The Tentacled Monkey

A couple of costume creations just to show you how easy it can be done On the first one you need a cardboard-box, 2 toyguns and a pair of scissors. Takes 2 minutes. The zombie make-up was done with wax, fake blood, gouache-paint and grease-paint.

My daughter is 4 years old and loves to draw. She goes through atleast 20 sheets of paper everyday and i collect them all. I’m very impressed on how she do her stuff. There are so many expressions and stories behind them. These days she draws alot of cats, babies and monsters and she is very good at copying my drawings too. It reminds me when i used to copy my dads work. I was never as good as her though. I will post more in the future.

Check out Robert Valley’s work: http://www.robertvalley.com/
I purchased 2 of his books and it has been my biggest eye-opener
in years. How can you be this good?

Pencil-sketcth.. Not sure how this came about.

This was done for a competition. As you can see i used a traditional platform-game solution. I came up with about 6 different ideas. 3 of them were created and this one were chosen for my contribution. This idea popped up the day before the deadline. They did not like it though.

Being a huge fan of the movie Goodfellas and Casino i tried to do a couple of caricatures of De Niro and Pesci. Not often i do caricatures, but i think this one turned out pretty good. It was all done in Photoshop. A few years ago i always started a picture in PS, but since then i’ve gone back to sketching with pencils on paper and then scanning the image before continue on it in PS.

A few more new school sketches. Drawn with a Pencil and colored in Photoshop. I kinda like the organic lettering in the first. Sometimes i dont do a word or name. Just playing around with shapes like in the one at the top. If i like the result sometimes i tranform the shapes into letters afterwards.

Hands are among the most fun thing to draw. I try to do atleast a couple of these each year.

This is not something one get to see very often. During a walk with my daughter in May i found these two pieces at the other side of a tunnel facing the water where i live. Both are dated 1985. There are a few newer ones around them, but besides from that the place is untouched. If these would have been placed in a more visible spot they would most likely have been erased by now. In my opinion the piece with the Mario character is pretty cool considering it’s age. From what i saw none of these 2 were signed.