No Limits

I designed this poster for the festival screenings of this very interesting documentary about Thalidomide and some of its survivors. I've been told it's going to be airing on the CBC documentary channel and CBCNN in Canada. If you've got those channels I highly recommend checking it out.

SPACE LAB 9 / ANDREW BARR: MONSTER PRINTS!

Well, well, well, looky here! I've teamed up with the space wizards at SpaceLab9 to create some limited edition monster screen prints! They'll be available at New York Comic Con in October, so you should probably make plans to go there. I won't be there but the art will and that is more important.

Happy National Canadian Film Day!

Sharknado 2: The Second One

So I did one of them Mondo type poster type things for the new Sharknado movie. 

The Asylum had a contest. I entered but didn't win. Oh, well.

Star Wars spin-off movie?

I've always thought the Ewoks don't get the respect they deserve as monsters. Everyone always goes on and on about how cute they are. Everyone forgets they were going to cook and eat Luke, Han, Chewie and R2 to celebrate the finding of their golden god (3PO) and welcome Princess Leia into their tribe.
Now with the new series gearing up and plans to do spin-off movies maybe we'll get a cool Ewok horror flick?
A guy can dream can't he.
Anyway I figured an ewok horror flick could follow the plot of something like Cannibal Holocaust or one of those cabin in the woods / dead teenager movies that were so popular in the '80s. So I did my own version of a poster for that based on the least disgusting of the Cannibal Holocaust posters.
as seen below.

Here's what the image looks like before I coloured it.
Enjoy?

Some recent Monstars

Uncle Deadly for @Sketch_Dailies

Just a quick portrait of my favorite muppet.

Sketch Dailies: Medusa

Saw this Sketch Dailies thing on twitter, Figured I'd join in. here's the first one I've had a chance to do. Their topic for March 11 was Medusa. Here's my sketch.

In the Mouth of Madness

Probably my favourite John Carpenter flick, I think I may actually like it more than "The Thing"!
Since I'll be going to the Toronto Comicon next week I'm trying to get some new art done for it. I'll probably print this and the other two Mondo style posters I did (Three O'clock High and Prince of Darkness) on top of my art books and ink monster drawings.
Since the image on this blog isn't that big, here's a couple of closeups of a couple of bits of the poster.

closeup of the lettering in the title

John Trent drawing crosses

not that much closer that in the poster, but I like the shadow hands.

My next BIG project: behind the scenes peeks. Calabrese Issue 2, character design stuff.

So over the next few months I'll be working on a new Comical Book project. Is it a new Something-A-Go-Go book? Not yet, I hope to be working on that as too. For now however lets focus on the one that I'm getting payed to do.
Way back in 2010 I had helped the band Calabrese put together a comic book based on their fantastic adventures. the book was written by Eric M. Esquivel (Blackest Terror, Thor: Unkillable Thunder Christ, Legend of Oz, Loki: Ragnarok and Roll) and drawn by Dave Baker, I did a couple pieces for the inside front and back covers. It's a fun book and if you can you should by multiple copies.
Anyway flash forward to now. Eric had written a script for the second issue but Calabrese had been too busy fighting vampires, turning in to werewolves,  fighting ninjas and basically just doing all the cool stuff rock bands do in their spare time. When they realized they still hadn't put out the second issue they asked me if I could do it. I said sure. Now I'm working on the new Calabrese adventure.
Since it's going to take a while and I'll be producing a bunch of preliminary art I figure I'd share some of it here, let you see a bit of my work process. Hopefully it will get you excited to see the final comic when it's available.

Here's a look at my designs for the three brothers.
I'm not really used to doing comic books based on real people so its been a fun challenge trying to get them to look like them selves.
I'm also trying to bridge the look they had in the first issue, which  I believe this was during "They Call Us Death: CALABRESE III",  and their current "Born with a Scorpion's Touch" look mixing in a bit of the "Dayglo Necros" phase of their adventures.
Here's the brothers. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Bobby's face is still giving me trouble but I think I'm getting closer to how I see it.

Davey's my favourite so far but I think he's going to be a pain to draw when I finally get to the actual comic. Hopefully I'll be more comfortable with the characters by then.

I'll post other characters and props and such as I do them. 

I also will be building a size comparison chart as I go so that I can keep a rough estimate in my head about the relative sizes of everyone.

I'll also be doing some random art featuring the guys and monsters and stuff just to get used to drawing them. I hope you guys enjoy seeing this stuff since I'll probably be posting a lot of it. I'll be trying to pos some more finished things too. I hope you'll continue on this adventure with me it should be pretty fun.

Believe in Rock n Roll.

Toronto Comicon! March 7–9, 2014

Leigh and I will be in Artist Alley at the Toronto Comicon this year. This is the first year we're doing this convention so if you're going please swing by and say "Hi!"
We'll be selling some prints and some original ink drawings of monsters and horror stuff, pinups, some cute art and a few art books. Get 'em while they last.

POD LOVES ME

 

 Body/Mind/Change has released some video of the day I went and had my POD™ implant put in. There were a few days of side-effects (nose bleeds, head-aches, hallucinations) but they've cleared up. It's pretty exciting being part of this first wave of enhanced humans. Really looking forward to seeing what POD™will do for me!

I won a Silver Medal in the 2014 Society of News Design Awards.

It's nice to know someone appreciated the headache that was the Walking Dead graphic. A project that was equal parts fun and frustrating. The print version only covers up to the mid-season finale of season three. I actually continued this graphic up to the end of that season with some extra bits and pieces and a composite image by Richard Johnson using all the little zombies that filled the rest of the piece which you can find here: The Stopped Dead: A Statistical Look Back at the Walking Dead So Far.

Three O'clock High

After getting Matt Tobin's ridiculously cool "Die Hard" poster on the weekend (thanks Matt!). I felt like doing a poster for "Three O'Clock High." So I did. Here's my "Mondo style" take on the classic movie about a bully wanting to beat the snot out of a nerd in high school. one of my favourite teen movies from the '80s

Chainsaw Mummy!

the world needs more mummies, less zombies.

Another warning about Body/Mind/Change and POD™

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Bib Fortuna says ...

I realised I haven't done enough Star Wars art. Everyone loves Bib Fortuna so I figured I'd draw him.
That's it.

Thrilling Adventure Hour: Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars's Jib Janeen: Jupiter Spy

Just felt like drawing my take on the shapeshifting menace from the Sparks Nevada Universe.

Merry Christmas 2013

POD made me do it!

More David Cronenberg / Bodymindchange.ca riffing.