Custom Poncho Flask!

Poncho on a flask? Damn straight!
This came in pretty fast (Tuesday)! Just ordered it last Friday! Crazy!

Aint she a beaut!? It came out so damn good!
I'm Gonna fill her with the most moderately priced, domestic, non-vintage grain liquor!

A close up. Check out the super high quality laser etching on that sucker!
Right down to the damn pen strokes and squiggles, good stuff!
I couldn't be more jazzed (that's right: jazzed) with the way this came out! Oo-De-Lally!
Anyways I got her at Flaskshop.com, check them out!
NOW I'M OFF TO JOIN THE NAVY!!!
-José

Marc Bolan sketch

Don't get excited people, it's just a tracing I did using Photoshop.
But it did come out pretty damn cool you gotta admit (click it to see the full size!)
LONG LIVE T.REX!

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

Meaby?

Freckly girl...
- José

ps} you gotta love a girl with freckles ;)

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

Poncho The Punchy Pup

Here's a little character I sketched the other night (early morning?), Poncho!
I mostly used the sketch of Poncho as an exercise in painting with my Cintiq...
which I'm not too great with.......... Yet.


I think he came out pretty darn good though (my opinion)
- José

Frank The Duel Ghoul

Some more late Halloween stuff...
This was done the old fashioned way, that is: drawn on paper, scanned, and then painted with my mouse via Photoshop, no Cintiq love on this one....
I, uh, based his costume off my cowboy costume this last Halloween (don't laugh)...


I cant seem to draw anything other than cartoon animals and Frankenstein-ish ghouls these days, hurmm...

-José

Halloween Jack Offs!

Here are some Jack OH lanterns I carved (and the sketches I did before I pierced that fresh pumpkin flesh!):




- José

Sixteen Months Later... And Some of This Fog Is Leaving

Thats right my dear Pixels, it has been more then a fucking year since I last posted... life what a bitch, huh?

Please help this sad and disgruntled drunk from not shriveling up... how say you my dear old Pixels?
Can you oblige?


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