We're all gonna die

HAPPY 2012 BLAAARRGGHHAABLAAAHHHRRRGGGHH

I also did this commission today

indeed.

Xenomorphs

When I was about 9 years old, my parents thought it would be a good idea to take me to the Charlotte museum that had a special Aliens exhibit going on. They had a life sized animatronic Queen fighting with Ripley in her robot suit, complete with strobe lights and sound effects. It was HORRIFYING.
Around the same time, my parents also took me to the beach and one night they told me to go to bed because they were about to watch a scary movie. Being the bright one that I am, I sneaked out and sat behind the couch and watched Aliens. It was HORRIFYING.
A year later we were at another beach house and whoever had stayed in the house before us had accidentally left behind a big Alien action figure of the Queen. I was scared shitless of it and my parents hid it.
So ever since then, I've been terrified of the Aliens franchise. Not even my love of Giger could change my opinion and to this day Aliens make me flip out.
Where am I going with this? I just want you to understand the pure terror I had to endure while drawing this birthday present for my friend Rick of the band Mushroomhead. He loves Xenomorphs. So I drew him a chibi one.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sketches to Music 2

Here's 2 more speed sketches to music.

How to Destroy Angels - A Drowning

30 Seconds to Mars - Hurricane

Drawing to music

STILL battling the most ultimate case of artist's block I've ever dealt with. I finished a long overdue commission yesterday after forcing myself to draw for 12 hours straight.
Sneak peek at the tshirt design I did for the band Ventana

So I've decided to do a little experiment. I have a lot of songs I've been listening to that hold some sort of significance to me. I'm going to do speed sketches to each song and see what comes up.
The first song on my list was Korn's Narcissistic Cannibal.

And here is the result of blasting it over and over and over

Other than NOT DRAWING, I've been pretty busy this last month.
My friend Ricky Tom Tom (as I so lovingly call him) of the band Mushroomhead came to town for a week to visit me! We went and looked at fishes in the aquarium, got freaked out at the Center for Puppetry Arts museum, saw Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (which I spent a good majority of hiding my face), and consumed whipped cream vodka like it was water.

Aaaand I went to a VNV Nation show which was mostly just an excuse to hang out with my BFFs

(L to R) Kellie! My dumb ass! Zmarr! Nicole! Ruby! Layna! Andy!

And then I dyed my hair half red BECAUSE I'M A REBEL

WHAT I CAN'T HEAR YOU

IT'S OK, BLOGGER, I AM YET ALIVE.
I busted my eardrum about 2 weeks ago at 4 am due to a nasty encounter with a Q-Tip. I spent most of the 1st week trying not to puke all over myself. This last week however, I've been out in Conyers, GA working on 13 Acres of Hell haunted house.
I haven't drawn shit. Except for this self portrait of me and my kittykins.

YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT I DREW IT IN ADVENTURE TIME STYLE.

Halloween Booty

Man, I really struggled with getting over my art funk. It took getting intoxicated to bust out of it. And this is the result. HALLOWEEN BOOTY. Click it to see it full sized and not all squished and stupid looking.


Here are some detail shots of it, once again clicky for full size


So my birthday is next month. Anyone wanna commission me so I can buy myself some sweet birthday presents? Like Arkham City? AND I STILL DON'T HAVE THE NEW AMERICAN MCGEE'S ALICE, I NEED THAT TOO. I am yelling.

Grumpy Gunther

I AM SO GROUCHY TODAY IT ISN'T EVEN FUNNY.
I was woken up this morning by my 13 year old brother-in-law calling both my phone and V's phone 10 times to tell us we left V's jacket at his house. It is cute now but half asleep Kate was NOT amused.
AND THEN in my attempts to fall back asleep (a rarity for me, once I'm up I am UP), V rolled over, took my pillow, and took up the entire bed. He may look like a pretty light dude but boy I tell you what when he is asleep he weighs 400 lbs and nothing can wake him up ever. So I got up and moved to the living room to lay on the couch and watch Jersey Shore (gots to watch my show yo).
AND THEN there were some horrible children in the hallway bouncing a ball that kept hitting my door and our neighbor's doors. Their father was in the hallway as well and he kept telling them to stop in the most droll and monotone voice ever. So I had to watch Snooki and Deena drunkenly fall over one another with the background noise of "thwack thwack thwack" that I probably could have taken care of if I wasn't so damn lazy.
AND THAT IS WHY I AM A GROUCHY GUNTHER.

I started to lay down the colors on this picture I'm doing right now but sometime within the past week I've forgotten how to color so I've restarted about a bajillion times.


Now if you excuse me I'm going to go clean my room and stare down my cat hatefully.

Kasumi is a Jerk

My cat Kasumi is an asshole (CORRECTION: VLIXX'S cat Kasumi, my cat is Osiris and he is awesome). She is this big ol' pile of lovey dovey fluff that is hellbent on destroying everything. I have mastered the fine art of ignoring the hell out of her, but she still manages to capture the hearts of everyone else in the world.

So I decided to illustrate a typical day in the life of Kate. Note: this all takes place within an hour.

(Click for Fullsize)

Commission Work: AbbRezz

Finished commission work::


Drawing goth girls is fun. Sadly I don't get too many requests for that :(