Dunno how he was planning on walking on those owl legs.

Sadly nerdily, I've also always had a thing for high collars and suspenders.

This sketch was originally captioned 'So I guess headphones make anyone look cool??' and got me a job with a book co in the UK when someone there came across it while looking for 'cool headphones'. Again, weird.

Super inconsistent, but I rather like this set.

RECENT THINGS

2010-05-18T22:08:00.000-07:00

Yes finally! Sketches that are legitimately recent. I imagine this will not last.

I would so like to know what exactly Torgo went on to do after Manos. Oh, I've got some guesses, but I bet the truth is even better.

I want like eight more taxidermy Fallow deer heads, but I'm already toeing the line between having interesting decor and living in the Bates Motel Lobby as it is.

Why don't genetic mutations ever slap anyone with extra cute parts? I could get behind a panda with 6 ears.

I am never going to run out of old sketches...

2010-05-17T21:30:00.000-07:00

you'd think I have a finite amount of old crap to post, but no. I really should have stuck this all at the beginning of the blog, but I'm just not that on top of things and you may as well know it.

I wanted to play upright bass sooooo bad when I was little. I didn't quite get that you had to learn on violin first tho, and ended up in band instead. Lame.

I still love the Frozen Expression of Surprise Ward.

This is pretty much still the case today.

Also still the case.

I WANT A PEGCAT.

Replace 'animator' with 'illustrator' and the self portrait is still pretty accurate.

And some kitties to finish it off. WHY NOT.

Speaking of embarassing fanart...

2010-05-14T23:34:00.001-07:00

I could never get super-interested in Evangelion, I admit. What I do love about it are all the awesome fuck-yous to the fans, starting with the ending of the original series. If was in charge of a show people were taking waaaaay to seriously, I'd explode everyone, too.

I've kind of read about the new series, and it looks like everything else Gainax has done in the last decade. To wit; HERE'S SOME UNDERAGE BOOBS AND AREN'T THEY JUST ZANY.

I drew this in 2002 or 3...I think I felt like learning to ink or something, got about halfway through and went back to just accepting that particular inability, which is still the case today.

Hallmark oldsters

2010-05-13T00:53:00.000-07:00

YEAH still moving stuff over here. I used to sketch A LOT, apparently!

This was my Xmas card one year. It still applies.

This guy's name is Mali Auctor, which essentially means 'mischief maker', for what that's worth.

HONK HONK.

The explanation of this on my site was that he was 'a Cupid, fired for falling in love with a horse', which is a mystery to me. I do love Cupid in all his classical portrayals, though.

These are from an awesome, terrible comic I actually turned in for a grade my senior year, long after I'd stopped caring or trying to keep up appearances. My teacher seemed to understand this, and interestingly, it was one of the most educational classes in my entire college career.

Embarassing Fanart

2010-05-07T22:06:00.001-07:00

Yami No Matsuei is solid terrible fangirl fanservice pretty much nonstop, but oooohhhhh, I watched it. I tried to read it, but the artwork is so hideously flowery and sparkly I just couldn't hang.

One thing about this series that IS totally awesome is that the main villain dude was keeping his brother's severed head floating around in a big jar, so that one day he can bring his brother back to life, and then kill him. That's the best needlessly complex utterly pointless plan ever.

Liking Carmen Sandiego isn't that embarrassing; everybody played it in grade school, and who doesn't love Rockapella's stirring rendition of the game show theme? Butttt...I've never actually played the game. I'd always just kind of appreciated it in theory. In my defense, I am utterly weak against the gentleman thief/outlaw detective archetype. I HEART THEM ALL.

And oh yes, I watched the fairly terrible Saturday morning cartoon.

I think ReBoot was pretty decent for what it was and when it was made. Hex holds up as a quality villain, for instance. At least she did, until the whole series went completely batshit early in season 4. Still though, I've driven through Kitsilano and felt a nerdy little thrill over it. Nar.

Growing up with Great Danes, I sort of feel like I have to love Scooby Doo. It was a pretty terrible show, though, let's not kid ourselves.

Kimi Wa Pet (Tramps Like Us in the US, for some reason) is actually pretty good, and I still like it. But it's a cutesty romantic comedy, which is a weird thing for me to be enjoying.

Nothin' in partic

2010-05-06T23:40:00.000-07:00

Found this pencil sketch in an old sketchbook. I'd like to say it was carefully archived, but in truth it was part of a giant pile of crap that fell out when I picked the book up. So anyway, I figured I'd throw some color on it.

