Working on a large piece for a show in March.
I’ve set up a mailing list to let people know about my upcoming shows. My old list was done by hand and was missing people and is going away. You can sign up for the new list here: chrisbishop.com/subscribe
Working on a very skinny, tall canvas. Awesomely massive amount of empty space.
My latest threadless submission was originally done for fray magazine issue #1 but looked like one Hell of a t-shirt…
Go over and vote for it now!
A quickie illustration for a friend’s xmas party invitation. This is actually just for the “save the date” invitation but likely will become part of the final invitation.
Worked on this until 2:45am. Watched (more like listened to) A Mighty Wind twice. The second time was with director commentary.
I think this would make a decent print…
Upcoming painting. Possibly a print. Did the sketch at 3:30am in a fit of inspiration!
Stay tuned. I have a sketch and the materials for a 6′ x 4′ painting. Yikes!
Meeting sketch turned real!
My latest threadless submission is a collaboration with Mandy of B3S. Go vote now!
Finished just in time for Art in Heat…
Illustration for Jelly of the Month. This month’s theme is Star Wars. Jelly of the Month is an art blog started by two amazing artist I’ve known since 3rd and 4th grade, Mike Borkowski & Mike Atiyeh. Even in grade school they were great artists!
I think I want to tweak the eye to make it more like the sketch…
With necklace and (placeholder) tattoo…
Messing around. Possible t-shirt and sticker design….
Sketch for my next pretty girl painting. I am leaning towards the hair on the left…
Did this for fun. Some guy on yayhooray asked for banners for his site and I thought ‘ah what the heck’…
Robot Town is a new strip I am working on to submit for syndication.
Here are the first 10 strips. Some of these may be cut if I think of funnier ones. My goal is 24 black and white dailies.
Robot Town is a new strip I am working on to submit for syndication.
Had a little trouble getting the arms right. Decided to go with thick outlines.
Nearly final characters! I want way more contrast on the black and white versions.
Yes! I feel very good about these. They look great in print. The outline around the open mouth felt over-worked so I got rid of it.
Robot Town is a new strip I am working on to submit for syndication.
This is my first sketch of the two main characters - a boy robot and his grandfather. In the second sketch, I’ve simplied the grandfather’s eye and given the boy a baseball cap.
Playing around in Illustrator and I don’t really like the curved body of the grandfather. I do like having the character’s hats pop up when they talk.
I’ve straightened out the grandfather and given the boy a jellybean shape. I experimented a bit with adding some kind of tank with valves to the grandfather but it wasn’t working. On the right, is a new little girl robot character.
I didn’t like cutting the characters off at the waist - I think it makes them harder to read as robots. I gave the grandfather legs and the boy wheels.
A work in progress for this year’s I am 8-bit show in LA. The theme is old school video games. This piece is Fantasy Zone from Sega Master System. One of my old favorites. That little guy is Opa-Opa. He’s hitting up the weapons shop before he battles the leaf-spewing, wooden level 1 boss. Laser Beam FTW!
From October 2006, a profile of me and my Pretty Girls and Robots series of paintings from the Washington City Paper.
Pitchers at an Exhibition scanned at flickr.com
Pitchers at an Exhibition online at washingtoncitypaper.com
Working away on my Merman for Save by Art’s MOTU: He-man She-ra Silent Art Auction & Exhibit in Toronto at the end of the month.
On flickr, I’ve been documenting painting a pretty girl step by step. After about a month of video games and drinking, I’ve started this one up again. At this point, I’ve applied the first coat of blue and tan acrylic. It’s pretty thin and I always do at least 2 coats of each color. Sometimes more.
