LP/FM

Diving headlong into another fandom. Linkin Park.

The first is ooold. I stole images from Hybrid Theory, Meteora, etc. This is all acrylic on canvas.


I made this for the Fort Minor show I went to in 2006. Same process as the one above. Most of the designs are Mike Shinoda's from the album artwork. I was lucky enough to attend the meet & greet. Mike signed in the middle. Holly Brook is nearby. Takbir and Cheapshot are top left. Bobo from Cypress Hill is bottom right. Great show. One of the best nights of my life.


In 2005 the Linkin Park Underground had a collage contest. This was my entry. Mike chose it as the winner. I got to thank him at the show I mentioned above... hence the 'great work' with his siggy. Sweet dude. Mike is good people. I couldn't even list the materials that are in this one. I'll just say mixed media.

inky

A couple of pen and ink pieces. Both student work.


^ This is a copy of another artist's work. I have no idea who. Shame on me.


^ I call this piece 'ancient'. It's a still life, drawn as it sat in front of me. I had never done that with ink before. The shadows of the cord, papers, pen, and cap still make me happy. I didn't expect it to work like it does.

meticulous

I suppose most artists have a tendency towards OCD. I certainly do. I live for tedium. Zoning out in a field of gradation is my idea of bliss. Cheap ballpoint pens are completely awesome. I didn't know about biro art until recently. I started doing these in 2005. They're crazy fun, but you go through a lot of pens.

This is Miyavi. He is a guitarist of Japanese Rock fame, in a genre referred to as Visual-Kei. I enjoy the energy of his music. I enjoy that he is such a spaz. Strange as it sounds, of all the sets of tattoos I've seen, his are my favorite.


We might as well stay in the same genre for these two. Above: Aoi-san is the rhythm guitarist of a band called the GazettE （ガゼット）. He's decked out in kimono here. All of these use photo references, by the way. Below: Yoshiki-san is the percussionist of the legendary jrock band X-Japan. This piece was my entry for a contest at jrockrevolution.com. I won it, which surprised me to no end. 　



From Japanese Rock we hop over to Korean Pop. I got into TVXQ (5-member boyband) in 2007. This drawing is one of the members, Xiah Junsu. I cried uncontrollably the first time I watched him sing 'Beautiful Thing' in a youtube vid. Been obsessed with the group ever since. Figured I ought to draw him.
Both Junsu and Yoshiki are drawn with mechanical pencils.

let's get digital

For years, I used a mouse to work in Photoshop. It was painstaking, but I was accustomed to it. Then I got a Wacom Tablet and my world changed. There is no way I could go back to a mouse now.


Above is my first whack at the Tablet. Got a feel for it with a little self-portrait.


Summer heat-induced boredom.


A quirky work in progress during a time when I got rather excited about obnoxious colors.


And finally, taking MarbleBlast Ultra far too seriously on my Xbox360. Once a nerd, always a nerd. Geek4life, yo!