Just some random stuff floating around my sketchbook.

I kind of love the dude who's freaking out on Ms Havisham there.

Sherlock Holmes & the Mystery of the Missing Pants

2010-04-09T00:20:00.000-07:00

I admit to having huge Sherlock Homes boners, huge nerdy literary boners, since high school. And now, ten years later, it's finally cool! How bout that.

Despite being played by a succession of increasingly old dudes over the last 100-odd years, Holmes was only like 27 at the start of the books. He was just kinda farting around Uni, dividing his time between beating up corpses and hanging out in his room listening to The Cure for days on end.

It's never really resolved if he was actually going to school or just sneaking in at night to fondle beakers and cackle maniacally, since he never actually goes back to the place once he starts shacking up with Watson. PERHAPS HE BECAME INTERSTED IN CHEMISTRY OF ANOTHER SORT, HAR HAR HAR GEDDIT.

Holmes. Holmes, this is. This is an eyeball, Holmes.
This is and eyeball and it is IN MY WATERGLASS, HOLMES. WHY IS THERE AN EYEBALL IN MY WATERGLASS HOLMES???

The most important element of Watson: an air of sorely-tried patience.

So much sweet action going on juuuuuust offscreen in the books.

From a 2007 sketchbook...why is Watson never thin as a lath & brown as a nut in any of the adaptations?
HE'S SUPPOSED BE, DAMNIT.

This was in my 2007 folder...and clearly titled 'Sherlock Holmes is Wearing No Pants', which he clearly is..n't, but I have zero recollection of drawing it, and even less idea why. Sooo enjoy, I guess.

Bugtopsy

2010-04-05T19:21:00.000-07:00

Little painting for"Six Legged Freaks", a bug themed show opening at Cactus Gallery in Eagle Rock this Sat.

Bugtopsy,
4x4
2010 acrylic / watercolor

Not much prep going on for this painting, just started in on it and hoped for the best.

Moooooooar Jungle Book

2010-02-21T18:25:00.000-08:00

Since I tend to fixate, here's some quickie Jungle Book watercolor sketches I did after finishing the painting.

Red Dog is my favorite Mowgli story. It's got all the major players, an exciting new enemy, and shows off what a cunning little creature Mowgli has grown up to be. And contains my favorite line in all the stories:

"Howl dogs! A Wolf has died to-night!"

But of all the Pack of two hundred fighting dholes, whose boast was that all Jungles were their Jungle, and that no living thing could stand before them, not one returned to the Dekkan to carry that word.

Akela was pretty unquestionable rad. He knew more about men than anyone, led the Pack for better than a decade, and offered to let his mutinous pack kill him without a fight in exchange for Mowgli's freedom. He kept kicking ass up till his excellent death fighting the dhole. Rock on Akela.

Mang The Bat, who didn't actually do anything in the books, but was mentioned in the Night-Song in the Jungle, which is good enough for me.

And OF COURSE Bagheera, whom I love, because he is a cocky prick, which I suppose comes of being born among men. Plus, it makes his love for Mowgli that much more AWWWWW.

Anon Sketch Project!

2010-02-03T13:01:00.000-08:00

You give me words or an idea and I sketch it, probably in a matter completely different than you were hoping. Or maybe I'll take a photo. Or sculpt something. Or perhaps I'll ignore it completely. HARD TO SAY.

Plus, it's anon, so if you've been waiting to ask me what's up with the tentacles or why I 'm such a terrible evil meanie, have at it.

1: Crow.
Hilariously, my scanner REFUSED to pick up the neon-ness of this, so I had to photograph it. COME ON SCANNER, YOU KNOW YOU LOVE NEON AS MUCH AS I DO.

Brothers, That was a Dog's Death

2010-01-24T20:24:00.000-08:00

Growing up I read a lot of Victorian-era & earlier lit. Most likely because books in the public domain and my parents both turned up a lot at garage sales. At any rate, the Mowgli stories are one of my favorite things ever, ever. I've read each one at least a hundred times-whenever I imagine what it must be like to be juuuuuust about to shuffle off the mortal coil, the thought that someday, I'll have read The Jungle Books for the last time always comes to my mind.

Looking at the sketch, I feel like this painting was supposed to be a lot more lowbrow than it actually turned out. Also, Shere Kahn is meant to be sort of a cross between a skinned hide and actual tiger, but he ended up looking like he was just chilling out on Mowgli's head.

Not sure why I do such detailed sketches when I'm clearly gonna ignore them as soon as I grab a brush.

