COMISSSSSSSSSSSSSSIONSSS!!!!

Okay, this shits for real, i need PAID work!! for now at least, i am your trained art-monkey!

ANYTHING you want drawn, bring it to me and ill do it. favourite game Hero/ Villian?, i'll do it.
Best Friend?, i'll do it.
Spouse or significant other? i'll do it.
Fuck it, even if its just in your own head, maybe you want a tattoo, or a shirt design! come to me! I need the practice and the work right now!!

A Pen and Ink of the HellCase writer: Benjamin Prince
The ORIGINAL Pyramid Head (Silent Hill 2)
Pen and Ink

HellCase Writer: Benjamin Prince

Pen and Ink

Poster for 'A Means To an End'
Photoshop

Poster for 'Means To An End'
Photoshop


Poster for my own band, 'Mekanique'
Photoshop

If you have anything you want done or any queries, email me at: iwazaru@hotmail.co.uk

all the best!
Adam

Revisiting HellCase

About 2 years ago, i thought up the characters Volt 12. and Cherub and tried to write a basic premise for a noir type comic, i had always had the name HellCase in mind.

When it came down to it, Im pretty shite at writing... however my good friend Benjamin 'Jam' Prince is very talanted in this particular department, 2 and 2 together makes a writer/illustrator team.

Now in all honesty i feel a bit of a prick on this end, as the ORIGINAL draft was written by Ben waaaaaaaaaay back in early '09 and im STILL only on page 4 out of 38, and this is just the first issue! I keep telling myself its due to other constraints which in fairness is mostly true, but i owe Ben alot more than he credits for.

either way, back story aside, heres a look at the first 3 pages.

Stereodeth!!

Well... Uni is awesome, there is so much going on here and lots of different places to get ideas from!

I have decided i want to get a jump on the whole commercial art thing, making (and actually selling!) full size/colour art prints, working for bands, etc etc. I came to the conclusion that it would be a good idea to work in collaboration with other artists of varying styles, but always hovering around brutal horror imagery.
so with this in mind, i am looking for dedicated artists with a love of metal and horror to join me on this, we would all be working under the name Stereodeth.

Here is the painting i did on my university studio wall

I Don't Care...

...If you think im crazy.

this is the girl im gonna marry.

Latest Stuff

Yeah okay, ive droppped the ball majorly on this blog, but im hoping to give it some what of a revival in the uni years, not at all to say im leaving it now though.

well this is the first of 8 drawings i have to do for a university summer project, (lets see...15th of september now.... deadline 22nd of september....and...i...havent...finished the first.....ah). The question for this one is 'What is your favourite genre of music?' and there can be as much beating around the bush as you want, the "oh i do like classical alot..." or shit like that, but when it comes down to it, nothing beats metal, at all. EVER.

for the image i took a little inspiration from the 1984 album Ride the Lightning, good old metallica. one of my favourite tracks from this album was Creeping Death and this obviously brings up ideas of egypt, and what more metal that a screaming evil mummy?

Skull Poster Update

Lots and Lots of Skulls....Again

okay so this is my drawing board at current, as I am looking at it right now. I think after this it might be the last thing i do with skulls for a while haha, maybe move onto moths next after a few commissions.

Either way, hopefully this is final rendition of the diver skeleton if everything goes to plan this will be my addition to the posters for Mekanique, if not, heck it was brush and ink practice!

Band Page

Finally Mekanique, my band, has a myspace to live on! when we start recording our EP we shall put it all up on here, untill then we are practicing for the Wyeside Festival in Hereford, featuring other bands such as THE STRANGLERS!, ADUST and a huge favourite of mine KINN. its gonna be huge hopefully, and a scary ass show to play.

http://www.myspace.com/mekaniquemetal

Lots and lots of Skulls

Okay, so recently i have been trying to learn how to draw skulls, and more importantly in a way that is my own kind of style. I figured I would use the fact that my band could do with a decent poster as a chance to whack out some skull sketches.

I think it was Godmachine's work where he mixed up and eye and a skull so that idea has been playing on me a little bit I just obviously didn't want my sketch to be a straight copy of his drawing. I got the idea for the tentacles of Ben Templesmith, bless him and his squid fixation.


For months now I have been thinking about drawing this particular image up, but it never clicked in my head that I could potentially use it as my bands poster, I dont know why but I just didn't make the connection between work and band.
The idea is a skeleton in an old fashion divers suit, down in the dark and all alone. I got the idea after walking past my brother watching Mythbusters and seeing that if the air tube was cut on an old fashioned diver suit the whole body would crush into the metal helmet due to pressure, gruesome stuff. Ever since ive been planning on drawing that. here are some sketch ideas.

