Snaggle-Tooth Salad

Sketchbook Aug-Jan

2012-01-25T04:32:00.000-08:00

I decided to film my August-January sketchbook. I know the camera is shaky, the quality is crappy, I’m not sure if the whole fast forward thing is good or not, and I’m pretty sure I stole this idea from someone else. Oh well, please enjoy anyway!

Coontail and Quick Joey Small

2012-01-22T14:17:00.000-08:00

Two things I did last night.

This one was fun since I used a photo as reference. You learn a lot
when you draw that way.

This was an experiment with color halftoning. The background is a photo
I took in San Diego.

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 14. The Creeps of Christmas!

2011-12-22T23:17:00.000-08:00

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Christmas is great, so it may seem
I bet some of you still long for Halloween
Don't fret and don't panic
Here's some yule tide songs to make you go manic!
Its called The Creeps of Christmas
And as you can see
The creeps celebrate the season rather differently

Krampus catches naughty kids
and brings them to his lair
Wolfman is jealous of Santa
He may have more hair!
The Bumble tries to eat Rudolph
Though he's too slow and dumb
Frankenstein is very festive
Putting up the mistle thumb!
Dracula will suck egg nog
From a jugular I bet
This gift is for the Headless Horseman
Its a severed head in a basket!

The Purple People Eater can still rock and roll
The Ghost of Christmas Future is for whom the bell tolls
The Gremlins always cause such a clatter
Jack Skellington creeps in to see what's the matter

The Grinch just hates Christmas
The whole damn season
Boris Karloff suggests
No one quite knows the reason
And Jacob Marley sits tortured in his heavy shackles
He'll cheer up when he listens to some Kandy Coated Kackles

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Tracks:

1. Stocking Stuffer
2. It's A Monster's Holiday- Buck Owens
3. What's This?- Danny Elfman
4. You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch- Thurl Ravenscroft
5. Santa & The Purple People Eater- Sheb Wooley
6. Chainsaw for Christmas- Zombina & The Skeletones
7. Stocking Stuffer
8. Halloween on Xmas- Coffin Caddies
9. Here Comes Krampus- Huizenga
10. Stocking Stuffer
11. Christmas Rap- The Crypt Keeper
12. I Found the Brains of Santa Claus- Jason & The Strap- Tones
13. Stocking Stuffer
14. Shot My Baby For Christmas- The Vaudvilles
15. I Killed Santa Claus- The Creeping Cruds
16. Merry Monster Christmas- Len Maxwell
17. Stocking Stuffer
18. Abominable Snowman in the Market- Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
19. Making Christmas- Danny Elfman
20. Christmas with Krampus- Les Barons
21. Glory Amen- Those Poor Bastards
22. Stocking Stuffer
23. Silent Night, Deadly Night- The White Coffin Terror
24. New Years Eve in a Haunted House- Raymond Scott
25. The Bite Before Christmas- The Cool Ghoul
26. Santa Claus is Coming to Town- Alice Cooper
27. Stocking Stuffer
28. Monster's Holiday- Bobby (Boris) Pickett & The Crypt Kickers
29. We Wish You A Scary Christmas- Disney's Haunted Mansion Holiday

Merry Christmas to all you ghouls out there!

-Zach

Croc-a-billy Sculpture

2011-12-13T19:16:00.000-08:00

So here's something I completely forgot about. I made this sculpture like last summer but never really said anything about it and kept forgetting to post photos. I remember going to a Maurice Sendak show held at an animation gallery and seeing some sculptures that Dr. Seuss did of random made up animals. It got me inspired to do the same! So I chose my favorite animal and combined it with my favorite kind of music and this is what happened! A rebellious rockin' reptile equipt with leather jacket, greasy hair and biiiig teeth!

Here's some making-of photos. Started with tin foil and then covered it with super sculpy.

Baked it in the oven and then painted it with acrylics!

Sculpting is really fun and the end result is always satisfying. I definitely want to try it again once I get some free time. Maybe I'll do something smaller, this guy kinda takes up a lot of room...

RIP Ricky

2011-12-07T21:46:00.000-08:00

Ricky Garduno was a one of a kind, genuine, real person. His ideas, art, jokes and interests were intense and like nothing else. His opinions and outlook on life, even though many people didn’t agree with them, were strong and always backed up by legitimate reasons and arguments. He didn’t care what anyone else thought, and thats what I loved about him, I had the pleasure of meeting Ricky twice and being online friends with him all in-between. Its a tragic shame he left us so early, but like all the great people that are taken away from us too soon, that might make him more legendary. I will always have an immense respect for this guy.

Here are some photos from our first meeting, Ricky bought us all breakfast. I don’t remember the context of the 2nd picture, but it makes me laugh, haha. And then some art I did for him including my guest strip for his comic 1930 Nightmare Theater.

Ricky, I hope you finally found something better, man. Cheers. I miss you.
-Zach

Original Art For Sale!!!

2011-12-04T17:00:00.000-08:00

Selling some original art here! I'm trying something new by having it up for bid on ebay. The first two are new pieces I did just for the sale, the other is
one I did last year. I want to do more pieces to sell but this is for now.

Harley Quinn

The Wolfman

Toothless

All pieces are original, done with ink and marker and each purchase will come with a free sketch, some prints and a postcard!

Thanks guys!

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 13. Weenies In The Hollow!

2011-10-30T23:26:00.000-07:00

Well boils and ghouls, we've reach the end of the line here! The 13th and last of the Kandy Coated Kackles. This one is very special because it contains a lot of my personal favorites, and there are A LOT of them! This is the most jam packed of all the mixes. Even the cover is jam packed! You might recognize some of the characters in there.

Anyway, I want to thank everyone for really digging these. This was something I wanted to do for a while but was never sure how to go about it. I didn't think they would be such a big hit! I want to thank everyone for your lovely and heart warming comments and thank you to the Strange Kids Club for keeping up with the volumes and posting them every day. You guys are genuine. It really makes me so very happy to see so many people completely immersed in the spirit of this fine holiday and what better way to get the full effect than with music. Now these are my own personal playlists but the beauty is you can mix and match them to make your own mixes or start from scratch! Whatever you want! I'm so glad to finally be able to share this with everyone, for the people who haven't heard and even the people who have but still enjoy it anyway. So what now? Well I think from now on, every year I'll come out with ONE mix tape since I pretty much just shared my entire Halloween library with you all and it was a lot of work making 13 covers. So look out for volume 14 next year! I hope you all have a fun, happy and safe Halloween and thank you once again! Stay spooky, guys.

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Tracks

1. Secret Treat
2. Kill Kill Kill- The White Coffin Terror
3. Everybody Scream- Rob Zombie
4. Murder In The Graveyard- Screaming Lord Sutch
5. Crimson Ghost- The Misfits
6. Hangman Hangten- The Ghastly Ones
7. Secret Treat
8. Halloween- Siouxsie & The Banshees
9. Frankenstein Rock- Brita Borg
10. The Mice, The Demons & The Piggies- Wolfgang & The Jumpin' Terrors
11. It Came In The Night- A Raincoat
12. I Was A Teenage Creature- Lord Luther
13 Graveyard- Leroy Bowman
14. Wolfboy's Song- Myke Chillian
15. Secret Treat
16. Swingin' At The Seance- Glen Miller & Dorothy Claire
17. The Wobblin' Goblin- Rosemary Clooney
18. Spooks!- Louis Armstrong
19. Black Wings- Tom Waits
20. Secret Treat
21. Night of the Vampire- The Moontrekkers
22. Feast of the Mau Mau- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
23. No Club Lone Wolf- The Cramps
24. We're Horrible Men!- Bela Lugosi & Boris Karloff
25. Secret Treat
26. The Maddest Story Ever Told- Lon Chaney Jr.
27. The Headless Horseman- Kay Starr & The Billy Butterfield Quintet
28. Secret Treat

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 12. Rotting In The Attic

2011-10-30T15:14:00.000-07:00

Today's volume is appropriately titled "Rotting in the Attic" because its compiled of long forgotten ghosts from the early 1930's to the 50's. You'll find skeletons in the closet, Boogey men under the stair case, and demons under the bed. So let those phantom trumpets wail and start swinging you sinners!

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Tracks:

1. Haunted House- Ray Noble Orchestra
2. Skeleton In The Closet- Matt Gonella & His Georgians
3. The Boogy Man is Here- Tom Gerun
4. Nightmare- Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
5. Secret Treat
6. The Ghost of the St. Louis Blues- Emmet Miller
7. The Yodeling Ghost- Bing Crosby
8. Hell's Bells- Sid Peltyn
9. Bug-A-Boo- Red Nichols & His Five Pennies
10. The House Is Haunted- Kay Starr
11. Got The Jitters- Don Redman
12. Black Cat, Hoot Owl Blues- Ma Rainey
13. Jeepers Creepers- The Four Freshman
14. Dead Man Blues- Jelly Roll Morton
15. Quoth Th Raven- Ella Mae Morse
16. Mysterioso- Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
17. Secret Treat
18. Tain't No Sin (So Take off Your Skin)- Dan Russo Orchestra
19. With Her Head Tucked Beneath Her Arm- Cyril Smith
20. Dry Bones- Fats Waller
21. Strange Enchantment- Skinnay Ennis
22. Harlem Nocturne- The Viscounts
23. Disney's Trick or Treat for Halloween
24. Son of Frankenstein Main Title- Frank Skinner
25. The Boogie Man/ I'm a Ghost- Todd Rollins
26. Secret Treat

Also if anyone is interested in anything Vintage Halloween, check out my tumblr "Vintage Halloween Treats" !

