Frost Park Chalk Off #8: GLASS WARS!!!

It was that time again... Time for spontaneous urban chalk competition. All the usual competitors were there, chalk was applied, frivolity was... was... whatever you do with a bunch of frivolity. I had a wonderful time as usual. Didn't get to talk to many people unfortunately because if the space I chose. That was a bummer. But I did get to make art I was very happy with. I worked on a wall this week. The results are below.

Thanks to the Tacoma Urbanist for the photo.
Thanks to Kevin Freitas for the photo.

Even my son Barrett got to work on his own square. He was consumed with creative energy.

Again...thanks to Kevin Freitas for the great photo.

As usual I encourage everyone to log into Feedtacoma.com and vote for your favorite piece of chalk art. The winner gets to have a trophy of their design made in blown glass. They also get a vintage fedora previously owned by a grizzled local reporter. I am ultra excited about the glass trophy. It is made by students of the wonderful Hilltop Artists in Residence program. My friend Kathy donated it. The very idea of it is super cool and I really hope I get it. The fedora is weird and if I am lucky enough to get it I'll probably just end up giving it to the Frost Park Chalk-Off organizer and celebrated urban holistic underground cartoonist RR Anderson. My guess is he would dig it alot more than I would. I am just after the glass. My proposed trophy is shown below.

NOW GO VOTE!

Go Shopping for Stowe

On the advice of individuals smarter than Stowe I've created a virtual shop over on FEEDTACOMA.COM.

There I will sell prints of work you see posted here, work from roleplaying game books, orginal paintings, posters, tee-shirts, commissions and other stuff I probably just had lying around that I figured I'd sell to my fellow Tacomans (That is TA-Comb-ANS, not TACO-Mens).

In the next coming days and weeks I hope to grow the content over there quite a bit. You can go directly to my shop by clicking HERE or typing in: Http://shops.feedtacoma.com/stowe/.

Promo Art:

Hilltop Glass Chalk Trophy

This week the Frost Park Chalk Off prize is a custom piece of glass art.

Let me say that again cause you mind may not have been BLOWN by the nuclear furnace heat contained in the unassuming and meager words making up that sentence.

THIS WEEK THE FROST PARK CHALK OFF PRIZE IS A CUSTOM PIECE OF GLASS ART!

My mind...

...is blown...

...like glass
(impromptu poem/pun)

Anyway... if I were to win this week I would want something like this:



(concept art for potential chalk-off glass trophy)

Knowing how my mind works...
I expect there to be others following shortly and throughout the week.

UPDATE!
Inspired to design a new one...

Heather, Queen of Cupcakes

It what has turned into a weekly assignment here at work, I am drawing funny pictures of coworkers for the Lucks Company website. This is Heather, Head of our Marketing Department. I once drew her as a unholy undead creature in a rather stale meeting once, and she has never let me live it down. Hopefully this will help her forget about that. Art and hokey nursery rhyme all by me.

Better Know Your Zombie (part four of six)

...this zombie occurs when aliens parasites takeover human bodies. The parasitic takeover often occurs through the method of slug like beings entering an orifice of a live or dead human body. The resulting zombie is a slow moving creature, rotting from the inside out, with a collective or hive like mentality. While there is little high level mental function, they can be cunning when it comes to perpetuation and distribution of the parasite collective. These zombies are meat eaters, however they don't limit themselves to human flesh.

HOW TO KILL IT: Killing the "queen" parasite, if attainable, will result in the deaths of the entire collective. Without this option, the individual parasite must be induced to leave the host body (usually this has to be accomplished through gratuitous, high movie rating violence resulting in the wanton destruction of the host body). The parasite must then be "squashed" before it has an opportunity to infest another host.

MEATIES!

Giant Sized Frost Park Battle Art!!!

FEAR MY TECHNICAL ACUMEN
AND MY EXTENSIVE DORK KNOWLEDGE

Giant Sized Frost Park Battle Art Teaser #3

LISA (LAST NAME UNKNOWN)
ELLE
http://www.lifeofelle.com
http://www.freerangemedia.net

Giant Sized Frost Park Battle Art Teaser #2

Andrea Trenbeath Lowen
THE LUPIN-GODDESS
http://www.unstableart.com/

Giant Sized Frost Park Battle Art Teaser #1

THE REPORTS OF MY DEMISE...

Weekly Update (May 20th -May 23rd)

What everyone should expect to see here this week...

More Teatro ZinZanni cast fan art...

A Major Frost Park Chalk Off Battle Art piece... its going to be big...

Better Know Your Zombie 4! 

I love my job.

What other job to you get to draw the president of your company as a old skool 80's rapper on his request?

Seriously... I love being an artist.

I present...



RAPPER RICK!

Frost Park Chalk Off 6

Just back from Frost Park.

I RAWKED' OUT WITH MY CHALK OUT!

(Photo proof up later [i.e. after work])

As usual I urge everyone to go here and vote for the chalk square [mine] most [mine] deserving [mine].  I am not here to influence... just inform.

I also got to talk to Andrea (Two Time Frost Park Chalk Champ) Trenbeath Lowen.

Check her work out here. She is really good.

I also met Mark Monlux. He is veteran freelance illustrator with ties to Cartoonists Northwest and the Graphic Artists Guild. Check him out here. I can't wait to talk to him some more. I bet he has some stories to tell.

Also... it is like 85 and Sunny here in Tacoma today.

Perfect Chalk weather.

Better Know Your Zombie (first part wrap-up)

For those that hate the hunt-n'-peck.

Better Know Your Zombie (part three of six)

This type of zombie is generally a result of disease experimentation gone very, very bad. Once infected with the disease, a fast zombie experiences a startling increase in strength and speed and aggression. They are able to cover a lot of ground very quickly. Running from a fast zombie is rarely an option...YOU WILL BE CAUGHT. If caught and ANY transferal of bodily fluids (tears, sweat, blood, saliva, semen, etc.) occurs, the disease will be transferred to you. Then you too become a fast zombie.