CAN'T SLEEP. MUST PAINT.

Finally done. I forgot how long it takes me to paint stuff. I ALSO forgot to scan it before sealing it, so I couldn't get a great shot of it due to reflections and so on. Win some, lose some, I guess; it has been a long time since I painted.

The history of Inguen

2009-11-08T19:38:00.000-08:00

As soon as I put up my portfolio site in 2004, I wanted another site, one where I could secretly post drawings of balls, dick jokes, and varied examples of why the internet is my favorite place ever. So I registered a new domain, and made a mascot to go with it, Jonathan Inguen.

Fortunately, I no longer care if people know about my penchant for wangs and boobies, so Jonathan has sort of taken over my sketchblog, and still gets more love than my "real" site.

Hangin' out, drinkin' some Orbitz. Was I the only person who liked that..?

Jonathan is, of course, fast friends with the Hentai Tentacle Death Bunnies.

Despite his being "OMG MY" character, I only really drew Jon like, 5 or 6 times, tops. This is reason #zillion why I'm glad I didn't go into animation.

Wallpaper showing off John's official outfit. He's wearing the donkey head (and later just the ears) in homage to Lampwick. As everyone knows, if you spend all day screwing around and drawing nads, you turn into a donkey!

This was the first ever official drawing of Jonathan, as part of my site layout. He was missing the top of his ring finger, like my 7th grade art teacher, Mr. Jorgenson, who liked to slap his hand down on the projector so we could all really get a good look at it, and take his warnings about not screwing with the paper cutter seriously.

Ang St. Ie

2009-11-06T22:30:00.000-08:00

Angst Practice

Ang Saint. Ie, (LOL ANGSTY, GET IT) pulled from the Angst Practice painting, which I think was the first thing I ever painted in acrylic. Making fun of shit right from the start! CLEARLY I AM GOING TO GO FAR IN ART. Also, he's not a super-racist drawing of an Asian dude, he's just so emo that he NEVER OPENS HIS EYES. Oh yeah. Beat that, teenagers!

All his tattoos are based on obnoxiously happy 1950's children's toys. If I ever get a sleeve done, it's going to be like that. I'm like 95% sure he was supposed to be the Dustyartwork mascot, to balance out Jonathan Inguen, but unsurprisingly, pointless time-wasty fun got more of my love than serious art, and I never drew this guy again.

Food with Faces

2009-08-30T14:27:00.000-07:00

Even tho it's pretty much all I do these days, I never think to post stuff from work. Probably because once something finally makes it from concept all the way to finished, I generally never want to think about it again. But anyway, I was organizing stuff and realized I have make a pretty ridiculous amount of food with faces on, so here's some of that.

Foodbags! Michelle drew the burger, and I drew the fries, then speced them (picked materials & drew up the instructions for the factory as to how they should construct the bag, what size it is, what should be printed/embroidered/appliqued, etc etc.)

I gave the fry bag a mini fry zipper pull. Very proud of myself that day.

My favorite pin ever.

I try to work those little butt Xs into as much stuff as I can.

Senor Taco there might be a tad stereotypical, but he's just so cute with his little excited sauce buddy.

If I was popcorn, I don't know how happy I would be about exploding, but these dudes all seem pretty into it. Except for the ones whose faces seem to have exploded off of them...

I love this dude. He has totally accepted his fate with a straight face and stoic heart.

Alls I have to say about this is NACHO PARTY!!!!!!

Bubbin' & Bobblin'

2009-08-15T10:25:00.000-07:00

Custom Bukka (the hot new vinyl shit, I guess? I basically just paint whatever I'm given and don't ask questions) for the Custom Bukka show at Monkeyhouse Silverlake! This one was one of my best procrastination efforts ever-I had this thing sitting on my desk for 3 months, and managed not to touch it until a week & a half before the deadline. Score!

Couple of coats of paint to start off, so I can actually see what's going on.

I'm not so into the duckbill or the bunny tail, so covering that up. Aaand, since this makes the dude look a little dragony, let's go with that. NAR.

At this point I realize he kinda looks like the Bubble Bobble dragon dude, so going with that now. Someday, I'd like to be able to plan ahead and know what I'm making before it's finished.

But for now, I'll just work on perfecting the stream-of-consciousness custom making.

It's a little hard to see, but he's got a black eye. I guess the little dude he caught put up a good fight. Also, his nose really looks like a wang from this angle. Huh.