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 11. Howlin' Ho Down

2011-10-29T14:21:00.000-07:00

When the wolf bane blooms and the full moon is bright is the perfect time to put on Volume 11, Howlin' Ho Down! Aaaaaawooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh!!!!

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Tracks

1. Secret Treat
2. I'm The Wolfman- Round Robin
3. Ghost of Stephen Foster- Squirrel Nut Zippers
4. Scream!- The Misfits
5. Little Drop of Poison- Tom Waits
6. The Flying Dutchman- The Ghastly Ones
7. Rockin' In The Graveyard- Jackie Morningstar
8. Werewolf, Baby- Rob Zombie
9. Strychnine- The Sonics
10. Have You Ever Seen...?- The Boss Martians
11. Midnight Stroll- The Revells
12. The Devil with The Devil- Larry Clinton Orchestra
13. Werewolves on Wheels- Born Losers
14. Secret Teat
15. Spring Heeled Jack- Zombina & The Skeletones
16. How to Serve Man- Creature Feature
17. Jekyll & Hyde- Jim Burgett
18. Mad Witch- Dave Gardner
19. Skeletons In My Closet- Alice Cooper
20. Brains!- Voltaire
21. Strollin' After Dark- The Shades
22. Secret Treat
23. Lil' Red Riding Hood- Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
24. The Wolf Man Theme- Charles Previn
25. No One Lives Forever- Oingo Boingo
26. Secret Treat

Kandy Coated Kackles vol. 10 We Belong Dead!

2011-10-28T08:23:00.000-07:00

I've been saving some of the best for last! This volume is chock full of more Halloween classics, perfect for the season and essential for any costume or pumpkin carving party! Of course there's some random things thrown in between just to sweeten the batch. Enjoy!

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Tracks

1. Secret Treat
2. The Blob- The Five Blobs
3. The Black Widow- Alice Cooper ft. Vincent Price
4. Little Shop Of Horrors Theme
5. Vampire's Ball- Mann Drake
6. Haunted House- Jumpin' Gene Simmons
7. The Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon- The Cramps
8. Speak of the Devil- The Misfits
9. Godzilla- Blue Oyster Cult
10. Werewolf- The Frantics
11. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde- The Emersons
12. Psychobitches Outta Hell- The HorrorPops
13. Spookmaster- The Ghastly Ones
14. Dracula's Deuce- Freddy Fortune & The Four-Gone Conclusions
15. Secret Treat
16. Frankenstein's Party- The Swingin' Phillies
17. The Mummy's Bracelet- Lee Ross
18. The Bat- The Ventures
19. Sweet Transvestite- Tim Curry
20. Ghost Train- Gorillaz
21. Halloween (She Gets So Mean)- Rob Zombie ft. The Ghastly Ones
22. Mad Monster Party Theme
23. Bride of Frankenstein Main Title- Franz Waxman
24. Dead Man's Party- Oingo Boingo
25. Secret Treat

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 9. October Octave

2011-10-27T04:32:00.000-07:00

Wow, can't believe it's already volume 9! 4 more to go! I want to thank
The Strange Kids Club for keeping with the albums and supporting the idea!

So anyway, October Octave has a very dark pressence. It makes you want to flick the angel
off your shoulder. Turn out the lights, dust off the Ouija board, and pray for some evil!

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Tracks

1. Secret Treat
2. God's Away on Business- Tom Waits
3. Transylvania Terror Train- Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures
4. Til The Following Night- Screaming Lord Sutch
5. Cherry Hill- The Creepshow
6. The Shadow Knows- The Coasters
7. La Grippe- Squirrel Nut Zippers
8. Night of the Werewolf- Lee Kristofferson
9. Graveyard Shift- Bobby "Boris" Picket & The Crypt-Kickers
10. Clockwork Orange Theme- Wendy Carlos
11. Secret Treat
12. Sweet Dreams- Marylin Manson
13. Death At The Chapel- The Horrors
14. Evil Night Together- Jill Tracy
15. Walpurgis Night- The Coffinshakers
16. Nosferatu- The Coral
17. Return of the Phantom Stranger- Rob Zombie
18. When You're Evil- Voltaire
19. Secret Treat
20. I Need Your Head- Hasil Adkins
21. Sleepy Hollow- The Last Word
22. Oogie Boogie's Song
23. Bogey Wail- Jack Hylton & Sam Browne
24. Riders of the Storm- The Doors
25. Secret Treat
26. Hush Hush Hush (Here Comes the Boogeyman)- Henry Hall

Kandy Coated Kackles vol. 8 Stays Dead Even In Milk!

2011-10-26T07:58:00.001-07:00

Here's one for the kiddies! A sugar frosted, cavity induced, dairy soaked bowl of spooky goodness from cartoons, childhood memories and kiddy Halloween records. Take out your glow-in-the-dark Boo Berry spoon and dig in.

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Tracks

1. Secret Treat
2. Disney's Halloween Treat
3. The Halloween Dance- Reverend Horton Heat
4. Skull Gully- Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
5. The Vampires- Archie King
6. The Monster Hop- Bert Convoy
7. The Scooby-Doo Theme
8. Blue Ghost- Tommy Roe with the Jordanaires
9. Secret Treat
10. Do The Mummy- Mad Monster Party
11. Spooksville- The Nu Trends
12. Beetlejuice Animated Series Theme
13. Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives- Mel Torme
14. You've Got a Friend- Vincent Price (and The Muppets)
15. Mr. Ghost Goes To Town- Louis Prima
16. Punky Punkin- Rosemary Clooney
17. I Want To Bite Your Hand- Gene Moss & The Monsters
18. Gremlins Theme- Danny Elfman
19. At The Devil's Ball- The Fryer-Barnhart International All Star Jazz Band
20. I Put A Spell On You- Bette Midler
21. Heffalumps and Woozles- Winnie The Pooh
22. Secret Treat
23. Boogie Woogie Boogie Man- The Brian Sisters
24. Grim Grinning Ghosts- Disney's Haunted Mansion
25. Secret Treat

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 7. At The Devil's Whorehouse

2011-10-24T21:46:00.000-07:00

Well I must confess that volume 7, At The Devil's Whorehouse really has nothing to do with devils or whores. This volume is actually a true mix in the most literal sense of the word. Its got punk tunes, 60's, 70's, comedy, soundtrack....so enjoy this mixed bag! And sorry if the cover is a bit simple, its hard trying to keep up.

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Tracks

1. Secret Treat
2. Science Fiction/ Double Feature- Richard O'Brien
3. No Costume, No Candy- The Swingin' Neckbreakers
4. American Witch- Rob Zombie
5. Graveyard Girlfriend- Groovie Ghoulies
6. Spooky- Classics IV
7. Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps)- David Bowie
8. Psycho Shower Scene- Bernard Herrmann
9. Bones- The Killers
10. Looking At The Invisible Man- The Dead Weather
11. Clap for the Wolfman- The Guess Who
12. People Are Strange- The Doors
13. Spook City USA- The Misfits
14. Secret Treat
15. Voodoo- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
16. Haunted Mansion Organ Music- Disney
17. Ghost Face- Valentine Six
18. Halloween- Stephen Lynch
19. Kommienezuepadt- Tom Waits
20. Martian Trip- The Vibro Champs
21. Dracula- Gorillaz
22. Season of the Witch- Donovan
23. Secret Treat
24. Don't Fear The Reaper- Blue Oyster Cult

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 6. Monster Mojo

2011-10-23T20:34:00.000-07:00

Surfs up, ghouls! Volume 6 Monster Mojo has a heavy surf theme with some random things thrown in between. Get ready to get wet!

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Tracks:

1. It's Monster Surfing Time- The Deadly Ones
2. The Creature Stole My Surfboard- Dead Elvi
3. All Black And Hairy- Screaming Lord Sutch
4. Betty Bones- Hellcat & The Prowl
5. Secret Treat
6. Ghost Train- The Swanks
7. Boris the Spider- The Who
8. Martian Band- The Wildtones
9. The Spook- The Tomko's
10. Midnight Monster Hop- Jack and Jim
11. Secret Treat
12. Banshee Beach- The Ghastly Ones
13. Dinner With Drac- Zacherle
14. Fashion Zombies!- The Aquabats
15. Ghost Town- The Specials
16. Voodoobilly Man- Deadbolt
17. Twilight Zone Theme- Marius Constant
18. Rockin' Bones- The Cramps
19. The Mummy- Bob Mcfadden & Dor
20. The Gila Monster- Joe Johnson
21. Frankensurfer- The Surfaholics
22. The Creature From the Black Lagoon- Dave Edmunds
23. Fright Night Theme- J. Geils Band
24. House on Haunted Hill- The Mummies
25. Secret Treat
26. Halloween II- The Misfits

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 5. Hillbilly Haunts

2011-10-23T11:20:00.000-07:00

When the sun goes down on the ol' prairie, slap this baby onto your record player! Volume 5, Hillbilly Haunts is full of spooky country, western, cowboy, hillbilly and blue grass tunes that any yella' belly can blow a jug to! With of course some special surprises hidden in between the toes. So get along little ghosties! Yee Haw!

