Xmas Drawing

This was a collaborative effort of Aaron Weber, George Frye, Seth Miller, & myself. We all sat around putting little marks on paper this year for Xmas and this is the final product.

NYC Alleyway

Sexy Chili

Some friends of mine are competing in a chili cook off. One of the things they are judged on is the theme & decorations of their booth. They're theme is the sexy side of chili. I'm not really sure what that means but I was asked to design a label to put on their cans. So this is my Sexy Chili label.

Later I'll pop on of these bad boys on a can and take a photo of it for all to see.

Chinese Dragon Monster

This is a Chinese Dragon looking guy I've been sketching on this week. As you can see it's just a head thus far. I want to add a body or at least a background, but for now here he is.

Zombie Gorillas 5

Zombie Gorillas 4

Here is the 4th instalment of Zombie Gorillas. To view all the comics in one spot click here.

The Furies

We're a Rock & Roll band.

How To Paint A Room

A time lapse video of a room being painted

The Mean Marine Martian Monkey Murdering Machine Man

The Mean Marine is a comic/cartoon character created by Andy Sutton, Nick Link, and Charlie Alger in 2005. I posted this due to recent activity on my other blog Photoshop Battles.
If your already a fan of The Mean Marine check this out.During the 1950's and 60's during the space race several countries sent monkeys into space. These monkeys were assumed lost in space. The truth is that these monkeys inhabited the subterranean caves of Mars. Here they evolved into super monkeys, waiting to enact their revenge on earth.During World War 3 America's greatest hero The Mean Marine was ambushed and blown into pieces. After losing America's greatest hero The United States fell to foreign powers and was laid to waste for generations.
In the year 2 million the Martian Monkeys came back to earth, killing all in they're path. There were very few survivor, but among these few there was a scientist. This scientist invented a time machine before the monkeys attacked. He used this time machine to go back and get The Mean Marine. The only problem is he went to the wrong time and could only get The Mean Marines ravaged body.
The scientist brought The Mean Marine back to life, but without a cost. Some of his parts were missing so they were replaced. His legs now tank treads and his arms now guns The Mean Marine became the perfect monkey killing machine. Now The Mean Marine is man kinds only hope against these monkeys bent on world domination.

Zombie Gorillas 3

This is the third installment of the Zombie Gorillas comic. A forth is nearly finished so from now on you can find Zombie Gorillas on it's own blog which is here. Enjoy.

Goose Monster

Today i was asked to do some very "poorly drawn" sketches of Goose Gossage as a monster.So here I've rendered Goose as The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, and A Vampire. Notice the mustache on all of these. None of these will be used in the final product because they're "to good". They have to look like someone with no artistic talent drew them. Damn you art school!!!!

Old Puppet Shows

These are from early 2005. Really there just annoying, but I found them and got a good laugh out of them so I figured I would put them on the internet.

Live Animation

This is from the live animation booth my company had set up at the Boards Summit earlier this week. I quickly edited this together with some Of Montreal to display on the internet. It's pretty funny.

Zombie Gorillas 2

Well I finished another comic so I figured I better post this one too. More to come.

Zombie Gorillas 1

This is the first comic in a new series by myself and Dustin Babcock. The Characters featured in this comic are Guy, Ghost, & Lomack. In that order of appearance.
Once we have a few of these finished we'll start it's own blog. In the mean time I'll display them here.

Animation Reel

This is a animation reel I recently cut together. My old reel was set up to (kinda) tell a story. Each cartoon was on for it's entirety. This is more of a traditional reel with some music and clips of animation. Theres nothing new on here, it's just a new cut.

Aaron Weber

This is from my earlier post of face sketches. I really like this sketch of my friend Aaron Weber. So I decided to color it in and see what happens. I think I might like it better with just the pencil, but this turned out really neat. It looks like an airbrush, and isn't that all that Photoshop wants to be? An airbrush. Oh yeah and I also used my little Nick symbol in this one. It's been quite a while since I put that on any artwork.

Faces

This is a page out of my sketchbook. I've been doing quick sketches of faces in order to keep my drawing skills honed. Maybe you might recognize some of these people, maybe not. I'm gonna keep doing these facial sketches so there is more or these on the way.

Carey (Beauty Re-Touching)

My producer Carey needed a head shot for an upcoming event with Boards magazine. I took this photo using a Nikon D90.
Since this is for a commercial advertising event we wanted to make this photo really stick out. So I got out my Photoshop brushes and went to town. My only direction was to make her look pretty. Otherwise I could do whatever I wanted.
So here I made her stand out but making the background black & white and using filters made it look like a painting. I went in really close on her face and got rid of any blemishes or wrinkles. Basically just smoothed out her skin. I also whitened her eyes and made her pupils a more vibrant green. Lastly I added a vignette around her face, shoulders, & chest. So there it is, if you wanna make a plain photo spectacular just beat it up in Photoshop. Works every time.

Dinomation

This is a short animation I helped James P.M. Lee create for his Nick Walks The Dinosaur comic.

D.C.

If you haven't guessed it by now. I took this photo in Washington D.C.

Spiderman

Just a quick drawing I did of your friendly neighborhood Spiderman.

