Custom Artizm's

During my Black Friday sale i recieved 2 purchases for drawings. One from my friends Patty and Will and another from my Brother in law Allen! Unfortunately the one for Allen i forgot to scan before i gave it to them so i ended up taking this picture of it with my phone after i gave it to them.  Feel free to click on the images to see them better.

This was real fun to draw frome photographs! It's definately good practice for my comic work plus both of these purchases i would have liked to draw even if they did'nt pay me.

Baby Aiden New Year!

My brother and sister in law have been a really awesome support to us over the years and just recently had there first child Aiden! Yes he's the one in the drawing on the left and he's already an internet star!!!  I ended up getting to this drawing finally on New Years Eve so i decided to go with the Father Time/ Baby New Year theme but still kind of dial it back hopefully enough so they could hang it up year round. I loved drawing Allen and Aiden and they were very happy with the Art!

YouTube Friends equal Awesome!

The drawing on the right is for my wife and I new friends Patty and Will. My wife Lindsay just recently met Patty through her YouTube Channel and has quickly began to develop a relationship. The further they got to talking the more we realized how much we all had in common. Will is also into Hip Hop and Comic Books and works in illustration. Plus they both enjoy trying tasty micro brews of all sorts. But especially IPA's. LOL They're a couple after my own heart!!! So anyway Lindsay mentioned my site to them and they proceeded to buy just about every item i had up for sale at the time. Wow what awesome support and encouragement! And then when I had my Black Friday sale Patty purchased a custom drawing as a surprise for Will. You can see there reaction to receiving this drawing if you like in this video.  I don't think they liked it do you? LOL

As was the first drawing so was this one a blast to work on. They are a very cute couple and are also very talented in there various artistic endeavors! And I think its awesome that they choose to actively support independent artists even if they had never purchased my stuff.

Thank You Allen and Melissa, Patty and Will for all of your support!!!!

And Thank You everyone for checking in! I'd love to hear what you think of all this so feel free leave a comment!

Here are some links to the content mentioned in this blog:

Art  Reaction Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEfBDnMBXpU
Lindsay's YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/daisylocust
Patty's YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Coloredsprinklegirl
Will's YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/FanboyTheatre

God Bless,
-Calmplex

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Street Rat

This is an illustration ive been working on for my buddy Reveal also from the crew Shadow of the Locust. Awhile back Reveal put out an album titled "God Choozes the Foolish" but never really printed it up with a cover and stuff. So he asked his homie Calmplex to hook him up.  Well ive actually taken way too long to get this done but here it is! The inks are done and dried and all i need to do now is go in and color it with Gimp.

Reveal's Story

The Idea behind this image that Reveal wanted me to portray is in the title of the album. There's a scripture in the bible that says "but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;" 1 Corinthians 1:27 In this Image you see a somewhat auto biographical portrate of a man sleeping on the side walk as a consequence of foolish choices in his life. It's the nightmare i think we all hope to avoid but sometimes our choices combined with a harsh reality brings things like this about. And so it did at one point in Reveals life on the corner of Hope and 3rd St. This was obviously a turning point in his life where God extended His hand of Grace down to a downtrodden man and choosing him for a greater destiny.

The Art

What you don't see in this image is something that i will add later. Beyond coloring it I plan on adding a depiction of The Spirit of God basicly ascending upon the man as he sleeps. Not sure exactly how i will do this yet but i have some idea's i will play around with. If anyone has any suggestions let me know im allways open to suggestions.

Also another note about the drawing i might add is you may notice the perspective is kinda funky. This is intentional. Not to say i'm really good at perspective anyway but when i was doing the thumbnails i noticed the one for this was off perspective wise and i decided to keep it that way. I think it adds to the dreamy disoriented nature of the situation. I'm hoping with the more extreme forshortening or sort of ants eye view of the building and street sign that it kind of lends to the drama of the situation.

SOTL fans may also notice the 'Locust Tri-une' shape sort of hidden in the moon craters.

Hope you guys enjoy! Stay tuned for updates and please feel free to comment, suggest, etc.

Look for Reveal on his Facebook Page!

God Bless,
-Calmplex

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