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Tracks:

1. Secret Treat
2. Honky Tonk Halloween- Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures
3. American Nightmare- The Misfits
4. Hell-O-Ween- The Swing Rays
5. Little Ghost- The White Stripes
6. Evil (Is Going On)- Howlin' Wolf
7. Tennessee Hillbilly Ghost- Red Foley
8. Creature From Outer Space- Sonny Day
9. Graveyard Boogie- Buster Doss & his Arkansas Playboys
10. Omar The Vampar- The Hamburger Bros.
11. Secret Treat
12. Vampire Outlaw- The Coffinshakers
13. Mississippi Murderer- Amboy Dukes
14. Dead Outlaw- Ghoultown
15. This World Is Evil- Those Poor Bastards
16. Ghosts From Boot Hill- The Hellbenders
17. Ichabod Crane- Bing Crosby
18. Bad Moon Rising- Creedence Clearwater Revival
19. Wolfman- The Real Tuesday Weld
20. The Devil Went Down to Georgia- Primus
21. Murder In The Red Barn- Tom Waits
22. House of 1000 Corpses- Rob Zombie
23. Long Pine Box- The Howdies
24. Ghost Riders In The Sky- Johnny Cash
25. Secret Treat

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 4. Bad Blood

2011-10-22T11:07:00.000-07:00

Day 4 of the 13 days of Kandy Coated Kackles brings us Bad Blood, a more raw edgier side of Halloween tunes. A grisly collection of punk, garage, rockabilly, psychobilly and surf tracks will haunt you while mosh all those nasty Trick or Treater kids.

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Tracks:

1. Secret Treat

2. Surfin' Dead- The Cramps

3. London Dungeon- The Misfits

4. Corpse Grinder- The Meteors

5. Witch- The Sonics

6. Rockula- Los Straitjackets

7. Motel Hell- Blitzkid

8. Zombie Crush- Groovie Ghoulies

9. Secret Treat

10. Do The Devil- The Amazing Royal Crowns

11. Graveyard Tree- Koffin Kats

12. A Corpse In My Bed- Creature Feature

13. Raised in Hell- Zombina & The Skeletones

14. To Walk The Night- Mad Sin

15. Grave Diggers- The Creepshow

16. Fall Children- AFI

17. Haunted Cathouse- Nekromantix

18. Secret Treat

19. Zombies- The White Coffin Terror

20. Horrorbeach- The HorrorPops

21. Goo Goo Muck- Ronnie Cook

22. Cat Man- Gene Vincent

23. Sinners- Freddie & The Hitch-Hikers

24. Secret Treat

25. Dark Night- The Blasters

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 3. Voodoo Vibes

2011-10-20T18:03:00.000-07:00

Lets change things up a bit. Todays mix has a certain bad juju going on with it. Why? Well because.
Enjoy!

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Tracks:

1. Secret Treat
2. The Witch Queen of New Orleans- Redbone
3. Voodoo Voodoo- Lavern Baker
4. Alligator Wine- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
5. The Voo Doo Walk- Sonny Richard's Panics with Cindy And Misty
6. Big Green- Igor and the Maniacs
7. She's My Witch- Kip Tyler
8. Watusi Zombie- Jan Davis
9. The Ghost of Smokey Joe- Cab Calloway
10. You've Got Me Voodoo'd- Louis Armstrong
11. Secret Treat
12. Man With The Hex- The Atomic Fireballs
13. Hell- Squirrel Nut Zippers
14. Bag Things- Jace Everett
15. Love Potion No. 9- The Clovers
16. Cha Cha with the Zombies- The Upperclassmen
17. Bodies- Danzig
18. Taboo- Gene Summers
19. Big Black Witchcraft Rock- The Cramps
20. The Fang- Nervous Norvus
21. Devil's Gonna Get You- Bessie Smith
22. Secret Treat
23. And When I Die- The Heavy

Kandy Coated Kackles vol 2. Groovin' Goblins

2011-10-19T11:06:00.001-07:00

Another day, another mix! There's some pretty special tracks on here that I'm hoping not
too many people have heard, but if you have I hope you can enjoy them anyway. So turn off the lights, eat some candy corn and drink some apple cidar, this is volume 2!

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Tracks:

1. Secret Treat
2. Welcome to My Nightmare- Alice Cooper
3. Creatures of the Night- The Creepshow
4. Spooks Night Out- The Legendary Invisible Men
5. Buried Alive- Creature Feature
6. Little Demon- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
7. Beetlejuice Theme- Danny Elfman
8. Secret Treat
9. Dig Up Her Bones- The Misfits
10. Living Dead Girl- Rob Zombie
11. Diablo's Theme- The Ghastly Ones
12. The Skeleton in the Closet- Louis Armstrong
13. My Son the Vampire- Allan Sherman
14. Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula- The Diamonds
15. Secret Treat
16. Human Fly- The Cramps
17. Werewolf- Southern Culture on the Skids
18. It's Terror Time Again- Skycycle
19. Feed Me (Git It)- Levi Stubbs & Rick Moranis
20. Terror in the Haunted House- Blitzkid
21. Jack's Lament- Danny Elfman
22. Secret Treat
23. Frankenstein Main Title- Bernhard Kaun
24. Legend of the Headless Horseman- Bing Crosby

Kandy Coated Kackles: Songs for Halloween

2011-10-19T08:55:00.000-07:00

Well guys, its Halloween again and I'm doing something very special this year. I'm sharing my personal Halloween playlists with everyone! I've been collecting kooky tunes and spooky tracks for about 7 years now and I really feel like sharing with everyone! So for the next 13 days I will post one mix tape up until October 31st! So we got 13 mix tapes in all. Each mix will have a cover drawn by me (some might be new art some might be old since drawing everyday has become difficult for me during work). Also each mix will have some secret treats that you can only hear when you download them.

So lets start things off with the first volume: Ectoplasmic Essentials. All the essential songs you need for any Halloween party or event. I added a couple songs that people might not know to switch things up. Hope you guys enjoy this volume and tune in tomorrow for the next one!

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Tracks:

1. Secret Treat
2. Halloween- The Misfits
3. Dragula- Rob Zombie
4. I Was a Teenage Werewolf- The Cramps
5. Haulin' Hearse- The Ghastly Ones
6. This is Halloween- Danny Elfman
7. Secret Treat
8. One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater- Sheb Wooley
9. Werewolves of London- Warren Zevon
10. The Time Warp- Richard O'Brien & Cast
11. Psycho Theme- Bernard Herrmann
12. Ghost Busters- Ray Parker Jr.
13. Pet Sematary- The Ramones
14. Halloween Theme- John Carpenter
15. Mysterious Mose- Harry Reser & Radio All-Star Novelty Orchestra
16. Addams Family Theme- Stan Adams
17. Munsters Theme- Los Straitjackets
18. The Boogie Monster- Gnarls Barkley
19. Jack the Ripper- Screaming Lord Sutch
20. Thriller- Michael Jackson ft. Vincent Price
21. I Put a Spell on You- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
22. Dracula Main Theme- Phillip Glass
23. Monster Mash- Bobby (Boris) Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
24. Secret Treat

Dig them Bones, Daddio

2011-09-25T13:13:00.000-07:00

Halloween is right around the corner, cats!

Burbank Buttocks

2011-08-22T18:30:00.001-07:00

Here's some sketches of some people I did while I was visiting Tara in Burbank.
Also some of the sketches are not of real people. But most of them are.

Abed and Kali.

Myke and Nico.

Airport people.

Tara and Nico fish.

Jack and Bryan.

Sun girl and Me.

Chloe the cat and Alligator.

Merp.

Dry Doodles

2011-08-18T19:38:00.000-07:00

Sorry for my constant absence but here's some stuff! The other night I was up sketching with a dry brush pen while watching the Phantom of the Opera on TCM and looking at some friends art.

That's all. Bed time!

My first Interview and Comic Con!

2011-07-21T22:09:00.000-07:00

Hey y'all! Check out this interview I did for the Strange Kids Club! A truly awesome blog about anything monsters and cult! Its the first interview I've ever done!

I'm gonna hold off on part 2 of the Blenderstein Beginnings post, since I'm going to LA for 2 weeks. I'll also be at Comic Con on Sunday. If you see me walkin around, say hi and I'll give you a signed Blenderstein postcard!

I'll look like this:

See ya!

Blenderstein Fanart!

2011-07-21T21:41:00.000-07:00

Here's some awesome art I've gotten lately of the cast from my film Blenderstein! I'll update this post if I get more :]

by Tara Billinger

By Dirk Erik Schulz

By Nico Colaleo. Also starring Scribble and Skarfy!

By Vivienne Medrano

By Sara Ho

By Malcom Thomas

By Jessa Lee Rempel

Blenderstein Beginnings part 1

2011-07-17T14:44:00.000-07:00

CAUTION! OLD ART ALERT! 2007-2008.

This is the painting that started it all! A color theory piece done in water color for my Intro to Drawing class in my 1st year at SVA.

Here are the first character models of the three villains I did while trying to develop a comic back in 2008. You can see how they probably wouldn't have worked very well in animation...

Dr. Frappe, back then I was calling him Dr. Magnolius Frappe. Kind of more a mix between Mojo Jojo and that monkey from that 90's Mickey cartoon.

Oogle was being called Blenderstein back then but I thought a name change would be more appropriate since Frankenstein's monster was not named Frankenstein. Blenderstein is the brand of blender they use. He is named Oogle after Charles Ogle who played the Frankenstein monster in the early 1910 version.

Boyle, back when I called him Igorf (Frogi backwards, ooh I'm so clever!). I guess I forgot his "special" eye was on the right side. Whoops!

Here's the first drawing of a character that would later become Sydney. This one was done in '07 I think, senior year of high school. I was big into using real photos as textures. Lazy me.

The character's name was Audrey back then and I wanted to do a series of art with her being attacked by various supernatural beings. You can see I didn't really pursue this project.

Her redesign in 2008, when I decided to try to fit her into the comic. The idea of the two-toned hair is visible. Again, I forgot I put it on the other side, hahaha.

I abandoned this idea maybe in late 2008, and didn't go back to it until I started thinking about my thesis.

Sorry for the old art. Part 2 coming soon!

If you haven't seen the film, you probably should.

Watch BLENDERSTEIN!

2011-07-12T04:22:00.000-07:00

So that one film I made that I've been talking about for quite a while...is online!

