Charles Dana Gibson

I just thought I'd share a few images from a set of ancient C.D. Gibson books that I acquired from a friend while working on his house. Gibson really knew how to describe form quickly and easily with line. His drawings were simply amazing...especially crowd scenes and interiors. Flipping through the pages made me really curious about the way people lived their lives way back when Gibson sat down to sketch. This was a time (1890's) before the proliferation of cars, where people said "while I was on my wheel" rather than "while I was riding my bike." The books are an odd, beautiful, and artistically inspiring glimpse of a master illustrators work. Enjoy!

* Take Action Now! *

Here's my contribution to the Illustrators Partnership movement on the Senate bill for the Orphan Works Act. We should all make our own, and post them everywhere!

Everyone, please go sign {HERE}, it only takes a minute! This is SUPER important!

Sincerely,

~Chogrin~

P.S. Also go HERE to keep yourself updated and read more about it!

To the streets...

Philadelphia's Guerilla art duo "Low + Cordel", created a collaborative 3 color silk screen print, to protest and bring awareness to the Orphan Works Issue to unaware artist and non-artist.

They posted these throughout Center City Philadelphia. (but they weren't pasted that well.)

They asked me to post these photos to the blog.

Keep Writing Letters to Your Representative Guys.

;)

* Baltimore Comic Con 08! {Part 1} *

Mission Accomplished!

In this picture from left to right are: Justin Gray, Peter Wonsowski, Craig Parrillo, Sam Heimer, Chogrin, Eamon Dougherty, Tim Durning, Shane Vidaurri. Not in photo but were present that weekend are: James Arnold, Jeff Desantis, & Anthony Pedro.

Part 2 will be posted soon!

Coming Through!

Something done to add drama to the portfolio:

Enjoy the Day,

Chris

chris-whetzel.com

Hermit Thrushes flyer

A modest lil' flyer I made for my good friends' band!
(They're good!)

We Are All Under One Roof

The above image is the front panel of one of my pieces for the "Home Grown" show at Jinxed. I made it with newsprint, watercolor paper, pencil, pen, spray paint, acrylic paint, and wheat paste. More pics to come of this piece and my other one also in the show (which runs until October 24th.)

New Whetzel Work

Hello, all. Just updated the blog and the website. Thought it might be a bit much to post here, so I'll just post one image. Its a calendar event illustration for SF Weekly:



Check out the rest of my latest work on my blog or my website. Thanks!
Enjoy the Day,
Chris

Salutations

Nice to meet you. I'm new to this blog and my name is Kevin. Here is a piece I just did this week.
My website is walrustrations.com.

INK ANSWER

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know
I started this little comic blog, with a few people you may know.
Now the goal is to try to post one comic everyday, so far it's
been going alright. all you need to do is draw a comic, weather it
be one page, one column, one box,no words whatever. It just has
to not have any color in it. I Like the idea of it being updated everyday so
people want to check it out. So if you would like to join, just let me know
because the art can be as in-depth as you want or very very raw and simple
so check it out here:

INKANSWER.BLOGSPOT.COM

Mike Niemiec invite

Hey guys, I noticed a week or so ago, Fish did a small review of Collie Mills and insisted he be added to the group, so I'm doing the same thing, only for my friend Mike Niemiec. Some of you know him, some don't, he graduated this past May with us and I think he'd be a really awesome addition to the group. He's still producing work and is trying to get involved just like we all are. Here are a few samples of his work, check the link below if you wanna see more.

Joe. Send him an invite! Haha

and lets get TASOP's show moving.

Nemock Studios

Lunar Moth

Hi guys. Here's a quick spot experiment I did from a pencil drawing. It's of a lunar moth, and the above symbol is from a Mayan carving for the moon (so, an all around moon piece). I tried to limit myself on time and simplify the process a lot to see what the results would be. I'm pretty pleased with the results and glad that you can see the texture of the pencil and the paper. What do you guys think?

ROBOT

ROBOT

Broken Trees Poster

Just finished this show poster for my friend Liz, and her band Broken Trees. Should be a good show as well. Tennis rules.

* BEARFRIDGERTOR! and other oddities *

A little late on this, but still going on, so go check it out! Works by the notoriously talented Justin Gray!


Bearfridgerator. B2. Dickinson & Passyunk

* Updates, Websites & Things *

Hey all,
Just wanted to let you all know that we have some new members among us and I'd like you to give them a warm welcome. Among them are the spectacular "Quadro Spectacle." Also, there are many new links on the right side you should definetely check out.

Among them are some really cool places like:

This following piece was done by HorseBites Design

Another site I've recently have had the pleasure of being part of is Sugar Frosted Goodness, founded by the amazing Illustrator/DesignerJeff Andrews
The * COOL CARTOONISTS AND ILLUSTRATORS * section is filled with amazing artists too. Any link you go to from that list is bound to inspire you in someway or form.