Her Boyfriend is a Minotaur

Her Boyfriend is a Minotaur is a band that I love, its irrelevant that at current they have about 3 songs, because within those three its pretty clear that there's the scope to be many more.

heres something I drew up for them.

Check them out here: http://www.myspace.com/hbiam

FAIL

Ok...so the whole updating everyday thing has been a bit of a failure so far, but hey, what you gonna do? I have a cool little drawing that i shall upload a bit later today, after my band practice.

ok, things to talk about... MUSIC! here are some of my favourite albums ever.

1. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - Coheed and Cambria

My absolute favourite band ever, bar none. There is no argument that this is the best album they put out, its pretty much perfect to me. I used to be able to play the whole thing on guitar (except 2113)

2. Everybody Into Position - Oceansize

My girlfriend got me into this band really recently with the promise that "every song is really epic" and she really wasnt wrong! youtube Music for a Nurse.

3. Fortress - Protest the Hero

This album is ridiculously technical in terms of guitar, if you do play guitar and you haven't heard of this band, leave your computer now, head into town and pick this up, it will make you want to sit in your room forever bettering your guitar playing.

4. Hit The Lights - Metallica

Alot of people need a good clip round the ear when it comes to Metallica, they were a THRASH band, so much so that they were part of the big four, but now with have to put up with pretty average mainstream Metallica, its really sad. Thrash is a huge genre to me, its just so fucking metal, and to be completely honest metallica stopped being thrash after Master of Puppets. Get this and relish in raw, early Metallica

5. Necroticism - Decanting the Insalubrious - Carcass

Death metal is another genre i absolutley love and this album is probably my favourite death album ever (Death's Human just lost out) its full of awesome riffs and crushing grooves, get rid of any prejudice about "screamy music" and give this a listen.

Means to an End

Hmmm... Missed a post yesterday, not too hung up about it though, was out celebrating my girls birthday week, good times. Ok here is at least the start of the Logo for 'Means to an End' my friends band. Im not sure... i think it needs something, maybe the guys from the band could tell me themselves, but if they are happy with it, its theirs. Just so its on record, I Fucking Love doing work for Jay Hodgkinson, it gives me room to be evil with work! keep it coming man!

Influences

Ok. I did have new work to put up tonight for the band "Means to an End", however due to me not being at home I dont have access to a scanner to put that up. Either way I thought I would take the chance to write about some of my biggest influences in terms of art.

First, let me talk about one of the biggest influences on me, a certain mr Ben Templesmith, This love started after seeing his work on the comic Dying Inside, a Story based within the Silent Hill world. The dark style suited the subject matter down to the ground, making the comic one of my all time favourites. Since then I have continued to follow his work and even met the man himself. One of the best days ever, he looked through my portfolio at the time and was impressed, its always cool to hear that from your hero! He signed my now out of print Templesmith art books, so those are now treasured possessions.


Next up is another huge influence, infact so much so that he made me take a bit of a break from comics and realise that there is so much more I could do. The awesome GodMachine. He does alot of work for various bands, I came into contact with him when I saw his work for the band Ignominous Incarceration which jus happened to be a friend's cousin's band, which again is pretty cool.


Another artist I love with a similar style is Dan Mumford, again an artist who works with alot of bands, but discovering this artist is completely down to my Awesome designer friend Liam Twelve asking me to "make my work more Mumford-like". Im so glad he did.


The latest artist to make me go "Shit! i need to pick up my pencil a little more!" is Sin Eater, this guy is a local illustrator and has completely opened up my eyes to how much more potential there is in my favourite medium, Ink. His inkwork and patterns absolutley blow my mind and make me realise just how much harder im gonna have to work to get good at this. In all honesty I get a little star struck when I see this guy around Hereford, but I can't bring myself to ask him how he produces his work haha!


Finally (at least for now) Alex Pardee. This guys line work is Insane, this guy made me drop my pens for a bit and focus on nothing but brush and i think i have bettered myself for it. The cute-Horror aspect of it really appeals to me, I love how you can look at some parts and they are pleasant and you can look at other parts of the same piece and they are quite horrific. pure briliance.

Some previous work

The first blog of many to come!

This is my first blog. I plan to do a daily blog about artwork, inspirations, Films and Games, anything that makes me tick. This is my current work space.