May I present to you, my 4th year thesis film Blenderstein!

Blenderstein! from Cartoon Brew on Vimeo.

Give it a view with your peepers, and leave nice comments. I hope you all enjoy it!

-Zach

Some Famous Monsters

2011-07-10T22:40:00.000-07:00

These are some drawings I did for my Horror History class back when I was in school (it wasn't THAT along ago, only a few monthes). Since I loved the class so much for my final project I drew little tributes for all the films we had watched in class. Here are some of them, I still have 3 more to color...

Lon Chaney Sr. and Joan Crawford in the "Unknown" 1927

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in "The Black Cat" 1934

Elsa Lanchester in "Bride of Frankenstein" 1935

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in Hammer Film's "The Mummy" 1959

More to come, hopefully. All of them were done with prisma color markers and colored pencils on brown recycled hipster paper.

Brewing, Titmice and Ferrets

2011-06-22T20:10:00.000-07:00

First of all, I'm extremely excited to announce that my thesis film "Blenderstein!" will be featured on Cartoon Brew's 2nd Annual Student Film Fest! That means you'll be able to watch it on their site! Whoo! I'll make a post when it's up and ready!

Now if you didn't know yet, I'm currently employed at Titmouse Inc. an growing animation studio in NYC known for such shows as Superjail and Metalacoplypse. So far I've done animation and cleanup for them on a number of upcoming projects. Although its a lot of work and I'm there from Mon-Fri I always find time to do some doodles after I finish my work.

Lastly here's a birthday picture I did for my friend Lauren. Its her and Riot, her ferret.

I have some stuff on the back burner I still need to post...I'll get around to it when I have some time.

Screening!!!

2011-06-06T19:41:00.000-07:00

So my film Blenderstein! was invited to be in the Midsummer's Night Toons 3 screening!

It showcases 6 shorts and mine is one of them! Also my fellow SVA-er Mirella has gotten her awesome film in there too!

Here's the trailer where you can see some snippets of my film, the first clips to be
shown online ever!

Midsummer Night Toons III Final Trailer from Midsummer Night Toons on Vimeo.

If anyone's in NYC this Friday (the 10th) come stop by! Its free!

I'll post some art soon!

-Z

100 Years of Vincent Price

2011-05-27T19:31:00.000-07:00

Today is the 100th birthday of Vincent Price! So I decided to draw 100 Vincents! On Sticky notes! (they're supposed to in chronological order but I had to cut them up to make them blog friendly. Check out the full set here!)

This piece showcases many of his greatest (and not so great) roles, performances, and appearances. It was a little tough trying to find 100 roles of his, so I had to really dig deep, but I still couldn't get exactly 100, so I had to resort to a few doubles and also a series of his different costumes from his personal horror favorite "Theater of Blood". I know a lot of these aren't really the best drawings but I feel that the whole piece together is what will look good.

The first Price movie I ever saw was "The Great Mouse Detective" (said to have been his favorite role) but of course being a little kid I didn't care who did the voice. I was in middle school when I saw "The Raven" on AMC when they used to play classic horror movies on Friday nights. My dad told me about him and I eventually recognized his voice and linked it to Ratigan. I was very amazed that such an actor who was mostly known for his horror roles would step out of that and do light and funny roles too…and succeed at it! Thats my favorite thing about Vincent, always mixing horror and comedy.

For the past week in his home town of Missouri, they've been having a festival in his honor called Vincentennial. I really wanted to go but there was no way, but it feels good to atleast do artwork in his honor.

Thank you for bringing us such great fright, laughs and all around joy from your films and warm, charismatic personality. Happy Birthday, Vincent. You're a great inspiration to me and it would have been a life long dream for me to meet you. But I hope that if there is an afterlife that I can meet you there. Goodbye so soon and rest in peace.

Got us a Toitle!

2011-05-25T12:20:00.001-07:00

My piece...or should I say SLICE for the Autumn Society's SHELL SHOCK pie...uh show! Its a tribute gallery to everything TMNT!

Rocksteady and Bebop were always my favorites, I thought it was a cool pairing, a rhino and a warthog as bumbling 80's thugs. Here they are seen with a brand new baby turtle. There faces say "No" but their hearts say otherwise....

For some reason I always really like the non popular or underrated characters more than the main ones. I don't know why. Anyway, if anyone's in the Philadelphia area, check out this cool gallery!

Time: Friday, June 3 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
BRAVE NEW WORLDS COMICS
45 N. 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA
US of A

A Hard Days Week

2011-05-16T21:14:00.000-07:00

PHEW! What a week...So much has happened.

First Tara flew in to come to the Dusty's screening, the show that features all the senior thesis films on a theater size screen! What a thrill, seeing my stuff and all my friends stuff on a huge screen was exhilarating!

(Can you see the people's little heads down there?)

After that was the Awards Ceremony for the senior thesis's. I ended up sitting with these two hunks of glass...

I won Best Traditional Character Design and tied with my pal Mike for Best Traditional Animation. It was definitely shocking and nerve wracking, since I had to make a speech and forgot to thank some people but it was an honor all together. I feel like the awards should go to my friends and class mates who worked just as hard, and most of them even harder than I did. Thanks for getting me through the year, guys! Also Congrats to Mirella for Best Production Design and Zack W. for Best Stop Motion and Best Stop Motion Character Design! You guys rock!

Lastly was GRADUATION. I am officially done with school FOREVER. I still don't think it hit me yet since I still feel like I'm going back in 3 months. It's gonna be weird...

I'm extremely thankful to have attended SVA. Being there was really the best experience I have ever had and will stick with me for the rest of my life. Some people say you don't need college, but I think I needed it. I learned so much, met so many cool friends, tried different things, got interested in things I never would have, found new influences and spent a lot of time in the best damn city in the world, New York! It really made me love school and I'm really going to miss the whole college feel.

So what's next for me? I have a freelance job, an internship, my film has been submitted to some festivals...so far so good, lets see how it goes!

See you on the other side!

(Sorry if this post seems rushed, I have to go to bed so I can wake up and do important stuff!)

Its Alive...ITS ALIVE!!!

2011-05-03T11:20:00.000-07:00

Its been about 8 1/2 monthes...and my final year thesis film, Blenderstein!, is finally complete! I'm also done with school...forever...!!! I graduate in like...a week! Scary! Anyway...
at a whopping 6 minutes and 19 seconds, my film is done! But I can't show you just yet!

This above is a DVD cover I made for submitting to festivals. A most notorious festival rule is that if the film can be seen somewhere online it is automatically rejected from the festival. I mean who wants to go to a screening to see a film you could see online for free?

Well anyway, here's some screen caps to tide you over!

I had the time of my life working on this and as my first completed film I can easily say I'm very very proud of it. I want to thank Tara Billinger, Nico Colaleo, Vivienne Medrano, Dana Terrace, Courtney Vonada and Luz Batista for helping me do coloring! I couldn't have finished without you guys!

That's all for now! I'm going to post some backgrounds, sketches and other Blenderstein! goodies soon!

Puppet Commercial I Worked On!

2011-03-07T20:23:00.001-08:00

Whoa, I have not been blogifying in a while...Sorry guys! Thesis work is getting hectic, its super crunch time! But I want to share something I worked on over the Christmas break with Furry Puppet Studios!

I was called in to do Character designs for the characters you see in the video! An English online Poker site of sorts. Its so awesome to see our designs come to life! Furry Puppets damn well knows how to make amazing puppets!

Although the project's style was a bit "tamer" then my own I still had fun with the designs! But due to the clients who commissioned the puppets I cannot post any of the designs. But I hope you all can believe that I had a hand in designing these characters! Haha!

Here's some stills of the puppets!

That's all for now! Back to work...

Gettin Hard on Myself, Sittin in My Easy Chair...

2011-02-08T13:04:00.001-08:00

Haven't posted anything here lately. Thesis work has been taking up life.
First off, here's a screen shot from my thesis film "Blenderstein!"

Who is this Mad Monkey? What is he looking at? Why is our heroine tied up and gagged with a sock? Is the sock clean? What will happen?! You will soon find out!

And here's some sketches from my mole's skin that I've been posting on my tumblr frequently.
Some of them I really like and might clean up and color when I get time.

Hey its Groucho and Harpo!

Until next time, Blogsies!

Dirk Inked My Sketch!!! Plus PUPPETS

2011-01-24T09:57:00.000-08:00

Hey hey! So, Dirk is one of my best artistic friends, and you might remember our trade war going on a while ago. Well he just raised a new bar! He inked and colored one of my sketches!

Here's his version.

And here's mine. He obviously took A LOT Of liberties with his, but that's why I love it!

Its so eerie. I see things in there that are mine and make it seem like its my drawing, but then I see Dirk's style in there and it seems like its his...either way its still awesome! Once I free some time I'm going to return to the favor!

Also check out his awesome webcomic The SWEFS!

One more thing!! I'd like to announce that I've been doing some character design work for
Furry Puppet Studios!

(I did NOT design this guy lol)

Don't let the name fool you, their puppets are extremely professional and totally out there!!! I'm extremely happy to be doing work for them. We just completed a recent project which I can't speak about yet, but it should be pretty cool! I'll post sketches once I get permission to!

Recent Caricature Commissions

2011-01-15T17:49:00.000-08:00

Here are some commissions I did over the holiday break. I'm glad that they were all caricatures since I've been bitten by the Hirschfeld bug. I really love doing them, so expect more in the future!

John Lennon and Yoko Ono for an old high school friend.

Lemmy from Motorhead.

and Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top for the same mustached maniac who commissioned my previous Frank Zappa drawing as a tattoo (these are tattoos aswell!).

