Tell Me No More Lies Sketch

So yesterday an this morning I started a new sketch, called "Tell Me No More Lies" The idea behind this is pretty simple guy tells non-stop lies an sooner or later the evil from hell starts to take over his body an you have a "Tell Me No More Lies" victim. It was created very very randomly over the weekend but I have to say I love it. One of the reason I did it was because i've been doing comic pages which I can't show just yet so I wanted to do some for everyone to see,seeing I haven't posted anything new since the "Nightmare On Elm Street" piece. I also plan on inking it sooner or later not sure when yet. Might be the first of a selection of Creator Owned Horror Prints too, I will keep everyone updated on that news when the time comes.Heres another sketch I did up over the weekend when I had about 30mins or so of free time. I never got around to finishing it, but it's so to be a picture of myself from the side if I was a zombie. At least what I think I would look like as an infected more of a Rage type. Of course it doesn't look 100% like me at least I don't think it does, an didn't bother adding a beard like I have cause I wanted to add more jawline detail, it's all just a practice piece for when I do more zombie art in the near future

Some Older Clive Barker Sketches!

Heres some older sketches I dug out of my picture vault. Only done about a year or so ago but still old to me haha. These are all inspired by his writing. I am a huge fan of the characters he creates he has some very awesome ones. Also a big fan of the NightBreed series have some of the comics an the movie is pretty cool too! I'll start of first by showing off some NightBreed inspired work I hope you like it folks.

Heres a piece that I did of Pinhead from the Hellraiser series, a very cool character all around. This piece was done with a more cartoony look then the others, at least to me it does with the shape of the face an stuff. This was around the time when I was deciding on doing more cartoony or real looking stuff, an well I went for more real darker stuff an I'm glad I went with it, I personally think the stuff of late hasd been the best stuff i've ever done an it just keeps getting better in my opinion. I hope you enjoy the Pinhead sketch folks. I plan on doing a Candyman piece in the future like my Fido,Nightmare On Elm Street & Addams Family pieces too. Not sure on when that will be though.

Contemporary Tibetan Art - An Exhibition

I am certainly not knowledgeable nor particularly interested in Tibetan contemporary art but the Rubin Museum of Art in New York is mounting an exhibition that opens in June. An artist represented in this exhibition (with three large canvases) happens to be a very good friend of mine and I would be remiss if I did not take the opportunity to promote him and his art. I think his art is very, very, good.

I for one am quite tired of some contemporary Tibetan art where it is a simplistic tracing of a Buddha image or the overdone juxtaposition of the Buddha and Mao, and I understand that art has always been a vehicle for politics just as literature. However, sometimes I just want to see good art masterfully done, creative, interesting, refreshing and new that makes me smile and engages me visually. I want to see a work of art where the more I look at the piece the more I see, and the more time I spend with the piece, the more time I want to spend - like a visual feast. I want to feel it from the inside and if someone has to explain it to me - then I have obviously missed it, or maybe it wasn't there in the first place. For me, art that has to be explained in order to be understood and appreciated is not great art - it is only a visual-intellectual statement.

Another artist, more familiar with contemporary art than me, I think says it best, "WOW, Pema's painting you included is KILLER! as soon as I saw it (the second one) and started reading your article, I was hoping that it was one of his! A lot of contemporary art I've seen by Tibetan artists is so predictable and lame, if not cheap and exploitative. It's great to see Pema's work - beautiful, thoughtful, and sophisticated! It's so great to see a work of contemporary Tibetan art that doesn't make use of the tired silhouette of the buddha! In fact, there really isn't much in Pema's painting that relates to (or falls back on) his identity as a Tibetan or his Tibetan ancestry. It's refreshing to know there's at least one Tibetan contemporary artist who's moved beyond that! perhaps there's hope after all...." (Currently anonymous).