Near Miss Embalmer's Local 401

2009-07-25T21:56:00.000-07:00

More stuff from back in 2005ish, I think. I was big on making stuff around this time, and had this idea that making weird fashion accessories would be really cool instead of just making pictures of it.

Probably the first thing I made? It was a great crappy 60's fox that I turned into a stole. Embarrassingly enough I remember wearing this to the Mall of America on at least one occassion. I still really like this idea, I might have to try it again.

You would not believe how hard it is to make geta without power tools!

Hentai Tentacle Death Bunny Scarf! Don't be fooled; I can't knit. The scarf itself was my friend's doing, alls I did was add the face and stuff.
My grandma made me a cute scarf, but I thought it would benefit from a couple severed paws.
I was super into making little purses out of vintage radios, too. It's a giant pain to get the insides out, but they're tailor made to be little handbags.

This one was a camera flash.
I used to make these nerdy legwarmers out of old sweaters, and figured my arms could be dorky too. Plus, I hate tight shirts around my neck, so I love tanktops, but my arms get cold sometimes. My shoulders tho, ALWAYS ON FIRE.

Best for last:

oooh colors

2009-06-06T17:06:00.000-07:00

I've somehow amassed a ridiculous collection of Copic markers over the years, but I've never actually used them for anything. Luckily, the guilt has finally gotten to me, and I'm trotting them out now, sketchbook style.

Sharpies really are a pile of prolapsed anusez.

the hills ARE alive with my balls.

hyup, hyup.

that is my arm can I please have it back.

Boobbears n girl

2009-05-30T09:15:00.000-07:00

Two little mini paintings. I'm all about giving people extra eyes these days.

2008 Miscellany Paintingy

2009-05-18T00:36:00.000-07:00

I think this about covers the 2008 miscellaneous paintings, it really wasn't a great year for me artwise. Too busy trying to gain competency with Illustrator and design and fashion and not chuck the whole thing in for a job in a Civil War reenactment troupe. Which I am still considering.

This little dude is a ninja flying squirrel, and total badass I made for my friend Jennifer...I believe he's her spirit animal. At least, there's definitely a spiritual connection there.

This lady was for my buddy Ryan. I'm not sure that a hot naked lady is necessarily his spirit animal, but hey, can't go wrong with hot chicks, amirite?

This is for and is a character of my lovely lady pal, Ip2much. She makes the most amazing crocheted characters, but since I am totally inept at handicrafts I make paintings of her dudes.

Flantasm (flan phantasm, DUH) for my good bud Michelle, who is a professional maker of cute things. I feel it's important I make her stuff to remind her what path not to go down. Plus, she likes balls and bad puns too!

This dude was just randomly for a show, but somebody bought it, so let's just say it was for that mystery person. Hope you like it, random dude/ette!

It's probably rough being Link

2009-05-06T08:15:00.000-07:00

Aside from being doomed to save the same dumb princess and the same dumb kingdom every two weeks for the rest of eternity, it seems like poor Link suffers a pretty high number of minor indignities from townsfolk and monsters, to boot.

You STILL haven't finished my potion? HOW MUCH LATER DO I HAVE TO COME BACK???

Watch where you grab, watch where you grab!

Misc stuff from misc years...

2009-05-05T01:02:00.000-07:00

I guess this is all from 2004-05...ish? I think? I grabbed it off my website, which I've been neglecting with all my might since 06, so definitely before then.

Panty Pirate being serenaded by the Spiderman Chorus, which is like a Greek Chorus, except stupid.

I need to start drawin' the ol' HTDBs again. There's something about them I just can't help but enjoy.

PAGE OF HAMSTERS

Self-portrait I never finished because hey, finishing stuff is harrrrrrrd.

Just a random page of stuff.

Salty the Albino Candy Cane with the Heart that's Black Like Night was actually a last-last-last-no-effort-whatsoever Halloween costume. Basically, I had a pale pink obi, and it seemed reasonable to wrap it around white long johns and call it a costume.

This may well be my favorite drawing, ever.

I feel like this is from 2004

2009-05-05T00:43:00.000-07:00

I'm moving the sketchbook part of my site here, which means super old art! Also, holy shit embarrassing. I think this is around the time I decided I was going to learn to color stuff digitally. As you can see, this endeavour was met with limited success.

Unfinished self-portrait for something. I really like the sound effect 'hurf'.

The original Inguen mascot, this is pretty much a life drawing of an antique nightlight I own, but do not under any circumstances, use.

I've kind of always really liked deer and weird facial expressions.

