Finally...sheesh...

Good news everybody! I finally finished my Hellboy Munny. It's a little four inch guy that is a mutant, I traded the body of a Raffy for the body of a classic munny. I think that it turned out pretty good, so I totally needed to show him off. I can't wait to get another one to work over. Here's some of the specs, the right hand of Doom is sculpted out of scultpty, the tail is made out of sculpty, and the horns are were actually already part of the head, I just cut them down. So there he is, all finished.

Ripple

Bad news everybody, there's oil out in them waves. There's this lady that wants to help by getting a bunch of people together using Illustration Fridays vast amount of submitters to do a small piece of artwork and donate it. For a small fee of only $10 (which goes to charity) you then get to have then art work that you liked. There's more details on her blog. As you can tell, I drew a pelican fighting to free itself from the oil. I saw pictures of pelicans coated in the sludge, making them look like pathetic, melting statues. There's a fighting spirit to clean up the spill quickly. From Gov. Bobby Jindal creating barrier islands to Kevin Costner's centrifuges down to the hundreds of volenters throwing out their backs shoveling sand, people are uniting to help clean up the Gulf.

Etsy sale!

Good news everyone! I'm having a sale on my Etsy shop. Here are the fun details: All items have free shipping and most have reduced prices. The sale is only going to be for 2 weeks, so don't hesitate to get over to my Etsy shop and get your favorite print or Altoids tin. It's not going to last forever. I'll be adding a few more prints over the next couple of days, such as the Gumshoe and Calculations to name a few.

More work in progress

Good news everyone, I decided to post some more work in progress photos of my vulture and a weekend project, my first large custom Munny. The head is from the "Raffy" figure and the body is a classic munny body. There's still allot of work to be done on both, but I thought that it would be fun to show off what I've gotten done so far. Also, thanks to the_jcw for making my dunny possible.

Here's a little something I've been cooking (WIP)

To go along with the panda known as, The Gumshoe, I'm working on this creature. I haven't totally decided whether to make it a boy or a girl vulture. It's a rich vulture none the less. This creature could also be the villain in the story. Sort of the Gumshoe's Moriarty. A little about the process, I painted this in Photoshop and then I'm going to paint it on a panel traditionally. What does everyone think?

Having fun on the web

Good news everyone, I was told about this site from my friend at work. He makes more abstract images, I can't do that, so I took this tool called Mr.doob and wanted to see what kind of illustrations I could make with it. Using the long fur "brush" I made a very nice barren landscape with desolate furry looking trees. I can't remember what I used for the second drawing, but I felt like making something with a great big eye.
This is interesting, the tools take away the ability to know what you were going to make before hand. There's really no way to plan out your project, but I think that's the whole point. It's not really a permanent form of creating artwork. You can save the image, but it's only at the resolution of the screen you are using. What's interesting to me is the varied forms that people create, from deer to owls to squids. And that's if you want to make it closer to the realm of realism. My friend's work is impressive in it's minimalism.

Here's another little thing

Good news everyone, water colors and I still get along. This painting was one I was waiting to post. I waited and waited, it was my mother's birthday present. As it was a present, posting was not an option until she got it in the mail. Her birthday is in Oct. I think I sent it to her in November. It might have been in December. Then the picture decided to move itself around on my computer so I couldn't find it. Finally, I located it. Found something that's been alluding me for awhile, spare time. I put the two together and now it's on the great world web. The bear reference, I took myself. It was at Glacier Point in Yosemite Nat. Park. We were leaving the look out and spotted this guy up on the embankment of the parking lot. It was probably about 15 feet above us, poor guy was shaggy and hot. He sat there and panted in the summer heat. I felt very glad to be pink and hairless. To be honest, I embellished the lighting, but that's the wonderful part of being the artist.

Something fun happened

This post is a little late in coming. But I do have good news. For those of you who knew about it, I had a shirt printed on a site called Riptapperal.com. In December they posted a review of all the shirts that they printed over the year 2009. Apparently, with the help of everyone that supported me and my shirt, I made it into the top ten best shirts of the year. They posted links on facebook and have a little video. If you don't want to watch the whole thing, my shirt is at 2:30 in. Also, pay attention to the :30 point, my brother-in-law's shirt made it on the video. Thank you to everyone who bought one and everyone who told friends about the shirt.

