SAY MY NAME

Gag pic turned painting experiment of the awesome Walter White. Enjoy!

Holidays - YEAH!

Haven't posted in awhile, been pretty swamped with year end work and (steamsales). I have a couple of pics started up in a rough state ready for the next steps, which hopefully I will get more time this holiday to get jamming on :D

Otherwise! Have had a pretty awesome Christmas, spending time with families who have adopted me in a bid to use me as a storage device for all the food - its a mutual benefit, so no complaints. At all. Hope it was as good a day for you and your families!

Here's some stuff I've done in between work and life:

A scribble that started during work breaks turned into a sweaty, body cleaving, waddle of fat.

Varna, from Digital Devil Saga - why Shin Megami Tensei games are the best inspiration for weird designs.

Rough draft for a piece I want put together soon.

The Loser

Sometimes in life, you lose the fight.

You're not the greatest looker out there; it doesn't make it any better that the opponent took a bite out of your ear; your cheap cigar is falling apart; and your head is bleeding like a stuck pig...

...but sometimes all you need is a beautiful girl to give a damn, pour heaps of stinging alcohol on your wounds, and laugh away your frustrations.

This goes out to everyone who's lost a fight once out there and the beautiful girls who helped them pick their asses up with the aid of laughs and rubbing alcohol - especially my girlfriend Tamryn, who uses that rubbing alcohol with much zeal.

Eat your heart out

Nothing drastically new here, just a piece that I completed a little while ago and forgot to upload - FB friends may have already seen this one, bear with me whilst I give it some pimping again :D
ALSO, no story this time - I simply in that state of thinking whilst on those long international flights, and 'girls', 'blood' and 'hearts' seem to come together quite nicely, so I hit the Wacom when I got home and this came out.

Whilst I'm at it - saw The Dark Knight Rises and was thoroughly entertained; I dare say more than The Dark Knight, but all the more reason to go through and rewatch them all again...got a feeling this may show up in this blog sooner or later.

Take care and stay cool!

The A Bao A Qu

I'm quite used to starting something up, either a art website account or a blog, and slip into long hibernations of....nothing - and then coming back an apologizing. Well not today, I'm skipping the formalities and moving straight on to posting art.

Struggling a bit as of late to carve out the time to actually make art at the moment, either not having the schedule or not having the tools - but when all else fails, there is no excuse to just grab a pencil and sketchbook and just start jamming in there. It helps nowadays to 'declog' my mind with the current increase of brain trash - things and concerns that I need to learn to not worry myself with as they only inevitably lead to demotivation and a dent into creativity...which only demotivates more, and with less and less productivity, you kinda slip into a spiral. So priorities right now are getting out of that rut, and into a calmer, fulfilled and productive mindset.

One of my personal projects on the side to help keep my sanity is a illustrative guidebook to creatures and beings from myth and folklore; after being somewhat inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' 'Book of Imaginary Beings'. It's a great means to put in some research and reading into a creature and putting my own spin on how it looked, which really floats my boat. 

Starting at the very beginning is the 'A Bao A Qu' - a creature often left out of the traditional creature books which made the depiction of it all the more fun. The A Bao A Qu was an immortal entity from Malay mythology, which was said to reside within the Tower of Victory in Chittorgarh, India. This alien like creature slumbered at the base of the Tower's spiraled staircase, only awoken when a man begins to climb the stairs in the pursuit of reaching the top, where he will achieve the state of Nirvana. The A Bao A Qu closely and somewhat curiously follows the man, in a shapeless and translucent state, giving off a blue glow - becoming more defined, solid and colourful as the pair progress further and further up the Tower. As the climber becomes closer to achieving Nirvana, so does the A Bao A Qu become closer to reaching its perfect form; contorting and bending from it's multiple forms.

However, the climber almost always fails to reach the top of the Tower, and when the A Bao A Qu realizes this, it shrinks back, losing colour and form that it had developed, before falling down the staircase to the entrance again, where it again takes its shapeless and sleeping shape.

It is said that the A Bao A Qu's cry of failure is so soft it is as the rustling of silk, and when touched, it feels like the fuzz on the skin of a peach.