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Kaiju And A Girl

Daniel — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:59:36 +0000

Two little sketches I did in between and after things… The second one is referenced from this awesome blog (LINK)

Gals Wit Guns – NSFW

Daniel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:14:36 +0000

Not from life but from flickr instead of working on what I should be doing (the skateboard design) but I guess it beats doing nothing or whining. No preliminary sketching just brush pen.

Some of the refs (I missed saving all of the addys…) – copyright is with the respective owners of the images

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabbyzombie/2288238009/in/photostream/

Sketches of Random People

Daniel — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:03:57 +0000

I was forced to waste my day yesterday with a lot of waiting and walking but at least I managed some sketches of the people around me.

Sketches of Animals

Daniel — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:39:44 +0000

Here are a few studies of animals I did this evening. No pencil, just straight with a brush pen.

Morbidly Obese Or Crazy Phat

Daniel — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:07:41 +0000

I’m having some more fun hunting for images of morbidly obese people. This particular image seems to be rather well know, or so I’ve been told. Well, I referenced it from a photo on flickr (possibly more engrossing) and drew it with a nib pen, ink wash, screen tone and acrylics.

Beasts! Volume 2 Submission: Ushi-Oni

Daniel — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:00:46 +0000

A while ago there was an open call for submissions to the second volume of Beasts! by Fantagraphics’ Jacob Covey. The results have been posted and I have to admit that the few that have been posted to the blog are wonderful illustrations. Jennifer Tong deserves to be the winner.

My submission to the Beasts! Volume 2. It’s a classic Japanese Monster. There are many stories about different kinds of ushi-oni, which are incredible creatures that all have a cow’s head. The most common and widespread description is that of a creature with a cow’s head and spider’s body, a gigantic creature the size of several bulls, much larger than humans. Taken from yokaimura.org

Also the gyūki/ushioni sometimes transforms itself into a beautiful woman, as it did in a famous story from Kouchi prefecture. There an ushi-oni lived in a deep mountain pool, along with a great number of fish. One day a rich man from a nearby village came up with a scheme to poison the pool and have all of these delicious fish for himself. The gyūki of course did not appreciate this, and appeared in the man’s dream as a woman, asking him to not go through with his plan, but he ignored this warning and poisoned the pool anyway. Subsequently the woman/cow-demon was seen leaving for better waters, and the man’s house was crushed in a landslide and he was killed. Quoted from obakemono.com

Hunter Woman In Skirt With Hat Studies

Daniel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:02:58 +0000

Some sketches plus I’ve been having fun with photos on flickr lately.

Space Age Skirt Girl Sketches

Daniel — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:15:12 +0000

Sketches. Some of these I found on flickr. Some of them with the help of posemaniac.

Messy Sakana Sketches

Daniel — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:40:53 +0000

Whew, just before the university closed its doors again and keeps them shut until next week I managed to get some pages of my current sketchbook scanned. Once again I am enjoying experiments with various liquid colored food stuff. Tea, coffee, nissin cup noodle soup, you name it, I probably tried it. I also seem to have developed a sense for finding fish in those blotches. I don’t know why but maybe it is because I have been eating a lot of fish ever since I arrived in Japan… Oh yeah, and do not miss to take a look at the last image wich is a good and honest preview for a little series of cartoony strips I am working on. I hope the subject will become easier to identify once the lettering and rest of the page is done.

Artwork for Heavy Hitterz

Daniel — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:41:05 +0000

As advertised earlier (here), I am participating in a group show in San Francisco called “Heavy Hitterz”. Well, I just send the two paintings off over the ocean and if you’re in the bay area why not check out some of it.

For those two paintings I wanted to show some of the things that inspire me a lot here in Japan. Strangely compelling skylines created by ugly buildings that hardly leave the space for plants or breathing, larger than life monsters that destroy cities within the blink of an eye and of course all of that featured in the ever present mangas. Still, I couldn’t let go of my favorite way of inking and those cuddly cute faces inspired by early 20th century cartooning art. Realizing the differences between all those various elements I tried to bring these down into a working contrast. The result is a mixed media diptychon with screentone, acrylic colors and ink.