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My newest Illustration is a mash up of the Yeerks from K.A. Applegate’s book series Animorphs combined with the poster for Ridley Scott’s Alien. Regarding this illustration I had to think a while back as with my 50’s Movie monster poster inspired Aahh Real Monsters piece.  I really didn’t remember much of the actual content of the book but  rather the act of reading the book when I was younger. When it came time to think about this illustration I was coming at it with the mindset that if I was trying to attract new people to see this movie and my mind gravitated toward the Alien poster. When looking up as to what could make a good mash up with Animorphs I initially thought of Ridley Scott’s Alien movie. I was thinking of what Animorph alien I could use for the poster and the one that looked most like the alien from Ridley Scott’s Alien the one that came to mind was the Yeerk’s. From doing a little research the Yeerks were kinda like the Aliens from Alien in the sense that they need to inhabit a host body and were a similar shape.  

This new image is another Comedy Bang Bang Illustration, it is based on Episode 215 or the episode titled Time Bobby 2 (Link: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/time-bobby-2/). I wanted to create another Illustration inspired by one of Paul F. Tompkins characters and in this episode Andrew Lloyd Webber (as played by Paul F Tompkins) mentioned a play he wanted to work on about Batman or as he said “The Batting Gentleman”. When looking for inspiration as to what the illustration should look like I scoured the internet for what play posters looked like. I found that most of the posters were subjective, nondescript, and vague also I used some of the design elements from the old Batman The Animated Series such as the dark deco Buildings and incorporated them into the design of the poster. I believe that I made a good attempt at aping both the style of posters I was looking at as well getting close to the “Dark Deco” design of Batman the Animated Series.

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5/21 I posted this to the Facebook page for Comedy Bang Bang a few days ago. I checked to see if it had any likes or was shared between people and lo and behold I find that the Comedy Bang Bang page had shared the image, it has 18 shares, and 100 likes which is awesome. 

This new illustration is based on my nostalgia and love for the awesome show Aahh!! Real Monsters when trying to think of things that would mash well with it I Immediately flashed to the old Universal Movie Monster posters that had that awesomely old fashioned painted look to them. I had to think a back abit to create an illustration for this show because I haven’t thought about this show in awhile. My inspiration for this piece came from the Carl Laemmle movie of The Invisible Man I tried to copy the lightening, shadows, as well as text and text effects the poster has and eventhough it isn’t an exact copy I believe that I have achieved the right feeling of a 50’s movie. When looking back one of my favorite characters were Ickis just for the voice alone. 

  This New illustration is based on an idea I had while I was re-watching The Devils Advocate after I just watched a play through of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (The first Phoenix Wright game). It seemed like a no-brainer to mash these two titles together since the story does center around lawyers and their cases. When trying to think of how I could mash these two worlds together I immediately remembered Miles Edgeworth’s storyline in the first Phoenix game in which he is a prosecutor who had a reputation for falsifying evidence to get the guilty verdict he desired and how that fell apart when Phoenix Wright entered the scene and won trial after trail against Mile Edgeworth. In the final case Phoenix takes on famed prosecutor Manfred Von Karma and Miles Edgeworth’s mentor, in the end of the case we learn that Edgeworth got his falsifying tactic from Manfred. Obviously this is where the similarity between Kevin Lomax and Edgeworth split because after the case Edgeworth becomes a better person while Kevin just is stuck in an endless loop of temptation in which he is doomed to repeat.  

  With this piece I wanted it to be more Phoenix Wright than Devils Advocate so I chose to use Edgeworths office rather than the alter that was depicted in the Devils Advocate poster. I was inspired to use the same design sense as the Devils Advocate poster and same poses for the characters as it already gives the idea that one is subjugated by the other. When dealing with the logo for the piece I chose to to base it off the logo for Miles Edgeworth Ace Attorney Investigations. 

This new illustration is based on the whim of an idea that I had when I was thinking about another way to view The Princess Bride. I decided to look at the movie from a revenge angle and my mind immediately thought of Kill Bill and it’s iconic poster. To begin I wanted to display most of the characters from The Princess Bride very much in the way that most of the Kill Bill posters displayed the portraits of the assassins. Also picked up the same title treatment and texture usage as well, to create a more authentic feel of a Kill Bill type movie. I decided against coloring the characters in the background which would have crowded the illustration visually too much, so I chose to color the cast of characters such as fezzik and vizzini in monotone to add contrast to both the background color as well as inigo himself. As an add-on this is one of my favorite (and still is) movies as a kid as well as Kill Bill. I feel that while they are both completely separate movies both in tone and style they managed to create awesome characters and journeys to follow such as “The Bride” and the ever cleverly awesome Inigo Montoya and his impassioned speech to his fathers killer. This (LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m7NR6iYjg) is quite possibly one of the best fuck yeah moments aside from the last episode of GOT recently. 

   This newest illustration is based on the recently posted episode of Comedy Bang Bang (Episode 212 Link: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/comedy-bleep-bleep/), which is sure to be a classic episode and surely to be placed on the best of 2013 episode of Comedy Bang Bang. What makes this particular episode of this podcast so great is that the episode begins kind of slow but ramps up about half way in when comedian James Adomian comes in and does an awesomely funny and great job of impersonating Chef Gordon Ramsay, then shit just gets crazy. We learn that Chef Gordon Ramsay is actually Satan and that he has entered the Comedy Bang Bang studios in order to clean the studio of silver fishes and cum on the wall all for his new reality show called PODCRAP, which would be very much like Kitchen nightmares but for podcasts.  

