ok ok... here we go,

I spent 3 hours thismorning, Drawing... Because I love to.

Check out my We Art The Night, inspired art.

The whole time I was drawing this, I was listeing to pure W.A.T.N on my headphones.

It turned out very "my style" yet very "chemical covers" style.

http://img2.freeimag.../63f73d4977.jpg

HUGE RESOLUTION FOR YOU DETAIL BUFFS.

:) Feedback is always nice.

Peace,

ENDERS

nice picture, looks like it would be good for the cover of some kind of book. Maybe a chemical book?

Looks really good, dude. Something between Björks Best Of cover style, Salvador Dali and Edward Munch's "The Scream". I like it.

You should see my living room.

6x4 foot 3-D chems mural over my couch.

Take a photo, 'stash!

I'm sure whirly's posted it before.

She's got one, I'll have her post the link.

Here ya go Csar and Enders, here's the little project I mentioned earlier that got me that signed poster print:

http://smg.photobuck...=chemsboard.jpg

BTW, nice work Enders. Your picture does have a very Dali-esque feel. Are you going to school for art?

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHhhhh!!!! That looks damn great!!! Man, i bought a vinyl copy of Star Guitar just do get my hands on that lovely picture of that two-faced women and you got it that large???????? Looks legendery!

How've you done this?

Thanks Csar! :) I am really proud of it!

A little background: When I worked for Tower Records, I was head of the art department for my store (back when they had an art department, anyway) so I had my own office/studio to work out of. It was great, like my own playground! It was such a great job, I loved it so much... It was more production art than anything else. My main job for the store was to create signage, but when I got to do wallboards like the Chems one, that was like a reward.

The mediums I primarily worked with were foamcore (because it was durable and fairly light and quite versatile), paint, and exacto knives... lots and lots of exacto blades. :lol:

When it came down to me doing a Chems wallboard for Come With Us, I wanted to do something really layered - mainly because I know that Kate Gibb's artwork is done using lots of layers so I wanted to sort of pay justice to that. The art was going to be hanging in the back of the store so I wanted to use a eye popping strong image you could see from all over. But the Come With Us album cover wouldn't have worked because I couldn't have used much layering foamcore-wise, and the dimensions I had to work with just... wouldn't work. So I chose the Star Guitar art instead.

What I did was pretty much a straight copy. It's sort of cheating, to be honest (but yes, I can actually draw and have skill, hehe). I used an overhead projector and made a clear copy of the image and projected it onto the wall of my studio. For the dual heads in the image, I traced out one side of the head onto the red foamcore, cut it out - then used the cut out to trace the other half of the face so everything would be symmetrical.

I affixed the dual heads onto the backing (the large while sheet of foamcore), then I made a star shaped stamp, dipped it in black paint and stamped stars onto the image. I was going to cut out black stars but my time was limited.

The real pain in the ass was making all the white and gray stars. I cut out one foamcore star and used that as a template and traced out the other stars on to the gray and white foam core. I lost count of all the stars I had to cut out. I was seeing fucking stars every time I closed my eyes. I did a dry run and posed each star on to the wallboard before I affixed them to the image. To affix them to the image, I used a lot of thick quarter inch double sided tape. To make the stars "pop", I layered up the double sided tape. It was truly a pain in the ass! :lol: Doing the lettering was easy - that was all projected, too. I worked for about 3 days straight, including my lunches and off the clock to get it done. I cut myself with the exacto knife more times than I could count. So literally blood sweat and tears were spilled on that fricken thing. My boss was so great, he knew how into this project I was so he let me work and didn't say a word about the rest of my projects that were piling up and unattended.

The greatest thing was that wallboard hung in my store for well over a year, because by that time everything was moving corporate and our wallboards were coming in from corporate - these big nasty mass produced posters on steroids - so it was nice to have something of my own hanging up on display. When it was time to take it down, that was interesting. Getting it home was one of the most nervewracking things ever!

Wow - I sort of went off there!!

Nice work Enders!!! I like it!!! If you can choose a Chemical Brothers song for that, what would it be?

I might start to put up more chibi pics of the Chemical Brothers. But anyway I like it!!! Keep up the good work!!! :)

To Makeskidskill and Whirly: Your so lucky!!! T_T

Everything I draw is influenced by chemicals... Errr, the chemicals, I mean. Nevermind.

Self-portrait: http://a717.ac-image...244878716_l.jpg

whirly, that's a beautiful piece of work, there. Congrats.

Once again mia. Looks fantastic, really. One can see the effort you've put into it.

That's great Enders!

And Whirly, that is just STUNNING (love it!)

I'm really glad you guys like it.

That big thing over the couch you guys have been talking about is fantastic, totally amazing by all means.

Now.. what song would I put my drawing with?? hmm I'd have to say... Either Burst Generator, or Modern Midnight Conversation. I listened to the whole album like 4 times over while I was drawing that pic.

I will be sure to draw some more to show you guys.

Most of my art is Chemical Brothers inspired..

I'm gonna have to scoop all my art off my MySpace and put it somewere better than Deviant art... So you can all see my portfolio.

Thanks for the feedback, you guys pwn.

~ENDERS

I've always loved the story about the star guitar wallboard

whoa that is amazing! hey is that you (stash) in the corner?

That was me. I wsa trying to play Rainbow 6, but whirly was standing in front of the TV.

lol :D