B-Rod's thought process - Macabre, Comedic, Sexy

The magic behind Jimmy Hopkins; Munny Style

2008-03-02T13:56:00.000-08:00

So I figured I'd post all of the production photos taken during the larger checkpoints throughout my journey creating Jimmy Hopkins. Check it out!

Step 1: PREPARE WORKPLACE AND DISMEMBER LITTLE MUNNY FRIEND. :D
STEP 2: I painted Jimmy's terribly prepubescent skin on his fat head and stubby arms.

STEP 3: I viewed the artist's original concept art and penciled on the facial features in full chibi Munny style.
STEP 4: I painted Jimmy's wonderfully ugly face on!Step 5: Not actually a step! Just a close-up on his hideous boy features! How wondrous!
Step 6: I sculpted on the more detailed body work of Jimmy; his collar, Bullworth Academy Vest, white undershirt and added little sneakers for height!
Step 7: Then I cooked (boiled) the bitch to perfection!Step 8: Once the sculpey and vinyl hardened completely after the hot bath I painted on the base colors of Jimmy's body.

Step 9: And then the details, painted on once his base coat was dried.

Step 10: I figured while I waited for the detail to dry I'd sculpt, boil and paint a little accessory that fits perfectly with Jimmy's character. Here is his famous slingshot, fashioned with working rubber band puller!
Step 11: Last but not least the varnish gloss was applied to all pieces separately to add that nice shiny finish, helping to preserve the color and lifespan of the paint! I also added Jimmy's Bullworth Academy emblem to his sweater vest and cemented it on with more varnish!

Step 12: Put all the pieces together after about 2 days of allowing the varnish to set and there you have it. Jimmy Hopkins is ready to abuse prefects, sexually harass female classmates, beat up the student body and ...well... kiss boys or whatever...

I'm looking into the production of my own custom vinyl toys but until then I think I'll stick with Munnys. I already have my next character planned out but I will not spoil the surprise for you! I'll keep ya posted.

So here's the deal...

2007-10-04T22:42:00.000-07:00

I am way too busy working to be blogging my life. I also feel like blogs are for people who think other's care about what they do in their daily lives. So to make my life easier and to not waste your precious time, I will only be using this blog to update on any giant happenings in my life and to summarize large art updates that are either coming or have been added.

Sound good folks? Great.

Love you.

Visit the shop.

I've been lazy...

2007-09-15T19:15:00.001-07:00

So here's an update.

I've started my online shop that will have designer graphic tee's featuring my very own artwork! Finally! :O Also Tamara is givin me props on her super awesome website also!

Check out the first edition to the line of clothes! I was wearin it yesterday actually! Feelin groovy.

I will be updating the site shortly people, with a completely integrated apparel store! WooT!

Turning 20, and all that jazz

2007-08-13T20:19:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! Tomorrows mah birfdays, and I gets to work! :D

Today my super cool awesome monkey friend Tamara gave me a sweet gift.
It's the new edition of the Gorillaz's Noodle vinyl figure!
Awesome new cubicle candy.
She's rawr-some.

Also today I ate a deep fried Mars bar from A-Salt and Battery which just adds to the strange things I've consumed at work already..
It looked like poo and tasted like jesus' finest poo!
..last week I also ate emu and crocodile jerky! It was tasty and gave me worms! :D
So anywho. I have too many games to look forward to that are coming up and not enough time in my life to play it. By the time I get a long period off of work I'm sure I will ave accumulated a large pile of unwrapped games waiting for me to explore. Thats stressful. I never liked buying a game until I finished the one I was currently on. It's an OCD sorta thing. It freaks me out. Like leaving the fridge door open and walking away, theres this strange uneasiness I get. I'm a dirty freak.
As of right now I've pre-ordered;

-Rune Factory
-Blue Dragon
-Bioshock
-Super Mario Galaxy
-Super Smash Bros Brawl

And I'm sure Eternal Sonata will be next and when I get my new PC hopefully sometime in the near future I can get back to AOE and pick up the 2 new expansions they are releasing that make my pants wet. I'm an RTS fool.
I am also becoming more and more interested in buying a PS3 as MGS and Little Big Planet continue to wreck havoc on my brain, tearing at my obsession with MGS and pointless little sim games that have unlimited replay value. (Animal Crossing, Sims2, Harvest Moon -no seriously I'm obsessive with these games.)