I'd say I'm also pretty partial to brown.

Check out that default Photoshop brush action!

This is the only thing I've ever been able to make work in openCanvas. I love the idea of the program, and I love what other people seem to be able to do with it, but I seriously cannot make it obey me.

A piece of fanart I did for some webcomic that I sort of liked at some point. I can't remember what it was about, but I think this guy was an anthropomorphic lobster, which is pretty ballsy.

Bad Idea

2009-04-29T07:45:00.000-07:00

I actually forgot what I officially titled this, but I think that's probably pretty close. This one's for the And We All Fall Down show at Monkeyhouse in Silverlake. There were a couple little paintings I did for the show, too, but I forgot to photograph them. Nar.

Still not making any progress planning out my paintings! Yeah!

Attacking the canvas with spray paint seemed like a good place to start.

I was really set on using totally bad colors for the monsters, for some reason. Also, trying to draw on spray paint sucks. I couldn't find a grease pencil. As usual. I don't know where those things all go.

At this point my color sense kicked in and convinced me to use something a little more complimentary.

And that's it!

And the show was fucking amazing. Naturally I managed to not photograph half of it, as I am awesome.

2006 Fanart, or: Behind the Times as Usual

2009-04-08T22:58:00.000-07:00

I really like fanart, even though I don't do a ton of it myself. The problem I have is that I'm always either 3 or 4 years behind the general public, oooooor drawing things from any random number of years past.

You know when the boys are out busting, Janine and Slimer totally get it on.

Am I the only person on earth who's read or watched Cybersix? I realize it was only on for like 2 weeks, but come on, it was rad. Cross-deressing main character lady, 6 year old evil Nazi bad guy, long-lost brother trapped in the body of a panther. You know, entertainment.
Plus, the animation was amazing. Canada and Japan teemed up to somehow come up with movie-quality animation for 12 episodes or so.
I was always a fan of Cleo from the Heathcliff show. Living in a sweet Caddy, wearing those hot legwarmers, dating an obvious pimp, what a life!

I think Death Note had the fastest crash landing of anything I've ever read. It went from impressively original and interesting to complete idiot 16 yr old girl fanservice disaster in one page. Oh well.

2006, still

2009-04-05T22:51:00.000-07:00

And to cap it off, some random things. I don't think any of these actually went anywhere important, they were just the assorted things I thought about all day.

8/15ths of a Bear in Love
This is interesting...I'm not sure what makes me think he's in love, and I can say with reasonable confidence that even if bears were easily broken down into fractions, there's probably less than half a bear there.

Hey, here he is again in cardboard, for no particular reason.
I still like this 2 heady goatish dude.

Random things and stuff.

Self-portrait for my senior thesis project, I like how this worked out.

Some sort of bacon-related superhero? Also, this was still during the period where I was lopping limbs off characters because of laziness + lack of skill, rather than laziness + actual interest.

I wish I could say I've matured since then, buuuuut... Also, this is a major factor in why I don't eat kiwi.

I'd just discovered the truly impressive creepiness of Soul Dolls, and the insane levels of SRSNSS girls take these things, which prompted me to draw a KFC based doll dude.

The dude came out kinda meh, but the Col Monoclecat is still one of my favorites.

Since I'm organizing the 2006 folder...

2009-04-05T22:45:00.000-07:00

I will post more things from days gone by! I'm not sure what I was doing in 06, although, from the looks of things, flashcards figured heavily into my daily life.

I found a deck of oversized vintage math cards at an antique store in Hopkins, MN with the vague idea that I'd eventually use them for something if they laid around in my apt for long enough. I'm a heavy subscriber to this theory, and the small shrines to random crap scattered throughout my house can attest.

Most of these were sold in the Pixelgirl Shop or on ebay. I have a few cards left, and they're hanging out near enough to my desk that I may just accidentally paint something on them in the near future.

Zooombie boooobs!! I really don't like zombies in general, but I have to admit, this made me laugh.

...Thought So.

I really like the Panty Pirate. I'm not sure why, but the idea of a big wad of goo with panties embedded in him sailing the seven seas just works for me.

Appealing!!!

Boobbears are very frowny creatures, for no reason in particular.

Blind Eye Bunny, which I *think* is a reference to Beatrix Potter's Benjamin Bunny...did Farmer MacGregor poke one of his eyes out? Maybe I am imagining things.