Pema Rinzin is one of the only Tibetan artists that I know who has trained in the traditional way of 'tangka' and mural painting and that has also successfully transitioned into contemporary painting while still creating and teaching the so-called 'traditional' art.

The first image above is a small detail of a large painting that will be on display at the Rubin Museum of Art. The second two images are from the Joshua Liner Gallery where Pema exhibited in the early spring of 2010. He exhibited three paintings in that Chelsea New York show and all three sold. The second image (above) - that painting sold the first night of the Joshua Liner show. Aside from the RMA exhibition opening in June, Pema has another group show coming up in August - again in Chelsea. There is also talk of a solo show in the near future. (See Artist Biography and New York Tibetan Art Studio. For more information on the RMA exhibition see the link below).

Tradition Transformed, June 11, 2010 - October 18, 2010.

"Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond marks the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine Tibetan artists featured each explore contemporary issues--personal, political, and cultural--by integrating the centuries-old traditional imagery, techniques, and materials found in Tibetan Buddhist art with modern influences and media. (More info)."

Pema Rinzin was an artist in residence at the RMA for three years and produced a number of works during that time. The drawing of Himalayan 'Animals, Foliage and Landscape' was done in the gallery space during the highly successful 'Bon, The Magic Word' exhibition in 2007. The painting (below) of the Four Guardian Kings was the first painting that Pema completed while at the RMA. It was also first displayed in the RMA exhibition 'Big!' also in 2007, followed by the Trammell Crow museum in Dallas in 2008. I believe his three special skills that set him apart from the rest are [1] drawing, [2] composition and [3] colour balance.

The Fight Continues

The battle is sporadic. Mostly waged in the wee hours of the morning. The exchanges can be brutal and emotionally traumatic but the fight goes on. I have employed a new liquid deployed as a spray against large areas of the room. It is called Bed Bug Patrol and is a completely natural product with a strong hint of clove oil. The ground up sea bug dust, Diatomaceous Earth Dust, has been dispersed to the most important areas in need of defense - cracks, crannies and creases. The idea is to begin to limit the active area where the bugs - little bastards - are able to mount an attack, corral them into a small defensive zone, and then crush them with a final lethal blow.

Motel Hell-1980

So today I decided I would start something new on the site. I thought I would do a movie sort of review thing on Friday Nights. To keep the site updated more seeing at the time being I can't show off the stuff I am doing seeing they are comic pages for my new book! so you will all have to wait till the book is done an out to see the pages. So tonight is the first night so lets hope the movie review goes well, tonight's movie is a classic from 1980. Motel Hell! Hope you all enjoy folks! heres the plot of the movie "not I didn't write the plot I looked it up so it's 100% correct"

