tuesday styles: !

slow start for drawings or photos this year.

been buzy looking at websites and doing research.

also, trying to work on my guitar hero skills.

(which is ass, at best).

hydro 74

the dope graf style
loveyougood
a maf with all kinds of stuff

w k interact
first saw him in nyc '05 walking in the lower east side.

very cool that he is coming up.

brute aiden hughes
brute blog

kmfdm artist,

i love the drug against war video,

when i saw it on "the box"

in 1992-3sh?

monday illin': word on!

pretty good weekend,

good photo shoot for a bunch of rookies,

i hope i got some really good shots.

(more info on that once i get the shots)

anyways,

today's post has some of my all time favorite artists.

tom bagley
calgary boy that ruled the gig poster since tha 90s.
bagger43
dennis brown blog

great colors + mark making
bob peak

aka the man. gotta love old school illustration when drawing mattered.

today's illustration seems kinda unispiring.

flipping thru recent annuals, everything looks kinda blahzay.

there's the odd fresh style, but then theres 50 million copies of it.
eric white

aka "the whoa" aka "word up!"

thursday hot ish: milk!

heres some ideas for my eventual site,

and a drawing of the new street fighter 4 character.

i definitely messed it up,

but with some practice and better ref,

i think i can do betta.

my links today are about passed over rappers:

unknown but known.

stezo

i like the whole album.

hard as hell to find.

audio two / mc milk dee

the milk solo album "never dated".

"go to hell" on that album is so off the hook.

no lyrics rhyme, its just str8

ass kickin.

u have to hear it to understand.

wednesday influence: street fightin' and more!

after messing around drawing street fight characters,
i think should post a bunch more asian influences.
i was really lookin at this stuff 2003-04.
falcoon

now down with snk/playmore

street fighter comics

(you what this is)

hyung-tae kim

magna carta, and he like to paint big ass boobs.

yoshio

who makes *junk* paintings

tuesday styles: graf!

finally some fresh fresh drawings to post.

i was messing around and looking at advance wars 2,

gate of eternity and breath of fire.

i'm trying to figure out how to residesign or

put my slant on video game characters.

some favorite graf links over the years:

cnskillz

fatoe

visual orgasm

graphotism

best of 2007!

while i work on my website these next couple of weeks,

i reflect on some of my favorite shots of 2007.

more on the technical side

(for clarity rather than composition).

crawl b4 u walk b4 u run.

monday illin': past and present!

no images today...

or maaybe this week.

i gotta bust a move and start finding new shooting spots.

and start posting drawings for the year.

i think this might work out to force me

to post super fresh drawings

and photos.

anyways,

heres some illustration links:

cameron stewart

found this while looking at alot of bruce timm stuff.

maybe about '02-'03,

i was looking at alot of this stuff

...i still love it.

mitch o' connell

i like looking at old flash style tattoos.

found this while looking for mike giant stuff,

and he was in juxtapoz alot.

john cassaday

i think i first saw this guy in captain america comics

when i first came to vancouver.

my drawing style changes depending on what i look at.

2 years ago i was looking at cassaday, renato arlem,

john van fleet...realistic with flavor flav.

tomer hanuka

tomer hanuka makes dope illos.

he is illustration right now.

everyone and their mama is trying to mack his style,

but yo....he is the only

"tru o.g. pimp hustla gangsta playa

hardcore muthaf**kah living today."

(saw the opening to throw in an ice-t album quote)

big trend to use light line work,

+ digital transparent colors,

really muted color pallettes.

i guess its the new chrome + airbrush

(as it was for the eighties)

for the times.