Rand Nature Center, Bahamas

Long time no draw.....sort of.

God damn...I been away for one hot minute eh? Time to post some shit............More to come.

Veidt Sport, To Win is Divine

Hey everyone,
Things have been busy. Besides the monsters book, I've been working with 4 of my buddies (Justin Lawrence, Sarah Wickliffe, Andrew Roberts, and David Pagano,) to create a mock 80's commercial for the Watchmen Movie.

It's a contest and the grand prize is getting a spot on one of the background Tv's in the Watchmen movie.

It's a sneaker ad and the music was made courtesy of Paul Wickliffe of http://www.skylinepro.com/

Check it out here, then find it on youtube and go rate it and say something nice!



Click this link to comment and rate the sucker:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hAfoWiVoh6I

MONSTERS book for sale here and at MOCCA!!!

Hey Everyone,

I'm happy to announce that I just recieved my first self-published book hot off the presses....MONSTERS!

It's a 6x6" 12 page booklet featuring little creatures that are ugly, cute, and all around strange yet charming.

It's a really cool lookin' book that I'm pretty proud of and I think you'll enjoy especially if you like anything on this blog.

This being my first printing means that the book is limited only to 250 copies.



I'm selling them online for $12. You can purchase it right now by clicking the "BUY MONSTERS NOW" button on the right hand side.

The $12 is for the cost of the book and shipping and handling as well.

With every order you get a signed copy, a lil thank you note, and a sketch in the back of the book.

I'm also really excited to be selling the book at the MOCCA Art Festival 2008 June 7th and 8th.

While there I'll be selling it in person for $5. So haul yer butt over and get a discount, and buy lots of other great work too!

I have the honor of sharing a table with the work of three of my buddies who are really talented individuals....Alisa Harris, Liam Murray, and Allan Norico.

We'll be located at table S6, in the ballroom at the festival. Click on the image for a larger scale.

In the meantime i'll be making more art, looking for more festivals and cons to attend, and just doing ma thang!!!

50's Rocker

This is an old pic. I've been loving painting in guache and now that I just finished a book of monster illustrations, I think I might make the focus of my next set of illustrations musicians and music. I guess this and the Blues bot will be the start of that.

And just in case you don't know about my monster book....announcement coming next week about it with more details.

Anybody want to go to some jazz clubs with me?

Neku from the World Ends With You

Some fan art for a buddy.

Mo' Shapes.

My friends.....are incredible.

My Ipod and Nintendo DS were stolen.

So one day when I had to work through lunch and I was really pissed off, a bunch of my friends, the friends you see in the cartoon above got together and bought me a new ds.

They are great friends, and I am touched.

MODOKIMATION

Inspired or enslaved through mind control?!?

Go over and check out all the maniacallness at:

MARCH MODOK MADNESS!!!

Blues Bot

With a one Terabyte chip installation Blues Bot can perform hundreds of thousands of Jazz and Blues favorites.

From Armstrong to Marsalis, this Bot pulls out all the stops!

Optional chips include Physical imitations of famous Jazz musicians, Improvisational Be-bopping (extra terabyte chip needed,) and interchangable trumpet hands.

Dragonfly Catcher

Dancing Axolotl

doodlez

weird bird/bear skin shaman guy

Admiral Adama

Oh shit it's Edward James Olmos as the tough-as-nails admiral from the best show in the fucking universe....BATTLESTAR GALATICA BITCHES!!!

Minotaur

fun to do. Will clean up and polish later. For a group blog im a part of.

Madmen, Spaghetti Mouths, and Me.

I usually don't say much on my blog but I have a bit to say about the last two drawings.

The last drawing is a self portrait and I drew myself pretty ugly and fat. Now....when I drew this in a cafe with several of my friends two of them said something like this:

"Awwwww Nelson that's not you, you're not fat or ugly.....

"Yea man....that's not you at all."

This kind of bothered me. I mean....Should I draw myself like a charming prince with rippling muscles and pearly whites?

That's really boring to me. I actually used to do that and my girlfriend (saintly woman that she is,) would make fun of me.

My self-portraits used to look like anime-inspired-bad-ass-kicking-mofo-crap. They were shit. Badly drawn badly colored shit-on-a-stick.

And my girlfriend laughed mercilessly. And right she was!

My other problem with my two friends was that they seemed to think this drawing was how I saw myself in my head.

When I look at art I want to see something interesting that will catch my eye, perhaps make me laugh. And when I draw myself fat and ugly it's funny to me, it's like the worst most mischievous version of myself and I think it's hilarious.

It's not how think of myself in actuality. Can anyone really say how they see themselves in their own heads. It might be really obnoxious.

We probably all want to be the best at whatever we do, and say, and react, but that's boring. Mr. Perfect is boring. Defeat, Failure, shortcomings, ticks...they give personality and make a person layered and not a one-dimensional fuck.

The third of my buddies really liked this drawing though and commented that it was pretty cool. I was pretty happy with that.

The monster right above that with no arms screaming "MARMALADE," is another drawing that got some strange reactions.

I drew this at work and several people asked me if I was ok.

"Um.....yea......i'm fine. Why do you ask?"

Person uncomfortably gestures towards screaming monster guy with no arms.

"Oh yeaaaaaaa. Like him?"

"uh yea.....anything you want to talk about? Having a bad day?"

You've gotta be kidding me. I draw a weird screaming monster and you think that reflects my thoughts?

To be fair I can understand them trying to associate it to how I feel as work has been stressful as of late but what about imagination? What about stream of consciousness?

I like weird creatures. I grew up watching Alien, and Predator and other monster movies. Monsters are part of world subconsciousness. Grendel from Beowulf, the Wolf from the Three Little Pigs or Red Riding Hood, the Bogey Man.

I don't blame people though because I think I was at that state of literal-ness right after graduating from school.

Every drawing I did had to have some sort of meaning, or stupid back story behind it. And if it didn't...well....I just didn't draw it. So stupid.

Now I just draw whatever seems to be revealing itself on the page. It's kind of like unwrapping a present or opening a secret door.

I think it's taken me a while to get back to this point. I say "back to this point," because when we were kids we mostly just copied and on a good day, we drew something crazy that had no rhyme or reason. Just for fun.

Kind of sad I had to work to get back to that point. But I'm pretty happy now that I can be content to just draw impulsively for fun using shapes and imagination to guide me.

Goblin Slayer

Hand Control

monsters