I can't remember if I ever gave the 'Playing Good' cat a name, come to think of it. I know that the bad shoulder kitty is Mali Auctor, and presumably the good one is Bonum Auctor, but no name for the actual cat. Oops.

And to cap it off, a rare smiley boobbear I painted for a friend. Aww!

An Eggplant in Angeland

2009-03-08T09:58:00.000-07:00

Finally finished! I'd forgotten how long it takes me to put the finishing touches on a painting. What should be the quickest part I somehow manage to drag out for an absurdly long time.

I really thought I had a sketch of some sort for this painting, but I guess not. Man do I suck at planning ahead. I found the canvas in a pile of canvases I started painting and then abandoned, and just started slapping down color.

I did these first two shots in a couple hours. I think I had wanted to keep this one somewhat clean and pastel, which of course was overcome in the end by my love of dry brushing and dark colors.

Everything up until this point was painted with one of the crappiest, oldest brushes I have, because I like it like that. Actually, most of the stuff after this point was painted with this brush, too.

Starting to put in details...

And baa-naaa! Painting! There may have been a few more steps in there, but I forgot to photograph them, so feel free to imagine whatever you like.

Stop crying, Otacon!

2009-02-13T00:35:00.000-08:00

Poor Otacon, it's not easy being the designated trauma character. I'd like to point out to any storywriters out there that a little trauma goes a long way. Killing everyone your guy's ever taken one too many lingering looks at is good characterization for your genocidal maniacs, not so much the sad nerds.

I feel ya, dude.

SNAKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING OVER THERE CUT IT OUT WE'RE ON A MISSION HERE.

Why was there a parrot in a top secret weapons development lab? Seems....stupid.
Aww.

Frowns all around!

Some old FLCL sketch action

2009-02-10T23:53:00.000-08:00

I think all these sketches are from early 2000-something, right after the fandubs started floating around Hotwire. This was the series that made me feel like animation might actually be worthwhile again, afterall. Not that it actually had any effect on my animation plans (or rather, total lack thereof) personally, but still. What a fucking fantastic series.

While I will admit they kind of blew their tweening wad on the first couple episodes, it's the moment when Ninamori sticks her finger through the glasses that will always stand out as one of my top animated moments, ever.

Despite all the extremely hot porn she's (rightfully) inspired, I always picture Haruko compassionate/dispassionate, as Naota cries to her.

The Title Would Suggest his Name is 'Icarus'

2009-01-29T00:23:00.000-08:00

NOT 'Pit', which frankly, is dumb. I was a big fan of Pit, though, even in horribly obnoxious form on Captain N. Plus, the Eggplant Wizard makes no sense at all and is one of the best game villians ever.

I love how whenever a game needs a color scheme for player 2, they're usually given a ManTan and the worst color scheme the devs could come up with, OR they get to be 'evil' colors. I'd go with the evil, personally.

This is one of my favorite drawings in the universe. I was in rare form that day. '04

Why am I Drawing Strawberry Shortcake Fanart?

2009-01-23T23:40:00.000-08:00

I believe the official answer to that question was 'Because I'm Stupid." Regardless, at some point there I was really into SSC, for about 5 minutes.

I never could get into it as a kid, altho I will admit, I really loved that the plastic mini-dolls were scented. I had one that was fucking pumpkin. That is some serious dedication to the art of making plastic smell like stuff.

I think the two on the left are Peach or Apricots or something, and the other is Angel Cake, despite cake not actually, technically, being a fruit. Maybe she was the exchange student or something, I dunno. '04

IT'S A MYSTERY. '04

So there's an Asian member of the Shortcake family, named Almond Tea, which struck me as maybe a liiiiiiiiittle stereotypical. '04

Dude, half the cast of SSC has bitchin' dreads. '04

I dunno, the whole deal still strikes me as weird, and that's not even getting into the Pieman guy. '08

More 2004 stuff

2009-01-18T23:20:00.000-08:00

Still trying to get my old stuff uploaded before I start on the new. Also, the new doesn't actually exist yet, so you know. Filler.

I really liked the Angry Beavers! Come on, Norbert was so fucking smooth. How can you not be into him. Also, 'All Rude Dog, All the Time' = words to live by.

FUCKING MC GRUFF THE CRIME DOG.

And some random crap.

Did I Do Anything...?

2009-01-18T21:11:00.000-08:00

I forgot I used to make wallpapers like nobody's business, too. Did I ever have homework, or what?

Some more old sketches

2009-01-18T20:08:00.000-08:00

2004 - Holy, I must not have paid any attention in any of my classes...I remember drawing all of this when I should have been learning about the Impressionist Era or someshit.

