(Note: Fire Of My Loins Calvin Wong is a storyboard artist/writer on Regular Show. But I don’t let that color my opinions, no way. I mean, it’s not like he moved away from me nine months ago to work on this show, and it’s not like it’s the entire reason we are enduring the pains of a long distance relationship, and it’s not like if no one watches it, my suffering will have been in vain. IT’S NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL, MAN! JUST FUCKING WATCH IT)

For you tennis nerds, I tried to illustrate actual tennis stars of the seventies and eighties, with only the Wimbledon official being a random nobody. Can you name ‘em all?! (Answers at the bottom!)

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A few bloody details:

<<<clockwise from upper right: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Martina Navratilova, Billie Jean King, poor stupid Wimbledon victim>>>

The text says, “싫어”, (shee roh) which is a multi-purpose negative. It can mean, “No,” or “I don’t want to” or “I don’t like that” or “I don’t like you” or even “I hate you”. 싫어 fills the speaker with power while forcing the listener to recoil in weakness. Also, in the drawing, I am hiding my bangs from you because I did such a shit job trimming them.

And that’s the end of my super deep, exploratory artist’s statement regarding this piece (of shit)

Recognize ‘em?? That’s Crash & the Boys (or The Boys & Crash) from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s popular Scott Pilgrim comics. I drew this as part of an official limited edition Scott Pilgrim four-color silkscreen thingumbob for San Diego Comic-Con this week! Here’s the full set and details:

Oni Press, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Daniel Danger’s Tiny Media Empire have teamed up for a limited edition run of Scott Pilgrim gig posters. Each of the four silkscreened gig posters feature a band from the Scott Pilgrim comics by Bryan Lee O’Malley including: Sex Bob-omb, Clash at Demonhead, Crash & the Boys, and Kid Chameleon.

Tiny Media Empire and three powerhouse artists have each lent their style to one of the bands in the Scott Pilgrim series. Kevin Tong, best know for his gig poster work with Sonic Youth, Weezer, and Wilco, took on the Scott Pilgrim series’ quintessential band Sex Bob-omb. Daniel Danger, founder of Tiny Media Empire, put together a legendary video game reference masterpiece for his Clash At Demonhead gig poster. Underground comics favorite, Hellen Jo, used her trademark vibrant style for the quirky Crash & The Boys. And gig poster pros, Aesthetic Apparatus, have created an iconic gem for Scott Pilgrim’s high school band Kid Chameleon.

Each of the four silkscreened, four-color, 18″ x 24″ posters is numbered and collected into a set and 200 sets will be sold at the Oni Press Booth (#1833) during San Diego Comic Con for $120 each.

- from the Oni Press blog

I’ll also have some of the Crash & the Boys prints available at my etsy after SDCC, so you won’t have to wrestle through sweaty nerds to get one

P.S. YES I will be at Comic-Con, without table, without comics, and incognito. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

(like you give a shit)

I’ve just barely started painting, so it will be a while before I post the completed, watercolored image, but I wanted to post the inked drawing to show my deep love of the line (and of drawing hair), as well as to remind the internet that I’m still around. xBLOG’Sx xNOTx xDEADx

Recognize those shoes? FEIYUE, BITCH! I’LL NEVER WEAR ANYTHING ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And no, I have never smoked cigarettes a day in my life. I just like to draw bad kids doing it, alright?

They’re being sold as a set for eighty weighty bucks. As always, the Post-It show is “cash & carry”, so once you buy it, that shit’s GONE

This will be printed in the forthcoming Lady Gaga fanzine, PRISON FOR BITCHES, edited by Sweet Meats Ryan Sands and Michael DeForge, debuting at TCAF next month.

And because someone over at my formspring asked about it, I decided to (poorly) document my process, from pencils to inks to paint:

First I did the pencil drawing, without sketches:

Then I added the GAGA CLAW:

I inked the eyes first, then the rest of the face, and hand:

I started in on the hair, Uzumaki-style:

Finished inking, but it looked empty to me,

so I decided to add the “LET’S MAKE A SANDWICH” headpiece, which I will not ink:

I started watercoloring, laying down flat colors, lightest first (skin and hair):

More flat colors, with some shading in the headpiece:

I added a second set of darker values to the flats to give them slightly more volume (though I kept this illustration relatively flat), and added the make-up and a ring of color around the pupils:

Finally, I tossed in that half-assed background for some much needed contrast, giving you the image at the top of this post. SUCCESS!