Damn, I'm surprised I've been posting as much as I have lately. Well these were done over the break so its not like I'm compromising my thesis work.

WELL! See ya!

Sleepy Sketches from the Hollow

2011-01-11T09:00:00.001-08:00

HOWDEE! Here's some stuff from last semester (which sounds like it was long ago but it actually wasn't.) (weird). In my character design class we had to design the characters from Sleepy Hollow in our own styles. I had tons of fun with them.

Ichabod Crane

Brom Bones

Katrina Van Tassel

The Headless Horseman (not cleaned up)

I'll color those guys some day. Now have some random sketches!

Cameo appearance by my pal Danny Jackson. Check out his stuff!

(Me at 8 in the morning)

The End! Now back to work....

Ghosts of the New Year!

2011-01-02T22:42:00.000-08:00

Well well well...Happy New Year Everyone! 2011, can you believe it, huh? CAN YOU? This year was cray cray! A lot of thesis work and a lot more to do! So for now I'm gonna post some stuff from my pitchbook project we had to do.

My show is called "Dem Spooks" and is about three ghosts who roam around trying to find a peaceful place to haunt.

"Da Spook" self proclaimed leader and tough guy. Was probably a 30's mobster in his past life, hence the hat and bullet holes in his head. He can be a grumpster since he kinda misses his living life and doesn't like adjusting to his new ghostly body.

"Dis Spook" the positive happy energetic one. He's very happy to be a ghost since his living life was shit. His neck was stretched out from being hanged and he has shackle cuffs on his wrists. He loves playing the banjo and acts as the voice of reason for the trio.

"Dat Spook" the depressing, nervous, spook. When Da and Dis found him his head was missing so they replaced it with an umbrella. He's basically like a nerdy child that Da and Dis have to look out for since he's so small and weak. Though he gives them a purpose by watching out for him.

I don't really have a desire to make this into a show or pitch it to a big network. Just did it for fun/good grade. I do have some other stuff to post but I'll save it for another post.

In the mean time, lets see what 2011 chucks at my face!

Bela and Boris

2010-12-04T19:00:00.001-08:00

These are just some caricature studies of two of my favorite icons. I was doing them for fun one night while taking a break from working.

Bela Lugosi, Hollywood's dark prince.

Boris Karloff, the gentle monster.

I'll post more stuff another time, when I'm not so busy.
Well, back to work!

100th Post!!!

2010-11-07T12:16:00.000-08:00

Wow, its kinda crazy that I have 100 posts now. Golly...anyway, here's some sketches from September through now.

Noisy Banjo Cat.

Sydney and Friend.

Brobee's End.

Some Tom Waits doodles.

Tom and some animal friends.

Bird brains.

Two Cockney Types.

Weird late night drawings. I really don't know, haha.

Recent moleskin inkings. Guest starring Mike Ruocco!

Doug characters and Tara brushing her teeth. AMAZE.

Burk the boar, he's the first mate.

Particularly fond of this one. Dr. Krunch battles the SEA BATS!

For everyone who has looked at every one of my 100 posts, I hope you have made some kind of confused, disgusted, joyful, manic or zombified expression 100 times for each post!!!

I think its grand and thanks to everyone who's been checking out my art!

Ghosts and Goblins of 2010!!!

2010-10-31T09:38:00.000-07:00

"When the Ghosts wail and sing,
The Goblins ears do sting,
And the harvest moon's the biggest it's been,
this year on Hallowe'en!"

Today is Halloweeeen!!! The one night where ghosts and goblins steal candy from innocent children...well maybe...anyway, here's some art and other festivities that led up to this day!

I was extremely inspired by these old 1920's costumes I found.

They were basically variations of the clothing style of that time but with pumpkins and cats as buttons or scarves. Really awesome, so I had to draw the coolest ones! It would be really interesting to go back in time and see how everything was back then...

Check out dis smirking pumpkin I carved when I was visiting home! I think he's got the hots for you!

We also got a swan gord which I had wanted to paint to look like a witch but instead it started to look like Gonzo mixed with the Joker.

Talula made friends with the pumkin!

And here is my costume!!!

It was always a dream of mine to be an extra on a Planet of the Apes movie. I love that makeup so much.

ITS A MADHOUSE! A MAAAADHOUSE!!!

Lastly here's a cool Halloween song you can listen to!

So I hope everyone has a great Halloween! I'm going to the NYC Halloween parade today and will definitely take some pictures of that to post!

Happy Haunts,

Zach

BLENDERSTEIN!

2010-10-16T10:33:00.000-07:00

I think its about time I talk about my final year thesis film, that I've been so busy with!

BLENDERSTEIN!

The story is about a very angsty teen girl (Sydney) who works for a boring postal service and delivers a package to a very strange house.

SpoooOOOOoOOOOoooky! Anyway, she gets abducted by the inhabitants of the house. She discovers the package she delivered was a strange looking blender that they apparently want to put her in!

Dr. Frappe is the mad scientist! Who knows what horrors his evil blendering plot will lead to!

Boyle is his hunchbacked assistant. He does all the dirty work and gets nothing but a kick in the head or a splinter in the eye in return.

And Oogle! The brain dead monster with the blender on his head! Why is the blender on the his head? You will soon find out!

Will Sydney escape this dreadful situation? Will she be made into some kind of evil milkshake?
Only 6 months of extremely grueling animation work will tell!

Thank you.

-Zach

Tardy Dorm Post! Plus Sketches!

2010-09-22T23:23:00.000-07:00

So howdy everyone! I know this is very very belated but let me show you my dorm! I never dormed before and since this is my last year at college I wanted the full college experience of living on my own. I moved in like the beginning of this month and have settled in quite nicely.

Pretty nice, for a dorm yea. I had to bring all my kooky things so I can be inspired when working on my thesis (which I will post about soon).

And now onto some sketches cuz I know I'm sick of posting photos!

Drawings at the park of people...and a squirrel!

Doodles at the diner of cats, Little Bear, a wolf, a white trash muppet and some dumb video character.

Griffins are awesome!

Mostly inspired by the Maurice Sendak book "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" and the Gryphon from Alice in Wonderland.

Hush hush hush...here comes the Boogey Man!

And last but not least, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective! Drawn while watching both movies. Jim Carrey is a living cartoon, I swear.

Aaaaaaaaaaall righty then!

Thanks for all the new recent followings and comments! See ya next time!

-Zach

My Final Summer Vacation...

2010-09-03T16:30:00.000-07:00

Yes, thats right. I graduate from college later this year so this was my last summer vacation from school. And I gotta say, it was one of the best. So I already posted my Maryland trip, right after that I headed to Utah to see Tara and her family.

We went to an awesome drive-in movie lot! Tara had her wisdom teeth out that morning and thinks she looked all drugged up. I look more drugged up in this picture, haha. We saw Toy Story 3 (awesome!) and Sorcerer's Apprentice (fucking stupid as shit).

I also found these cool finger puppets, and I only bought them because they looked like all my friends! Well...I can see the resemblance...

For our two year anniversary we went to this great place called the Mayan. Its like rainforest cafe but without the talking animals. Oh and people jumping off of rocks into a lagoon!

We played mini golf with her family at an indoor amusement park, Hollywood Connections. Tara's mom won...

They had the coolest...merry go round...I'm on a goat, mother fucker, don't you ever forget!!!

The Hogle Zoo, was cool! I found out I'm the same height as an adult male gorilla.

I was laughing at this guy cuz he just made a poop.

After that, we flew back to NY to join my family at our block party, where we did face painting for the little neighbor kids.

Aaaaand then we went to Magic Kingdom in Florida. Haha, my grandpa lives there and my mom wanted all of us to visit him. Check out Brer Zach and his Brer kin.

I made Tara go on Splash Mountain with me. She didn't wanna go on it. That ride is a goddamn tease! Sitting through the pleasant imagery of the Song of the South characters and the nice songs doesn't really mask the immense fear of going down a huuuge drop at the end of the ride. It was awesome!

We got a picture by Uncle Walt...and some weird fat guy in a blue shirt...

Yea, we're on a jet ski...what of it?

Lookit that! On the Mt. Dora canal! Such a cool view.

I got a lot of souvenirs but I found these two gems at a flea market! The little Mickey is from the 70's and speaks spanish! And if anyone's interested in the phone, let me know. The guy said its right from one of the Disney hotels.

We did a ton of other stuff that is not documented in our photos, but I have to say it was one of the most eventful summers I ever had. And right now, I'm just lookin back at it and being happy. I miss Tara so much, but I know we're going to see each other again. Long distance is hard, but its worth it for us. You can go to her blog to see what stuff she posted.

Well, tomorrow I move into my dorm for college. THESIS YEAR! Its no big deal, the city is like 2 hours away from my house. But I might make a post about it...sooo...keep watch! I got a couple art things I'll post later on too.

Thanks for reading!

-Zach

Don't bother me, I'm Crabby

2010-07-23T18:51:00.001-07:00

One trip down...two more to go! Just got back from a week in Ocean City, Maryland with my family, aunt, uncle and cousins. We rented an awesome beach house to stay at which I forgot to take pictures of...oh well...

There were a lot of crab places around and a lot of really bright highlighter colors. So I was inspired to draw this and colored it with hilighters bought from a local drugstore!

If anyone wants to have a go at coloring this, be my guest!
I didn't wanna use the hilighters for this so I'm gonna wait till I have time to properly color it. Being a beachy summer town, there were alot of surf shops, so thats why I drew this. And I like bats.

So besides drawing a bit, I made a new friend. Mr. King Kone wanted me to eat tons of ice cream.

Almost every night we snuck into the private beach and played around by the shore.

And we went mini golfing with dinosaurs. Guess which kids are my cousins and which are my siblings. Also I'm the oldest.

