Middle Earth School

I am a huge pop culture person and it is such a huge part of my life and my career as an artist.  I love to mash up genres and references, but sometimes they just write themselves with no mash ups needed.  Frodo never seemed very smart...just lucky.

This would be my review of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy:  "In these movies, I really only cared about what was happening to that magnificent piece of jewelry Frodo was toting around.  All the other shit was just plain boring.  Not enough ring, not enough magic." 



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Leather Bear Review

This is another work in progress.  I had this idea during Pride 2014 and thought it would be a fun image to do.   If you are not familiar with the term "bear" it is a segment of the gay community that generally consists of larger (muscular or "big boned") gay men that tend to be hairy.  One of the big factors of getting this done is the fact that I eventually have to put hair on everyone (except the girls) and that is going to take a very long time.  If you are interested to know the names of each type of bear, see below (from L to R):

Polar Bear (older bear)
Cub (young bear)
Muscle Bear
Lady Bear (bear drag)
Otter (thin but hairy)
Panda Bear (Asian Bear)
Black Bear (African American Bear)
Brown Bear (Latino Bear)
Leather Bear
Ursula (lesbian that identifies with the bear community)
Goldilocks (straight girls that like to hang around bears)

Please be reminded that these are not terms I coined, they are well known terms within the community.

Digital

Kitten Fondue

Yeah, you heard me right...Kitten Fondue.  This is a follow up to my biggest selling picture to date, Bunny Sushi (see Color Pencil heading to view Bunny Sushi).  I have this problem where I seem to want to put animals in food related situations that they may not normally show up.  This is one such instance and it was glorious!

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Justice League: Tea Party

Sometimes I just can't help what my brain makes me draw.  Why a tea party?  Because Wonder Woman is bad ass enough to make those boys sit down and have some fucking tea!  A lot of my art, the vast majority, have silly childish humor in it, which is the part I love the most and they always make me giggle when I see them again.

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Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is by far one of my favorite movies.  It has action, adventure and a super sexy leading man!  As a young boy, the opening scene had me excited and scared the whole time, while I am sure my eyes dried out from never blinking.  When I do pictures like this, I love to throw in references from other movies, usually by the same creator...thus the Vadar head.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

I love all the Indiana Jones movies...well, all but the last one.  As a young kid, they really spoke to me and made me dream of a life of exploration and discovery.  Did my life go that path?  No, I found out archaeology is nothing like the Indiana Jones movies and that put a damper on my archaeologist dreams.  Instead, as and artist, I can now just draw him in any adventure I want and let my imagination do the exploring for me.  I love my brain!

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Han Shot First

One thing I have to say is that I tend to have a very dirty mind.  I often take the most innocent of sayings or terms and turn them dirty for my own amusement.  This is one such instance.  "Han shot first" is a huge rallying cry from Star Wars fans in favor of the original movies before their re-edit where George Lucas made it so that Han Solo shot Gredo out of self defense, rather than out of some morally ambiguous reason.  So when I was at a comic book convention I kept overhearing people yell this and I couldn't stop giggling at how dirty it sounded...thus this picture presented itself.

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