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How To Draw Preston Blair As A Zombie

Daniel — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:49:41 +0000

I am participating in a group show called “Night Of The Living Artist” at the Chicago Art Department for which the theme was to zombify an artist that has influenced me.

I had to think a bit but in the end it wasn’t that hard to find an artist that really inspired and helped me in my early days. So I’ve created the missing page from the famous “1$ Animation Course” by Preston Blair that explains how to draw him as a zombie.

Media: Acrylic and pencil on cardboard
Size: 22,5 cm x 39 cm (ca. 9″ x 15.5″)

9 Panels About Love – Painting Process Part 3 – Finished

Daniel — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:49:31 +0000

Finally finished. I realized I need to start painting bigger pictures since this one is awfully small and fleshing out the details wasn’t as much fun as it could have been. It also taught me that I need to learn to be more exact and precise when choosing colors.

Oh, and if you don’t get the story (some details are still hard to make out, unfortunately): It is about the unpredictability of love. The little robot thinks he has found his love by tearing the petals of a flower and decides to send a letter of love to his new girl but through an accident he has to find out that his heart has decided otherwise…

9 Panels About Love – Painting Process Part 2

Daniel — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:33:52 +0000

Lots of things going on today and stuff to prepare for the Comic Con in Erlangen. Excuse for not having made much progress. Maybe.

9 Panels About Love – Painting Process Part 1

Daniel — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:20:15 +0000

Todays progress on the comic. Painting is fun.

9 Panels About Love – Storyboard and Pencils

Daniel — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:15:41 +0000

For today finally the update to the previous post on 9 panels about love. The first image is the storyboard, the second scan shows the pencils on the primed and colored wooden board. The board is roughly 28 cm by 30 cm (12″ x 11″).

9 Panels About Love

Daniel — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:46:18 +0000

Currently I am working on a painted nine panel comic strip. Following are the first few character studies for the protagonist.

プランター　Planter – Artwork For Heavy Hitterz: Manila

Daniel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:27:30 +0000

Here is my contribution to the Heavy Hitterz: Manila show. I basically went with the same theme as in the last paintings I did for the show in San Francisco but now it is all glorious technicolor. Again a happy kaiju monster that takes a particular interest in planting things into an urban landscape. This time “happy beans” are being planted. The buildings are actually in Kyoto, Japan albeit with some little changes. The type, a new addition as well, reads プランター or “planter”. It is supposed to be as artificial and multicultural as the monsters: Japanese and Western.

The painting is 14″ by 11″ and painted with acrylics on construction cardboard. It took me a bit longer to get it finished but I am happy with the result. Look out for more paintings in the future. I am also planning to make small limited edition print runs of these paintings. So stay tuned.

This time the show is sponsored by the company with the fancy shoes: Royal Elastics, IMEEM, Scion, Lost at E Minor, Distinction Gallery and Fabric8. On April 4th there will be a Launch Party for HH:Manila at Club 6 in San Francisco, dubbed “HOW WE DO”. There will be Art displayed and some of the best local underground MCs and DJ’s are performing. LINK

You can keep updated on things leading up to the show and during at our custom IMEEM page, there will be 4 artists that will be traveling to the Philippines for the openin. We will be posting blogs, photos, and video and a lot of other goodness – whatever that means. LINK

Last but not least there will be a new microsite that is launching soon, that will have the artwork posted and for sale. LINK

Heavy Hitterz: Manila – WIP

Daniel — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:23:48 +0000

A few days ago I’ve been blogged by the kind and awesome Jenn Porreca and the Raw Art Blog mentioning my previous contributions to the first Heavy Hitterz exhibition at the AgeSong Gallery in San Francisco… Here is a little shot of my painting for the upcoming Heavy Hitterz in Manila. As you can see I am using a bit of Photoshop for planning my next steps into the painting.

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.