Luxuria
“Luxuria” is Latin for “Lust”. Painted for the 7 Deadly Sins exhibit, by Artistique Theatre & Suspension Lounge.
Click here for photos + details of “Luxuria” in a hand-painted custom frame.
Chang’e
Dark + Light. Cool + Warm. Reflect + Project. Moon + Sun. Yin + Yang.
I was asked to contribute to Dark Horse Comics’ Once Upon a Time Machine anthology, and was thrilled at the prospect of tackling the theme of futuristic fairy tales. So I chose the Chinese legend of Chang’e, the goddess of the moon.
Originally, I wanted to do Red Riding Hood, but apparently that had been chosen several times over. And on a whim, I did a Tarot reading for something unrelated and drew the XVII. Moon card — which in my deck (The Goddess Tarot), was represented by Chang’e. Serendipitous, one might say.
Customized VonZipper goggles for YRB Magazine
YRB Magazine recently commissioned me to customize a pair of VonZipper Misslepop snow goggles for their Nov/Dec issue (on newsstands now!), and hilarity ensues.
YRB Magazine #206
I had a few ideas including a femme (typical me) “Rose-Colored Glasses” theme, but they promptly needed to be scrapped when I finally got the googles in the mail and saw that they looked like this.
And I couldn’t swap out the lens for another color. And I had only a little over a week to finish it.
So I rolled with it and went with a fiery concept instead to match the amber lens. And of course, because snow and fire are opposites. (Or more dorkily, Ice and Fire…)
This is what I came up with.
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Basically snow goggles + crapload of paint + LED Christmas garland + ribbons = this awesome monstrosity.
YRB also featured my finished goggles and a short interview both in their magazine and website…
(click the magazine page to go to the their official page)
Unfortunately, the photographer was unable to turn the lights on by the time they received them… (and I was unaware that the goggles were to be worn) But hopefully the concept still shows through.
Hope you enjoyed my first attempt at 3D art since 2003. Fun times!
Unicorn
Featured as the back cover in Image Comics’ ELEPHANTMEN #36.
The title, “Unicorn”, was derived from the initial mistake from European explorers that rhinocerii were actually unicorns. I kept this in mind as I designed Sahara’s headdress and the overall feel of the unicorn-and-maiden legend…
BTW, this is the comic I did that last cover for. :)
There is something terribly familiar about this post, but I can’t put my Finger on it. Art by Josh Mathus, words by Michael V. Bramley.
Sherbet
Cover for the Sherbet Halloween Special 2011 comic, collecting the first three stories of the adventures of Sherbet Lock, everyone’s favorite ethnically-ambiguous, drug-addicted, womanizing lesbian detective from the future.
Each of the three arms represents each of the three stories in the collection: “Finger”, “Body” and “Milk”.
![China Rose
Rosa chinensis, known commonly as the China Rose is a member of the genus Rosa native to Southwest China in Guizhou, Hubei, and Sichuan Provinces. [source] For GirlsDrawinGirls Vol 4: The Way Nature Made Her, an anthology of flora-inspired pinups.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2epepMEts1r2zoo6o1_500.jpg)
China Rose
Rosa chinensis, known commonly as the China Rose is a member of the genus Rosa native to Southwest China in Guizhou, Hubei, and Sichuan Provinces. [source]
For GirlsDrawinGirls Vol 4: The Way Nature Made Her, an anthology of flora-inspired pinups.
Wet
Splash Woman gets the upper hand on Mega Man. Her superior position suggests victory in battle as well as sexual dominance in a twist of gender role-reversal or Ecstasy of Saint Teresa-like reverie. The mecha tentacles reference shokushi goukan, a form of erotica referenced as early as the work of Hokusai.
Snow, Glass, Apples
Initially commissioned as a print for Neil Gaiman’s Neverwear site, this project was consequently cancelled. But I loved his short story, “Snow, Glass, Apples”, and the work-in-progress so much that I finished it up anyway. :) The associated text read:
I like to think she played first with the ribbons, twined them into her raven hair, looped them around her pale neck or her tiny waist.
And then, curious, she moved the cloth to see what else was in the basket; and she saw the red, red apples.
They smelled like fresh apples, of course; and they also smelled of blood. And she was hungry. I imagine her picking up an apple, pressing it against her cheek, feeling the cold smoothness of it against her skin.
And she opened her mouth and bit deep into it…
“Snow, Glass, Apples” is © Neil Gaiman.
