When a piece gets a life of its own...

nobody@vox.com(Francz V) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:22:32 -0700

This started out as a quickie for my Sketch Blog but wound up becoming an exercise / foray into digital painting and a much less cartoony style. So now I guess I'll show it off here!

She Leaves Roses In Her Wake

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Caught Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell

nobody@vox.com(Francz V) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:14:44 -0700

Between Hell

Between Heaven

One of my earliest posts here was a sketch I did of an Angel and a Devil girl, well I gave the two the treatment and came up with two lowbrow canvasses. There's a healthy dose of tongue and cheek involved, along with some 50's hot-rod style art influences. The physical prints will be on canvas 1m x 1m.

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Designing for the movies...

nobody@vox.com(Francz V) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:38:44 -0700

I got the opportunity to design a t-shirt for the stunt and fight teams on the new Wolverine movie. After a few revisions and some back and forth communication the design wound up being pretty solid. Approx 300 t-shirts were produced and a limited run of hoodies. Here's the design.

WolverineFront

And here's the t-shirt as modelled by the gorgeous Deborah.

WolvShirt

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Something Funky this way comes

nobody@vox.com(Francz V) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:58:44 -0700

Keeping it short, new concept that can be filed under, 'I have no idea but I thought it'd be cool'. At least four more characters in the works, along with some interesting ideas, that's about it.

AudioBuddha

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Cernunnous - The Horned God

nobody@vox.com(Francz V) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:35:02 -0700

Here's something I did for a bit of fun, the overall concept was to take some pre-christian Celtic gods, give them a bit of a twist and urbanise them. I've got a few at the sketch book level, but I gave old horn head here the works. Might add some of the other later.

Cernunnous

For those interested, the latin at the bottom of the image, 'dis aliter visum' means - "it seemed otherwise to the gods" or in other words, the Gods have another plan. Kind of taps into the vibe I was going for, although ultimately, it was just a good excuse to draw a guy with antlers and big sneakers.

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The Puscifer Influence

nobody@vox.com(Francz V) — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:20:18 -0700

Been listening to a lot of Maynard James Keenan's creative project - Puscifer of late, wound up doing this piece, so I consider it indirectly linked (or at least subliminally inspired by) the music. Check out their stuff, you can buy it on iTunes or through their website.

Bad Habits / Good Music

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EDIT!!! - I Want Your Skull

nobody@vox.com(Francz V) — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:04:46 -0700

I'm pretty stoked!! Looks like I've been picked for issue 5 after all, now don't I feel like Chicken Little!

I Want Your Skull is a limited run black and white publication and website, that focuses on art featuring skulls. The following is my entry in the May issue. ~~I didn't get picked, but hey, it was a fun exercise all the same.~~

The Final Piece, entitled 'Thug Life'

ThugLife-v7

And here's a set of concepts, no particular order, although you'll notice I did start it in colour.

CreativeProcess

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Golfball + Bunny = Olee

nobody@vox.com(Francz V) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:34:13 -0700

OleeHere

My new friend and compatriot from Vinyl Toy Freaks, Marine was kind enough to send me Olee, his resin platform toy. Check out Marine's fine wares / works / art and some vinyl news at his Tummy Toys site and at Monikceltic.

For anybody interested, here's a design sheet I drew up for the Olee platform. It's in PDF so anybody who wants to give the Olee platform a shake can try it out.

Olee-designSheet

Download and Enjoy

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Vinyl Toy Freaks Mini Cards

nobody@vox.com(Francz V) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:47:08 -0700

Over at the VTF forums a creative request was put out for some mini-card designs. Here's my contribution.
For those interested, check out the VTF community, it's a cool place to shoot the breeze about art, vinyl and creative pursuits!

Design 1 - The People's Republic Of Vinyl
Based on Chinese Propaganda posters, I used the base of this design for a promo for VTF a while back and decided to work it up into a mini-card.

Minicard_01

Design 2 - Horrorpunk Roots
I make no secret of my proud punk roots, so here's an old school appropriated image horropunk style card, this one has caught a couple of favorable comments over at VTF and is probably my personal favorite too.

Minicard_02

As always, comments are more than welcome.

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Big Chief Art Print and Skate Deck design.

nobody@vox.com(Francz V) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:10:37 -0700

Speaks for it self I guess, I'm doing a short series in this style, just for fun at the moment, but I'm working of turning it all a little more tangible too! More soon.

Deck

ChiefPrint

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