Get this book. It's fantastic. Darwyn Cooke's graphic adaptation of Richard Stark's classic crime novel is dead on. Seriously. Go to your local comic shop or Amazon and get it today. You'll be glad you did.
Art trade I did for Becca over at No Smoking in the Skull Cave.
I posted all my photos from Wizard World on my Flickr account. You can check them out here.
This is a sketchbook cover I did at the con. It's Captain Sponge Bob America Pants.
Come visit me this weekend at Wizard World Chicago. I'll be sharing a table with my buddy, the very talented Kennon James. We are in artists alley at table number 3518. I will have convention mini-prints (partially pictured above), sketchbooks, etc. and will be doing sketch commissions. I hope to see you there!
If anyone's interested, I posted my photos from Comic-Con here.
Enjoy!
Howdy folks! Sorry I haven't been posting for a couple of weeks, but I took a (much needed) two week vacation to Italy. I'm heading to Comic-Con next week, so posts may be a little infrequent until I return. But, I'll make it up to you. I promise!
This was taken in the subway going from the Vatican to the Colosseum.
This is one of the pieces from my show currently hanging at Oh No! Doom in Chicago.
17" x 14" Ink on Bristol
Please join OhNo!Doom in welcoming Chicago artist Jason Chalker, aka Manly Art. Jason is an illustrator, graphic designer and was also an animator on Richard Linklater's feature film A Scanner Darkly.
Come see how Mr. Chalker transforms Oh No! Doom’s gallery into a precocious pulp paradise of monstrous, maniacal and all-new manly art.
You WILL have a good time and you WILL be manlier from the experience. Don’t worry ladies... you won’t be manlier, you’ll just have a greater appreciation of all things manly.
Oh No! Doom
2955 W. Lyndale
Chicago, IL 60647
Find us at the cross section of Sacramento and Lyndale St. We’re by the California Blue Line stop. Walk west down Lyndale.
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Here's the final painting based on the sketch I posted previously. I used a reference photo I shot downtown (check the location tag to see where) for the setting to give it some atmosphere. This is the first time I've ever painted buildings, so it was a fun challenge. I'm pretty happy with how it came out overall.
15"x20" Acrylic on illustration board.
Well, It's that time of year again. Here's this years t-shirt design for the annual Huns RFC Bloodfest Sevens tournament in Austin, TX. This year I decided to take a little break from the rugby pin-up girls and show the true nature of rugby. To quote my dad... "I went to a fight the other day and a rugby game broke out.".
Here's another mini-painting for my show at Oh No! Doom. I've finally switched subjects and thought I'd give a nod to Tim Burton's "Mars Attacks".
4.5" x 6" Acrylic on illustration board
I was on the Red Line this morning and saw this woman. I thought she had an interesting face at first. Then she started to seem familiar. Then, it hit me! She was a dead ringer for Roz from Monsters, Inc.. I think it's pretty uncanny.
Here's another mini painting. This one is of a Duro from the cantina scene in Star Wars. This piece will be part of my Oh No! Doom show in late June.
4.5" x 6" Acrylic on illustration board.
Here's another mini Star Wars painting. This time, it's the Jawas. I like them because you think they're all cute and bumbling, but you'd better watch out when your back's turned.
4.5" x 6" Acrylic on illustration board.
