Nouveau

I adore my girlfriend, and I wanted to find a way to tell her so... combining my love of Art Nouveau with her image I came up with this.... hope she likes it :)

A Day in the Life of a Vear

Here's a little sequence of quick sketches I did in my sketchbook of what it's like for me living with my hair throughout any given day... note the inexplicable discrepancies in time and a lack of pattern therein.

Post-Its

some moar post-its...

Woman of the Month!

Everyone seems to do some kind of... serial art piece, so I figured I'd hop on the bandwagon and do a monthly traditional lady of some kind or sorts... So what did I think about during the cold, wet, and dismal month of February to lift my spirits... well apart from the one special lady in my life ;) I relied on daydreams of a freaky black lady spiritualizing coffee to get me through. well here it is. Enjoy, dear readers.

Portfolio Time!

That's right true believers... I've finally updated my portfolio, it was really a matter of just being not-lazy for a day and a half, spending ninety bucks on ink and printing paper, and implementing the portfolio page design into an InDesign file. Well it took a job interview to get me motivated but I went into it proud and ready! wish me luck, if you wish to see my new flatbook, check my website www.chrisvear.com

Mecha Venus

I drew the original image for this one almost two years ago, and have wanted to paint it ever since. I just never got around to it. A few weeks ago I started to work on it in Photoshop, and rather slowly (due to freelance jobs picking up speed), I've finally finished the damn thing! I have a few other sketches similar to it, I went through a phase where I liked the idea of coupling the soft aesthetic of the female form with the cold and sharp appearance of mechanical... stuff. And here we are....

Woman of the Month!

My first traditional work of the new year. I'm planning on doing one of these every month! Enjoy!

Merry Christmas 2007

Well, another Christmas has come and gone, and I spammed a massive Christmas E-Card out to all of my friends and family. This card was special however in that it employed the style and technique of my very good friend: Steph Laberis. When we both worked at Leap Frog we had both started experimenting with putting scanned textures in our digital artwork, mostly various papers. and over time, she developed a very intricate paper cut-out technique (exemplified by this awesome tutorial) which I've been dying to try out for months and months. And here it is by all means a massive hat-tipping to her and her artistic bad-assery.... My Xmas Card for this past year.

Post-It-Party

So my friend Andy has got me drawing little scribbles and bibbles on post-it notes. It's a great medium for experimentation and just getting those little ideas out of my head. Here are a few I did last week. See more of my post-its at "PIP" by Andy Ristaino.

Jetpacks!

I was commuting to leapfrog the other day, and ran into my coworker and friend, Andy. and whilst delighting in the delays inherent to mass transit, we humored about the possibilities of rocket packs and how simply bad-ass they would make our daily trips to and from work... of course we quickly realized that if we did indeed have jetpacks, leapfrog is likely the last place they'd be taking us... Cheers Andy!