Tigor With Guns

Title says it it all! It's everyone's favorite indomitable super mutant, Tigor!
Definitely one of my most cherished characters that my brother originally created as a child!
Look how he's grown.... awww, meeeemooorieeees!
-José

Proletariat Pete

HARK! Look Comrades, it's Proletariat Pete!
He's here to abolish the Bourgeois! Hazaah!
Vodka para todos los revolucionarios!
 
- José

Firewater Album Cover & Back

This is an album cover I did for one of my chum's (Adrian) school projects (A.I.)

I chose Firewater as the band (my personal fav) and Another Perfect Catastrophe as the song
We took pictures of Adrian's Toho monster toys & then of us (Me, Adrian, Pedro, Germo)
I then desaturated, contrasted and then did a retro style recoloring on the images
The "Asianese" font you see is actually just English made to look Japanese!
The first one says "Firewater" and the second one says "made by josé arenas" really cool font!
-José

Old Zombie Concepts

Here are a couple of old zombie concepts for another one of Pedro's movie projects (April 2009)
They were hand drawn, scanned, then painted in CS4 by mouse (no Cintiq, unfortunately didn't have it yet)


So yeah, I tried replicating that 1950s horror comic book look through art style and simple coloring

Took some inspiration from old 70's Hanna Barbera cartoons (Scooby Doo, Space Ghost, etc)

And (heavily) from the WW2 sequence in the Heavy Metal movie... right.

Anyways, not exactly the world's scariest zombies, but they are fun and were fun to do!

I prefer the non-colored ones but all in all pretty good!

- José

Fairwell Mouse!

My dearest Pixels I have unfortunate news!
Today the last of six Fancy mice has finally passed away, her name was Lona'.
She lived a good and privileged life despite the fact it was mostly spent in a cage...
But hey boy, it was a large cage... with a large price (I may add). Populated by many other mice. She was white, as were three other mice, so by the time she was the only mouse left I just started calling her Lona' (get it?) cause I couldn't tell which mouse she originally was. I had these mice for a span of about four and a half years!

I now present to you my pet mouse obituaries, enjoy:

• Short Round
  
• The only brown mouse, she was one of the three originals first brought to our room and quickly became the family favorite. She was easily the smartest and cutest mouse of the bunch. She had a penchant for hording food and on any given hour of the day you could find her running on the little treadmill. It was really sad to see Short Round leave us.
  
• DOD: May 2009
  
• COD: old age

• Cleo
• The black bitchy mouse. She unfortunately had an untimely grisly death which was the result of neglect by my brother and me being sick all weekend in bed. I assume what happened was the other mice starving, ganged up on her, killed her, and then ate her, grisly right!? I made sure from that day on that I would give them ample food whenever I knew would be having a busy or taxing weekend.
  
• DOD: 2005
• COD: Cannibalization

• Stinky
  
• The only white mouse with a distinguishable marking, a bent tail. She was one of the three original mice in our room, unlike the other mice she wasn't a gift she was found by my mother running around at one of her centers. When she brought her to our room, Stinky's little cage smelled pretty pungent which is sadly how she acquired her name. She was kinda batty and had a droll habit of running in circles non stop.
  
• DOD: Early 2009
• COD: Sick/Old Age
  

NOTE: The rest that follow were all Albino mice and it was hard telling them apart except for Stinky. So with that being said the exact dates of death of these mice is hard to determine:

• Rewind
• She was also one of the original 3 mice brought to our room and also the very first white mouse before Stinky showed up. Rewind and Short Round quickly became buddies, they were always seen paling around with each other. Rewind, unlike the other mice had the strongest tendency to build nests, she would tear and shred paper that was tossed in their cage, she would also reach through the bars of the cage to pull outside things in (like clothing, papers, photos, rags, etc) and would use the pieces to build nests. When I was done cleaning their cage, Rewind was usually the first mouse to start pushing around bedding and taking apart cardboard rolls to create a new nest.
• DOD: 2008/2009?
• COD: Old Age
  

• Betty
  
• Was the largest mouse when she was first introduced to our cage but gradually shrunk down to the size of the rest of the mice.
  
• DOD: 2008/2009?
• COD: Old Age

• Wilma
• I'm actually not sure what this mouse's name was (I didn't name her). She was nearly identical in appearance to Rewind which made telling them apart the most difficult. This was just the peak of the iceberg, identity became really thorny when Betty finally shrunk to everyone's size.
• DOD: 2008/2009?
• COD: Old Age

Here are some super adorable photos I took (circa 2005) of the three original mice Short Round, Stinky, and Rewind before the last three showed up:

SHORT ROUND

REWIND

STINKY


Well we had a good run guys. See yah on the other side my furry friends!

-José

When to know that you've become a fat slob...

When you have to start "rubber banding" your shorts!
Confused? Here's a visual to help you understand my dilemma:



Sad days indeed, tsk tsk tsk.
Well I've started a diet today... hopefully I can loose some pounds by the end of august.
Why August? Because my good buddy Mairio (as I call him) has invited me to tag along with him and his brother to Las Vegas! Nice right?
Don't you be hating, pixels!

Anyways, that's the reason for the weight loss... plus it's always good to loose a couple pounds!
My mother has also joined me in my venture, I'm thinking of making us some wristbands (one for my brother Pedro too who's also been dieting) to help us stay motivated. We'll see.

Oh by the way pixels, I'm gonna be making an animation-ish music video (must keep those creative muscles pumped) to Bob Dylan's The Man In Me.
It'll be similar to one I made a couple a years ago, but thanks to my Cintiq it'll be of much higher quality. So hopefully I can get that actually done!

CHEERS!

Okay so... one more!

Hooda Laali!
I'm just posting just one more for today...
Not like it matters... the Blogger servers and the pixels on my Flatron are the only ones who are actually viewing my art.

*mimics pistol to head*

Here's some more concept art for one of my brother's short films. It was actually for the same project that I made the ApocBeast for.

Enjoy corporate servers and pixels!

The Apoc-Beast

My brother is currently working on a short film project and had asked me if I could draw him a beast for a background. The idea for the beast... well actually, let me start with his short film premise, it's about the apocalypse and a girl does some looting on a poor dead dude who just baught it from some crazy zombie. The short ends with a "Road Warrior" shot with the girl just looking at the camera as it pulls.. or was it pushes away? well, whatever the cameras doing in the back round you would see two things: a giant destroyed radar dish and the ancient remains of some super creature! pretty neat, right? right.

Ive done the super beast first.

By the way my brother has yet to receive his film from the development lab in LA.
So my beast has no home except for a white backdrop...

Ingredients: Photoshop, Nigersaurus bones photo, ram horns photo, dunkleosteus skull photo.
stir until simmers, serve over 16mm film.