   With this illustration I was inspired by looking at all the promotional material that was released for Ramsay’s show Hell’s Kitchen, since in the episode we were told he is Beelzebub, I chose to depict Gordon as Satan himself. To add a more realistic feel I used the same kind of title treatment and pitchfork that Hell’s Kitchen used, also chose to go with the Cardboard cutout fire rather than try to create realistic fire because the other promotional material used Cardboard cutout fire. With these ephemeral elements such as the fake looking fire, title treatment, and raw and severe color scheme I was creating a realistic image of what I believe the cover image for Gordon’s podcast show PODCRAP would look like.

P.S.- I listened to this on the train while commuting to work and this was one of the few episodes of the podcast that made me laugh loud enough for the passengers to hear, for a moment I became the weird guy on the train seemingly laughing to himself for no reason.  Just wanted to add that this is an awesome podcast and worth subscribing to, and thanks for the free funny.

This illustration was supposed to be posted last week but due to all 4 of my wisdom teeth being pulled I was out of commission, feeling better now I can finally post this Illustration. This is based upon the the awesome podcast Boars, Gore, and Swords. It is hosted by comedians Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez they re-cap the Game of Thrones TV show, as well as read the books and regurgitate it into to comedy bits for the listener, and does what you should be watching episodes in which they recommend what TV shows to watch. The best part of the podcast is whenever Red and Ivan’s conversations just digress into either Comics, Tv, Pop Culture, Comedians, and or Weed. 

This illustration is more based on the Dunk and Egg stories they recently read. I imagined Ivan as Dunk and Red as Egg because whenever the conversations break down into fictional war strategy Ivan usually goes with a more physical response such as bust a dudes head in with armor mounted spikes, while Red tends to go with a more tactical response. It is a stark contrast to what would actually happen to the both of them in a war scenario, which is die a horrible death.

There are little clues in this illustration as to what they most talk about on the podcast such as the flag Red is holding is a shout out to the west wing and Aaron Sorkin, as well as the Tardis is a shout to to time travel. In Ivan’s case I chose to depict him with a weed shield, and Cthulhu monster tentacles attacking him and his stead. All of this is self explanatory if you listen to the podcast. Btw if the lettering is hard to make out it says “the third greatest game of thrones podcast”.

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This newest illustration came about when I was trying to think about what would be a great mash up, that just seemed to speak for itself. This is one of the first mash ups I created aside from the Pokemon revamp. Had an illustration I wanted to post this week but it will have to wait for next week since I got all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled and I was out of commission for a while, but next weeks illustration is going to be awesome.

This newest illustration was done in under the wire. The idea for this illustrations came about when I was listening to a recent Nerdist podcast in which Chirs Hardwick said that the time traveling phone booth in Bill & Ted was a reference to The Doctor’s Tardis. When I re-watched the movie I immediately got the correlation between the two. I also thought this was a great way to show my nostalgia for one of my favorite movies and mash it up with one of the great tv shows which I have recently watched. One thing I do like about Matt Smith’s Doctor is how he can balance The Doctors child like wonder and furious anger. If Bill and Ted ever did meet The Doctor I believe that they would never be considered as possible companions but, would be thrown out of the Tardis while is space cause of the constant reminder to not fuck with the past cause it might change the present and far future.

    My Newest illustration is based upon Dennaton Games awesome top-down, 2D game “Hotline Miami”. I Watched a play-though of it recently and was immediately drawn in the weirdness of the story as well as the twists and turns the story takes. What I also really enjoyed was the art style of the game which was was reminiscent of DRIVE and the music used really reminded me of Kavisnky. The idea to create this illustration was born when I was listening to Kavinsky’s album “Outrun” on a loop and had the movie Drive on the brain. I searched on the web for what other techniques people used to create fan art for both Drive and Hotline Miami and took elements from them that matched what I was going for i.e the color scheme, as well as design aesthetics such as placing the image within a black shape. 

    The reason I placed the image within the head shape of the character of “Jacket” was because we never really truly do see his face so it really could be anyone. Also chose to use more than one of the masked killers in the illustration was because in the game there is a implication that there are more than one killer loose on the streets of Miami. Also I created an amalgam of the logo by using the text logo on the official poster for the game, and mixing it with the logo on the cd for the game. What I feel is that I definitely did justice for the game aesthetically and got better with creating a night scene for a city. As a warning the next part will be a brief interpretation of what I believed happened in the story so if anyone reading this post doesn’t want to be Spoiled then just don’t read the next part.  

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    I believe that in the Beginning of the game that “Jacket” is in the hospital in a coma, and everything that is happening from the beginning to the middle of the game is just a re-dramatization of the murders that “Jacket” committed. From the get go we are introduced the main character “Jacket” as well as 3 masked killers, a female with horses’ head named “Don Juan”, a man with a chicken mask named “Richard”, and another man with an owl mask named Ramsus. When we are introduced to these masked killers they aid the hero “Jacket” throughout the story giving him hints as to what events have led him to his coma state. One example of this is when Richard is in “Jackets” apartment and tells him to take a rest at which point “Jacket” is directed to his room where he sees himself in his coma state at which points “Jackets” head blows.

    Also in-between missions we are introduced to different clerks from different stores who share the same face, What I believe is that these clerks are actually “Jacket” and that the bald man who interrupts these dream sequences is the killer who shoots “Jackets” Girlfriend and also puts “Jacket” into a coma. Anything from the point onward where we are introduced to and subsequently then shot in the brain by the bald man in “Jackets” dream (i.e the man in the rat mask) is real. Jacket recovers from the coma and escapes the hospital and blazes a trail of revenge on the mobsters who “supposedly” hired the bald man to kill him. The reason why I say supposedly is because we learn later that the two weird derpy janitors who appear in the game briefly are the ones pulling the strings and ordering ordinary people such as “Jacket” and others to kill those who the janitors believe are trying to invade America with a communist agenda.