This one took way tooooo long to finish but i love it.. it totally brings back memories of my childhood and how much fun it was to use your imagination. thanks He Man!
This painting is based off of the original crappily sculpted Stormtrooper action figure from the Star Wars line. I know the toy initially came out in 1977, but they re-packaged these through the 80's. Ever since I was 3, I was hooked on Star Wars, and after getting the Super Shogun Stormtooper recently, the old toys have been dancing though my head. It's a 2 color stencil, with the background made up of various colors of the black layer.
In honor of the 80's theme show, I present my piece titled "F*ck it, we got a better world under the bed".
Since I was never without my crayola markers in the 80s, I made this with those very same markers, sprung from a box in my folks basement.
These are my pieces for the upcoming Autumn Society 80's toy themed show at Brave New Worlds Comics in Philly. The 80's was a glorious decade for toys, It was a time when parents would get into fist fights at 6 in the morning, freezing outside a Kiddie City a week before Christmas so they could grab a preemie Cabbage Patch Kid or a Soundwave Transformer for their little girl or boy, and Santa would get all the credit. I loved my Star Wars and GI Joe toys, but Transformers was awesome & let's face it, Gobots sucked.
In honor of Munny Munth over at KidRobot, I decided to do a custom on their Trikky Mini-Munny platform. The design is based on Finn, the main character from Adventure Time. I sculpted the backpack out of a new sculpting compound called Zubber, which didn't work as good as I would have hoped. Still it was a fun little piece, and adds to my 2 other Adventure Time tributes HERE and HERE.
PaperMonster- Crash Custom 8" Qee
JoKa just blew this apart. Look at that face!!
Crystal Shepard. Extremely creative and skilled artist.
Great custom by David Weeks
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I really love this movie. I find it gets funnier with age. I won't lie and say I made this piece just for the heck of it. The reason I drew this scene is because Jim Breuer has said that during the making of this movie this was the only scene in which he was actually high for filming. I can never look at this scene in the same way again. Plus it's friggin' hilarious!
Here are my pencils for the piece i am doing for the upcoming art show at Brave New Worlds. Its entitled "Showdown on Grant Ave., 3:15pm" Its going to be three panels 13x19 making up this giant piece. i gotta hustle if i want to make the wednesday dropoff date.
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This will be available through the gallery starting July 9th, it's a 11" x 17" limited edition of 55 signed and numbered 5 color screenprint done by the fine folks at D&L Screenprinting who in my opinion are the absolute best in the business for screenprinting. I will post the other piece closer to the show, it quite scrumpdiddleumptious (hint, hint.)...
My contribution to the Crazy 4 Cult show at Gallery 1988. I was crazy excited to be asked to do a piece for the show. I tried to figure out a way to cram as many things into one piece for a movie that has a ton of great scenes & characters. Hope it worked... I've started to see a couple of people's pieces showing up online and they are amazing! Woo!
NoseGo: Jinxed Custom Qee Show - 6/26/2010 from Gabrielle Bonghi on Vimeo.
Nose Go
This cover was a nightmare process. It went through a prolonged sketching process, wrought with ridiculously changes to literal meaning. At the last minute a cover ad was tacked onto the thing, so there was all that ridiculous re-Frankensteining. The subject revolved on people in lockup who were forced to stay in for prolonged periods of time for not having the funds to pay their bail. The tick marks on the wrist (as you can see below) , which were meant to show off the time spent inside, were basically omitted. AND NOW, I have seen that the goddamn thing has printed awfully. Thats actually not too much a surprise, we have an awful printer. You get what you pay for.
I was actually partial to this more severe b/w version. The tick marks showed off in very tight bright red. Maybe its just my red fetish.
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