Plot-'Farmer Vincent Smith (Rory Calhoun) and his younger sister Ida (Nancy Parsons) live on a farm with a motel attached. It's called Motel Hello, but the O on the sign constantly flicks on and off). Vincent makes smoked meats said to be the most delicious in the surrounding area. Vincent's secret is human flesh, and Vincent has the areas around his isolated motel strewn with various booby traps to catch victims. The victims are placed in a 'secret garden' where they are buried up to their necks and have their vocal cords cut so they cannot scream: Vincent keeps them until they are ready and then kills them. Ida helps, and seems to enjoy it, whereas Vincent seems rather calm and certain in his belief he's not doing anything wrong.
The movie opens with Vincent shooting out the tires of a motorcycle a couple is riding on: The male (Bo) is placed in the garden, but Vincent takes a shine to the young female (Terry) and brings her to the motel. The next morning, Vincent's naïve and mild-mannered younger brother sheriff Bruce (Paul Linke) (unlike Ida, Bruce is not aware of his brother's secret) arrives, and Vincent tells Terry that her boyfriend died in the accident and that he buried him: a trip to the graveyard shows a crude grave marker placed there by Vincent. Terry, having nowhere else to go, decides to stay at the motel.
Most of the film consists of Vincent (with Ida's help) capturing more victims for his garden (first a health inspector for Vincent's pigs who spies the hidden garden by chance, goes to investigate, and then becomes part of it; then a van full of drugged-up band members) while using his folksy charm to woo Terry, much to Bruce's dislike, who tries to woo her himself without much success. Vincent captures more victims (a pair of women, one of whom manages to flee in her car, but apparently faints from the stress of her terror after a brief chase, allowing Vincent to capture her, and then a pair of swingers who show up with a false ad that the motel is a swinger's paradise), and then suggests he may teach Terry to smoke meat. Ida finds out about this and, jealous of Terry, attempts to drown her in the pond (by luring her out there to play on inner tubes), but Vincent comes in time and saves her. This proves to be a catalyst for Terry, who tries to seduce Vincent (he stops her, claiming it would not be proper until they were married) and then agrees to marry him.
Bruce, unhappy that he's 'lost' Terry, drives down to the motel once he hears the news and bursts into the bathroom to protest Terry's choice (and during his rant to slander his brother claims his brother has 'syphilis of the brain', which might explain Vincent's calmness towards murder and cannibalism), but Vincent appears and chases his brother off with a shotgun. Having decided to have the wedding tomorrow, Vincent, Terry, and Ida share a glass of champagne, but Ida drugs the champagne to knock Terry out so she and Vincent can prepare some of the garden victims (presumably for the wedding feast tomorrow). Meanwhile, Bruce, still angry over losing, starts doing some detective work on a few strange things he's noticed and starts to feel that something is not quite right at his brother's farm.
Vincent and Ida kill three of the band members (by hypnotising them, then tying nooses around their necks, attaching the rope to a tractor, and driving the tractor to break their necks) and pull them out of the ground to take to Vincent's meat processing plant. However, doing so seems to loosen the dirt around Bo, as he begins to try to escape. Bruce sneaks back to the motel to try to rescue Terry, but Ida returns to the motel for a snack and overhears Bruce trying to get Terry to leave. Ida ambushes Bruce when he leaves the room and knocks him out, and then takes Terry at gunpoint to the meat processing plant. Meanwhile, Bo escapes and frees the other victims in the garden.
Vincent, upset that his 'love' found out his secret the way she did, sends Ida back to the motel to fetch his brother, but the victims, having escaped (and in a nod to zombie films, have staggered around groaning and hissing due to their cut vocal cords), ambush her and knock her out. Terry tries to escape the meat processing plant, but the door is locked and Vincent sadly knocks Terry out with gas, and then ties her to a conveyor belt, apparently planning to kill her too. He is interrupted by Bo, who crashes into the meat plant via an overhead window and brawls with Vincent, but he is weak from being trapped in the garden for so long and Vincent strangles him.
Bruce awakens, finds one of his brother's shotguns, and goes to the meat packing room himself, but finds that his brother has armed himself with a giant chainsaw (and placed a pig's head over his own as a gruesome mask). Vincent manages to disarm his brother, but Bruce grabs his own chainsaw and proceeds to have a violent duel with Vincent (later parodied in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), in the process turning on the conveyor belt Terry is tied to, sending her slowly towards a meat cutting blade. Despite suffering several wounds, Bruce drives the chainsaw into his Vincent's side for a mortal wound. Bruce frees Terry and then returns with her to his wounded brother, who gasps his final words, leaving the farm and 'secret garden' to Bruce, and then lamenting that his whole life was a lie and he was the biggest hypocrite of all ("My... meat... I... I... used... preservatives!") before he dies.
Bruce and Terry go to the secret garden and find Ida buried in it as revenge... head first (of the victims there is no sign, they seem to have wandered off somewhere, presumably getting help), and then head past the motel, while Bruce comments on how he had no idea what was going on and was glad he'd run away when he was eleven. Terry suggests they just burn the motel, claiming it's evil. The sign saying MOTEL HELLO finally fully shorts out, permanently darkening the O and leaving the title: MOTEL HELL'


My thoughts: for the movie I thought it was very entertaining from start to finish,very unique an special in it's own rights, an a must watch for fans of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series of movies an a must watch for horror fans in general in my opinion of course, the chainsaw fight with Farmer Vincent when he has the pig head on at the end was just amazing!in my opinion. I think there should be more movies like this now adays. I give this movie 4.5 Bloody Fingers out of 5

Remake News! A remake of Motel Hell is in talks, potentially directed by Steven C. Miller of Automaton Transfusion fame.

