More Gus

Gus made it out to San Diego with me. I handed out a few of him at Comic Con and of course I wish I took pictures of everyone holding him but I totally forgot. But John Spanky Stokes posted a nice picture of his on his blog. So here's a few more pictures of him now that he is revealed.

Gus Knuckles

Gus made it to San Diego, he loves catching some rays

Flying Gus

I'm waiting to get all my tools to air brush this guy but I was going crazy not knowing what he would look like painted. So I just went at him with every kinda of paint I had. He doesn't look great but I must admit he looks pretty creepy. The picture above proves my point.

Spray paint feet.

Secret 1 off release!

Goes home with Kev... since he is on the special Brother guest list.

And I cleaned my new studio :) Don't mind the gameboy

Liver Diet at Comic Con 2010

I was lucky enough to make the trip to SDCC this year. I bought my tickets so long ago I kept forgetting I was even going. The event was really great, I got to talk to a ton of great artists, hand out some of my toys, made a few new friends and spent a big stack of money I had saved up.

I was really bad at taking pictures, since there was so much going on but thankfully my brother got some good ones so here's some of my favorite photos.

Day one, after waiting a few hours in different lines to get in, the first place I headed was to the grasshut booth! It was really great meeting Bwana and Le Merde, I'm a big fan them so it was great talking about their work.

Lots of Merde!

Wish I picked these guys up, all of Mike's vinyl customs sold

Martin's customs

Sunday Arbito and Le Merde released these resin cars

Gargamel customs

New Dethra looked great.

Zag head custom

Picked up David Choe's new book.

Jackie and her man

Pumped for day 2 haha

Early Friday Mark Nagata from Max Toy Co. was showing at Rotofugi. Mark was a super nice guy, I ended up buying a custom Tripus. These things looked amazing.

My first look at Paul Kaiju's Boss Carrion figure.

We sat in this patch of grass at least once a day. Here we saw David Choe walk by, we just stared at him instead of being nice and saying "Hi"

Burger Buns and I being nervous.

Zombie Burger Buns

Mini Sean putting on a concert in the grass.

Normal comic con stuff.

Normal comic con stuff.

Normal comic con stuff.

great food deals.

Also got to meet long time online friends and ultimate resin duo MonstreHero. They showcased at the Onell crossover booth Friday and Saturday.

Monstre Head

Cliff and Sean brought a ton of awesome work. The Onell booth was a huge hit, and was definitely my favorite booth at SDCC

By Saturday i was a little worn out by all the SDCC madness, but I woke up early one more time to catch Paul's release of his first vinyl figure Boss Carrion. Ended up hitting the ATM so I could purchase one of these guys. I picked up a standard release but this photo shows some of his amazing hand paints. Complete with magnetic baby!

Here is my expensive haul from SDCC. It was worth every penny. I'd like to Thank Lamour for meeting up with me and selling me that bootleg before his signing. It was a big want of mine and it looks amazing. He was also a really nice guy and even showed me an awesome new project he's working on. Also a big thanks to John Spanky Stokes and Cliff & Sean. Thanks for being so nice to me and introducing me to some other people. You guys definitely made my trip to Comic Con worth it.

Also a big thanks to my girlfriend Jackie, although i didn't MAKE her come she decided she wanted to with me. She never really understands why I collect and spend so much money but she also had a blast and put up with all the madness with me. She even said she wants to go next year!

Ugly Doll love

"please get me out of here"

Gus Preview

I've been working hard on getting my next figure done, along with trying to enjoy our 90 degree weather everyday. I wish I could present Gus in this post but I still have lots of work to do, and SDCC comes up in just few days so I don't really have the time. So here are some sneak peeks, lets hope next year I'll be selling some stuff at SDCC.

Here's a little drawing ad thing I drew up of Gus.

preview

trash your mold

Photo by J.Fur

The first run of Gus will be a run of 4 and will hopefully be sold sometime in Aug. All these one offs are for trades and art shows. More info to come soon.

Multiple Livers

Thanks to Buster Bear I was invited to be a part of this group show downtown. The show was entitled Center Of Multiple Middles. Here's a description of the show that I didn't write...and some pictures from the show.

"This is an experiment in decentralizing the curatorial decision making process and letting an exhibition be formed by the interactions and exchanges that take place within a space. In dissipating the traditional curatorial hierarchy to multiple participants the result is an all-encompassing organism that takes up the entirety of the allotted space. In some instances individual artists are showcased but those areas are blurred through the superimposition of other pieces and melding together of multiple artists works. The participants of this exhibition are a diverse mix of people that range from professional artists, art educators, skaters, art students, a computer programming student, strangers off the street, the mother of one of the artists and the child of another.This space will remain active for the entire length of the exhibition. Some of the participating artists will always be present in the space either adding to the exhibition or creating new work. This exhibition will have several stages of transformation beyond the opening reception and many coordinates where work, activities and intersections may hinge and shift."

The space was an on going project that was changing as artist worked. Many of the artist had been working in the space for about a month. I was invited about two days before the show, so most of my work was made in the few days before the show.

I painted some windows...

and then repainted them...

Buster Bear Building

Face Paintings by Alberto Aguilar

Weapons by Madeleine Aguilar

Artist show

cute busterbear

Main wall of madness

3 canvas pieces and deer by Carl Padvoiski

tape wall by Zach Parsons

Here is some photos of my work.

I did these arm paintings while working in the space.

The space use to be a ritz camera. I got a window display for my work (polaroids not mine)

Resin

The show was really great opportunity, I met some awesome people and got re-motivated to make a lot more work. This show will be moving to Harold Washington College in Aug. It will be a new space, same idea. I think I will be doing a large arm paintings for the show but who knows. Thanks Alex and Alberto for giving me a chance to work on this project.

More toys and Summer photos...

Kevin bought a really big toy...

Got the last bootleg I needed and a grease bat tee

Hujili from Le Merde's super 7 show

I just turned 20, it looked like this outside on my birthday

Jake and Jackie "I feel like I got 3-d glasses on"

Black Market art trade. rare 3301 painting

Kev is my biggest art collector, probably because I give it all to him for free.

and because he bought me this awesome Hello Brute figure for my B-day. Pizza man looks like crap next to this beauty. Pepper looks excited to see him!?