Posted: November 21st, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists | Tags: action figures, awesome!, badass, battles, board games, brutal, collaboration, creative, drawing, Ernest Conception, gamer, geek, geekdom, illustration, imagination, line wars, mixed media, multifacited, opponents, painting, pen drawing, priest, strategy games, style, video games, violence, vs., war, weapons | No Comments »
Ernest Concepcion is a BBC artist, that is an artist whose work is Badass, Brutal, and Creative. His drawings are filled with so much content that one can get lost in them even from a computer screen. I would absolutely love to see his work live to truly appreciate his taste for detail.
Here is part of his artist statement pertaining to his Line Wars Series (images below):
From tables vs. chairs to cowboys vs. aliens and cookies vs. milk, The Line Wars began as a series of over 100, 9×12 inches, ink drawings that emerged from sketches and doodles–the most rudimentary expression of visual thinking. The images are based on the entertainments of childhood and adolescence: Video games, action figures, strategy board games–always two forces opposing one another. The Line Wars is a celebration of making impulsive, nonchalant drawings, as well as a personal journey into nostalgia and an homage to geekdom.
Here are some other artworks of Ernest’s:
Additionally, here is a link with some images of one of Ernest’s most recent collaborations.
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Posted: June 4th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Projects, Sketches, Thoughts | Tags: artillery, battle, close combat, collaboration, drawing, guns, infantry, monsters, painting, ranged, war | No Comments »
These are recent drawings spawned from an idea for a collaborative painting. The idea of the painting is that each artist builds his own army of creatures/monsters and there is a big battle.
^ Heavy Support ^
^ Heavy Infantry ^
^ Fast Attack/ Close Combat/Stealth Infantry ^
^ Anti Material Artillery/Long Range Infantry ^
The premise of my species is a mix between human and machine parts in a way that blurs the humanness of the creatures. They are so intertwined with mechanical parts that it is futile to distinguish them as remotely human.
I’m quite supprised by the low contrast in my recent drawings. Normally I crave that black and white clash, maybe I’m mellowing out a bit with some grey..
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Posted: February 23rd, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists, Projects, Thoughts | Tags: clark stamm, collaboration | No Comments »
1. A collaborative venture with an amazing young creator: Clark Stamm
2. Metal.
3. A vision by Nathaniel Haack.
4. A long history of battle drawings and badass warriors with guns and armor.
1* Clark and I are doing a collaborative homework assignment (the theme is palimpsests so this collaboration supports the theme literally and hopefully visually). He did a bunch of drawings, I did a bunch of drawings, we trade, he draws on my drawings, and I draw on his. The finished work I will show later, but for now I’m just showing the cropped down and slightly altered version.br
2* As an avid metal fan I automatically feel inclined to explain my love for this music. This is not because I love it THAT MUCH, but it seems that the majority of folks dismiss it as the toxic ear vomit heard on the radio. As with any genre, it should not be generalized. To me, metal represents the epitome of epicness. This epic quality I try to replicate in my drawings like this one (as you can see it is still a work in progress).
3* As I was working on this drawing (using PS and a drawing tablet) my roommate watch and offered his opinion as to the direction of this drawing. Having not studied art intensively his opinion is always fresh and from angles I have a hard time reaching. Inspired by Dethklok, Yngwie Malmsteen, and King Crimson Nathaniel was able to envision a truly metal topic – slaughter. For the record I am anti-war and anti-violence, but one might not read that from some of the drawings I do.
4* The complete drawing, which I’ll show later, has opened a door. Upon entering art school I felt very discouraged to draw what I had been drawing from the first day I picked up a pencil: war. Its a dark subject, and most people mistake my work for visual fan fiction of sorts. In the drawing I was able able to combine my other visual interests (portraiture, physical environments, etc) with my battle drawings. Call it a personal renaissance if you’d like, but I think that returning to my old style and revamping major themes in my work (battles, cities, space vehicles, architecture, warriors, etc) would make my work better. I should embrace my artistic past, not reject it.
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