TATTOOS

So uhm, I trade paintings for tattoos. Anyone interested? 

EH? EH?

the endless monologue

Here are some small illustrations I did for Time Out New York about a month ago.  It was my 

first commissioned editorial job and I kinda stressed out because I was not used to work fast

and with a deadline that cannot be broke. I sketched them out, inked, photographed (I have NOT a scanner, dammit) threw in photoshop and applied colors (after waking up my roommate 

and her boyfriend at 7am to pose for me). I was a bit nervous because digital coloring is not really my thing and I felt like I hadn't enough confidence with it to feel entirely comfortable. When I paint, I know that I know how to fix something if it goes wrong, while with photoshop I had to experiment, with the pressure of a deadline. It came out nice. These were the two spots illustrations, there was also a full page one that I am not uploading for unknown reasons. 

The story was about the secret identities of new yorkers, sort of a doctor jeckyll and mr. hyde kind of thing....a female lawyer that go-go dances at night, a pot-head doctor and a polite husband with an addiction for sexy massages.

I just finished working this morning on another piece for Time Out, coming out next week. Check it out.  Is there anybody out there anyway? 

a tribute to the goonies

Hey here is a new piece, realized for WARRIORS SKATEBOARDS; it is currently been printed on decks that will be distributed and sold in a bunch of european countries. 

I had a lot of fun doing that, I have an obsession for skeletons and I can't get over it. I am afraid I am going to be that person that only paints skeletons. 

Oh well, better than being that person that only paints black squares with mysterious meaning of deep value that nobody really gets but they still shake their heads in approval.

Here what you see is what you get. It's a skeleton. He's wearing american apparel underwear. They were probably shoplifted. End of the story.

The "warriors" kids asked me to give him a collar bones tattoo in honor to the goonies, I though it was a brilliant idea.

The puddle on the floor is the logo of the company. 

New York Press

Here is an illustration I recently did for NewYorkPress. I painted it in acrylic, photographed it and sent it. The deadline was tight, couple of days but I managed to get thru without loosing my mind.

I was fueled by a shameful amount of vegan brownies from Vegan Treats. 

It was actually kind of funny because after I sent the first series of sketches, the art director told me that she REALLY liked them but if I could manage to make some changes. Very specifically, she gave me a 7 points list of things to change (the last one was...to add a horse in the background! ahah), that RADICALLY twisted my entire composition, characters and whatsoever, leaving nothing of the original concept. Im not sure what she liked, but she ended up being right...this version works better than the original one. 

It is based on an article written by this folk singer from brooklyn, Mishka Shubaly, about how he successfully half-baked his brain on this new prescription drug that gave him nightmares, weird visions and some sort of reality-shakes...

the descriptions of the experience was beautiful though..

Fuck drugs, keep your eyes open and your mind steady. 

B-MOVIES ARE THE REASON

Long time no update.  Today I feel like this, feasting on the corpse of romantic literature and expressionist cinematic. Twist it into a pop nightmare, make it a technicolor wound. 

 I propose a toast, long live chtulhu and may the river run red.