My Artsprojekt store
I opened up a store on www.artsprojekt.com. My previously posted skatedeck designs are now up for grabs, as well as some posters (available in various sizes) and high top Pro-Keds sneakers yay! Check it out: www.zazzle.com/rudy_faber.
Custom Digga
This is the toy I mentioned in my previous post. I managed to do some touch-ups using white gouache. Unfortunatley I couldn’t prevent some ink smudges upon re-assembling the darn thing (I decapitated it before the process). Next time use better ink and never ever use varnish!
My Little Suicide Pony
Also made possible by my lovely douchebag friends who thought it would be funny to sneak in a My Little Pony between my moderate (but totally awesome!) urban vinyl collection…which actually was kinda funny when I found out. It gave me quite a nice platform to doodle on with a sharpie.
I customized another blanc toy with a sharpie. Spend two days working on it and turned out great IMO, untill I decided to spray a layer of varnish on top to give it a nice glossy finish and also prevent the ink from smudging… uhu, pretty much the stupidest thing I’ve done this year. Apparantly sharpie ink on vinyl and varnish for oils and acrylics don’t get along that well…I still might be able to safe most of it with some heavy touch-ups, but man that ruined my day. Made me buy a bunch of new blanc Munny’s.
RJ
New prints available
I have some new prints up on inPRNT.com: http://www.inprnt.com/gallery/rudeone/
Punk
A few days ago I did a couple of character designs at Triangle Studios which were kind of stereotypes of particular music subcultures. This gave me an idea for a fun personal project. Because I love designing characters, I love music and I’ve always been very interested in fashion that defines various subcultures, I figured it would be awesome to design all kinds of characters refering to different subcultures. I intend to design both male and female versions of each. Today I painted this character refering to the 70s/early 80s UK punk scene.
RJ
Custom Munny WIP
About freakin’ time I started painting one of these. I had this blanc laying around for ages. Hmm kinda looks like Carrie Ann Moss IMO. Not intentional.
RJ
Happy New year
Hope everybody is having a good start. Peace, love, happiness to all!
Almost a week in 2010, time for this year’s first post. Two (still…) WIP’s of previously posted works and a new caraciture.
RJ
Different approach
I really like the idea of a mural in this illustration, just didn’t really feel the first. Started doing a complete paint-over. Just experimenting really. Maybe it’s gonna be a Griffon, maybe a phoenix, I dunno.
RJ
So I had my portfolio reviewed last night…
By none other than Jon Foster and Carl Dobsky. Jon Foster is one of my favorite living contemporary illustrators and Carl Dobsky is one of the top living fine artists, so this was a unique opportunity to have my work reviewed by these guys. They really took the time to give some very usefull pointers and critique, analyzing every piece. It’s a great experience to get advice, as well as some recognition by artists you really admire and look up to.
I included this particular piece, eventhough it’s not finished, because I like the dynamic pose and the overall feel of it. One thing Jon and Carl both pointed out in pretty much all of my work, is my use of too much heavy blacks, like in this one. It’s defenitely something I needed to hear and will work on from now on. For this piece I’m trying to replace the heavy black of the catsuit with some dark blue-ish hue. Also fixed her left leg, but I already did that before I had the review.
RJ
Coop
I was invited to join a new collective art blog called Numen Square. It’s purpose is to act as a place for a selective group of artist to post their work and participate in weekly drawing jams with a new topic announced every sunday. The blog just kicked of recently so it’s still a very small group at the moment and there aren’t many illustrations posted yet, but the first batch of work looks very promising. Keep an eye out!
Anyway, I did this piece for last week’s topic: Favorite tv shows. It’s an attempt at portraying a sort of caricature-ish Special agent Dale Cooper from the hit series Twin Peaks. I didn’t get the likeness that well in my opinion, but I guess the Twin Peaks theme is quite obvious.
RJ