Link to movie trailer for anyone who wants to watch ithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4AR3BgaCdA

Gore Shriek!!

Holy Crap!! I colored something for once haha. This piece was also done for Comicmonsters.com(Horrornewsnetwork.net) 31 Days Of Halloween event. It was a coloring contest an the winner got a boat load of books from Asylum Press I think can't remeber. I just did it for fun didn't have many colors to pick from haha. I did this all with 0.4 pens/makers I found at the local dollar store, did it all while watching FIDO for the first time. Pretty happy with how it turned out actually not pro coloring but I still like it for what I had to use, & lets just face it, it is a freaking awesome cover to color!

31 Days Of Halloween Pin-up

Heres a pin-up that I did for fun for Comicmonsters(now Horrornewsnetwork.net) 31 Days of Halloween event last year. For those of you that don't know what that is during the month of OCT on the site they have trivia an give aways an they give away free comics,movie,art etc. It's a very fun time an I recommend you check it out one of these years. The colors an lettering for this piece of course are done by Chris McQuaid of McHozer Comics! he did another great job with them as always. As for why I picked Ghost Rider to be in the piece he just seemed like a good pick for it, just seems like he would scare some punk at halloween whos stealing some little kids candy. Hope you like it folks!

I will have to load the pencils later on if I can find a copy of them on the computer seeing there seem not to be any on my photobucket account.

Yes, I was bit!

Two bites last night around three in the morning. I will have to re-double my efforts. Needless to say I didn't sleep much after that. Have a look at this link about an apartment building in Princeton, New Jersey http://bedbugger.com/2010/04/03/bed-bugs-in-princeton-apartment-building/. It is a good example of the communications, exchanges and lack of them between some landlords, tenants and the health authorities. I am sure that the laws in New York State will be somewhat different from New Jersey. One problem with landlords and owners is that they often think that the regular pesticide company that comes once a month and sprays for cockroaches, silverfish and mice are up to the task of eradicating a bedbug infestation. It is a little bit like thinking that a regular doctor, a general practitioner, can perform complicated heart surgery requiring specialized tools and equipment. Bedbug extermination needs experts. Without recognizing this then the problem just returns again and again and the landlord spends more and more money. More tenants leave and the apartment building has a high turnover. The rent starts to go down and the place is of course already beginning to be rundown. Finally it ends up being a skid row apartment (or house). That is the life cycle of an untreated bedbug infested dwelling.

Yelawolf rockin the new Famous Shoes

Just spotted this pic on Famous' site of Yelawolf rockin the new Famous shoes, with my unreleased Famous "Mary" piece I did. Those blue kicks are super limited and dope as hell! Be on the lookout real soon for Famous Shoes do drop at your local retailer.

The Calm Before the Storm

No bites last night and none the night before, this of course means that they, the 'bugs', have been well fed. I have to be extra vigilante tonight because they are undoubtedly getting hungry 'on the move' and I am the only thing on the menu. Buckle up. It's going to get bumpy.

I have been informed by the building manager that the next bedbug spraying of the apartments won't be until the end of next week - plenty of bug breeding time in there between now and then. I am not yet confidant that the building owners are treating this matter with the seriousness and urgency that it requires. Regardless of that, I am on the offensive and have scoured the internet for reviews and anecdotes of bed bug sufferers and information on various products. I have also ordered a variety of different sprays, dusts and environmentally friendly concoctions - no DDT. I will let you know which items work and which do not. I am taking the battle to the bugs.

