Seems I've gone something like two years without posting anything here. After seeing my "Wizard of One Piece" art get 90 Favorites, I'm thinking I should make an effort to make some more artwork and promote myself more.

I have managed to put this together to showcase some of my professional and personal artwork:

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Many of you that will read this may already know this site because I've beat you over the head with it before. But currently, it's a pretty largely ignored page.

Please visit me, look at my stupid doodles, and elaborate on the many ways you despise me. I live for your hate.

Kurt Vonnegut, the greatest American Writer died yesterday from head injuries sustained from a fall in his home. We've lost an amazing man in Vonnegut--I'm sure I don't have to tell you guys that.

At Issac Asimov's funeral, Vonnegut gave a eulogy. Both atheists, Vonnegut joked, "He's in Heaven now..."

Kurt, we'll miss you. You're in Heaven, now.



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First thing I've put into this gallery in a while, my caricature of Keith Richards kicks off a series of digital paintings of guitarists I plan to work on until I get fifty decent ones.

Here's where some suggestions would be handy. I know quite a lot of musicians and even more bands, but off the top of my head, I don't think I know fifty guitarists. If you can think of some I should include, toss some names into the pool.

Obviously, some guys lend themselves better to charicature, and some I'm going to have to work pretty hard on to get them to look unique... there are a lot of blonde, buffont haired 80s guitarists that I'm going to have to include, but I'm going to have to add a lot of nuance to make them all look different.

Anyway, here's an interim list:

Zakk Wylde
Randy Rhoads
Rory Gallagher
Brian May
Dimebag Darrel
Steve Vai
John Pettrucci
Yngvie Malmsteen
Dave Mustaine
Kirk Hammett
Marty Friedman
Eddie Van Halen
Glenn Tipton
Tony Iommi
Slash
Jimi Hendrix
Frank Zappa
Buckethead (I'd really like to do one of him, but why? The man already IS a caricature.)
Tom Morello
Chuck Berry
BB King
Buddy Guy
Buddy Holly
Jimmie Page
Angus Young
Stevie Ray Vaughan
George Harrison
Pete Townshend
Jerry Cantrell
Rich Williams
Jeff Beck
Jerry Garcia
Warren Haynes
Duane Allman
Eric Clapton
Adam Jones
Keith Richards
Omar A Rodriguez Lopez

I don't know which ones will make the final list. I think I want to mix up a group of guitarists you really expect to see, ones you might not expect, and a bunch I just want to draw because they're goofy looking. This isn't going to be a list of my favorite guitarists, but hopefully a list of them that I can draw well.

We'll see.



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This past roughly five day period I'll call the "weekend" was by far some of the most exhausting days I've had since some of my glory days in college of going weeks on practically no sleep at all.

and myself drove 640 some odd miles from Tampa to Kannapolis NC, where we stayed with my parents during the days the Heroes con was happening. Driving back and forth from Charlotte every morning to set up our booth, we usually only got something like four hours of sleep a night and spent all day either trying to sell art or hobnobbing with the other artists that were there. Of the four of us, I was the only one who did comparatively well selling art, and even I didn't make back the money I spent getting prints and books made. Deric and Tyler did surprisingly poorly selling their art and both lost a lot of cash on their prints.

It was a mixed bag this year. On one hand, we got a lot of positive attention and a lot of professionals told us our work and our booth looked really good. On the other hand, we all aquired a huge deficit on prints and posters.

Here're some of the guys we met this year:


Alberto Ruiz

Joe Pekar

Elf (Sorry, can't find any website)

Dark One


Well, then, after an exhausting con experience, Monday, I reserved a Uhaul, and had to drive forty minutes to pick it up and nearly (literally) gave myself a hernia moving my poor little unloved arcade cabinet into the truck. After a day of packing, we left reasonably early on July 4th, making it back into Tampa to be met with fanfare and fireworks, as the sun had set only minutes before we arrived.

I'm so damned tired. Going to work is going to be a nice break after this "vacation."



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This weekend will be the third or fourth Heroes Con I've been to, and the first one I'll be hocking my art wares at. I'm starting to get nervous because I've spend oodles of money I really shouldn't have, getting books, posters, and artwork printed to sell at our Indy Booth, but I'm hopefull I can force sales upon a bunch of nutcases walking around the floor. If you want to check us out, we'll be directly in front of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund booth, in booth 824, in the midst of a collumn other independant comic artists and illustrators.

Our group is under the name Free Will, Inc. since we all do whatever the hell we want, it seems, quite independant of each other.

and myself will be promoting our comic, and our buddy will be promoting his own. A latecomer to our group is our old college pal Gary Smith, who is a sculptor and comic geek supreme in his own right. Our booth is bound to attract some attention, with giant posters, banners, a table full of prints, flanked by sculptures and four dudes as strange looking as us.

I'm particularly excited because I've gotten a large order of posters and bound artbooks to sell at the convention, and it makes me feel particularly happy to see my ideas and images produced. One thing I am particularly looking foreward to seeing finished is my book of erotic doodles, "Round Ones" all printed and bound-like, as if I was a respectable artist and businessman.

The guest list this year is pretty long and impressive. I reserved this booth months ago, and I'm glad I did, because all the spaces this year sold out, and undoubtedly this is going to be a huge convention. Bryan Hitch, Travis Charest, Alberto Ruiz, Art Adams, Adam Hughes, James Jean... there are going to be a ton of artists and I look foreward to seeing everybody in North Carolina again, this being the first trip back since I moved to Tampa.

If you're going to be in the Charlotte, NC area the weekend of June 30 - July 2nd, drop by the convention center and check us out.

Holy crap, I'm so excited.



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