Renewal

Good news everyone, I'm still technically alive. I have been inspired by this weeks Illustration Friday to get some quick drawing into my schedule. Once again, while sitting in church my pen started moving and a concept was put onto paper. The first thing that came to mind for this weeks topic (title of post :) was a phoenix. I'm including my thumbnail and then my rough draft, I like this one and I think I might take all the way a finished painting, but I think the skull in the foreground needs work. What do you think? Also, while I'm soliciting critiques, does anyone like the placement of the skull in the thumbnail better then the rough draft?

this is the thumbnail

this is the rough, drawn with pen and pencil, scanned from my sketch book

Just another post in the life...of me.

Good news everyone! Well, I'm trying to get a little drawing I made into a post on tor.com and for some reason it won't work, I blame the government because it's too awesome. So that's why I'm posting this guy again so I have a new, fresh, shiney link to use for the posting process. Anyways, I have a lot of new things to post, but gosh darn it I have been working way to much lately to post anything, who knew that this time of year is the time of year that people would be ordering thousands and thousands of Christmas cards? My poor wife, I think she's forgetting what I look like anymore...

Beware of the tentacles!

Good news everyone! Really good news this time in fact. A certain t-shirt company that produces and sells a new t-shirt everyday has decided to print my design. Now there is one catch. This awesome shirt will only be on sale for one day. That's one 24 hour period and then it's gone forever. The day of this sale is November 16th, from midnight to midnight. The mystical company has a website and a name. And they are both named: www.riptapparel.com. One reason why it is a special company, they sell the shirts for only $10 and very reasonable shipping rates.

The image above is my shirt, but you have already guessed that. I call this shirt "Pocket Protector". A traditional pocket protector only keeps things from hurting a shirt, this one keeps things in the pocket, adds things to the pocket, attacks things, and might live on pocket lint until if is large enough for a cargo pocket. Then it needs to eat more substantial matter, like loose change, small rodents, and that fuzzy Swedish fish that has sat in your hoody pocket since last Halloween.

Now, I have a little goal. To sell over 50 shirts. No one has sold more then 50, with your help, I think this can be reached! So, please, tell your friends, tell your boss, and get one for the kids.

What I do on the weekend

I once bought a bear. This bear was a toy known as a Qee. These toys are part of the vinyl craze sweeping the nation with other lines of toys known as Kid Robot and Dunnys. They really aren't toys as much as they are collectible pieces of art. Most of the series are designed by different artists. They poor broken bear is one of the DIY series, a blank canvas if you will. It can be left in it's natural wood state or you can spruce it up a bit. The little guy pictured was home for about 30 secs, I moved his legs and they fell off. So I did what anyone in my situation would do, I whined to the company and they are sending me a new one. In the mean time, what was I to do? I had the legless piece of vinyl just sitting around...So again, I did what any one would have done, I modded the heck out of it. All I really did was cut off the groin stump, glue on a piece of a broken antique police whistle, and paint on a battery pack. Piece of cake. Now, it's a cyborg bear.

Good news everyone

As I stated in the title for this post, Good news everyone! I recently decided that my old domain name was reeealllly long and tedious to write out in the address bar quadrant of the browser. I was afraid that people might be getting severe wrist damage to their outer extremities used for typing (the wrists). Tylerdavisillustration.com was just to dang long. So I came up with a really catchy new name to brand myself with. Davisink.com(actually, the wife came up with that one)...sadly, that was taken. I thought it was so clever. Then as I really thought about it, long and deeply, a different name came to me. One that is catchy and fun to say. It has an 80's movie ring to it. Are you ready for this? The new website name is: 42brushes.com Catchy huh? It reveals that I like to paint, art is my business, and I know the secret to Life, the Universe, and Everything. And writing that reveals that I like science fiction humor as well. At any rate, please change your book marks, redo your links, and check back soon, I'm going to finally give it an awesome face lift.

Somethings that are in the works

Good news everyone! I'm ready and am now making a new posting for your viewing and reading pleasure. I've been lax in my postings lately. This time though, it's not been because of any visual distractions (for awhile I was catching up on the last 5 seasons of Lost...I sort of spaced out for a couple of months) or recent family reunions. I haven't posted because I've actually been working on artwork! Am I amazing or what? The projects undertaken have been for both fun and profit. The fun stuff is what I'm going to show off. Now, I'm not done with any of them, these are works in progress, so be kind.