Yet, all of that being said, I figure even if the exterminators get the things out of my apartment I still have no control over the apartments of anyone else in the building, and they may be lazier than me, stay infested, and spread the bugs back to my apartment yet again. So, in other words, I am at war with both the bedbugs and with anybody who doesn't have the resolve and strength to get rid of their own damn bugs. To that end I must turn the apartment into a fortress surrounded at the outer edges with a series of ditches and tank traps filled with diatomaceous earth dust. Then, a film of poisonous enzymes - organic warfare - followed up by regular preventative spraying with a variety of lethal cocktails - striking randomly. However, none of this advanced arsenal of weaponry has arrived, as it was just now ordered, and until then I will continue to do battle with the enemy using rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle as my front line weopon. That is the strategy, that is the resolve - let the final battle for the apartment begin.

JARRITOS FLAVOR CITY ART CONTEST

The Jarritos Flavor City Art Contest: “Drink Out Loud” is looking for innovative Angelenos to describe what Jarritos means to you. We are looking for artists of all ages to develop eye-catching works of art in any medium to express the flavor and experience of Jarritos. Each art submission must incorporate the “Drink out Loud” slogan logo and at least one of the eleven Jarritos flavors. (fruit punch, grapefruit, guava, hibiscus, lime, mandarin, pineapple, strawberry, tamarind, mango, lemon-lime).

The judge panel is assembled by Los Angeles residents prominent within the art community: Estevan Oriol of SA Studios, Raymond Roker of URB Magazine, Roger Gastman of R. Rock Enterprises, Stephan Malbon of Frank 151, Amir Fallah of Beautiful Decay, Casey Zoltan of The Seventh Letter and Known Gallery, Mark The Cobra Snake, Retna, Brandy Flower of Hit and Run, Chris Grosso of GuerillaOne.com.

The winner of the Jarritos Flavor City Art Contest: “Drink Out Loud” will have their work published amongst our partner media outlets and formally displayed at the LA Downtown art walk on July 8, 2010. The recognition of your talents amongst the robust Angeleno art community will allow you to maximize your network and artistic exposure to thousands of people.


HTTP://WWW.JARRITOSFLAVORCITY.COM/

Constant Vigilance - The War of the Bed Bugs

Every night is potentially a battle although depending on the infestation the bugs may only feed every three or four days. Depending on their number they might need to feed every night. While waiting for the third spraying of the apartment which is usually five days between sprayings I have resorted to a spray bottle and alcohol. No, not for drinking - for spraying the wooden bed frame and then the area of the floor under and around the bed. This seems to work for a few hours at best. The alcohol kills the bugs, babies and eggs on contact - but only on contact. If they are hiding around a corner then they are safe - the little bastards.

I learned early on while staying in India in the 1970s that neither the Geneva Convention nor the Bodhisattva Code of Ethics need apply to bed bugs. They are a serious health risk and can spread salmonella and other diseases. I am also investigating other treatments such as natural products that destroy and keep the bugs at bay. Let it be said that the 'battle is on.'

My allies, the apartment management company and their hired mercenaries have not been overly successful in the battle but it is still early and there are many more days of fighting before this campaign is done.

In the end either I will be Lord of the apartment or the bed bugs will.

Art Vallen tattoo tribal design

..

..

Art Vallen tattoo tribal design

..

..

Tribal tattoo desig with needle

..

..

Tribal tattoo desig with needle

..

..

The Inevitable

Well, I guess it was just a matter of time, inevitable. When you live in a tenement flat in New York City, over a hundred years old, with porous walls and floors, and people coming and going, moving in and out - it had to happen. BED BUGS!!! BED BUGS!!! BED BUGS!!!

