B-Squared

fyeahfallout:

Fallout Brown by Theamat

IP Crossovers. I don’t care too much for them.

But sometimes? They work beautifully.

brentonbarnesart:

Christmas Bunnies (BBI Christmas Card)

2012

Ink and Digital

I figured I’d re-post this because I happen to like this illustration (as do the many recipients of this card) but it also has an unusual tale behind it.

I’ve been trying to post this since the beginning of the New Year to maintain my audience and to be a better blogger but two things have kept me from doing so.
The first being life (work, art, life with my fiancee, etc.) and the other being Tumblr itself.

For some strange reason, whenever I tried to upload it I kept getting an error message stating it couldn’t be uploaded. I thought it was an issue with the size of the file, so I dropped it down but the error message popped up again.

Over the course of several days, I kept trying but the message kept showing up like a bad infestation of insects that you thought were successfully exterminated. I began to wonder what could be causing this and then I came to a sudden, horrifying realization…

This illustration was simply too cute for Tumblr.

Out of all the cute things posted here daily, this is the event horizon for its servers. It will see nothing cuter for the next millennium and the next cutest thing will pale in comparison. It doesn’t get better than this.

Or if you prefer Occam’s Razor or “Something Less Silly” for your solutions: Clearly there was something wrong with the uploading process and the only solution was to link the image from my illustration Facebook fan page.

What do you guys think?

If you know me, you should know that I’m a fan of Boston’s infamous comedian/musician/director Rob Potylo and his long running and entertaining internet anti-thesis of reality television, Quiet Desperation. If you aren’t sure who that is, here’s a quick rundown for you:

Rob Potylo has worked in Boston as a comedian/musician/director/creative type for nearly a decade starting off as Robby Roadsteamer, a spoof of Bruce Springsteen on steroids hard rocker that toured with , eventually finding himself on radio at WBCN with Rob “Hardy” Poole and became a big hit with listeners and remained so after he dropped the act but was ultimately pulled from the station for doing so.

Since then he’s been doing his best to stay creatively active, released fifteen albums independently (three of which I helped design the artwork for) while working on developing Quiet Desperation for the internet and beyond (it found it’s way onto MyTV in New England to begin an initiative featuring local programming and ran for six months during 2011, until the channel was bought off and cancelled by new management) all while helping comedians, musical acts and other creative types reach a wider audience at large beyond their own followers and endeavors at promotion.

Quiet Desperation had it’s season three finale awhile back and Rob wants to continue working on it but lacks the funds to make it happen. He recently began a Kickstarter a few weeks back to help fund the show’s fourth season to help give the show a budget and to open up the possibilities of getting back on TV as a full thirty-minute program to entertain people and give us a big does of reality that “reality” programs choose to ignore instead of shorter episodes with tons of cut content on YouTube.

Rob isn’t asking for much with his Kickstarter. A mere $2,000 will help fund its filming and help shop it out to various channels on television and possibly video programming alternatives but he deserves so much more than just reaching the goal.

Since beginning about four years ago, the show has shifted it’s tone and concept beyond a situational reality comedy and has become a surrealist reality comedy about the struggle to be creative in an overbearing society while inserting himself into places you’d least expect him to go, like the scene outside the Democratic National Convention and the clean-up effort in New Jersey post-Hurricane Sandy while the news media has decided to look elsewhere. All while on a budget of NEXT TO NOTHING.

If Quiet Desperation reaches it’s goal, they can do so much more on a budget and if what’s been done with the third season is any indication of what the fourth season could bring to the table, it’s easily going to be the best.

If you’d like to learn more, please check out the Kickstarter via the header link and see what he has to say for himself, watch some of the episodes of Quiet Desperation and if you like it help it out by giving some money their way!

Please share this with your followers and get the word out if you’d like to help.

Hey everybody, just recently I was hired on Freelanced by aspiring author Matthew Robinson to work as a letterer on his dream graphic novel project “Off The Leash”, a neo-noir crime story akin to Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s Blacksad.

I’m really enjoying working on this project and it’s been great to discover that I’m a solid letterer while having an eye for text placement to add drama and help the story flow better but it’s a project that needs a little bit of help right now.

Right now, Matthew is currently paying for his artist, Preston Asevedo’s, and my efforts out of pocket to make the first issue a reality but he intends to self publish it as well. If anyone is familiar with self-publishing or has looked into it, it costs a great deal of money and takes up a good chunk of time to do successfully.

