What fresh hell is this?

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This is a just a quick doodle I made after my friend, Stormy, posted a picture of Cat Head brand pumpkin spice flavored vodka. This is the image that immediately came to mind

Crazy 8s!

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Hey, Kids! How you like like a vinyl die cut sticker of this friendly octopus drawn by yours truly? Well, it can be yours along with ANOTHER sticker of your choice by a far more talented artist for the low low price of just $5! Wow! Whatta deal! How can you obtain such adhesive beauty? Simply by throwing $5 the Kickstarter campaign of my good friend and incredible artist, Kaity O'Shea. She is the genius behind Killer Tentacle Octopus and she needs your help to begin mass production on her newest masterpiece. So don't delay! Buy a damn sticker today!!
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"Oh, I think I'm in love!"

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This is my piece for "Meatball Head: An Art Show Celebrating 20 Years of Sailor Moon" opening tonight at Meltdown Comics It's a hand painted animation cel. Here's some detail shots.

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I've always loved collecting animation art, so it's really fun to get to create my own. It is difficult however because I'm not using the correct paints. Cel Vinyl paint is really the only paint to use, but it's really expensive and since cels aren't actually used in animation production anymore, there's only one company that makes it anymore. Since I don't have any, I have to use heavy body acrylics. This piece was more challenging that my cel for the Wes Anderson tribute show because it has much more detail. I discovered that latex house paint and mixing my acrylic with gesso seemed to help the flow of the paint somewhat. Here's some progress pics.

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My line art which I drew digitally was photocopied onto the cel and I painted the reverse side. Here is my original digital drawing and color key. 

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The background was created digitally and just printed. I was originally going to hand paint the background, but I wasn't sure how to create the circles/bubbles without an airbursh (which I don't have). I was watching a lot of Sailor Moon episodes as research for the painting, and boy, do they sure like to throw those bubble in A LOT of backgrounds. Here's the background itself.

I based this off of one of the background from the opening title sequence.

If you're in the Los Angeles area, come out to the show tonight. It was curated by my pal Nico Colaleo and he puts together some great shows with absolutely incredible artists. I saw some of the work last night and it blew me away!

"Reveal unto me the truth, my dearest friend"

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"Reveal unto me the truth, my dearest friend."

I can't remember the last time I made an illustration purely for the fun of it. Not for a band or a promoter or a pitch, but just for the sake of creating a fun drawing. I need to do it more often.

I had a hard time settling on colors. Here are a few early options I was playing with.

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Also, sometimes I like to pose for my illustrations for reference.