I'm going somewhere with this...

Putting the Joker face on icons like this is fun, but it's starting to form a message too. Making clowns out of iconic people is a good visual statement... I'm gonna go with it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Now that's some quick, easy art. Hoorah to anarchy!

I wanna Xbox!

This is definitely the best Halo 3 compilation that I've ever seen.

Media Dump

I'll probably start to do this regularly also: a Media Dump. Just dump all the cool stuff I've found online into one post. Enjoy!





Lol, I made this for History of Sports class:


Speed climbing, done by Dan Osman (RIP)

New blog feature!

Now, I'll be putting up the faces of the terrible people of the world! Today, I give you: Joe Luter!



I discovered an article about industrial pig farming, and needless to say, it was... informative. You can read all of it HERE.

But since it's pretty long, I'll give you a preview.

Smithfield Foods, the largest and most profitable pork processor in the world, killed 27 million hogs last year. That's a number worth considering. A slaughter-weight hog is fifty percent heavier than a person. The logistical challenge of processing that many pigs each year is roughly equivalent to butchering and boxing the entire human populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Charlotte, El Paso, Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston, Denver, Louisville, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Las Vegas, Portland, Oklahoma City and Tucson.

Smithfield Foods actually faces a more difficult task than transmogrifying the populations of America's thirty-two largest cities into edible packages of meat. Hogs produce three times more excrement than human beings do. The 500,000 pigs at a single Smithfield subsidiary in Utah generate more fecal matter each year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan. The best estimates put Smithfield's total waste discharge at 26 million tons a year. That would fill four Yankee Stadiums. Even when divided among the many small pig production units that surround the company's slaughterhouses, that is not a containable amount.

Smithfield estimates that its total sales will reach $11.4 billion this year. So prodigious is its fecal waste, however, that if the company treated its effluvia as big-city governments do -- even if it came marginally close to that standard -- it would lose money. So many of its contractors allow great volumes of waste to run out of their slope-floored barns and sit blithely in the open, untreated, where the elements break it down and gravity pulls it into groundwater and river systems. Although the company proclaims a culture of environmental responsibility, ostentatious pollution is a linchpin of Smithfield's business model.

Here's one of the lagoons that they talk about in the article. Yes, believe it or not, THAT is pig crap.

Veggies

This is one of those horrible things that you have to be exposed to in order to fully understand. WARNING: It's very graphic, and extremely tragic.


It's titled: MEET YOUR MEAT.



This makes me want to cry.. and I rarely cry..

DIY

I'm definitely going to start making my own stuff, starting with a custom hoodie. :)

Winter

I don't feel like taking a photo of my latest art project (my most complex stencil piece so far), so I guess you'll have to wait in suspense.

Instead, I shall bore you with my thoughts...

I love winter. In more ways than one. It's just a great season.
First of all, it's the coldest season! (Betcha didn't know that.) I swear I've got some Viking blood, so this is just awesome for me.. but also, winter is the time when nature strikes back. Here's what I mean: it's cold, freezing outside, leaving desolation.. These conditions require the most shelter, because of the sheer hostility of blistering winds and freezing ice and snow. This is a season when mankind must submit and yield to nature. It's great.
This hostility in the outdoors makes the indoors so much more cozy too. Coming in to a warm house after your ears and nose have gone numb is such a comfy sensation. In more public areas, people are much more cheery, chummy, and approachable when they retreat indoors from the cold.. It's like a very very mild version of survivors in a nuke shelter. :P

New Stencils and +houghts

Ha, i used a plus sign for the T.




Stencils are fun.

I just finished an awesome book, the "Immortal Class", the other day.. and it is amazing. Great writing, and it's an autobiography of someone who isn't famous. Which is really interesting and different, at least in my reading experiences.

But one thing I really started to appreciate by the end of the book was the city. I've grown up under the beliefs that cities are simply the centers of human filth, crime, and pollution -- Without cities, the world would be a greener place.
I couldn't have been any more wrong.
Cities are the most economic and efficient means of human living. That way, people are conglomerated in a more dense setting, saving space and infringing LESS on the environment. With the majority of people represented in more concentrated spaces, democracy can flourish-- "the people" would vastly outnumber the government and its enforcement, placing the real physical power in the hands of the people. From a more diplomatic standpoint, more people in cities would be able to voice their opinions better... the people could represent themselves more efficiently.
Economically, cities are awesome. With everything so close together, nobody really needs to drive a car, and local businesses can flourish and compete with each other -- making it a LOT more difficult for big corporations to butt in.