The first one I'm doing as fan art for the series of podiobooks called Heaven, written and narrated by Mur Lafferty. She's an awesome author and has many many podcasts to be found at her site. Heaven is about a couple of friends that end up kicking the bucket and travel through the different parts of the after life. I've taken the liberty to illustrate one of the cities from season 5, Lathe. It's full of tinkerers and madmen.

The second image is an idea I've had for awile and is totally my own self promotion for self promotion's sake. Now that you know what I'm working on, feel free to bug me about seeing the final projects.

Oh, I forgot one other thing, I've started a flickr art page, check it out be clicking here.

Guess what?

Well, it finally happened. The last post that I put up on this here blog, has made it onto a tee shirt on this site. I'm excited for it. I don't think that I'm going to be getting any money for this but it's going to be printed. This marks my first time as a "professional" tee-shirt designer. I think that the whole tee shirt explosion is a pretty cool business model. These businesses are offering sweet alternatives to department store blandness. I'll admit that originally I was a little skeptical of the huge amounts of silk screening, I mean all over the stinking shirts. It was crazyness. But I think it's grown on me, maybe it's the fact that I'm on one, maybe it's that I'm really hungry and the lack of food is making me delirious. I don't know for sure. But I do know that if I see any radish men running around, I'm eating one.


I've put it off long enough. It's time to pimp my shirt (it doesn't matter that there are about 35 other people on the shirt, it's my shirt) and give you some fun pictures to look at. The shirt is only $6, so I'm getting one for me and the wonderful wife. People of the internet can buy it August 2, all day, then it's gone forever. If you can't spot my tentacled guy, it's number 31. Also, go to this link and this link to see the images better then you can on my blog. Enjoy.

Tango with this!

Good news everyone, a demon mated with the tee fury bird and had a hideous offspring. The implications on cross dimension relations with the demon dimension are positive. Also, I might get it printed on the 1st birthday anniversary tee-shirt for the company. I'm posting both pictures of the beast, one is the original and the other is the modified version for the tee-shirt. Just so you know, the one on the left is the original and the other is the changed version for the shirt company. Until next time, up up and away!

Illustration Friday, again!

This week is the fun topic of "worn". As a big Hellboy fan, he's one of the most abused and tired hero's out there. I think he fits the bill for the topic. Is it sacrilegious to draw this guy in church? My pen was restless... >)

Cravings...mmmmmm......

Bad news everyone, there was a little trouble with the last batch of doughnuts. Just kidding, I only wanted to show what happens when a person eats a cursed doughnut (any guesses where that idea came from?) . Or it's a commentary about forces behind the junk food obsession. Or, maybe I just wanted to do a quick loose, well as loose as I can get, drawing while watching Lost and thinking about zombies and Claire's weird flashbacks. Since I like all three explanations, I'm not telling. Besides, isn't it more fun when you get to think of your own interpretations of what an artist was thinking? So go out and enjoy your very own cravings!

Illustration Friday

Good news everyone! I'm still alive and drawing some new things. I was thinking and thinking about the topic this week for Illustration Friday. And as I was thinking about it, I asked muh wife about it, she had a good idea that sounded fun, so I drew with it. I mean ran with it. The idea is that MP3 players have really taken over the world and I think that the primate section of the wilderness would really enjoy adapting to the music and music sharing scene. And so, tada, my entry for this week's topic in Illustration Friday.

my new wallet.jpg

	So, mobile blogging does work. This image of my new wallet was sent from my phone. That's right, my phone. Pretty nifty eh? I feel it's important to have an explanation of why the photo looks so blurry. Normally when I'm showing off my new toys and such, I try to at least have a decent picture of what I'm displaying. But it is my new wallet, I made it mostly myself. I didn't make the Altoid's tin, but I did paint the image that graces the top of it. And that's what really counts. It also has a money clip on the back and a magnet clip on the inside of the lid to hold my random pieces of paper I keep in my wallet. The owner of the boutique where my wife is selling her jewelry, really likes the idea of an Altoid tin wallet. She likes the idea so much, that in a couple of weeks I should have some made and ready for sale.