returner cd project

I did this project for the Death Metal Band Returner, the project was a collaboration with myself (art), my boy Bobby Patel (logo and type), and the drummer John Kois (it's his band). You can check them out at their facebook- www.facebook.com/returnerphilly . The blood on the front cover was actually made/mixed by my wife Riss who is an RN, and she's seen a shit load of the real thing, so that made the process a whole lot easier for me.

Anyways it was fun fun fun.

Untitled, première mise en ligne par +++Gaspard+++.

breaking the monotony

Sorry for posting 5 almost exactly the same images. Here is something to break up the monotony. I don't think I have posted it previously.

Solution?

Uncertainty about current piece

I have been messing with this a bunch today. I'm not sure which version, if any, is my favorite. Any thoughts from anyone?

Masquerade - Venice

As per Aeron's suggestion, my next post following this theme will probably be in regards to the Krampus, I'd forgotten all about them, including their name to begin with. However it is way too goddamn easy to find imagery depicting the famous style of mask worn during the traditional carnivals in Venice. Perhaps my favorite variety of mask; yes, I'd wager even more so than those made traditionally in Japan. The Mediterranean and the Far East are tied in my personal first place preference of mythological bestiary. Long before photography was a mere speculative technology of some far-flung imaginary future, the festivals of old Venice were said in some sources to be wild, unhinged, and at-times orgiastic affairs more akin to ancient pagan Bacchanalia than bourgeois family-friendly carnivalia; as beguiling, mysterious, and depraved as the masks first worn by royal-blooded or silver-tongued revelers and now by wealthy tourists in this fallen age. What strange sights I could capture if I had a time machine (and some knowledge of how it worked), a black&white camera, and the quiet stealth of a ninja.








http://flemmens.deviantart.com/


http://flemmens.deviantart.com/









For those who've recognize these from Eyes Wide Shut. Probably everyone.

Professor Bad Trip

Recently, I have been going through old stuff, rummaging in boxes full of dusty drawings at my parental cave. During the 1990s I did an anthology called Thank god it's Ugly with collaborations with Jakob Klemencic, Mike Diana, Matthias Lehmann and others. In fact, I owe Jakob for coming up with the catch phrase for the title. Anyway, it was a fruitful period, but after 2002 these collaborations came to a standstill as everybody started concentrating on their solo careers, or dropped out.

In 2006 I was saddened to learn that Gianluca Lerici a.k.a. Professor Bad Trip from La Spezia, Italy, had died from heart failure at the frightening early age of 43. Here is a couple of drawings we did together. I sent pencil sketches to Gianluca by old-fashioned snail mail and he finished them and sent them back, using only markers. His way of working is immaculate. There are mistakes nor white-out on his original art. Not all his work was in b/w though. He did colourful paintings and objects too - as a quick google search can show you. Amazing stuff. Good to know that he is not forgotten.

Pin-up

I've been asked to contribute a pin-up for an upcoming collection of work by a particular artist I can't name (the character here should give you a hint though), and here's a preview...

I'm also working on a sculpt for a possible resin kit version of Cankorr. It's pretty rough right now but you get the gist of it...

Sketchbook #38

Time to start a new sketchbook by painting its cover. This time I forced myself to use different colours than usual - for variety's sake. (I tend to use a lot of blue and green when I am not thinking)

Unfinished Demons and Yokai

Hello, All! Sorry, it's been a while since my last post. As per the email conversations, I thought I'd show some sketches I did for a freelance job. Rejects, really, as none of these really look like the finished drawing. The client was " Burning Wheel," an RPG. The creator needed illustrations for his "Monster Burner," a compendium of beasties included in his game world. These are drawings I did for creating a generic demon.






I didn't have much direction on it- just "draw a demon," so I drew a fairly wide variety.



The demon head in the lower left is the closest to what we ended up with. The client liked the almost female half-face, like the demon was a twisted perversion of a once-beautiful woman. Odd. I can't seem to locate the final inked version on my drive, but I think we can live without it for now.

