June 2013
4 posts
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May 2013
9 posts
Have you ever seen any of Kevin Tongs work? Yours and his are very similar.
kevin and i are actually good friends. we met back in 2009 at a poster show in chicago, and talk and bounce sketches and concepts off each other regularly. hyper talented guy. this is one of my favorite posters of his.
Everyone else, check him out here…
http://tragicsunshine.com/
its 3:15am. i just finished wrapping and boxing everything up for the show this friday in Brooklyn. to say i am tired would be an understatement. to say i am not covered in a fine misting of clear coat spray would be a lie. to say i forgot to eat today would be the truth. to say my hands look like the worn tired grease smeared aged hands of an archetypal industrial mechanic would be an insult to mechanics everywhere because i dont understand how machines work at ALL. to say im intensely proud of the work i pulled off for this show after weeks and weeks of staying up until 4am nightly would be about accurate.
anyways, given ill be in Brooklyn, ill be at Pies’n’Thighs as much as humanly possible this weekend to celebrate-via-food the fact that next week i don’t have to do a goddamned thing.
hopefully ill see some of you there!
anyways, given ill be in Brooklyn, ill be at Pies’n’Thighs as much as humanly possible this weekend to celebrate-via-food the fact that next week i don’t have to do a goddamned thing.
hopefully ill see some of you there!
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April 2013
8 posts
Excuse me for asking such a silly question, but I saw the process shots you just posted; may I ask what the large decorator's paint brush is for? I can't figure it out myself. =)
its basically just a tiny broom. scratching up as much black ink as i do, the dried ink scrapings can get onto your hands and smudge across the board, or streak if you sweep your hand the wrong way. just better to keep things tidy. usually theres a smaller wet brush in use that i use for blacking out areas with ink, but obviously i dont keep that directly on the board.
have you done many gallery shows with your art?
yup! i do a couple a year, including group shows. if you pop back a few pages on my tumblr youll see some installation photos of my last big solo show at Rotofugi Gallery in chicago. ill be at Cotton Candy Machine in brooklyn NY for a small solo show May 10th, and then in LA within the year for a very big to-do.
How do you make your art? Specifically the night time illustrations, what programs do you use and what techniques do you employ?
ink on clayboard by hand usually, drawing in reverse because night time is more about light than shadow. that for like 100 hours. i eat alot of snacks. everything is scanned and then color separations are done digitally. then everything is screenprinted. check out the process posts ive made for Psycho and Game of Thrones.
