New Joker art inspired by Lee Bermejo

Last December i did a picture that comic artist Lee Bermejo created. I did it in black and white, and in a bit of my own style. Now i have done a new one of it, and with this one added much more of my own style into it; below is a close up of the Joker's face as well as his victim's. It is about 13 inches tall by 13 wide.

III Thinker: more tees

Here is two new III Thinker tees both are XL but they shrink a little so perfect for anyone who wears L

Both have a ``thinker`` tagged on the right hand sleeve. This one is in black and the other in red.

The second tee, ``with such a smile how could you resist``

                                      Same as before the price for each of these is $25 each

Red ``Thinker`` tag

III Thinker - First of many

Here are two of my latest designs, first of many too come. These two unique t shirts are for sale. 
size is XL, 100% cotton.
Each is hand-painted by Maximillian Ackerson using professional textile ink

                         

Black thinker head

My company name is III Thinker, pronounced "Free- Thinker".

III Thinker represents absolute mental and visual free-thinking

be yourself, be unique

no two are the same each is individually hand painted

cold water wash

Absolute color-fast this ink will not wash out

White thinker head

-White Thinker Head: $25
-Black Thinker Head: $25

More to come soon, keep an eye out!    

Birds of a feather..

                          A crow feather i drew on a piece of card stock in black ink about 3"x 8"

Motherly Love

The red fox is the largest member of the "true foxes" and is the most geographically spread member of carnivora. It is listed among the worlds 100 most invasive species since it is so easy for it to adapt to a new home. It doesn't mean to be a invasive species but it ends up being one because of its natural instincts, feeding and making a family feeding pups until they are of the age that they can then move on and produce their own pups.

The red fox is a very social animal and is a passive animal in most cases people do not fear foxes unless they are a crops farmer. Foxes are omnivores and farmers have had to shoot them because they are feeding on berries or other sweet natural tasting crops.

The Conte Crow

The common crow is more than smart; ravens and crows in the past have shown the ability to communicate with people answering vocally by mimicking language or by other means, tapping with their beaks a number of times meaning one answer or another.

Crows have been seen dropping nuts on busy roads letting cars break them open and then retrieving the nut from the road when the coast is clear.

Also some are known for using bread crumbs (that they would normally eat) to lure fish to the surface of the water and then catching the fish itself proving a much larger meal then a bread crumb.

"If your born lucky even your rooster will lay eggs"

Each rooster is his own, with its own personality and behavior. some are kind and can be just as a loyal friend as your dog and others can seem as voracious as a lion at times. here is a couple shots from a 8"x8" conte picture of a rooster i did.

The Laughing Dog

Here is a pretty quick picture i did when i first got into using conte and pastels, it was done from a small 4"x4" photo. The brilliance of color in  the photo was the key point that inspired me to produce this piece; it is about 12"x12" big .

Conte Basenji

literally just finished this one, it's done in grey and black conte on brown paper. The basenji is a very unique dog instead of barking it produces a more high pitched yodeling sound. we have a dog here at home that is half basenji she is very active and is always looking for a little critter to chase after. love these dogs!

spring hare

This is a new one for me, I've been trying my hand at conte and charcoal lately and have been having lots of fun with it; I never got into using these materials before thinking I couldn't do it but all it takes is a little time and patience, enjoy!

            

close up of the eye

Tattooing - a career path?

 Just recently a friend and I decided to order a tattoo gun kit, which comes with all the necessary items and materials to tattoo with, so we pooled together some money and put our order in.

The kit came with 4  cast iron tattoo machines (guns). The cast iron makes them a bit harder to overheat, even though it makes them a little bit heavier then other lightweight machines you can acquire ; but weight preference is different with everyone, i do not mind or really notice the extra weight of the cast iron. We both have 2 each, i have one setup for doing lining, and the other is set to do shading.

 The case the kit came in is shown above; also, sitting within the case is the amp, cord and pedal, a box of metal sterilized needles, practice skin pads, black non latex gloves, and it also came with 40 1/4 OZ bottles of ink.

 The 40 bottles of ink just taken out of the package, all different colors.

 Above-my first tattoo on real skin! i used a piece of pig-skin to practice on, since it is the closest type of skin to humans. this is just the out-line of it.

This picture was taken just as i finished shading it; practicing on the pig-skin was so much better than using the fake-skin that the kit came with since the pig skin reacts just like human skin would.

More tats to come soon!

Black and white portrait in pencil

 

 

 

 

 I was asked to do this portrait by a friend for their parents. This took about 6 hours to complete, and maybe a little longer since i also did a quick practice one before i attempted doing the finished piece; just so i knew i would get their faces right. This was good practice for myself; hope you enjoy.

New Beginning- The Joker

Inspired by comic and graphic novel illustrator Lee Bermejo, here is the drawing of the Joker i did as a practice for myself; this first photo is about 3 quarters of the way done.

A close up of the Jokers evil grin and his victims forced smile.

Me adding some of the finishing touches to the sketch.

The finished project. I did the whole sketch in graphite first and then began to go over it in ink using micron pens; the graphite allows me to add a large range of light to dark shadows and the pens were good to use for the darkest of the shadows. The whole sketch took about 10-12 hours in all to complete.