Sara, Kassy and me with a flamboyantly colored stegosaurus.

This place had some awesome dino-props and sculptures. I took a lot of photos of those, but I'll make another post about that later...

We got crabs!!!

It was a great trip, hanging out with my cousins and stuff. Lots of fun. So I'm only home for today and then tomorrow, and then the neeeext day I leave for Utah to go see Tara!

Looooook, Chloe wants to come with me! She's on my suitcase. Thats no place for a chubby cat.

I'll be there for 11 days and then Tara comes with me to NY to spend the whole month. And somewhere in the middle of that month we're taking a trip to Florida to visit my Grandpa and to go to Disney World! Whoooo! Its gonna be a ballin' summer.

Might be a while until I can update again, but I'll take of pics and stuff during my upcoming trips.

Also, I got some stuff up on my Etsy!

See ya later, friends.
-Z

Tying Up Some Loose Ends...

2010-06-30T15:44:00.000-07:00

...and some girls too!

These are some concepts for my final thesis film next year.

Confused? Good. More on this later.

After doing that Young Frankenstein commission I had a hankerin' to draw a solo Marty Feldman portrait. His face is a caricaturist's wet dream!

This was an art trade with Sam M. I did his cartoon band, The Vomits!
He's absolutely fantastic. Here I'll show ya...

He drew my characters Voodoo Croc and Jillyan! So amazing. Go check him out, really, go do it!

This is a Toothless pic I did back when the movie came out. Was gonna make a big ol' post about it buuuut never got around to it. Twas a cool movie.

And lastly, a pinup for the fair well of Gabe Swarr's Big Pants Mouse. We'll miss you BPM...

That's it for now. No offense.

-Z

Enter...Foolish Mortals...

2010-06-21T13:01:00.000-07:00

No art in this post. Sorry. But since this coming September I will be moving into the dorms by my school, I wanted to take pictures of my room at home and share them with you before I take all the good posters and knick knacks into the dorm.

What you usually see when you walk in.

Close the door!

I like tiki's.

And look, Chloe's here to join us on our tour!

Yea, I collect alot of things.

There's even stuff on the Tv. Tara got me that Boop doll.

Figures and DVD collection.

The Betty Boop thing is a VHS set.

Monster movie posters, rare Gorillaz poster...

Hit this guy while driving near some woods. Its bigger then the one Rob Zombie has.

Yes, that's an official cel from Great Mouse Detective. What? I love that movie.

Tara's plushie she made me and my freeze dried bat.

Side of my dresser.

On top of my dresser.

Giant gummi bear!

Baby alligator from the 50's.

Tara got me those fishies too (the toothy ones).

My work space! The table was from my aunt who worked for a drafting company...I think...

Usually not this neat....

My markers...

I used to collect those little guys...and look! Night Fury!

Mexican Mad Monster Party poster, Skadi print, sharks...

Another rare Gorillaz poster...

Marilyn, Skeleton, more Gorillaz...

Some sketchbooks...a ray gun...

Gorillaz vinyls, Tara art...

Those two apes need to pay their rent...

My shelf collections! I have every Nightmare Before Christmas figure! And man, are they dusty!

Books books books...I like books...

Ren and Stimpy, Wild Things...

Flying monkey statue, pokemon figures, Twisted Land of Oz figures...

Aaand more books, piles of art and my boots.

Well wasn't that fun?! Ok its over now, you can go home, haha.
I love my room, its like a bubble of inspiration to me.

Thanks for checking it out and I promise next post will have art!

Abby Normal?

2010-06-13T14:34:00.000-07:00

"I'm almost certain that was the name."

"Are you telling me...that I put an abnormal brain into the body of a 7 and a half foot loooong...54 inch wiiiide....GORILLA?! IS THAT WHAT YOUR TELLING MEEE?!"

Gene Wilder as Dr. Frankenstein (Fron-Kon-Stean!)
And Marty Feldman as Igor (Eye-Gor)

This was a private commission someone wanted to get tattooed. Working on this rekindled my love for Young Frankenstein. I think it might be one of my favorite comedies of all time. Sooo many great lines and moments. Definitely gonna draw these guys another time.

The person who wanted it wanted the image in color, but since the ENTIRE movie is in black and white, I made an alternative version that was posted on my Deviant Art account. No offense!

Also this is a super late b'day gift for my really good buddy, Nico!

These are his hipster chicks, Scribble and Skarfy (you can guess which is which) doing what they do best...being...hipsters...hanging outside coffee shops... going to weird parties...buying clothes from thrift stores...texting....

Anyway, I totally owe this Nico for being such an awesome guy, he deserves this more then ever! And the letters are stickers.

More more more coming soon soon soon!

Vampires, Felines, Boops and Shit

2010-06-08T13:32:00.000-07:00

Not too much to post so here's some...uh...things...

Count Orlock aka Nosferatu, the scariest vampire ever.

Betty Boop! Haven't drawn her in a while and decided to add some Photoshop poop on this one (and a couple others below)

For some reason I've become nearly obsessed with trying to come up with an original design for a cat since cartoon cats all kinda look the same.

And here's some sketches of my own puddy cat, Chloe. She's 9 years old and 15 pounds and I love her!

Some Aliens and a Space man!

Snake and Cheeseburger face!

The Phantom!

Hope you've enjoyed the sketches! I really want to post some animations but I need to clean them up a bit more, make em presentable.

BYE.

The Totally Tubular 90's

2010-06-01T19:09:00.000-07:00

The 90's.

A time of bright tacky clothes...the life and death of grunge music...Bill Clinton...and the best damn cartoons since the 40's.

These are two pieces for the Autumn Society's 90's show! Since growing up in the 90's the most exciting thing for me were cartoons! And boy, did Nickelodeon have em! They actually had cartoons back then! Yea, Nickelodeon. HAHAHA!

Rocko's Modern Life! Now that was a hoot!

I didn't realize how much the stories inspired me, I found old comics I did with my characters basically reenacting a story from Rocko. Yea I know, I was lame, it was the 90's.

I wanted to add the Chameleon Bros, The Fat Hippo Lady, Ralph Bighead, The Slug guy, The Wacky Deli Meats and the Wild Pig but I couldn't fit all of them, and chose only the ones I thought were most important.

But this show is the 90's to me. Bright crazy colors, awesome rockabilly/surf music, innuendos, bathroom humor, crazy stories and weirdly designed characters. And toooons of great one liners that I still recite to this day!

Turn da page, wash ya hands, turn da page wash ya hands....

AAAHH REAL MONSTERS!

Everyone's favorite garbage-dwellers, Ickis, Oblina and Krumm! AAAHH!

The only Klasky-Csupo show where their ugly style worked! Ha! I loved this show as a kid, I loved monsters as a kid, so it worked out for me.

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If anyone's in the Philadelphia area go check out the show! It should be really aweso...I mean tubular, dude. Let's get some snaaackage....

Opening night-June 4th
Time-6-8 PM
Place-Brave New Worlds
45 N 2n Street
Old City
Philadelphia

The 90's were awesome weren't they? I loved growing up then. Ya know, I would've done a big Ren and Stimpy tribute but I think, to me, they're bigger then the 90's. I'll do a nice big piece for em some day.

Thanks y'all!
Post some more stuff soon!

Dirk vs. Zach

2010-05-25T18:50:00.000-07:00

For the past year, I've been having an art trade battle with Dirk Erik Schulz, a German based freelance artist who's done work for Doug Tennapel and is completely insane! We've been going back and forth drawing each other's characters since 2009, we were supposed to do 3 pics each but he sprang an extra surprise pic on me so I had to do the same for him.

His wonky style, appealing colors, skillful use of textures and diverse subject matter is what draws me to this artist, and might be why we've become really good friends.

So what I'm going to do is showcase both of our works, comparing the fanart to the original.
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First are my fanarts of Dirk's characters compared to his originals:

THORNELLE

Dirk's

Mine

MR. INKHEAD

Dirk's

Mine

NEWTON NEWT and FRED FRUIT FLY

Dirk's

Mine

DIRK'S KAPPA DESIGN

Dirk's

and Mine

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And now Dirk's fanarts of my characters compared to my originals:

DEZIREE and RATCH

Mine

Dirk's

WATLEY RHINO and CHAPMAN BEAVER

Mine (this ones really old)

Dirk's

MY DEVIL DESIGN

Mine

Dirk's

JILLYAN and VOODOO CROC

Mine

and Dirk's

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Alot of people have said that we have similar art styles. But this post isn't to decide which one of us is the better artist, no no, its to show that our style of drawing, designing, thinking, and putting together an image are very different.

We each kept those little things that make eachother's characters who they are while still taking a lot (and I mean A LOT) of artistic liberties to make it our own, as well as a tribute.

In closing, Dirk is a great guy, a classy motherfucker, a psychopath of concepts, and one of the most talented artists I know, all rolled up into one.

If you don't know about him, be sure to check out his DeviantArt account. You won't be disappointed.

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EDIT: Here's what Dirk himself had to say about it:

Hehe, I see so much in our battle:

1. Our original characters are on both sides 'less' detailed than the fanart/trade pic. We really took liberties with the other character and were more brave to explore the limits.

2. Your drawings have a more jagged feeling, while mine are more round ones. We share the same detail love and zanyness, but the slight different use of other ground shapes/tools change the overall look.... See More

3. We are both aliens.

4. We share the same love to ugly creatures and weird things. And understand that these are the elemenst to create interesting characters. And so we add it to our OCs.

Frank Zappa plus Tattoos!

2010-05-22T21:16:00.000-07:00

Howdy! Haven't been here in a while. Sorry about that. I've been enjoying my summer vacation so far. I have a lot to post though, but I'll start with this first cuz I'm super stoked about it!

