Pencils, Markers, and a Dash of the shop...

Here are some rando head's I had from yesterday while I was loosening up...
I'm working on two or three images right now for a few upcoming shows...

More to some soon.
Hope you dig.

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What's in a name...

If this image is any indication It has to do with Beers and Bears... Kinda like the title of this here blog...

Hope you dig.
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Face in a box..

I was digging this weird little dudes face, but he didn't have a head... So I put him in a block of color... Just for kicks...

Hope you dig,
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PORTAL DEVICE!!

This Space fella has a Portal Device... I think it makes wormholes....

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THE MASTER VIEWER....

Before I worked in Advertising, I held down a design job within an animation studio here in the city. It was largely Flash design and in spite of my lack of familiarity of the program up front. The job and deadlines taught me to really like Designing and making vector art within flash. It is just more fun for me then screwing around in Illustrator. At least within Flash I get the ability to use vectors, while kinda molding them like I was sculpting. Furthermore the selection tools are much easier for me to muck about with instead of Illustrator. Also I kinda like bringing whatever Vector art I've built into Photoshop for some texture application and finish a bit.

If you look at the ViewMaster disks here you can see that I started this file back in 2009 and sorta forgot about it till now... I like what turned out, and also miss some of those things that fascinated me when I was a kid... The ViewMaster was always extra special to me (kinda wish I still had one), I liked the artwork that was involved with them and the act of holding it up to your eyes and clicking away at that little orange lever to advance the slides... There was even a comforting twang of the spring as the mechanism advanced the images forward...

If your not familiar with some of what Viewmaster images look like this fella HERE, has some spectacular images of slides old and new... Definitely cool..

Seriously love this kind of stuff...
Hope you dig...

Dead Air....

Yeah I'm gonna fess up to the fact that after last years output of work here I've taken a small hiatus here of late... I'm sorry for that, and I am certainly working on some stuff here. It even comes to my attention that I haven't posted my bullet points for Goals I had for this year... So, I'll try and get to that here within the next few days... For now here's a screen grab of something I'm fiddling with...

"you know what it might be??"

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It's a Bear!..

He was cobbled really quickly using two sketches i had laying about and some text that I'd made for an upcoming image...

Deco inspired Text is pretty awesome...

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Duck!!

I'm doing some vector graphics for a font I'm making for a project...
Plugging away at the graphics and I found one of them made me think of a waterfowl...
Thus this little image spawned out with some photo shop...

Love drawing some ducks, getting me ramped up for weddings this year
Hope you dig.

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Bonus: Telescoping Duck necks for anyone that thinks Ducks should be more Giraffe-like.

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Colorful Birdie..

Just a quickie color treatment for the day.
Drawing took a few, and the color took a few more in photoshop but, it was fun...
Got more stuff on deck...

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What's next?

It's a question I ask myself from time to time and in most instances I don't get a super clear answer... But, I press onward regardless in spite of lingering confusion. At the moment there are many projects on my plate that I'm working on. So, I'll update about those as they're relevant. Beyond that MODOK is coming with the month of March again this year.. so, I'm getting stoked for that...

So for now here's an image with no real narrative,just confusing stuff. Kinda like me.

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Searle..

I think I started this paint as sort of a tribute the day after Ronald Searle passed away last month. I shelved it for a few weeks while doing other assorted personal/ work stuff, and just today decided to give it a little more time and attention...
I'm kinda happy with what I turned out, the color was quickly applied and I probably could've put more though into it. However it made for fun exercise and observation...

I know I've got a few caricature type folks floating around here in the feed and wonder if you have any feedback. It's not the most extreme exaggeration, But that's something I'll have to keep working on in my images...

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The MondoBrow...

While out for a brief stroll on my lunch break I saw this fella with a Crazy Mono-brow... I got back to my desk and fiddled out a quick pen sketch cartoon of the fella, and added a "D" to the Mono... Thus The MONDO-Brow was born...

Hope you dig him..
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GROUCHY GOBLIN GM..

GM is the abbreviation for a car company.
However, In the world of Dungeon's and Dragon's it's an abbreviation for Game Master (get it GM)... Yeah I was one of those kids, who dabbled in the odd RPG (roll playing game) with friends... I'd watched a great little documentary over on HULU, about people that were game masters, and what they're lives were like since they loved D&D so much... IT was pretty interesting, a little depressing too, and made me pretty nostalgic for gaming with friends... SO Here's a grumply little goblin type dude with a torch shouting at some of his gamers.... THACO!!!! Critical HIT!!!! ROLL A D6!!!!

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In search of some Inner peace...

I've got some stuff going on right now to post at a later date. But, for now I wanted to make a quickie post from a little animated clip I made a few days back.
I wound up doing a kind of Mandala themed bit of animation with a quickie caricature of myself. I'm actually not a person of great inner peace. But, who knows... Maybe if I keep looking I'll find it...

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ANTI SOPA ANTI PIPA.......

Make sure you take a minute to holler at your elected officials in congress today be it by one of the many online petitions. Keep the web free.

See you all later,
gogoPEDRO


P.S. Most bears also boycott Pants...

Swimming with other Adults...

So I did this image for an Adult Swim themed show that opens at Gallery 1988 in Melrose California tonight.. I'm still a big fan of Cartoon Planet and SGC2C, and I miss seeing episodes of the show... In particular I really miss hearing the voice acting... Also, I was a big fan of the way that the show was written and made by reusing old footage in interesting ways. If I get some time I'd sure like to do some other spaceghost related images this year...

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FORWARD...ever FORWARD

I'm still kind of formulating my plans for this year, because I'm also kind of factoring in for some family events and traveling I'm planning that might cut into some of my artistic productivity. On a side note though I'm trying to learn, more about caricature and basically practice my skill sets for exaggeration and observation. I've started a few new paints in the past few days as well as opening some old photoshop files from 2011 that I'd left unfinished. For me it seems that arriving at the finished image is always the biggest part of the battle. I Noodle around quite a bit with my work. This is a snippet of an image I'll try to wrap up here soon, and I'll attache some before and after images in the hopes you can see some sort of improvement in what I'm doing.

Other then that take a peek and lemme know what you think right now, Maybe you know who it is??

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Random Reptoid...

Here's a wacky little reptile I drew during my vacation back to Michiganland over the holidays... I sat down for coffee with my sketching buddy DREW PIERCE from college and skribbled out images like I used to in the old days... Felt good. I'm slow in getting into my workflow for the new year and haven't posted my goals yet but, I've submitted some art to an ADULT SWIM themed show at Gallery 1988 in Melrose LA this coming Friday, and I'll share more about that in a day or so. Along with some of my personal goals for 2012.

For now I have a Reptile Scribble for your eyes.

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Merry HOLIDAYS!!!

I had another Santa sketch I thought I'd post this one instead because I just liked it better... Here's hoping you all had a great holiday with family and friends...

Best wishes in 2012!

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New Years!!

I managed 400 in a year.... PHEW...
Did over a dozen show pieces both nation wide and abroad (Paris, and Mexico City).
Busy year indeed.
But, right now I don't even want to think about it. I should be laying out some new plans for the New Year in the next few days.

Best wishes to all my friends in 2012..
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