The Old Maid

Cracker Pete is a character from an event in my life that gave me the opportunity to love fireworks during the holidays that gave me permanent burns on my face. Vladimir Cathode is a video game console and it represents the wonderful age of intense gaming. Smoking Mirror’s mask is a Mayan mask from the time I visited the Mayan pyramids and temples in Belize. Sir Axehead represents the annual Renaissance fest I go to in October and November. Booker Bull is the day a graduated from high school with my diploma in hand. In my creative field that involves people of influence is Piet Mondrian, which is the artist that showed me that art isn’t always traditional but abstract. The person who inspired me with Piet’s work was my father “Juan Perez” and he pushed me to achieve success in my field of work. Ben Templesmith gave me the chance to create my new type of character design based on square shapes for body parts. Max Brooks was the man that brought me into the paranoia of the zombie subculture; it’s hard to design something without including them. In high school my art teacher Deborah Harkins influenced me greatly to pursue art and design further. 

In my workspace is hard to concentrate so I fiddle with objects around my desk at home. Wazer Ray is the hand held green laser I carry with me everywhere and to me its represents the vision of strong vibrant color. Brass Barry is a small spyglass on my desk, which means I must always see things in a different perspective. Decapatron is a vast assortment of Bowie knifes I keep on hand for whatever purpose basically a tool for cutting. Ring Randy represents the four rings on my fingers and I believe they bring me design luck. Dead Knott’s is a skeleton puppet that sits across from me and continually stares. Tom Toasty is an activity of solar bathing on scorching day; I enjoy the natural heat on the sun. Octave Oscillo represents all the music I listen to mostly electronic music. Theodough is a donut stimulant for energy. 

Fizzy Frank and Tiberius Tea are also stimulants to avoid boredom and stress during the creation process. Howard Hamburg is my number one food item to consume aiding the constant eating habit of not feeling full. Howler Harold is the necessity to let off steam from the time to time, helps avoid stress. Bill Burns is my stimulation of committing controlled arson on household applies that serve no purpose to me. Heavy Hitter is the opposite of burning appliances when feels better to smash it to pieces. Drowser Dave is my love of sleeping endlessly for hours like old folk. The Gorger is my fiendish old maid; whenever the fridge or pantry is full of delicious foodstuff I constantly get up from my workspace and grab a bite or sip of whatever. I keep wasting one to two hours of eating crap for no reason only that it tasted good and I am getting fat. Lastly the back of the card is a pattern of masks representing fire and water elements, their old drawings from high school that still have the same style as I have today. 

Story Boards

I really enjoyed this project a lot because as a group we got to plan out our ideas for the 3 objects (paint bucket,princess & elephant). It would've been difficult by ones self and you can see the variations of different drawings from each of us. Somewhere in between Angels story board and mine the story became a bit confusing because people didn't understand who the princess was marrying. People thought it was the half brother but it was actually another prince from another kingdom as an arranged engagement marriage. 

Mix Tapes

When I began to listen Bach's Cello my mood for it was everything happening in slow motion with a sense of tranquility. Though it mostly reminded me of water droplets. 

With the song sad sad city however all I could interpret in my head was a dude either annoyed by love or or somehow searching for it in all the wrong places so he's fed up or something.  

The song E.S.P. by Miles Davis Quintet made me feel rushed or aggravated so all the drawing have some meaning of being rushed or annoyed. This song reminds me of those old cartoons that only use a trumpet and in turn it becomes a fast paced episode. 

The Pink Robots song obviously all I could think about is a dude battling giant robots or getting pissed at all the electronic appliances in your apartment that don't work. 

The Bard

The Julius Caesar poster really does fit Dionysus because his way of everything being hysterical with wide grin yet knowing that the audience is seeing something tragic. He doesn't really care as long as he gets a kick out of it. The way designs his title also is very childlike. I captured the essence of the play with the multiple shades of red symbolizing the blood of Caesar. The skull masks on the men behind him give the appearance of a grim death approaching. Even the clothes portray significant symbolism of his coming death, the toga representing the Caesar's Laurel Crown as a royal assassination and the tunic representing a bloody death. Still I have no idea why the RSC logo turned orange instead of red. 

Editorial Illustration

The illustration for the billionaire article had me confused so I came up with the billionaire disguised as one of the 10% in  an overwhelming sea of them but also being one the 1% amongst the 99%. Originally it was supposed to be several heads in the crowd with his head being a different color but then I decided to show the bodies too. 

Simplification Through Symbolism

I have to say that this one was quite fun, the first quote with the horse was easy but drawing my own horse was hard, had to live trace it. The second quote was little tough to draw, couldn't figure out a good sitting position. The third quote came from a video game and I instantly came up with this idea of the grim reaper showing the dude his death through Tv.  

Ugly Beautiful

When I began thinking of ideas that were ugly and beautiful some how I drifted into only doing things with death and decay. Until I remembered that the things humans eat are often really poisonous looking but the color of the food looks beautiful. Thats why I choose this Kiwano Melon, it looks ugly and poisonous but the color of the fruit looks stunning.