By now, everyone has heard of Kickstarter and contributed money to it to help fund films, video games, web series, comics, novels and other projects and the system works when it’s given to trustworthy creators who know how to show their work.

Matthew started a Kickstarter back in December for Off The Leash to help pay us and to handle the marketing, printing and publishing of the first issue alone and build a fan base to continue producing the first volume of the series, which revolves around hunting down a cop killer and bringing him to justice.

I’ve read the script front to back, while making notes and highlights about what fonts to use, sound effects and little editing bits and it’s a good start to a story that could literally go anywhere and surprise us! I want to keep working on this with Matthew and Preston but it can’t be done without your help!

Please check out the Kickstarter link and look at what’s been done so far and if you like it, throw some money our way and take advantage of the rewards they’re giving out. As of writing, sponsors have raised $1,582 out of $6,000 dollars and there’s only sixteen days left to meet our goal to fund the publishing of the first issue.

We’ve got a ways to go but I know that we can do it. Please share this with your followers if they enjoy graphic novels and have been looking for something different and help get the word out there!

radioactivegumdrops:

He was made of snow but the Courier knows
How he kicked some ass one day

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postmodernismruinedme:

elitheartist:

Mufasa and Rafiki have a shipping war.

Mufasa and Rafiki have a shipping war.

Since I’m not really a part of any fandoms (though that might be debatable depending on who your ask) the concept of “shipping” is more or less lost on me even though I’ve known about it since I was a kid.

It’s probably because I just don’t care what anyone other than the author thinks is correct when it comes to characters hooking up, maybe I just have a lack of imagination (I sincerely doubt that though) or maybe I just don’t get caught up in fiction as much as other people do (Coming from the guy who cried at the end of Stephen King’s Cell and been moved by other books and been emotionally caught up over games like Fallout 3, New Vegas and Tell Tale’s Walking Dead series)… I just don’t really see the point!

Regardless of my thoughts on the subject, I do find this out of context Lion King GIF set to be a little too entertaining for my own good…

Related: Persona 4: Protagonist + Chie = One True Teenage Love, New Vegas: Boone + My Courier = Best Friends Who Kill Together Forever.

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loganfaerber:

Earlier this month I designed a Mass Effect themed screen-print poster for Bioware. I wasn’t allowed to reveal any details until… now! After several concepts for poster ideas, they decided to go with a simple portrait of the character Garrus, who just so happens to be my favorite character from the series. They will be printing a limited batch, which will all be hand signed by me personally.

To preorder your copy today, please just go to Bioware’s shop: http://biowarestore.com/art/screenprints/garrus-screenprint-poster.html

When it comes to working with texture, I don’t tend to employ a great deal of “organic” texture because I have a tendency to over do it and it absolutely ruins the piece when simple line work was more than enough.

But when I see stuff like Logan Faerber’s work here, it’s inspiring enough to learn from my past mistakes, learn from others and keep on trying until I find something that works. Like in everything that’s going on in this piece!

It’s a little too late to wish everyone a happy Halloween but better late than never with this charming bear.

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brentonbarnesart:

I made a small update to my art portfolio tumblr with my most recent pieces, commissioned by Mass EDMC, “It’s Not Grey At All…” and a poster created from the artwork for their upcoming Fantazia 360 dance concert tour!

Jobs like this make me wish I could find more music or gig poster jobs, I had a lot of fun working on both of these. 

Last week I got featured on Boston Thought, an e-zine that looks to showcase talented New England artists and connect them with one another, and they wrote a nice little write up and featured some of my best pieces from 2011 and 2012.

During the same week, David Eisenberg from BostonInno found my piece “C.H.U.B.S” here on Tumblr and asked if he could feature as an article in BostonInno’s Lifestyle section.

I told him that is was fine and that this piece was being featured in the upcoming Everything That Creeps exhibition at the Lincoln Arts Project in Waltham, Massachusetts and ended up getting an interviewed about my work, my experiences as an artist and my own fascination with horror/black humor present in my work!

The link is an extremely concise, abridged and very funny version of the interview that explains what “C.H.U.B.S” is all about and has links to a selected gallery of what “Everything That Creeps” has to offer. Check it out!