Limited Edition - Miss Red Hood

Signed and numbered, Printed on Heavy WaterColor Art paper 12″ x 18″
Limited Edition of 100

Limited Edition - Anatomical Prints

available now Signed and numbered prints produced for the Anatomically Correct show.

Signed and numbered, Printed on Heavy WaterColor Art paper 12″ x 12″
Limited Edition of 50

Twitter-pated
Ok twitter, i’m going to try to take you seriously… for a while at least.

Showing in LA
I’ll be signing and showing Saturday, February 20 at Miss Scarlet in the Parlor details on their site and here on facebook. While you’re there also check out work by Nomi Chi, James Flames, Eliza Frye and JJ Villard.

Apnea
I recently had the good fortune of working with Apnea ( link NSFW ) to add to my collection of reference material. It’s been a long time coming as we’ve been trying to work together for the past five years.

You can find the first illustration referencing this material posted on my illustration page.

I’ve also posted a wallpaper for your consumption.

New Prints Available
I’ve added several previously unavailable prints to my shop. Enjoy!

Red Riding Hood
Time lapse coloring of Miss Hood emerging from the wolfs belly. Colored in PhotoShop CS4 over 4 or 5 hours. You can see the finished product in the illustration section.

This was actually kind of fun to do and pretty easy so i plan on doing more.

Power In Numbers 4
I have an original ink drawing in the Power In Numbers show December 12 at Gallery Nucleus, LA.

Each artwork piece will be priced at $100.00 and a selection of artworks will be auctioned. A portion of the night’s sales will benefit the American Red Cross (San Gabriel Pomona Valley Chapter) on emergency response efforts.

Getting hitched
I’m getting married this weekend to my hottie painter fiance’, Miss Elizabeth Henry. It’s been a casually long engagement lasting about 7 years but we feel like we can finally pull it off the way we want to.
Once the wedding has passed my illustrated posts should resume with more vigor and rapidity.

The busy schedule hasn’t kept me completely empty handed though.

Infectious Skate Decks

A childhood dream came true a few weeks ago when Infectious launched a pair of skate decks bearing my designs. Of course a 16 year old version of me once imagined me designing skateboard graphics all day. LINK

Shifting focus
Roughly five years ago I took up photography as a means of acquiring a library of reference material. Taking on a new art form can be thrilling. There was a lot to learn and I was lucky enough to befriend some hugely talented photographers that could guide me along the way, namely Kathryn Parker and Christopher Bautista. I can honestly say my venture into photography was rewarding in ways i never expected both with the online exposure it’s earned me and with the friendships i’ve formed along the way. Many of the models, makeup artists and wardrobe designers have turned from collaborators into friends.

While I’ve enjoyed photography it has begun to compete heavily with my true passion, illustration. The process of gathering wardrobe, flying in models and editing photos is very time consuming and i often find myself going weeks without putting pencil to paper. This is not at all what i intended. My attempts to cut back on photography are too often thwarted by amazing opportunities that would pull me back in.

In an effort to refocus my efforts I’ve decided to withdraw from photography. I have several shoots still planned over the next month or two with which i intend on following through with. After those any photography i do will be strictly for reference material and wont be posted.

Youtube
For those interested, i opened a youtube account. I’ll be posting behind the scenes footage of photo shoots there along with other randomness. LINK

Kokeshi
KOKESHI: From Folk Art to Art Toy opens to the public on July 11, at the Japanese American National Museum in LA, less than a month away!
I have a piece in this show along with such superstars as Eveline Tarunadjaja, Dan May, Catherine Brooks, Amy Sol, Stella Im Hultburg, KozynDan and Jason Lemon. More Info

Also, thanks to everyone that came out at HeroesCon. I had an amazing time, sold lots of books/prints and made a lot of new friends. Can’t wait for the next con!

New Book!
Just out today, an 82 page collection of my illustrations, sketches and photography

and here’s a promotional wallpaper to keep “Pretty Gross” at the forefront of your mind…

OJOS DE BRUJO
New album artwork for Ojos de Brujo featuring an illustration i based off my multitalented friend Zoetica

DECALS AVAILABLE
I have some spiffy decals available over at infectious now. Drop in and take a look, i’m in good company with decals also available from Jon Burgerman, Coop, Tara McPherson, Yumiko Kayukawa, Junko Mizuno and Shag.

There’s also a rather lengthy interview on my profile page

RAQUEL REED
Just posted new photography featuring Miss Raquel Reed.

STALKING ME
Feel free to add me on LiveJournal, Facebook and Myspace

COMIC BOOK TATTOO
I was recently commissioned to do the cover art for a comic book anthology put together by Rantz Hoseley and Tori Amos. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a HUGE book and definitely worth the 30 or so dollars most places are asking.

Comic Book Tattoo is in stores now! Available online at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble, but i’d suggest supporting your local comic book store first!