The * MUSICIANS * section is filled with music from our own members here on the blog, so please go give them a listen.

Also, if you want to make some quick stickers or buttons of your stuff, there are some great links under * ADVERTISE YOUR ART *

Last but not least, Comic Con is almost here and oh the goodies we have in store for everyone! More on that later this week!

On a side note, Did everyone go on vacation? I haven't seen as many comments as usual. Please comment as much as you can, everyone can use the boost and support. That's how we keep pumping more work. On that note, please check out Peter Wonsowski's amazing Illustrations for a side project from members of Less than Jake / Rehasher / PB&J, called Coffee Project.


That's all for now!
*Chogrin over & out*

P.S. Coming Soon!

Viva La Vendetta

Hey All,

With all this talk of comics and the Baltimore Con, I thought I'd post this week's piece from my Superhero Sunday routine, inspired by my friend Reau's Wolverine Wednesday. He's been painting Wolvie every week for 45 weeks. The man deserves a medal. Long ago, I promised him that I would show my comic-esque side more often. So I'm planning to post a random character on my blog each Sunday. It should be an uber fun way to keep sharp. Enjoy!

And I second PW's remark...I hope to meet many of you in Baltimore!

coffee & comics

hi!
i won't bog down the Autumn Society with a lot of images, but if anyone likes awkward youth, small minds, tiny towns, and monsters, lotsa monsters, i uploaded just a few of the images for a 10" record coming out on Halloween for the Coffee Project (at peterwonsowski.blogspot.com). if you like acoustic punk, you can check out a really good track here:
www.myspace.com/coffeeproject

also, i'm really looking forward to meeting many of you in Baltimore! feel free to drop me a line if you like, and thanks again to Joe Game for all the hard work
-pw!

Hey Everybody

Hi guys, I would like to kick off my first post by saying thanks to Mr. Chogrin for inviting me to contribute to this really rad community/blog. I must admit that the Autumn Society Blog page was almost a daily interweb stop for myself, and to now be apart of it stokes me out pretty hard. Anyways, for those of you who don't know me my name is Brad and I recently graduated from the Illustration department at U Arts along with my homies Eric, Tim, J. Arnold, S.M. Vidaurri, Karen, etc. etc. So yeah. Oh, and the above piece is a new wave of portfolio/promo stuff I have been working on, the title is "With Every New Day, There is a New Way."

and I'm totally in a show tonight at Jinxed with some heavy hitters including fellow illustration dept. alumni Leanne Biank, stop by if you can!

and here is my site as well.

thanks.

Illustration Friday 9-3 "Island"

Well there wasn't to much going on the week, and I haven't done
a full illustration in a while. So I decided to participate in this weeks
Illustration Friday. Top was "Island" and I like how it came out.
Tell me what you think. Thanks. 72 DPI colors should be a bit better. But
you get the idea.

St George, Le Fin

Hi all. Here's the final for my "Dragon" themed illustration. It was a bit of a struggle getting it done in certain areas, but in general I think it's a successful piece. I wanted to do a piece that wasn't so quiet, like my last few. So, a little more action and a pose that wasn't so stoic. I also wanted the skin tones to be kinda pale so that I could play up the reds in the hands more. Hope you guys like it. Later!

This is Collie Mills

I had class with this kid when I was in my soph. year, and after the S.I. I started talking to him again on a regular basis. This kid just gets better and better with each piece. He is also was born and raised here in the city of Brotherly Love.

Maybe Joe can add him into the society?

More stuff by him: Rezurekted.deviantart.com

Trying New Things

I really wanted to try my hand at digi-collage, and I HAVE TURNED TO THE DARKSIDE.
I've started collecting lots of textures now and I'm generally happy with this first experiment piece. I really love his silly tail. I wish he was a little creepier, and I feel the piece on a whole has too much of the same tonal quality. Comments are welcome.

Gallery Show Idea's

I have always been someone that has been interested in showing and curating art shows, and thought, hey we have a community of artist, why not have a show.

My only Questions are.....

1. Who's interested in showing?

2. Where can I show/who do I talk to about showing?

3. Are we selling the pieces and keeping the profits or giving them to charity?

4. What kind of theme can we have? (ie:10x10 piece show, or Cult film show)


I want to do the show in February so it gives me time to pitch the idea around to places and if some of you traditional folk and or folk still in school want to take your time, it gives more le-way.

Let me know what you think.

* Chogrin Music - Plug *

For those of you who don't know, apart from drawing cute cartoons, I also play bass and sing on a self-titled acoustic / punk / lo-fi / indie music project. I have some new songs up on my site for you to check out HERE. Let me know what you think.


