Run Forrest Run: Graffiti

I remember watching Forrest Gump and thinking this was an iconic movie. It still is a powerful movie because it shows that anything is possible. There are many scenes that i can recall but the one that i thought would be fun to put a twist on was the "run, forrest run!!" scene. As i mentioned early i am a fan of graffiti so i thought i would play around with the nuts, bolts, leather, and metal holding his leg brace together to create a Pop Art piece.

Sasha Grey (pic & sketch)

Sasha Grey is formerly know as an adult actress and widely known for her natural  beauty. I' believe that everyone has a comeback stories even an adult actress. She  recently received national news for wanting to read to kids in school but the community complained because of her former lifestyle. I do believe people should be given a opportunity to change and repay their debts because we all aren't perfect. This story reminded me of the outcry in the Atlanta area when hip hop artist T.I wanted to speak with the kids and the community spoke out against that. T.I, who had just had a run-in with a police pointed out that he couldn't speak  to the kids but they would allow someone who's admitted to doing drugs speak to children any time he wanted to. He was referring to former President George Bush Jr.

another tumblr /instagram friend

Sorry i don't know her real name but Her IG: kittenisodd. She's a cute and funny girl that i found on Tumblr (even if she's a cat lady, I'm sorry but i'm not a cat person). She takes tons of selfies and most of them would make interesting subject matters to draw. But i wanted to do something slightly different this time around i would want draw her simply just the way without all the bells and whistles. This pose spoke to me and i had toned paper so it made sense to draw 2 color pencil study.

Inter :Graffiti Piece (pic & sketch)

I'm not a graffiti artist  nor do i claim to be. I am a fan of the style of writing and creating designs pieces based around it. It may seem hard to believe but i don't smoke and i never smoked. My dad smoked and i always disapproved of him smoking. I also think women who smoke is a highly unattractive quality but that would be going on a rant. I haven't done a graffiti piece in a while and this image seemed powerful enough to create one with. I also snuck in a little hint about my thoughts of artwork as well as my nickname if you look closely.

General Zodd is Disappointed

It's no great mystery due to my last couple of drawing that i fully heartedly disapprove of Superman Man of Steel that came out last spring. It was disappointed to me and the large part of the disappointed had to do with General Zodd's upper management approach to taking over the world. He allowed his henchman/woman to do all the true fighting and dirty work in the movie. For those who aren't aware this movie is like of a remake/re-envisioned version of sorts and the original Zodd actually had a more hands on approach. In my comical mind General Zodd would not be happy with  new General Zodd playing with cats while everyone else is fighting/ 

Fellow Artist: Kristena & Tony

So these are some of my friends from my Tues night drawing group. This is also 2 totally different impressions  of drawing. 

Lola (pic & sketch)

Instagram has introduced me to plenty of amazing people. Some people that aren't even on the same coast or continent as me. Lola is an aspiring model and photographer from the west coast. Her blue hair stands out and her facial expression made this pose a must draw on my list of many things to create. I wanted to capture her expression as well as work with a very limited color palette. It would be to easy to use 20 color pencils to create this and working on color scale was important.

Tong Po: "You Bleed Like Mylee"

Another brain creation of my good things Kimani and Art. One of the biggest martial art stars of the 80s and 90s was Jean-Claude Van Damme. He made a lot of movies around that time and one of my personal favorites was the movie Kickboxer. I remember my dad taking me to the movies to see it and all the comedic parts going right over my head. Years later i would watch it with my best friends and we could comically pick apart each scene. One of my favorite lines was said by the main villain Muay Thai fighter Tong Po during the final fight of the movie. He licked his rope bandaged fist covered in glass and uttered the words "You Bleed like Mylee!" hinted to the rape of his girlfreind in the movie. That line always stuck with me. More recently the movie popped into my head again but i decided to draw it.

Enrique The Bow-tie Dreamer (pic & sketch)

Enrique is one of my good friends from Old Navy. I admire him for 2 major reasons. One of those reasons is he's a great single dad that as all parents should would do any and everything for his son. I don't have kids nor am i sure that i would be a great dad but still i respect that. The largest reason is that he's following his dream to be a stand-up comic. The hardest thing to do as an adult is to still have a dream. Even now i can say i'm compromising my dream just  helps to support my dream. Truthfully i don't want to sell jeans and t-shirts forever. "Am i good at it?" Yes somedays i am but it's not my desire. My dream is to be an artist and it has nothing to do at all with being featured or in a gallery. I don't even have to sell 1 single piece for the rest of my life because it's about the raw emotional of creating. The idea of saying i have a voice and this is what i have to say.

Another Remake? "Freeze Creep"

I'm very hard of  the concept of remaking a movie. Very rarely can you create a movie that's better than the original. Sometimes it can and does happen but overall the horror genre that does a better job of it. Over the past couple of years movie studios have subjected us to such bad decisions as  Karate Kid and even more recently Carrie and Oldboy. I understand it's hard to have lightning strike twice. Some critics might say they aren't remakes but re-envisioned movies. Other argue that technology has finally caught up to where it should have been when the movie was originally released. I personally loved Robocop because as a kid watching it, it was cool. The concept and idea of a robotic cop that upheld justice was appealing. Also movies when i was a kid weren't as hypersensitive as they are now. I wanted to go watch Robocop, Predator, Terminator, Commando and other rated R movies and my dad generally would take me to them. There wasn't any need to water down the product to have larger box offices or creating family friendly products because the movies alone sold themselves.
I've seen the trailers for the new and improved Robocop and as much as a fan of the series i was i don't think i can bring myself to pay movie theaters prices to watch this adaptation of it. So in my most pop-art appeal i explain my thoughts of the idea.

Richard Sherman: The Predator of Cornerbacks

The most talked about person of today's Superbowl is Richard Sherman. His post game interview was full of emotion and charged with energy to the point he made the biggest headlines. Richard's comments to toward SF's wideout Crabtree sounded more like playground trash talking or what some compared to be a pro wrestling promo. After this moment i expected one of my fellow Instagram artists to have a field day with this topic and situation but instead there was nothing. I waited and i waited for something amazing to happen but it never came. Therefor i took a stab at it myself and believe me this isn't even anywhere close to what i wanted to do. The original concept changed and morphed into something new which at times can be both a bad and good thing.

"Yeah Boyyyy!"

This is the birth child of my 2 best friends in the world Kimani and Art, they still having a huge influence over me. The back story is good, trust me. As a teenager we would have movie marathons on weekend nights.  One of such marathons was we watched Phantasm. Rightfully so Phantasm is a classic horror movie because the funeral home is viewed as a real place of horror. We can only assume what things happen to us after death?! As we watched the movie we joked about the Tall Man and his stiff (Learch from the Addams Family) delivery of movement and lines. The most iconic line being "Boy!!" which he bellowed out as he chased little Mike around the town.
Flava Flav is more recently known for his Celebrity House, Flavor of Love, and Strange Love reality TV shows. However i remember him from being part of the social active hip hop group Public Enemy. It took me sometime to fully understand how important they were as a group in the 1990s. Still i can remember almost on cue with every track Flava Flav would say "yeahhh, boyyy!"

The Wedding Gifts

My sister got married last October and part of her wedding request she wanted a gift. I had done a caricature for my younger sister the year before as a wedding gift. Therefor to keep up with tradition my other sister wanted a drawing of her and my brother-in-law as well. I didn't want to do another caricature but a pencil drawing. and this what the result of it was.