HOW TO KILL IT: The fast zombie is technically not an undead being. The best strategy is wait them out while they forget to feed themselves and starve to death. Unless they start feeding on the local rodent population...that's bad news. REALLY bad news. Government intervention through the use of massive property and collateral damage annihilation is the only answer.

SUPER SKRULL 3

MAGNETO
QUICKSILVER
and
THE SCARLET WITCH

TEATRO ZINZANNI CAST (one of nine)

THE CHEF!

Peter Pitofsky
Uncanny timing, a malleable face and a willingness to do anything for a laugh have all earned American clown Peter Pitofsky the title of “Human Cartoon.” His years of street theater on the infamous Venice Beach walk, along with go-for-broke stand-up sets at L.A.’s Comedy Store, earned him opening slots with some of comedy’s heavyweights, including Mel Brooks, Jay Leno, Penn & Teller and more. This is Peter’s eighth engagement with Teatro ZinZanni.
(From the Teatro Zinzanni site: http://dreams.zinzanni.org)

SUPER SKRULL TWO

Jamie Maddrox the Multiple Man
Surtur the Fire Giant
and
War from the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse

What to expect this week...

No art to post...

Work is working me to work on work stuffs. WORK.

But, I want to tell you what you can expect this week here on the bloggy blog.

Finishing up the Super Skrulls Art Challenge (only two to go). DONE!

The beginning of a series of Teatro ZinZanni performers pieces (my wife and I saw the show this weekend for our anniversary [thanks James] sans kids [thanks Lynn] and it has really stuck with me. All the performers were so damned good I feel compelled to give them something)

Another BETTER KNOW YOUR ZOMBIES piece (#3) DONE!

Frost Park Chalk Off Friday

and maybe...

OTHER THINGS...

Stay tuned... 

SUPER SKRULL ONE

Prince Namor, The Silver Surfer, Nightcrawler

Better Know Your Zombie (part two of six)

...while still slow moving, this zombie, created by inhaling toxic zombie fumes or through secret government conspiracy, possesses a slightly higher level of intellect and direction than the shambler. Their preferred food is brains and they will express their overwhelming need using a mantra such as "Must. Have. Brains." Brain eaters can smell brains and will actively hunt their food, sometimes through the use of simple traps, once they've acquired the scent.

HOW TO KILL IT: A brain eater can be killed through the use of electrocution. Burning may also be used as a last resort, but care must be taken as a burning brain eater releases deadly toxic zombie fumes into the air. These fumes result in turning those who breath them into brain eating zombies.

Dork Art Assignment #2: SUPER SKRULLS!!!

GeNext is so yesterday.

I have a new Marvel obsession!

(to draw)

Secret Invasion #2 introduced new Super Skrulls that were a combo of three different random marvel heroes.

That idea is awesome sauce over a plate of French Fried FUCKING AWESOME!!!

Now I need people to give me 3 random Marvel heroes or heroines to blend into a whoop ass new green skinned, funky chinned Super Skrull.

POST EM IN THE COMMENTS.

LA LA LA LA LA...

John Scalzi asked on his blog today...

The Smurfs and the Care Bears in a knife fight. Who wins?

I think we all know the answer to that question.

GeNext Group Shot

You know...just cause I can. I promise more zombies soon.

GeNext 5

I realized I never actually made up one of these guys myself. So, since I am a huge comic book goober at heart I couldn't pass up the chance. Let me introduce:

SENTINEL X!

Maker Monroe
Son of Colossus and Storm
Powers: Robotic Metamorph (Sentinel alternate form granting Superstrength, Invulnerability, Mutant Detection, Flight, Lightning Blasts), Mechanopath
Quote: Don't worry. I ain't gonna go all 'DESTROY ALL MUTANTS' on ya. That's the old me.

FROST PARK CHALK OFF 5

Is in 2 days...

Time to get your chalk out...

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One might begin to think I am obsessed.

And how can I not be...Red Hot hot dogs are on the line.

The Best Illustrator in the Universe (of Tacoma)!

Thanks to you I won the Frost Park Chalk Off IV...

...making me the best illustrator in the universe of Tacoma for a week. Since it is Tuesday I have only like 3 more days to enjoy it before someone comes gunning for my title.

Over at feedtacoma they posted an awesome article about the evolution of Frost Park Chalk Battle Art. Check it out here.

It inspired me to make this:

FROST PARK CHALK OFF 4!!!

Okay, I am not fooling around this week.

I need to win the Frost Park Chalk Off!

If you like art, and you like Stowe and you like 'STOWE ART!' then follow the following instructions:

1. go HERE:

http://i.feedtacoma.com/Erik/frost-park-friday-chalk-off/

2. SIGN-IN or REGISTER... (that is important)

3. VOTE FOR STOWE (this must be done before Midnight tonight PST)

If you don't (AND I'LL KNOW) no more art for you! I'll draw art for everyone else to look at but you will be banned for life. LIFE. Think About It.

GeNext 4

STRYFE!

Daniel Summers-Grey
Son of Alex Summers and Jean Grey
Powers: Omega Level Telekinetic
Quote: "I can crack the stupid world in half with my hateful teenage brain waves. Now back off and let my team do their #&%# jobs!"

We interrupt this week's Marvel Mutant merriment...

FOR SOME GOOD OLD FASHIONED SMACK TALK...

FROST PARK CHALKIES!

YOU BETTER BRING IT THIS WEEK!

CAUSE I AM COMING...

...AND I AM BRINGING MY

GIANT HEADLESS CYBORG MONKEY

WITH ME!