So I was commissioned to do this Frank Zappa caricature for a man with an awesome mustache.

My dad had introduced me to Zappa's music, and I always thought he was really weird and comedic, which is my cup of tea. Since then I never had the reason to ever caricature him, until now.

Aside from just doing the caricature he souly wanted it for this purpose...

He wanted it to match my Tom Waits image which he also wanted on his arm. I could see these two having a smoke together talking about random shit...

I've been commissioned a couple times to do tattoo designs but I've never seen the actual tattoo on the person, so you can see why I'm super excited about this.

I got alot of sketches and animations and stuff to show, but I'll show that another time.

BYE

Luxury of Monsters

2010-05-04T13:45:00.001-07:00

Hey Blog.

So this was the final project for my Life Drawing class this year. We had to pick a multi-figure compositional piece and replace it with our own figures and ideas.

I chose this painting called "In Luxury, Look Out" by Jan Steen, circa 1663

And I replaced all the figures with Universal Studios Monsters, circa 1920 and 1930 (strictly). I simplified my style a bit, just to get this done on time.

Alright, so from Left to Right we got:

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Werewolf of London (1935)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Bride (Bride of Frankenstein) (1935)
Frankenstein's Monster (Frankenstein) (1931)
The Cat (The Cat and the Canary) (1927)
Dracula (1931)

We also had to study the composition and break down the figures into simple shapes.

This was a whole lotta fun to do and my teacher really dug it. Great way to end the school year eh? With moooOOOooOOOOnsters!

Done in prisma markers on yellow green water color/pastel paper (I don't suggest you combine the two, alot of my markers were killed by the rough texture of the paper)

Also please excuse the quality of this piece, it didn't fit in my scanner so I had to photograph it and edit in Photoshop. Still doesn't look too crisp.

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I got a couple animations to post including my 1 minute film so I'll show those soon and NEXT post will be about dragons, I sssssswears!

Swampy Birthday Fun!

2010-04-19T21:21:00.000-07:00

So, I had an amazing 21st birthday! Here's some gift art from a few people I want to showcase! Most of them are gators, haha.

Here's a freshly baked Gator Cupcake from Mike Ruocco! Yeesh I wouldn't wanna be that gecko...damn fire ants.

I laughed my ass off when Chris gave this to me. There's 21 candles on that giant croc! And I look so damn excited (and slightly turned on).

Here's an Al Herschfelt inspired caricature of me, from Malcom! Lookit mah crazy eyes!

My poppin fresh budzone, Nico, drew his character Scribble with my unnamed saw nose demon guy! Something tells me the demon wants something more then to celebrate birthdays...

HUZZAH! Safari Party from Dekay! I love the bg on this, now I really wanna have an awesome Safari party!

Last but not least, here's Tara's <3
She drew the both of us as each other's favorite animals. Lately she's been saying I act like a sloth. I dunno, what do you guys think?

Muh.

So everyone's probably wondering if I drank alcohol since I turned 21. Well the answer is....sort of. Haha. Me and about 12 other class mates went out to a southern BBQ place called Brother Jimmy's, and they have a special drink, Swamp Water! They put it a giant fish bowl, with a bunch of colorful straws sticking out and to top it off they dunk a plastic gator.

The contents of the drink were a mystery to us, but we think it was just fruit punch spiked with vodka. But you couldn't even taste the alcohol. It just tasted like bitter fruit drink. Plus everyone at the table had a couple sips so no one was really trashed, or even buzzed. But it was still fun.

I also got a new Mac Book Pro from my parents! Yay!

And thanks to everyone who wished me a happy bday, cuz I ended having a very happy one!

-Zach (21 year old version)

Aboard the S.S. Animal Cracker

2010-04-14T16:52:00.000-07:00

Just a birthday drawing for me from myself.

So here's what's going down...

Me and 4 of my favorite animal pals Krunchy the Croc, Chorty the Chimp, Hickey the Hyena and Burk the Boar are going on a motor boat ride together. They'll probably all get drunk cuz ya know...they're animals and they'll wanna celebrate my 21st bday, so I'll just have my chocolate milk and make sure none of them swallow their tongues.

Krunchy can never handle his liquor too well, Chorty likes his booze with music, Hickey gets slightly effeminate and touchy touchy and Burk just likes to be left alone. Irving the Eel couldn't make it but I'm sure he had a good reason. Busy man.

As for me, I'm the designated human.

Should be fun.

Oh yea and I lied about the next post being about dragons. The next nnnnext post will be about dragons.

Peace and chicken grease.

Double Sinner Blues

2010-04-07T19:20:00.001-07:00

New brown sketchbook means...

Gamblin' chick! Its so refreshing to draw girls again. Fun fact: those dice are stickers. Also I love those green poker hats.

And Darwin! This guy's been mostly hiding out in the corners of my sketchbooks so I decided to give him a nice finished pic. He's a demon who's bored of being a demon. He can change the color of his mohawk anytime he wants and he really loves fried chicken.
Here he is dancing for some reason, not sure why.

Short post, yar.

Coming up next...DRAGONS!

Let the Rumpus Continue...

2010-03-27T23:54:00.001-07:00

Golly, haven't updated this in a while...well lets get started, shall we? I had these drawn and inked for a while now but I just bought the Where the Wild Things Are DVD so it motivated me to color em... I plan on drawing every wild thing, they are even some featured in the book that weren't shown in the movie. But for now here's the first set.

Maurice Sendak had based all the wild things after his aunts and uncles, so they were all named after them, but the filmmakers decided to change their names. I don't really understand that. My buddy Mike said it might have been because they didn't want them to have overly Jewish names. I don't know. Moishe IS a very Jewish name, haha.

Sendak name: Moishe
Movie name: Carol

The most recognizable wild thing. I love how in the film each wild thing kind of represents a part of Max's personality. Carol was definitely his childish "wild" side that Max connects with the best. He just wants to have fun but gets mad when he doesn't understand too many "grown up" things.

Sendak name: Bernard
Movie name: The Bull

Even though he's also one of the most recognizable wild things (and on the cover of the damn book), they made him the least acknowledged one in the film, they don't even say his name. He does have one line at then end of the movie but I'm still not sure why they made this one like that. It could be that he represents Max's new hope that he discovers towards the end of the film as he asks Max "Will you say good things about us?", which was laying dormant earlier hence The Bull being silent and ignored.

Sendak name: Emil
Movie name: Douglas

I loved how there was just a giant chicken among the wild things bunch. Gave it some variety, haha. Douglas must be Max's reasonable side.

Sendak name: Tzippy
Movie name: KW

This one would not be as interesting as she was if she didn't have the duck feet. KW kind of represented the side of Max that ran away, but also she represents what his Mother taught him or maybe even his Mother herself.

Sendak name: Bruno
Movie name: Cy (cut from movie)

This guy was considered to be put into the movie but replaced with Ira, I think. They look kind of similar even though Bruno is in more pages of the book. He's also in a bunch of wild things merchandise for the book. He's kinda nasty lookin, who knows what side of Max he would of represented.

And lastly is a tiny water color dribble of Carol/Moishe.

Also all the above drawings were done with prisma color markers and colored pencil on fancy brown textured recycled paper.

I plan on drawing more wild things but I need a new brown paper sketch book first. Until then...BE STILL!

-Z

Hey, Sloppy Milkshakes!

2010-03-04T17:40:00.000-08:00

Yea, you already know what time it is.

My entry for the Autumn Society's Adventure Time Tribute!

I missed the deadline for this to be put into the special Adventure Time gallery but they are planning on either making posters or putting all the entries in a tribute book. Ain't that cool?!

Cartoon Network made a very wise chose picking up this toon. If the pilot alone can blow you away, then that pilot deserves a show, and thats the case with Adventure Time.

I can't wait for the show. It comes out around my birthday!!!!

Now, I think we're ok to just...talk about our feelings...

PS: See if you can spot Abe Lincoln :]

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Also I know I haven't been posting anything lately, I've been way busy with school work. I'm lucky I banged this out in such a short amount of time. But don't expect any posts in the next week. Tara's coming to visit for spring break.

Ta ta!

-Zach

Etsy Beasts and Animation Devils

2010-02-18T05:25:00.000-08:00

So this is one of the first assignments for my Animation class. I had trouble converting the file so it was not seen until now, haha.

We had to have two characters exchange an item or two among each other. I wanted to do something with a devil haha. The Fatty is trying to eat healthier but the Devil temps him with a random box of free candy!

Hilarity ensues.

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And I have added some new additions to my ETSY SHOP!

All are original pieces done with markers and all are affordable!

One Slippery Bastard

One Gremlin SOLD

One Professor Ratigan SOLD

So can ya help a brother out? I'm kinda broke at the moment. I'll probably most more stuff up there soon.

Thanks for lookin'!
-Z

Crocodile Central with Animation!

2010-02-14T13:25:00.000-08:00

A double awesome post!

So last night, I did this piece on livestream and it was totally awesome. I got a nice small viewing group of cool people who chatted it up and watched me color, played some groovy tunes and my brother even came in and annoyed the piss outta me. And it was all in 7 hours! Haha!

I'm really pleased with how the colors came out. Voodoo Croc's always kidnapping Jillyan and trying to cook her or something. She always gets away though. Bondage...yea...cough...

For anyone who doesn't know what livestreaming is, its a website where you can record your screen and people can watch you do art live, as long as its digital. Its way cool and I'm totally gonna do it again.

Check it out.

This was another assignment for my Animation Workshop class. For most people in the class it was supposed to be their first stab at doing lip sync, but I had already done it plenty of times so I decided to challenger myself.