I did a series of Yokai- creatures from Japanese folklore- for the same game. This is Hari Onago, a Japanese spirit possessing the usual extra, extra long hair, but each strand has, at its end, a barbed hook for ensnaring her victims.



Now, something a bit different, as far as my usual styles go. These are Yokai characters for an animation project at work. There's a very loose attempt at creating a sumi-e style.



L-R Top Row: Yama-chichi/Yamajijii, Nuribotoke, Dodomeki
Bottom Row: Wanuguchi, Rokurokubi

I hadn't heard of the character, Nuribotoke, before. He's this dancing corpse with oozing black skin, dangling eyeballs, and a bloated belly. I want to do further illustrations of him.

Location:Brooklyn, NY

Ex Occidente Press

Given that I am still waiting for a few books that I've ordered from this obscure publisher to arrive from Romania, I feel somewhat leary of spreading the word of them, since all their publications are of very limited stock, and there is much more of it that I would like to own. Nevertheless, if you're curious take some time to explore the catalogue of Ex Occidente Press. Not all of their books are viewable on the main page so it may take some time exploring, especially since what little of the plotline is revealed of each book on their respective pages, hints at something almost too weird to be true. What else could be expected from a publisher that has released contemporary tribute anthologies to both Gustav Meyrink, the man who wrote The Golem and many other hallucinatory stories, as well as one dedicated to Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of The Master and Margarita, one of the most intense, surreal, and multi-layered black comedies ever written?

http://www.exoccidente.com/

Oh, did I mention the artwork to their books kicks ass. A bit on the pricy side sure, yet this is nothing unusual for small cult presses, and it all but assures that these books would only be purchased by those they are best suited for.


Charles Schneider



John Coulthart


Stephen J. Clark

DINGUS: THE SLAUGHTERER

My show in Nancy, France

Until the 23rd of April 2011 will my show continue at the MJC Lillebonne, 14 Rue du Cheval Blanc in the centre of Nancy, France. This is one of the poster-size digital prints I have done with the support of the BKVB Art Fund in Amsterdam. They work really well as the eye-catching element as most of my original artwork tends to be small, not larger than A3 size.

The opening went nicely, in a friendly atmosphere and with lots of good snacks and drinks - yes, the French live up to their reputation, I must say, when it comes to that.

More snapshots can be found on the blog of Matthias Lehmann, who organised the show. http://www.blocmatthias.blogspot.com/

My shopping list

I've kept shopping lists on paper since I was about 13 and I really dont understand how any fan of books, comics, music, games and films can do without them, there is just so much great stuff I never would have remembered if I didnt keep lists. Earlier we have had photos of our workspaces, our collections of stuff, but I'd like to see your shopping lists.
I recently added a huge amount to my lists, I read several books about books over the winter and I'm going to talk about them sometime. I dont think I'm being too freaky for scanning these lists and saving them to emails and websites because I taken a very long time to accumulate all this info and I always hear stories of people losing their possessions in fires and floods, so I feel I'm being sane about it. If it didnt matter to me, I probably wouldnt be interested in all this stuff anyway.

The lists might be a page shorter if I didnt have the habit of writing some things twice because I couldnt remember if I'd noted them before...
MY HUGE SHOPPING LISTS

MEGA MALL III

MEGA MALL III, originally uploaded by SEAN ÄABERG.

Having finally figured out how to incorporate the various aspects of my mission here on earth, I have identified myself as a conceptual artist, who does not believe in the self-imposed safe space that art intentionally limits itself in. Thus, my art expands into reality, not unlike the Constructivist slogan "Art into Life". I have several stages of my conceptual project. Stage one is magazines & printed material. Stage two is radio & TV. Stage three is a boutique. Stage four is an entire mall. Stage five is a city. Stage six is a country. Stage seven is outer space. I imagine that these stages will not necessarily follow each other linearly, but may bounce back & forth. Some may be more or less important than others. My Mega Mall concept is going to be the central focus, the central organizational unit of humanity, which will begin as a small model in a boutique, then expand into an actual mall & then a city as a mall & then a space ship as a mall. I am interested in a total societal makeover, but not as a revolution, instead, as a buy-in to my corporate state.

New Work