Climaxin'

As America winds down to the epic climatic season (series?) finale that is the 2020 election this November, I created two new stickers to help you embrace you inner nihilism.

The first is a funny yet very real quote from one of my favorite comedian/philosophers George Carlin. 

 

The quote is ever more prevalent these days since the installation of the new climate clock in NYC. 

8.5" wide x 2.75" high. Great for a bumper sticker. Get it HERE.

And the other sticker is designed to remind you why you get up and go to work everyday, even in the midst of pandemic; The Economy, silly! Can't you see it's up to us to keep the economy going, even in the face of a certain horrifying and isolating death? All the useless plastic trinkets, mass-produced objects to fill your life, thoughtless gifts to hoist on friends and family, and all the fuel used to make them and continue poisoning the atmosphere, the sales of all of that and more must continue or else the economy ceases!

We can't have that, ya'll. Who will think of the landlords?

So slap this puppy on your bumper or lunchbox to show solidarity with your fellow American, that come Hell or eviction, you will work that job. Otherwise how will all the landlords, politicians, and multi-national corporations eat?

Oval shaped, 4.25" wide. Cop it HERE.

As always, the stickers are very high quality screen prints on durable vinyl. They handle great on any smooth outdoor surface.

Another Year

Hey fools! I'm now 36. Ready for Autumn, and it starts this month! Who else is ready for chilly crisp air and auburn leaves? I for one am sick of this Houston heat and humidity so...me!

another year, another delicious cake.

mechanical error

Not much new art progress to post this month, however I have worked up a new vinyl sticker design:

All-seeing puppy eyes.

No words, just a silly puppy face. These are gonna be so dope when the come back from the printer. Super stoked!

Been working on the basics around the studio and the house in general. Computer hard-drives and data configurations, back-ups and what not have occupied my time this month. It's time for upgrades all around, and they're coming, including a new upgrade to our house. I'll fill you in once the work completes and I'll show you what I mean.

Also, INKTOBER is coming up so be sure to follow me on Instagram and peep all my Inktober dailies as I post them! @toonzday

Propamatic

It's been a fantastic beginning to the year as far as print-making is concerned. Not only have I got two new sticker designs printed (and another designed) but I also have some new poster art, ready for some new posters to be made.

First one, "Delusions", came from a public domain illustration I found in, get this, the New York Library's Digital Collection, host to all kinds of archives on art, prints, photography and other various documents through out time. It's fun to get lost, give it a shot.

 

The characters look very aristocratic and are not giving a fuck. The women has her breasts out, a nod to how we as a culture love "tits" as sexual objects, but get weirded out when we see someone breastfeeding in public. The man is a straight up pig, which denotes anything from (corrupt) cops to corrupt politicians. The phrase juxtaposes a fantasy and reality. Our culture adores opulence and vanity. People will even go into debt just to live a rich lifestyle or at least look like it. People like to dream about being rich, but these characters are here to remind you that you are not and you will never be. As a whole I want to remind the viewer that there is a rich class and how this rich class has a real power that affects you and your surroundings on a daily basis. Stuff like gentrification, income inequality etc. I want to remind the viewer that while you scrimp and struggle to make it in this country, this culture, there's a class of people that have it obscenely easy.

the original illustration by Thomas Fleming, circa 1893-1924

This next sticker I've had for a while, I wanted to release it when he was still on the throne but alas I was too busy being broke and jobless. But even still, it's such a cool design. I updated it to reflect a more current status too.

Pope Been-a-dick, aka Ratz-in-Burger

The update came in the form of the words "Saint Hood", commenting on how some former popes go on to be saints, because of some proof of miracles or some bullshit, and how this guy probably won't make that status. The words are also split to allow the words to work individually. "Saint" sarcastically refers to him as good even though some Catholic church priests have infamously been proven otherwise. "Hood" referring to the gullyness, shadyness and underhandedness that may or may not have been the deeper reason why he resigned.

And finally, the poster! I saw this image in a dream a few years back with the phrase "Symbiote Pride". I drew a picture in a sketchbook and forgot all about it until recently.  Deciding I wanted to bring this image to life I started scouting Bruce Lee photos. I found the stance and I found the arm positioning in two different pieces. Carefully fusing the images together I created a perfect composite. See people, my vector art is not just taking an obscure face and running the Photoshop cutout filter on it. It takes some serious photo manipulation skills to craft the image as you need it. 

This image with this stance with the nunchucks didn't exist before me.

Because I was going with an Eastern type theme I thought I'd scrawl Symbiote Pride on a well-recognized symbol.

Now a famous website! symbiotepride.com

Combine the two with a few other graphic elements, and you got yourself a dope poster!

I'll have some for Comicpalooza this summer. I'm thinking in black and silver, like above, but also a variant color set TBD. 

Stories for Screw Comics #4 has been in the works. This story picks up where "Heavy Duty Judy" leaves off. If ya think that story's nuts wait til you read this one, and if you haven't read Screw #3 what the fuck are you waiting for? I'll even let you download it for FREE. It's in a CBZ format so it'll work in your fave comic reader. It's not the full printed version but dammit, it's a FREE 60 page comic.

Been posting pages and sketches and other nonsense on the 'Gram. Add me.

Yes, it was a good winter. Oh, hello Spring!

A Lion for a Day

Illustrator vector concepts for a close personal client of mine. We started out with a lion face and then it grew to something a lil' more complicated. Thinking logo and possibly t-shirts.

Shek Kin Off the Dust

Once I started playing music about a year ago, one of my art forms simply took a backseat, screen printing! Having not done it in a while I figured it was time to re-up on some a emulsion, new photoflood, and some new images. Here's one, of the late kung fu star Shek Kin and a huge blunt. I happened to document it almost step by step to give you a quick idea of the process, especially for those who are new to skill.

Here's my transparency against the screen I'm gonna burn it into.

After mixing some brand new emulsion, I wiped into the screen, working til it's smooth and even. Yeah, nice and smooth. I let it dry in a dark place for 20 minutes. Then we come down and burn it. The lamp is about 13 and a half inches up, and I left on for seven and a half minutes.

Once the time is up, I take over to the kitchen sink and wash it out, cold water. Over time the lighter, unexposed emulsion comes right out, and you can see through the screen, like so.

I let it dry in front of the fan until it was completely dry. Here's how it looks back on the table.

I prepped a small canvas I had standing around, and threw down some silver for some contrast. After that I masked the screen around certain edges, layed it on the canvas and ran the ink. Viola!

I also ran the image over a new sketchbook I bought and have yet to fill. Then I immediately rinsed out the screen and let the pieces dry. That's it. With all the drying and waiting it took a couple of hours from start to finish.