The question now is what to do about it and - not too patiently - watch how the property management company deals with it. Will they be aggressive in extermination or laid back and fight the scourge topically. The next two or three weeks will tell the story. One thing I already know for sure is that I cannot live with bed bugs.

All of my New York belongings which are basically clothes and books are wrapped in plastic bags and fill the middle of the apartment in order to facilitate the exterminators and their need to spray the corners of the apartment, walls, ceiling, etc. The wooden bed frame has been sprayed and the entire floor has been sprayed over the course of two extermination visits. Between the first and the 2nd visit (2 days after) I was bitten and after the second visit (2 days after) I was bitten again.

The exterminators are scheduled to return this coming week - Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Somehow I don't think that will be enough. I was told that in the building on the floor below me there was one filthy apartment that was overrun with bed bugs similar to the image at the bottom of this post. It was said that if you moved any item of furniture or lifted anything at all in that apartment then dozens of bed bugs would scurry in all directions.



Feeding Habits of Bed Bugs (from Wikipedia): "Bedbugs are bloodsucking insects. They are normally out at night just before dawn, with a peak feeding period of about an hour before sunrise. Bedbugs may attempt to feed at other times if given the opportunity and have been observed feeding during all periods of the day. They reach their host by walking, or sometimes climb the walls to the ceiling and drop down on feeling a heat wave. Bedbugs are attracted to their hosts by warmth and the presence of carbon dioxide. The bug pierces the skin of its host with two hollow feeding tubes. With one tube it injects its saliva, which contains anticoagulants and anesthetics, while with the other it withdraws the blood of its host. After feeding for about five minutes, the bug returns to its hiding place. The bites cannot usually be felt until some hours or even days later, as a dermatological reaction to the injected agents, and the first indication of a bite usually comes from the desire to scratch the bite site. Because of their natural aversion for sunlight, bedbugs come out at night.[8]



Although bedbugs can live for a year or eighteen months without feeding, and purportedly up to three years in the case of the species Oeciacus vicarius (the cliff swallow bug),[9] they normally try to feed every five to ten days. Bedbugs that go dormant for lack of food often live longer than a year, while well-fed specimens typically live six to nine months.

At the 57th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America in 2009, it was reported that newer generations of pesticide-resistant bedbugs in Virginia could survive only two months without feeding.[10]

Low infestations may be difficult to detect and in the early stages, victims may not realize they have bedbugs. Patterns of bites in a row or a cluster are typical, as the insects may be disturbed while feeding. Bites may be found in a variety of places on the body."



I will look into some Tantric Buddhist texts to see if there are any special practices, charms, talismans or mantras for eradicating these bugs. Bed bugs were well known to Tibetans who called them 'demon lice'. Mipham Rinpoche had numerous techniques for getting rid of a wide range of pests from mice, to rabbits, body lice, rabid dogs and more.

Some News!

Heres some news for all you "HorrorHound" fans/users, the "Art Of TypH" can now be seen on the "HorrorHound" forums, always looking for more ways to get my art out there to all you awesome dedicated horror fiends! Hopefully "Art Of TypH" will be a hit with everyone over on the HH forums.

Some other news, I will be uploading a list of Horror Movies that I will be doing fan art/tribute/homage pieces call them what you like. The list will be to let everyone know what they can expect in the future, there will be no set deadline for the pieces, also anyone an everyone is more then welcome to comment an say which films they think I should do pieces on. I know theres alot of cool films out there from main stream to indy an I don't know them all so always looking for suggestions

Skipping stones at Robinson Pond

Add Your Make-Up Artist Resource | Get Make-Up Artist Jobs

Add Your Make-Up Artist Resource Get Make-Up Artist Jobs

Farm girl

Skull

Notice

enid's

Introducing Tashi T. Dharlo to the World

Tashi was born on Wednesday morning, 12th of May. Both the mother and baby are fine. For those of you who know, Tenzin the mother has worked with me on the Himalayan Art Resources website here in New York city since the Spring of 2001. Congratulations to the mother and father and to the proud grand-parents and their new grand-son.