So really, it's suburbia that is to blame for environmental destruction. I bet that about 95% of deforestation in the U.S. is and was for housing development. And we can blame suburbia on the automobile, no doubt about it.

More stencils!

The clones aren't as awesome as the Joker and the stormtroopers..

Another!

Stencils are fun.

More to come.

Bored at work...

I had an hour to burn at work...
and a pen.
and a piece of paper, so...

Screw it,

I'll just use this as a general blog too.

Bike messengers are freakin' crazy. Crazy awesome, too. It's like rules don't apply to them-- whatever "rules" there are related to biking, they're not really enforced. It just seems like an "at your own risk" sort of thing. Which is awesome.

Check these out:







Nuff said.

Jotting down some ideas

A quick tattoo idea, along the theme of mortality

The original idea was just the Reaper with "Carpe Diem" on it, but I just kept adding to it, and it turned out pretty interesting imo...


I thought that "remember your death" (a translation of memento mori) was really profound...

A Note

New art coming soon,
but I figured I'd post an explanation of my new blog title thingy.

It was just a quick photoshop project,
No disrespect intended towards the Statue of Liberty.

The point of it: The Statue of Liberty is a universally-known symbol of freedom, and I use skulls as a symbol of mortality (carpe diem type of thing)... so I just hit 2 birds with 1 stone. Honestly, the skull people were just decorative... they fit style-wise with the Statue.

Wow, it's been a while

Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time...

This is an ink-only (old-school quill style) drawing (no pencil underdrawing) that i whipped up in about 40 mins.

Caramel Swirl

Inspired by my last one, "Peppermint Candy", here's the Caramel-Swirl Ice Cream-Girl! Hehe, I rhymed. I got lazy with this one... didn't clean it up before I colored, and didn't feel like coloring the cone.. Oh well.

EDIT: I quote: "F***, I'd eat it." LOL.

Peppermint Candy

It's so... RED!

Beauty is only skin deep

I was home sick yesterday, but at least I got something done :)
I never name artwork, but this is called "Beauty is only skin deep". Enjoy!

The color is much richer in the original..

Spec Ops Bad@$*

Sketch



Original photo



Overlay (turned out.... meh... I didn't take enough time looking)

Awesomest Girl Evar ;)

Character idea for "Story of My Life", spy-girl Katie Gorgeous.
The one on the left didn't turn out as well as i'd hoped, but the right one fit near perfectly!

Saving Private Ryan

I just sketched the sniper from SPR for some facial expression and shading practice, and it turned out ok, so i figured i'd post it...



And then i got the crazy idea of overlaying it on the original photo... I love the look! I'll definitely do more of these...

Some stuff from school

Here's 2 things I did in art recently...


A quick practice with charcoal that turned out pretty cool. (Eraser-lift, drawn from a still-life)



A "modified contour" drawing, drawn from a rather strange still-life..

Stuffs

Here's some stuff I drew recently... oldest to newest. Enjoy! :)





This one did not translate at all.... >.>

Project Announcements

- STARS OF WAR My vision of the clone army from Star Wars. The idea is to bring to light the violence, horrors, tactics, brotherhood, etc. of war... with clones! Inspiration: Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Full Metal Jacket, Band of Brothers, and Gears of War (the animations and voice acting in Gears really communicates the feeling of true hatred that the soldiers have for their enemy... I've never seen anything like it). This guy has a similar idea:



I promise you that I saw this several months after I started concepts for my clones!

-M.W.G.C. (Motorcycles, Women, Guns, and Cars) The entire point is violence, sin, and lots of testosterone. Taking place in a heavily 1940's-themed setting, MWGC revolves a noir-style, dirty, rough 'n' tumble metropolis and its sinning citizens, who ceaselessly quest for the most beautiful woman in the world.

-ELEMENTS Four people, four elements. The idea is to create characters who are characterized by the elements... People who are like the elements. (For example: the Air dude will most likely be a vagrant; a wanderer.) I'm avoiding common dipshit cliches like a pyromaniac or a fireman for the Flame character.. Anyways, they will all have extremely epic, stylized powers, to represent the incredible power of nature.

FIRST POST!

Mmmkay! This should be cool.
I'm starting this blog to keep track of my artsies.

It'll be good incentive to keep grinding out work.. getting ready for college!