I actually wore one gigantic pirate earring for a couple months there. I have no idea why, other than I got it on sale for $5. I finally lost the thing when it my ear kicked it out in shame.

Tea slushies are pretty much the best idea in the universe, even more so if they're of the Long Island variety. Why this amazing beverage doesn't yet exist is beyond me. And Crystal Light ones don't count, so don't even suggest it.

I really like that bunny on the right. I feel like we could relate.

I love it when I come across drawings that are clearly not my style. I had literally just found a style I was happy with for the first time ever, and I was still trying to be something I clearly wasn't. WTF? I'm glad I grew out of that shit, more or less.

Little Wooden Do-bobbies

2009-01-18T19:57:00.000-08:00

I made little wooden guys for a couple people, and now I have a bunch of extra wooden thingies floating around my house. I suppose I could make stuff with them, but EH. LAZY.

I love this guy cause you can set him by anything and he will be absolutely appalled by it.

I've noticed that my characters tend to be VERY ANGRY ARGHHHHHHH.

How did you climb that tree without any limbs? Curious!

What's awesome about me is, I took this picture in wet grass, never thinking that the watercolor I painted the damn thing with would SMEAR WHEN WET. Dar.

Kenshins New and Old!

2009-01-15T22:53:00.000-08:00

Somewhere in college I read (well ok skimmed) the gigantic Kenshin epic, and of course found him to be retardedly adorable. How can you not? He's so tiny and polite and could seriously murder you and everyone you know if the need arose.

I remember doodling this in my comic class sketchbook in 04, I think. He's right, I never got the hang of comics as a medium for conveying anything other than dick jokes.

Look, I enjoy a good dutch angle as much as the next person, but I think they cap out at about 30 degrees. '04.

Kenshin, succumbing to the final stages of girl-hair. I must have had one of those terrible cream colored sketchbooks at some point. '04.

And finally, some new sketches I did while watching clips on youtube this evening. He's still so damn cute.

misc recent pages

2008-12-28T19:04:00.000-08:00

I don't recall what exactly the Meatmoat joke was about, but it was drawn for a good reason, I'm sure. And if only I had a job writing for fortune cookies, my life would be awesome.

Being the giant nerd I am, I love SMB II sprites. I also love mustaches, especially the mustachopus. Real life mustaches, though, not so much.

Jungle Book sketches

2008-12-28T18:13:00.000-08:00

The Jungle Books are some of my all-time favorite words on paper, and I admit the Disney movie has some pretty amazing bits despite taking a gigantic dump on the stories its based on.

Beware the Vampraisin

2008-12-25T21:42:00.000-08:00

More old sketches, mostly from 2004, I think. I've never been into vampires, although I do find them an easy source of hilarity, what with the degree of total SRSNSS they seem to evoke in budding novelists and squealing teenage girls.

My favorite vampire-related plan was for one of my comic classes. I was going to tell the story of the dreaded Vampraisin, an evil undead sun-dried creature who sucks the juice of the other fruits in the produce dept.
Then when he's full of their precious juice, he plumps back up into a grape. Sadly for the world of comics, I got lazy and never actually finished that assignment, although I do have some sketches.

Vampire arms must stay above the head at all times!

This guy was going to be sharing a heart, 50's-maltshop style, but I never drew his companion for some reason. Possibly because drawing girl vampires somehow feels even nerdier than guy vampires, and I couldn't handle the crushing nerdgirl shame.

Another plan I had for something-or-other involved this guy, who is as embarassed by the vampire mythos as I am, and spent most of his time trying to avoid having to do anything vampire-y. I like that if he turned into mist, he would always reform in cliche vampire style; brooding sideburns, flouncy blouse, long flowy hair tied in a velvet ribbon, the works.

He had this little bird friend that wore a bear mask, but I have no idea why.

Perhaps the awesomest vampire thing ever is a little show called Vampire High. It mostly involves teen vampires hanging out in the basement of a university, (where they're the "night school students" GEDDIT???) being angsty and wearing increasingly retarded outfits.

My fav was the token "hot" girl who I swear to god was wearing cinnamon rolls on her head in one episode.

Another episode insisted on combining vampire lore with traditional samauri code, for some misguided reason.

I can't blame them for trying, but the only good use of vampires, Count Duckula, has already been done.

I'm not entirely embarrassed about

2008-12-25T21:20:00.000-08:00

liking Rumiko Takahashi, because Ranma will always be one of my favorite things ever. But MAN, I just could not get into ANYTHING else she did. How the hell does that work?

