Godfather painting

Finished stencil/painting of The Godfather  acrylic on canvas very simple...

Deadmau5 Photoshoot

First post of a new year! wooooo! thanks everyone for keeping up with me and a happy new year to all!  as promised here are some of the best pictures we took during the photoshoot around town. Big thanks to my friend Gary for taking the time out of his day to help me with this... It was a long day and i turned many heads walking by people wearing this. Lots of people loved it and took pictures from far and up close next to me. Had to be careful to not hit people with the ears.....

During the photoshoot i staered out great full of energy but by the afternoon the heat started to get to me. Considering it was 87 degrees outside in california i had to take the head off multiple times to keep myself from dehydrating....

In my opinion i think this picture was the best out of them all. I love how the background came out and i cant wait to do it again soon!In the end i sold this one to a friend for $35 and he wears it now as he dances at parties. Ive been thinking of making another one this time instead of fabric a smooth surface to create a Deadmau5 yearbook for my last year of high school. 

Evil Deadmau5

Ok so i managed after 2 weeks of work to finish the deadmau5 head! Got it shaped carved threaded and formed! all thats left is to cover the front with fabric, add the mouth and teeth!

Started to cover the front and added the mouth and teeth in. Pricked my fingers countless times getting the needles through the paper mache which is harder than it looks.... so far i like how its going

Finished that and started to hot clue the fabric to the paper mache. Had to cut it a coupletimes to not get any creases in the fabric. after 2 hours i got the head completely covered and finished! enjoy!

MOAR KISS paintings

my dad decided he wanted another painting to go with the one i made for his office... this time an album cover and out of ALLLLLLLLLLL the possibilities he had... he had to pick Destroyer...

The art on the cover is amazing in my opinion... its just i have no experience at all on drawing full body people. The first thing i had to do was sketch an idea of how i was going to place them on the canvas.. The cover is in a square shape like how many Vinyl records are. The canvas is a rectangle... took some time to get the size right but i figured it out.        somehow the image got flipped... great.

After that i cut out the shape and traced it on the canvas to fill with the details. After that i started to do a basic black coat on the group to see how many layers of paint i would need. luckily only2 layers of black were needed to get the right color. Drawing the scale pattern on Gene Simmons boots was a real pain to get right...

Once that was done i began to sketch the rocky base theyre jumping off. That was also given a black base coat to get the shadow.

After that, i began painting the brown and trying to get the colors right on the costumes. The details on all of them were a pain to paint on but the outcome was fantastic. 

Once that was started the background needed to be done... a hard lesson learned, never use watercolor on canvas... it just looks bad

and now here i stand, fixed the watercolor mess and just trying to get it done... On the bright side i started the Deadmau5 head again to try and do it right.. Wish me luck on both!  also thinking of making a facebook page... let me know what you guys think  yes or no

KISS Painting

This started off as a project to distract me from the horrible Deadmau helmet failure and slowly transformed into a project of its own! my dad liked it and wanted it for his office...

Over time i began to learn that the more i sketched out the faces and more color i added the better it got. The last face i needed was Gene Simmons... i originally didnt make a sketch so i had to wing it and use a rough draft as the final copy and im pleased with the results

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Once i got that done my dad suggested adding symbols on the corners and the KISS logo in the center. After some research on the web i found some images of the symbols and sketched them on and did a test layer of the placement.

Once he OK'd the design i began to darken everything and i decided to do a flame color for the KISS logo in the center. In the end i was happy on how it came out and he was happy. thanks for looking! 

More Side Projetcs

A friend of mine ant me to make him a zelda shield and a KISS painting for my dad. Today i spent 3 hours on both and im glad on how far i got. enjoy!

Arc Reactor

kind of a delayed post but i finally found some free time to update! For Halloween this year i decided to be Tony Stark from Iron Man, tho i didnt have enough time to grow out the beard, i got pretty close where people could recognize me without the Arc Reactor. I wish i had taken progress pictures but i made it in only 4 days in my garage with a box of scraps... The copper wire spools are made of well.. spools. The outer ring is hot glue sticks shaped to the form of a ring. The inner ring is made out of epoxy sculpt and the base is a ÇD to give it a reflective look. The light is a single really bright LED hot glued to the center. 

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 In the end i was pleased with how it came out and i will make another one just 

for me. My friend bought this one from me after Halloween was over and asked for a stand to go along with it.