I thought of my crocodile character and how I always wanted him to be voiced by Tom Waits, so that's what I did. The snout was really tricky, and I still don't think I got it 100 % but I'm really pleased with the results.

Boy I love crocodiles...

More animations next week!

-Z

Doggone That Brer Rabbit!

2010-02-08T08:26:00.000-08:00

I don't know why I suddenly became interested in Disney's 1946 feature Song of the South.

It could be because Disney has never released the film on any Home Video format due to potential racist controversies and is widely sought after. Or could be my interest in southern traditions and classic folklore. Or could be that the animation and characters of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear are so strong that they just appeal to me. Well whatever it is, I digs it.

I did a lot of experimenting on this piece, I tried to make a creative composition with the characters where your eye would led around the picture and not away from it. And I've been wanting to try doing some backgrounds too. Not so proud of that though, looks too much like a little Golden Book or something, even though I used that as a bit of inspiration, but not completely my own yet.

I was also planning on adding this Uncle Remus, but he didn't fit into the composition and it ended up looking better without him. Sorry Uncle Remus...I hope you don't mind.

And if anyone's interested, you should go sign this ONLINE PETITION to try to get the movie released to DVD.

Thanks for lookin! I'll have some sketches and animations up real soon.

Well, so long...

-jumps back in brier patch-

How Ya Come Off?

2010-02-03T18:20:00.001-08:00

So I wanted to post some animations but I still need to convert the files. Blaaah. So here's some sketches. I don't really like posting em but I'm trying to keep this blog frequent.

Here's the Devil guy from one of the animations I wanted to post. He needs a name.

And here's a sea monster character I've been drawing a lot lately who also needs a name.

Some Song of the South doodles.

"Doggone, that Brer Rabbit is shooo' a caution! He sho' eez!"

I don't know why I suddenly got into this movie so much. Its just appealing to me.

I love Brer Fox.

It's too bad Disney hasn't released it due to racism.

And lastly here's an opposum trying to hit on some honey 'possums. I've been sketching a lot with thin pens and I gotta say, its really invigorating for some reason. More of those soon to come and I promise next post will have animations.

And if you will all direct your attention to thee right of my blog layout, you will see a plethora of lovely link buttons for good friends and awesome artists.

Thank you and goodnight.

-throws hat into crowd of stuffed animals-

Xmas Post 3 plus Other Stuff

2010-01-27T16:35:00.000-08:00

Kickin off 2010 with a ZIPPA-DEE-DOO-DAH!
Alrighty, this is the last of my Late Xmas posts. But first I'll start off with some art!

This is Sheena and she's a hipster chick. This was drawn actually last year around April or May, and started coloring it but I never finished because I was getting more into traditional coloring. But I found it in my folder and realized it wasn't TOO outdated so I finished it.

2010 means its time to do a new ID picture of me. This one was fun. Just me doin what I do best...

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Now onto the gifts I got for Xmas!

A trading card of me as Max from Dekay!

Sweet ass drawing of Tara and me from Emma! She also sent me some comics, markers and amazing Swedish chocolate.

Gifts from Kali (left) and Nico (right) that I got framed and are up on me wall!

Aside from the awesome plushie Tara made me, she also got me these
two Taxidermy Piranha fish to add to my ever growing Taxidermy collection. And lookie, one is meee and one is Tara hehe.

I gotta take some pics of my taxidermy collection sometime... you can kinda see my baby gator in the bg.

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And now some phun photos!

Tara on her 21st bday with my dog Talula.

We went to the Tim Burton MoMa show in NYC, which was so amazing. We couldn't take pics inside the actual exhibit which sucks cuz there was some pretty sick stuff in there. They even had stuff Burton did in high school. No so sick, actually, haha.

Tara raking in the tix at Dave and Busters arcade fun place thing.

We also went to the Aquarium. This is a huge ass Japanese spider crab.

And they had a petting zoo! Well...sting rays and stuff.

I had a great Christmas, I usually do, but it was just even better this year since Tara was with me once again.

Oh and I made an Etsy shop!

I'm currently selling two original pieces, if anyone's interested.

Thanks to everyone for checking out my blog!
Next post I'll have some aaaaanimaaaaationssss uuuup!
Whoo!

Late Xmas Humbug Post 2

2010-01-20T17:47:00.000-08:00

Part two of my late holiday post. More Gifts for friends! Mostly friends I've know for quite some time now. Lets get started, shall we?

Randy the last dodo watching the last snow flake. He's supposed to be a bit more chubby but I kinda made him too skinny. For Mike Ruocco.

Das Moustache! The roughest, toughest squid pounder in the history of...well...squid pounding!
For Mike Luckas. I know too many Mikes...

Don Monkey Suit telling you to shove it. For Chris.

The blue haired, demon horned, striped panted, Godzilla plated, questionably British Dekay!

And finally, straight from the grave comes Bonz. For Emma, who lives in Sweden by the way. Yea I know someone from Sweden. Wanna fight about it?

Next post, I'll highlight some gifts I got, mostly from friends and then I'll share some photos from when Tara was here.

Stay classy, blog peoples!

Late Xmas Humbug Post 1

2010-01-13T13:30:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year, Y'alls! Man, Christmas is over already and its 2010. Time is fleeting. Kinda been putting off making a post since Tara was here and cuz I have so much stuff to post. So I'm gonna make about 3 posts and here's the first one!

My mom wanted a Xmas card this year that had something to do with a rhino who had a lit up horn. So I drew my characters Watley the Rhino and Chapman the beaver.

Here's the first drawing of Watley that my parents didn't like. They thought his hands were kinda confusing.

And look what Tara made for meee!!! A custom plushie of my character Ratch!
I was so surprised to get him. Ain't my girl talented, eh? Go check her blog for more pics of this guy.

Onto the Gift Giving!

Buttface for Gabe.

Mewsli and Pinwheel for Becky and Frank. I'm kinda not too good at drawing cute things, haha...

Diseasoid doing some "Trick or MEATING"(haha!) for Luke.

Yark the Cave Stupids chick for Katie.

Kimbo battling some rancid incantations from his Spellbook. For Mister Ricky.

A collaboration between Tara and I for the ever so amazing Kali and Nico! And look there's ever a Jiji and Dumb Dumb Duck in there! Golly!

And lastly...

Theres...SOMETHING...something on the wing! Drawn while watching the Twilight Zone marathon on New Years Eve. Tara don't like him much.

Alrighty, next post will be some more gift art for friends and some gift's that I got. And after that probably some photos. I dunno, you'll see.

-Zach

Cookies for Santa...

2009-12-24T20:52:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas!

Xmas art coming soon!

Have a great holiday, all yous guys!

-Z

Fruit Bat Animation

2009-12-11T23:39:00.000-08:00

I said I'd post animation, didn't I?

Well this right here is an assignment for my Animation Workshop class at SVA. We has to have a character start off with one emotion and then end with a completely different one. I had a silly idea to do a fruit bat with a gigantic apple. Its animated entirely in Flash CS3.

My teacher said I'd be a good layout artist.

And just for fun, here's some early drawings of the bat (he doesn't have a name yet). I simplified him a bit for the animation, but I do like this detailed version, especially his bow tie.

Also if you to go my Youtube channel you can see a hi-larious video of my cat in a box. I don't want to post it up here because I want the animation to get all the attention, haha.

I have one other animation I want to post but I'm gonna wait a bit, I might want to clean that one up some more.

More postings to come!

Full of Turkey and Spewing Stuffing

2009-12-08T15:33:00.001-08:00

Back from my 2 week Thanksgiving leave. Ahhhh...and 2 more weeks till the next vacation.
Ok, cut the chit chat, here's some pics.

My new favorite thing is free drawing in my humanities classes. Ratch likes it too.
This one is just begging me to be colored.

Some Jillyans...her torso is too long.

Been on a Betty Boop kick kinda. Oh, Koko...

I took Tara to my school when Henry Selick (Coraline director) was doing a special Q/A session. We saw him at Comic Con for like not even 5 seconds but this time we got to meet with him for a bit and oh yea he ever took us for breakfast the next day. YEA. That's right.

It was so cool, just talking about animation while the director of my favorite stop motion movies sat across from me eating oatmeal. He had already seen Tara's work so I showed him mine and he said all my art was very "sickly". He was an awesome guy, gave us a lot of good tips and even an insight to his next animated project. Hopefully one day he'll hire me to get his coffee!

We also had a Post-Halloween party just for fun. I carved our left over pumpkin. My hands smelled like jack-0-stink.

I wanna try to update a bit more before my Xmas vacation hits, but it'll be very hard since all my school assignments are snapping at my ass like hungry gay alligators. I do have some animations to finally unleash.

Until next post, here's my weird overweight cat sitting on Spongebob.

Is it a metaphor? Who knows?

Lovin's in the Black Lagoon

2009-11-17T22:44:00.001-08:00

Ok, ok, ok, one more post.

This is a little Halloween pic I did for Tara and sent to her with a bunch of candy and goodies.
It's also the invite for our post Halloween leftovers party this weekend. Its gonna be spooktastical!

Probably won't update for a while in the next 2 weeks, but who knows? Maybe I will.

Have a good gobble gobble, everyone!

-Zach

More Inking Practice Doodles

2009-11-14T15:10:00.000-08:00

I did these during my boring classes!

The fat, drunken, bumbling Voodoo Croc...

Jillyan age 9, for some reason. Also my scanner is really bad.

These are designs for a devil character for a short animation assignment. I figured he should have a saw for a nose so he can saw open portals from Hell to the mortal world. Fun!

Ok, I gotta get back to cleaning my house, a very special someone is coming over next week and its gotta be nice and tidy and cat hair free, hehehe.

Later
-Zach