Sorry Illustration Friday

Wow it's been so long since I've updated this blog.

I've got so many people wanting me to design them tattoos, it's getting a bit out of hand, once I get the first lot out of the way I should have a lot more tattoo designs and photos of them getting done to show on this blog, which is good.
Also on top of all this I've got a new job to go to, getting my drivers license and more Studies, it's gonna be a rough couple of months hehe.

The pen and ink drawing is about regret, respect and honor.
Pencil Cases

Robot Illustration Friday

I like drawing robots, as I got to this point in drawing this robot it dawned on me that it looked kind of like Iron Man, so I stopped drawing it.

Hope y'all like?

Design a skin contest for xbox360 game Kameo

Came across this contest and thought I'd pass on the info, Kameo is an Xbox360 game, this contest gives you the chance to design a character, there are 11 winning spots.
If yours is a winning entry it will be made downloadable to hundreds if not thousands of xbox live members.
Seems farely simple, with huge exposure payout.
For more info go to Xbox360 Kameo Contest

Jay Anacleto and Greg Capullo

I haven't been able to find proper websites for them, these are the closest I could get to official sites, Jay Anacleto and Greg Capullo .
Jay Anacleto is a penciller, I love his pencil work. Greg Capullo did a lot of work on the Spawn comics, his work has so much detail, I used to spend ages just soaking it in.
With both these artists I think I spent more time looking at the art work than actually reading the comics.

Just a couple more people who inspire me.

Forgotten tattoo design

Saw a friend I hadn't seen for awhile and noticed a few tattoo lines poking out from his t-shirt sleeve, I asked him if he'd gotten a tattoo, he lifted his t-shirt sleeve up and saw his full shoulder tattoo that was in progress, it seemed familiar to me and I asked him where he got the design from and he said "you". LOL I had totally forgotten I had drawn something for him. What I drew was the basic out line for the design, the tattoo artist is filling it in with patterns that pertain to my friends cultural background, She's doing a very nice job too.

Need to get some pictures.

Martin Emond one of my favorite artists

Martin Emond died awhile back, I've always linked his art, just thought I'd let y'all know who some of my inspirations are.

http://www.illicit.co.nz/martinemond/

Airbrush artist at 2hot2handle

Went to a car show yesterday and they had an airbrush artist named Tony Vowles painting the hood of a car, I spent a good 20 minutes watching him apply his technique to the hood, soaking up every little technique I could see, his work was amazing... So amazing I forgot to take some photos, he had one of Clint Eastwood and another of Bob Marley that were absolutely beautiful.
I always relish seeing artists in action applying their art, I always learn so much from it.

Oooo I don't need photos, I found the website Airbrushventuri.com , he runs courses in teaching the art.

The hood he was painting was the prize in a radio competition, I think.

Speed Illustration Friday

I like this kind of speed... Blurry, photoshoped, I hope I'm getting better with photoshop, needs me some more practice.

Big name art guy makes me nervous

I'm a little bit nervous today, someone I met has recently offered to show my work to a big name person down here ( wont say who it is encase they hate my work), It's taken me completely by surprise. I have a day to put together a nice folio, if by chance he wants to employ me or something it means taking on a job that is probably like 6am - 11pm and I'm not huge fan of those kind of hours. I'm a very introverted artist and I find it hard to do work for others, I usually draw for myself (that's probably why I don't make much money out of it, LOL).

This dudes pretty famous and I don't know if I can handle this type of pressure.

Spring Illustration Friday

Looking forward to strawberries.
For me spring is a distant memory, we're goin into winter down here, I miss the sunny days so much. The image above is a photoshoped photo made to look like a pencil drawing it took me less than 30 seconds to do, when I was showed this technique I thought to myself "dang I'd better find something else to call a job" but hey as you can see from that image I don't think we need to worry.

Monster: Illustration Friday

Alil thumbnail sketch for alil demon.

EDIT:sorry i forgot i allready submited one to the topic

Quick Sea Monster: Illustration Friday

A quick sea monster drawing done in pen and ink, I based the shape mostly on an eel with alil cat thrown in.

3D Tattoos Available Soon Says Futurist

3D Tattoos Available Soon Says Futurist
By Lance Winslow

A futurist recently stated in an online think tank that he believed that genetic 3D tattoos maybe possible within the next couple of decades. He went onto predict that the use of cell expression, cell coating and genetic modification using the latest cutting edge discoveries would indeed aid in the process. The Futurist was latter asked about uses for such a novelty and claimed that such advances in tattoo research would have valuable application in security and military as well as the current and most common use of tattoos; individuality and self expression.

A fellow thinker online stated that; “3-D genetic tattoos can be used for identification purpose instead of finger printing the hologram will absorb and reflect a certain combination of wavelength which can be recognised or sensed by a biosensor or a DNA chip having the same sequence of that person.”

The futurist answered in reply; “Well yes, I was watching a discovery channel special on Tattoos in Russian Gulag and Tattoos are used by gangs for affiliation identification and people use them for self-expression of individualism and identity, you are long the lines of my thinking. I was merging many topics into one. But also realizing that this is 20-years out for human scientists currently. You will find many original thoughts of mine on this website, based loosely on scientific discoveries or trends, which indicate potential eventualities of future events.”

Imagine a future with 3D Tattoos on humans with areas of translucent skin, tattoos which could be turned on or off by frequency switches. Incredible thoughts indeed and worthy of mention as it appears it will be not only a bright and colorful future, but one in 3D. Consider all this in 2006.

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow

The Tattooed Banana and Meetingdoodles

I came across this blog and it cracked me up completely, great artistic fun with bananas.

People submit photos of bananas that are made into pieces of art, LOL the grizzlysharknana cracked me up.
tattooedbanana

Also has another nice blog with a similar theme called meetingdoodles , about those little sketches u do while talking on the phone or waiting for some one.

Disruptiv magazine

I remember when i bought the first issue of this magazine, quite expesive but well worth it, i bought it mainly for the pictures of graffiti

Draft copy

Well my art has had to take a back seat lately as i have to look for a proper job, good old 9-5.
Im finding it pretty hard to make a living off of my art at the mo', slow trickles of income, lol very similar to blogging, trying to get traffic to my blog.

Tattoo: Illustration Friday

I've posted the first photo b4 but had'nt posted the design for it yet and this IF is perfect for it. Its sooooo big! Link to original post

Blanket Man of wellington

Ben Hana (blanket man) is a homeless person who lives in my home town of wellington, he's been getting alot of media attention lately and hes just been put on to the wikipedia site, heres a link Wikipedia blanket man.

Fairfax buys TradeMe

Well something a little different, found it interesting. Trade me is an auction site created and owned by a 25 year old who just sold it for 700 million dollars, man i wish i was a stock holder in that company. Heres some better info on it, Xtra report on sale of trademe

Simple:Illustration Friday

Been a long time since my last proper post.
Simply paint on some water colour and simply do a lil sketch of my uncle as a kid simply eating.

Been awhile

I've been pretty busy lately and haven't had much time for the blog. Im hoping to have some tattoo chronicles up, i just need to finish a few peoples tats. Illustration friday comes along and i never seem to finish in time, also im a lil drunk at this time and i hope it comes out ok.