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Show at Destination NY!

Maki — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:08:23 +0000

This time its me. Sorry folks, no drawings though. The show is called The Art Market, and its a two part group exhibition that features easily affordable artwork for the masses. As such, I’ll be selling some of my little faucet octopi as I have 8 of them and all they do is sit in my closet 364 days a year. Here’s the low down (from the official announcement e-mail, complete with adorable engrish):
Destination Art Space’s new series…

SHOW & SELL: The Art Market

Part 1: 10/30 – 11/30, 2008

Opening Wine Reception: Thursday, October 30th, 6-8pm

The Art Market

Destination Art Space, a gallery within an upscale boutique merging fashion and art, is hosting our brand new SHOW & SELL series, The Art Market from October 30 to December 30.

This group exhibition will be in TWO parts,

Part I: 10/30 – 11/30
Part II: 12/4 – 12/30

Each part will be featuring fifteen of emerging and professional artists.

Like our popular SHOW & SELL series: The $99 Art Fair, this Art Market series also maintains affordable prices (less than $500!) and a variety of artwork.

Pick your favorites off our walls and bring them home to grace your own!

With your returning favorites and new artists, there’ll be more unique pieces none higher than $500. Everyone can find something they’ll want to own and cherish.

Destination is making art accessible to the public at incredible prices, offering great artists a public forum.

For further information, please contact Hide Tachibana or Hisa Yamamoto at 212.727.2031/destination_ny@hpgrp.com

Hope to see you clowns there. Should be fun!

Ultra Douche

Maki — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:40:33 +0000

Yeah, that’s how I’m feeling right now. No comics, no posts, not much new art. I know, I know. I’ve been an ultra douche . But I have excuses! Still recovering from various personal messes and an awesome weekend in the City of Brotherly Love. Full of booze, friends, and yes, more D&D. I can hardly contain myself. I mean it, I still feel like puking all that beer and pizza. Nnnghhh…

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I kid you not. The only thing I approve about Wal-Mart. I give it 2 popped collars!

Last weekend, we found our heroes Orlando Do’Urden, Bernard Shaw, Maki the Liar, and Bernard Shaw Jr, The Goblin, on a quest to recover an artifact of immense power.

Halfway through the adventure, our heroes were at a loss as to what to do with this elf chick that they had freed from the clutches of some spider monsters. They decided to do her, which was a terrible choice and our heroes wandered the wilderness forever. This led to much shouting. The next day our heroes continued and much merriment was had.

Sadly, this leg of the adventure saw the death of Maki the Liar to some horrible beast woman. Normally such a fate is only dreamed of, but it totally wasn’t like that. But no worries! After the rejoicing and stomping, and wearing of Maki’s spine as a necklace, the heroes encountered my new character, Crom Do’Urden. A bossy Dragonborn warlord with a penchant for eating people. Wherein Orlando Do’Urden asks the chained elf woman if she is horny, Crom Do’Urden tells the elf woman that she’s horny. With gusto.

“What happened next?” You ask? You didn’t? Oh well… Alright.

Anyway, enough about the imaginary antics of a group of heroes who all look like me. Onto some art! Lately I’ve been messing around with a combination of gouache, ink washes, and colored inks in place of black. I very much like the results. Here are a slew of studies, sketches and even a magazine commission. I’ll update this section as I scan them in. Enjoy!

Did you know?

Maki — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:54:41 +0000

Did you know that there are two comics this week? Now you do. The above image, which I drew earlier and just had to include will take you to the new and wholly different weekly comic. Enjoy!

For more about the phenomenon talked about in this week’s comic, go here!