Batbear

Character Design Stuff

Some old character design sketches.

Comic Characters

Rip offs

Join The Archery Club

This is the D.C. Comics character Green Arrow. I drew this to put on a poster advertising Columbia Universities archery club. Lets hope I don't get sued.

Bathroom Whiteboard

Last night I was at a party at Sonic Union. They had whiteboards and dry erase markers in every bathroom. I draw on whiteboards whenever I get an opportunity. This is the little guy I drew.

Nick Walks The Dinosaur

Read James P.M. Lee's comic
Nick Walks The Dinosaur
http://nickwalksthedinosaur.blogspot.com/

Tom Petty Lady

This lady looks like Tom Petty. I personally don't know her, but I know one of her co-workers. I was commissioned to make these in exchange for drinks. The first on is just the lady on the cover of Down The Torpedoes. The second is her as Tom Petty and her co-workers as The Heartbreakers. Maybe not my finest Photoshop work, but funny and good enough for a couple drinks.

Birthday Balloons

I was asked to make a little photoshop thing for my friend James birthday. This is it. It will go on the facebook event page for his birthday party. I like that the balloon he's holding says sale.

Killer Apple

Mmmmmm Tasty

Titanic 9-11

I recently started a blog called photoshop battles. The first challenge was to create an image with two news worthy events from history. I chose 9-11 & The Titanic. This is the image I created. Normally I will try to avoid posting the same things here as I post there. This particular image is very interesting though. While creating it I turned off the layer that has The Hudson River and the NYC skyline. What I found was another interesting composition.This one I feel is much more ominous and very surreal. Anyway I wanted to share.

New Blog (Photoshop Battles)

I've started a new blog called Photoshop Battles. This blog has a weekly topic which people then make photoshop compositions and display them. Later we can review and critique each one. This is the header I designed for it. So check out the new blog and join in the fun if you want. We should have a topic up soon.

Batman Sketch

This is a real quick and dirty Batman sketch I did.

Obama?

So below when I say this was a quick sketch I mean it. I didn't look at it for several hours. Coming back to it I realize the right eye needs some work.
This is a quick sketch (about 15 minutes) I did based off Barack Obama's yearbook photo. It's pretty decent as far as quick sketches go. Although I am not including the original photograph here. So if you want to see how close I go to the original you'll have to search it out yourself. It's not hard to find. I also found G.W.'s yearbook photo so maybe I'll do one of him next.

NBP Photoshoping Series

It's a Monday and I'm bored at work. So I started photoshopping for fun. This first piece is copied from a Dr. Martins ad campaign in which dead rockers are wearing doc's in heaven. Here we have Joey Ramone (Seth Miller), Joe Strummer (George Frye), Kurt Cobain (Joe Stratton), & Sid Vicious (Mark Jaynes). Not Blood, Paint is in heaven.
Since they're all ghosts in the first image. I decided to make them ghostbusters in the second.
So if any of you out there have any ideas of what you would like to see NBP dressed up as next let me know and I'll give it my best shot.

Adam & Eve

I was sketching yesterday and decided I wanted to make something that looked like a comic book cover. I've been reading a lot of Batman and R. Crumb. This is inspired by Crumb for sure. I like the idea of a comic about sin, I mean nobody want good clean wholesome fun anymore. If this actually was a comic this would be the first issue. So I figured I would go with the original sin. I like how Adam and Eve look very frisky even though they haven't eaten the fruit yet.

 As you may have guessed I am not a religious person, so this is all just satire to me. I wish instead of the rolling hills I would have made it look more like a garden, but oh well.

Another MJ Tribute

I had a lot of fun working on the first Michael Jackson tribute that I did on Friday. I figured why not make another. So here is my second in a the Michael Jackson tribute series
He has such a great silhouette? All the best characters have great silhouettes.

Everyone Likes To Draw

If you've been reading my blog for 6 months or more you may remember the calender drawings I would post monthly.
Well this is no calender, but a dry erase board. I went to a housewarming party in Harlem. It just happened they had a dry erase board. Some random party goer and myself started drawing on the board. Before to long the entire party had drawn something. As you may remember for the calender posts I'm a sucker for these things. Luckily phones have cameras. So here's the collective artwork of 20 drunk kids in Harlem.

The King Of Pop

I love Michael Jackson, always have. I put this together as a tribute to the greatest artist of our time. I'm gonna miss that guy.

Ho-Made is on the web

I finally have a website actually uploaded to the internet. It's www.ho-maderecords.com. It's not quite finished but it's there. In time it will be a grand site. So check it out and tell me about it.

Ho-Made Records

So I recently got into building websites. My first successful site www.notboodpaint.com went online a few weeks back. It's not as grand as I would prefer because I didn't design it (George Frye designed it, I made it work.) Now that I know how websites are built I've started creating my own. Ho-Made Records is a recording/media company I started with Jake Perry in 2003. We've never had a website so I'm making it. It's basically an outlet for all our bands plus my art/photography/animation/films. Here are some pictures of the in progress website. It's supposed to look as it it was all created in a notebook.

Bands:
About:

Images:Video:
Contact:

I'll keep all you interested parties as to when Ho-Made Records goes live.