Also Please Check out these other fantastic musicians we have here on the blog including:
Ambassador Etc.
Nutbox
Wormeaters
Santorini
Slanti
Sharp Teeth

If anybody else plays music and would like to be added under musicians, please let me know, or let people you know that are musicians about the blog to join!

St George, pt deux

Here's my final drawing for the Dragon piece. I'm excited to move on to the finish, so here's hoping it works out well. Later.

Tube-sock Monster!

Wilting away

Amy Winehouse; wilting away and lifeless as doctors tell her that if she continues to smoke crack, not only will her mild emphysema (she got from smoking crack) get worse, but she could end up dying. This was in the news this summer about the British super star.

I did this as one of my summer spots for Joe at U of A, and I am posting this because it's one of my favorite I have done.

Enjoy.

St George & the Dragon

Hey guys. This is the 2nd part of the original collaboration project a few other people and I outlined in August, and the theme this time around is "Dragon." In some ways it can be much more literal because doing a dragon at all requires some imagination, being all fictional and what not. Regardless, I'm anxious to see if people step up with some awesome interpretations of the theme.

My sketch is based off of St George and the Dragon, but with a modern kid as the main character using a broken sword. I wanted it to be a little more actiony and dynamic because a lot of my work has been pretty quiet recently. Hope you guys dig it. Later.

More Children of the Watchmen

I chose for the watchmen book, to do a rendition of the very funny and gross scene of Rorschach eating Nite-Owl 2's beans. His sloppy eating sounds, as well as the quote are from the book. Enjoy~

I <3 Fliers

So on my blogger I posted that I was going to print this flier out, and it being one of the first fliers I printed after the long summer of just really re-investigating the way I draw, and how I approach my medium.

I printed this flier in Gold, Silver and black ink, hence the huge glare. I printed 26 of them because I was fearful of not selling well at this venue where I usually only sell about 2 or 3. I usually break even when I do fliers up in doylestown at Siren Records.

I posted it up here because it's the first gig poster I printed that I sold out of at the show. I was pretty shocked to of sold as many as I did but I am not complaining none the less either. Below is a digital version for your own personal view.

Thanks guys!

New piece, edited and finished.

Self Portrait Heroic 18" x 22" on panel

Hey guys, I've posted this on conceptart along with my other personal blog, but for those of you who haven't seen this, I've recently finished a new personal piece. It's a self portrait sketch that got turned down last september in class but has been one that I've been wanting to do and has been stuck in the back of my head ever since. I'm sure many of you can relate with me there.

As a side note, I'm really loving the new energy going on here with us and am extremely excited to see all of us still producing, both current UArts students and Alums. Anyway, thanks again guys, let's keep it up :)

*To Mars*

A month or two ago I did a quick Illustration inspired by my feelings, or opinion I should say, about human kind's exploration of Mars. A lot of it came from reading many books by Robert Zubrin, specifically, The Case for Mars, which contains a beautiful quote by Italian Philosopher Giordano Bruno. And so inspired by these great ideas and dreams of someday terraforming Mars and making it our second home, I made a short video, using my Illustration and the beautiful track, "108 the boat", by the amazing Ambassador Etc. Our Space program has been on hold for almost 30 years. Our last steps on the moon were in 1972. As a generation I feel, we should aim for more and achieve almost anything as many aspired to do much strongly decades ago. Anyways I just wanted to share this with you, for I feel it is important for us, our future, and our survival. With our art and visions we could inspire ourselves & other future generations to go beyond anything we could imagine.

*Children of the Watchmen*

This here is a pin up of Sally Jupiter (a.k.a the first Silk Spectre from the Minutemen era) from the amazing comic book, Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. My piece will be part of a book and gallery being put together by the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society, called "Children of the Watchmen". The book and gallery will be taking place sometime in late september, early October. Hope you like!

Book Version:

Gallery Version:

Some New Whet-werks.

Hello, all! Just wanted to post some new work from August to let you know I'm still kickin'!

Enjoy the Day,

Chris

chris-whetzel.com

Retail Traffic Illustration for article "Taking On Water" concerning California's housing and economic crisis:

Houston Press Cover for an article about Houston Texans coach, Gary Kubiak's new season:

Watchmen

This is the final for my Children of the Watchmen contribution. Tighter composition and some more glowyness than I originally intended but I like the way it turned out. The idea comes a lot from his origin story. Before he became this all-powerful master of matter, space, and time we see him laboring over a pocket watch and loose gears, symbolic for how he's later able to piece together the raw materials of matter. I guess I imagine him contemplating the power he has and remembering where he came from- the design is meant to indicate his stoic, logical nature. Hope you guys like it. Later.

* 16 Candles Anyone? *

This is a recent piece I got commissioned to do for a client's wife's birthday. The client wanted a scene from the movie Sixteen Candles to be represented, so here it is. It was pretty fun!