Teaching Prejudice

Teaching the History of Yesterday might be Teaching the Prejudice of Today

I recently chanced upon a label copy for a Padmasambhava sculpture in a current exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. It was interesting because it was a sculpture that I had purchased for the museum some years earlier when I worked there (between 1999 & 2007) and an object that Samten Karmey and I had used in the first ever Bon art and culture exhibition, also at the RMA - 'Bon the Magic Word.' We used the object as a possible example of the 'legendary' teacher Yungdrung Tongdrol - why not?

Now, to my point, I include in this post the label copy that accompanies the image of Padmasambhava and ask you - does this smack of systemic conditioned and on-going prejudice? Or am I over reacting? I have written a short paragraph below that I think somewhat represents a similar historical prejudice (and racism) that is part of the American experience. For me the two paragraphs are essentially the same and are intended to convey, ignorantly or intentionally, the same basic story. The paragraph below is also something similar to what could be found in American school textbooks up to the 1970s. It is however, now, no longer publicly acceptable in the USA in any way and considered extremely prejudicial. Well, what about the Padmasambhava label and the portrayal of the Bon - especially to a new audience, a non-Tibetan audience, an audience that is currently being molded by educators?

Who out there is researching this topic of Buddhist textual prejudice against Bon? Who actually cares? Who has any kind of investment in this issue? I for one can cite dozens of examples, just from memory, of instances of anti-Bon prejudice in Buddhist literature. Those stories are part of my Buddhist training: Padmasambhava life story, Milarepa life story, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo life story, etc., etc., etc. Are we now ignorantly continuing this tradition of blatant prejudice against the Bon Religion and culture just because it is written in the Tibetan Buddhist 'sacred' texts?

Comparison Paragraph:

"A legendary American Hero, General George Armstrong Custer, was one of the figures that tamed the wild West. Stories abound about his travels through-out the country-side and the sites where he tamed and converted the locals are considered historical. One such episode takes place at a location where General Custer came to defeat the Indian people of the plains and their indigenous religion. When a local Indian chief rose up to resist by force of arms and the aid of their sacred religious drum and ghost dances the chief along with most of his people, women and children, persihed. Now when the thunder clouds rumble, the local Indians say that the spirit elders of that place are beating the sacred drums and dancing." (Written by Jeff Watt as a comparison to the RMA Padmasambhava/Bon label copy).

Padmasambhava Label Copy: (click on image)







(First published on the International Bon Studies website, May 13th, 2010).

Nightmare On Elm Street Piece

Here are the pencils for my first ever Nightmare On Elm Street piece, it's more based off a mix of new an old but I think looks more like the new version but thats just me. I really enjoyed doing this piece watched the last couple NOES movie while doing this piece up so it was pretty fun time, was alot of fun doing all the face details, i'm overall really happy with how it turned out. I hope to start inking it as soon as I can an have it done soon, so I hope you all like it folks!

Also Freddy use to be the only character that use to actually scare me when I was a little kid, so it was fun to go back an re-watch the last 4 movies or so, he's actually a really cool character!

[UPDATED May 17/10] Just got the Freddy inks done last night an added some finishing touches this morning, so here they are folks, I hope you like them! I will be taking a little break from Monster Movie art pieces to work on some comic pages for my next short but there will be more movie art comming soon next is a Night Of The Living Dead piece! So keep your eyes out for that one folks!

Man-Thing Quick Sketch!

Heres a Man-Thing quick sketch that I did up today for someone, only had about 2 hours to spare, so it was a little rushed but mainly only with the water, so I might go back an fix it up a little bit when i can get some more free time. I think I only own one issue of Man-Thing so i'm not that familiar with his look, but I looked some stuff up for referece & I think he has the same look as all the others do, so hope you all like it folks!