I tried SO hard to like InuYasha, especially, since it came out right after Ranma and I still cared, but it was pretty much one of the most boring things I've read.

Also, I feel like it COULD have been interesting, and pretty easily, which just makes its suckiness that much more aggravating.

Ah well. In the end, it wasn't bad, and a zillion other people loved it, so I probably shouldn't be so judgmental.

12 Eyes of the Toxic Everglades

2008-12-25T20:29:00.000-08:00

3" Dunny, Paperclay, beads, acrylic
2008

Progress:
I originally imagined this guy as being somewhat ordinary; multiple eyes and lack of pants nonwithstanding. I couldn't really see how to do that and attach any kind of reasonable and interesting story to it, though, so I ended up doing him as kind of a Godzilla/Swamp Monster-type affair.

The paint job is a little weird to me, but the eyes came out unexpectedly kick ass.

THE SINGLE GREATEST THING I HAVE EVER MADE

2008-12-25T16:24:00.000-08:00

I give you:
THE ANT THAT ATE THE N'SYNC CONCERT

I believe the premise was 'giant arthropod kills celebrities I hate, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Neve Campbell, the entirety of N'Sync, and some other people who I can't remember.'

I somehow wrangled this into a project for my senior art class, despite it being totally retarded and artistically pointless. Lucky for me, my teacher was totally on board with my stupid ideas, and liked it enough to put it in the school display case, where it was promptly yanked out by the principal, supposedly due to its proximity to the Columbine shootings.

Personally, I thought that was a pretty weak excuse, for the obvious reason of HUMUNGOUS ANT EATING A CONCERT != Actuall real-life tragedy, and it would do well for everyone to try to keep that in mind before they freak out on things like this. Unfortunately, political corectness won the day, and it was on display for less than six hours before being pulled, paving the way for me to spend my adulthood drawing dongs and titties for display at lowbrow galleried in the greater LA area.

Well, your heart was in the right place, I'm sure, Mr. Buresh, but still, ya kinda blew that one.

sketch fail

2008-12-11T00:09:00.000-08:00

Still not getting anywhere actually trying to draw stuff, so I may as well post some old stuff. My art crisis is no reason not to have pictures to look at!

So these are for an animation I was going to do back in 2005, but the band whose song I wanted to use, while amenable, also seemed kinda 'neh' about the whole thing. Which led to me being very 'eh' about it, so this is all the farther it ever went.

Can't get enough of not updating stuff

2008-12-10T18:06:00.000-08:00

Since I'm so fucking awesome at totally remembering to update things in a timely fashion, I've started the 365 photo project! It will probably mostly be pictures of Pokemon figures or something stupid like that, because stupid is how I work best.

Unseen Anatomy

M'Pokemans

2008-12-09T22:37:00.000-08:00

The great thing about Pokemon is that there's a retarded number of them, and they can all be drawn to look pretty hilarious with a minimum of effort.

I think there may be some molesting going on here, not sure.

Koala

2008-12-07T19:17:00.000-08:00

I've never been into koalas; their noses are too creepy. I do like that they're the assholes of the outback despite their fuzziness, tho.

The OctoUmbrella, however, I'm totally on board with. Octopi must be waterproof, right? I mean, they would dissolve if they weren't, I like to think.

Felt Autopsy

2008-12-03T21:17:00.000-08:00

Felt Autopsy

Done for the Wild Wild Kingdom plus show at Monkeyhouse Toys in Silverlake.

In my defense, I did try to sew something, but honestly, I think it's time to admit that particular ship has sailed, sprung a leak, and sank in the harbour. So, needle felting. I'm good at stabbing stuff.

This is a major occurrence when I'm felting.

Using pliers to hold the felt, pros : no stabby fingers. Cons : stab metal, needle breaks, flies, hits me in the eye.

He has pretty little toenails. And one Penn nail, for some reason.

Almost done! Except for the signs, and organs, and painting the wood, and figuring out how to attach everything to said. Siiiiiiigh.

San Fairy Ann

2008-10-29T18:34:00.000-07:00

British WWI-era slang for ça ne fait rien.

In other words, that doesn't matter.

I hate sketching for paintings. My feeling is, having to draw it once is more than enough.

Since I'm painting on flocked paper, I break out the heavy gel medium to paint a base layer.

Attack with a bajillion different layers.

And finally get bored of slapping down random colors and call it a painting!