Testing

I just finished a very intense test... I hope I'm considered though it was a tough challenge to juggle all the aspects of the test. I hope I was accurate enough to be given another look over.

I also noticed I was the only male in the room...I'm not complaining though it would have been nice to not feel like the bait in the room.

It would be a cool experience if I was considered for another step forward.

A bit of published work...

I had to do a ton of research and squeeze this work under the deadline. The story is great and coming up with a visual interpretation was a challenge. I think I nailed it. If there was more time I would have explored the steam lamps a bit more as they seemed like a really awesome concept to the story and the world as a whole. I was impressed with my rendition as I tried to capture the effect of a lighthouse in fog where light radiates only a short distance from the steam vapors. The characters are also pretty complex in their look. If this was to be a feature film a few hundred drawings or paintings would have been made for each character. let alone the number I pushed out in 20+ hours in this piece... here is the post I received... Enjoy!

As part of our effort to bring the community of writers and readers closer together, we will begin sending out a newsletter to keep everyone informed of updates and changes to the website, new publications, and contributor successes. Today I would like to announce that NewMyths' 15th quarterly issue is ready for you to view featuring wonderful original artwork from Richard Grzela based on the short story Meridian by Tony Peak, read it here....

Early posts for the FightOn tales...

This is an early post due to volunteer efforts. We are hoping to raise $100,000+ dollars for the community to improve the lives and services for all our neighbors who we live with. You can listen here...

http://fighton.podbean.com/

or

http://fighton.podomatic.com/

Art Record for brush and ink!

I found this title on-line and had to look into it more...
Qi Bashi's work sold fohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifr a record $65 million at Guardian Auctions in Beijing.

So after a bunch of research and reading I figured I could offer my piece which is smaller by about 1/10th and if I had to part with it I could do so for a meager $750,000 U.S.D.

Now If you are willing to frame it and show it in a public place I would go as low as $600,000 U.S.D.

I've included a couple of photos and Also a few detail shots.
If you like mine please feel free to contact me with a comment on my blog.

I Hope you love it.

The $65 million dollar art version has the asian kanji all over it and I have no clue what it says... Though my art has far less writing it would be equally impressive in a room.

Push up esperiment...and art....

So I decided to step away from the weights and do calisthenics...push ups to be exact... different positions and motions and discovered a huge improvement in overall body strength in the process. In just a week I discovered more stability through out my body. I feel a bit more solid and my body doesn't quit in 5-10 seconds... maybe I'm getting better, stronger slowly.

I've also had a chance to recover in between work out experiments and review my previous post. I discovered that the series is interesting in that a person waiting tables could have these thoughts or requests in just about any two hour shift. It also occurred to me that the illustrations meaning really seems to change when the simple icon is changed and the the subject matter instantly is juggled to suit that need.

I might do another series... I'm pretty pleased with the first set below.

Exploring Icons...

When I took on this project I wanted it to be intellectually involved. I simply wanted it to be thought provoking in how to integrate simple Icons into visual imagery that would tell a story. Two things needed to happen for this to work. First I needed subject matter that went beyond simple icons to send a point across. I immediately thought of graffiti as a source of subject--public places that integrated with society would be a perfect area of study. Unfortunately it has been done by many more artist then is acceptable with a message that was not often clear or wanted. I decided to key in on people as a subject matter to explore simple icons.
Who or rather what type of person would likely have a multitude of expressions or situations to deal with in a very normal way. A brain storming session brought to mind a doctor, police, taxi driver and possibly the hotel services people. I finally settled on the food services industry for my person to blend in with icons. Turns out it was a perfect choice. People in food services encounter all types of people from all walks of life. These people have all kinds of needs. So a food service person would need to keep a pleasant and neutral manner in all situations. So here you have my illustrations based on a food service person handling multiple imagines customer inquires with a simple icon response!

After a two week thought and sketch process--This really turned out great.

Raised by wolf...

I came up with the idea of a character raised by an arctic wolf...similar to the raised by pack of wolves story...the main difference being the child must endure arctic cold and in the process becomes attuned to the harsh natural environment and develops certain physical changes. Here is an illustration based on the physical change the child undergoes while being raised by the arctic wolf....


also wanted to try some thing with simple icons... maybe there is a bigger story here. I just can't seem to get it all out so that it makes sense... Is it real or all illusions.... is life real or illusions... is the illusion the reality? Need to play with the concepts more.

Enjoy!