Other awesome news! Me having a well-paying job and whatnot is finally beginning to show! I finally got my Sidekick 3 in the mail the other day and it's been attached to my face since me and Tamara went on a cell phone retailer rampage adventure, where we ran from cell phone store to cell phone store and demanded goddamn service on our phones or we'd rape them and rape them and rape them until they died.

Long story short I got mine up and running and I want to have sex with it but I can't because it's a machine and that would me machinophelia which is my new word for "to have sexy time with machiney parts".

So for anyone out there really interested in graphic novels, you should pick up the 4 volumes of Flight. It's pretty incredible. It's just 4 thick books filled with a bunch of short stories illustrated by various artists and they all express a different emotion, and at the same time each have a small element of flight in them. I got em all and read em at work when I "take a ride on the Major Doogan Expressway" which is pretty much Pete and I's way of saying take a shit and have a nice private break for yourself.

Pete is a good guy, he's good people, I actually love him, but... he is the most easily made uptight and awkward person I've ever met in my life. You touch him wrong and he acts as if a bomb went off somewhere and he needs to shield his eyes from shrapnel. You say something he's not used to hearing and he'll stare at you like you just raped him in the dirtiest of ways. It's fun to be around him because I'm a pretty uncalled for guy and he doesn't seem to know how to handle it quite yet. Here's a better explanation of him in 1 picture...
I pretty much hate him.

Also since I got that tattoo, which is the first of a 3 piece set of monkeys I wanted to try and get the a little more recognized as my characters on the internet so I whipped up a sweet old school silent film looking screen with my mischievous trio of primates in photoshop last night. It will be on my profile as will alot of other things in the next big update whenever Joe feels like not ruining my life anymore.And on that note! Work on my birthday! Then off the next day for recoup! Join me will you? For I am losing my teen years to the pointless age of 20...

Gigantimus Update!

2007-08-06T20:52:00.000-07:00

So hey guys. It's totally been a while. Not too long but enough for everything to go crazy in a short amount of time. I wound up doing some cool stuff. Ate 10 white castle burgers at dinner Thursday night and wanted to die. Saw the new RE5 trailer and wanted to have sex with Shinji Mikami.

After getting out of work early on Friday, everyone went out to a bar and drank for free. That wasn't the best part cause I was able to finally get wasted after a month and a half of sobriety bullshit. Then I hit the hookah bar with my bro and wound up drinking more, and just crashing at his place for the weekend.

So Sunday came. My two old school best friends from high school Kristen and Dani had called me up to meet me at work, where I would've normally been slaving away on the Ping Pong, to go hang out in the city. This is where the explosive day began. First I brought em to MaMoun's for some falafel. Cause I love me some Mamoun's. It's this great little falafel place on St. Marks and I enjoy it alot. I would add pictures but I just wanna sleep to tell you the truth. I am having serious ADD and not having access to a PC all weekend has put me behind on updating everything - I'll make this short.

We go to starbucks to let Dani pee out her butt or whatever girls do when they go to the bathroom, and we sit around pondering what to do. The conversation kinda went like this...

"What to you wanna do?" "I dunno. What do you wanna do?" "Wanna get tattoos?" "Are you serious?" " Yah dude let's fuckin do it." " Okay!"

5 min later I was drawing 3 custom tattoos on a notepad in Starbucks. 20 min later we were in a tattoo parlor getting them permanently etched into our bodies. Officially 4 tattoos drawn by me have been tattooed onto actual bodies! Brennan is working on the other 2 right now. Check this out people!!

My first of three "Vulgar Monkeys"

Dani's small but sexy 4 leaf clover. (Bloody and uncleaned)

And last but certainly not least, Kris' Pyro-Monkey (Cleaned but lotiony and blurry picture. :O!)

How exciting!! More to come people! Other then that I am gunna sleep for some more work tomorrow and more adventures in life?

I'm also turning 20 on the 14th. Gross. I'll talk about it later.

To my 3 or so readers...

2007-08-03T06:27:00.000-07:00

I'll be updating later today. Thank you for your continual interest in someone else's life. I'm gunna go throw my body in front of the train to work now in exhaustion.

THIS JUST IN!

2007-07-28T16:47:00.001-07:00

I am just gay enough to want to go see this.

Exciting delivery!

2007-07-28T14:13:00.000-07:00

I got home today to 2 of my most favorite childhood movies waiting for me in the mail on DVD.

The Super Mario Bros Movie.. (Shut your goddamn laughing mouths)
And the Brave Little Toaster.

Exciting! Even more excited to be disappointed by the Super Mario Bros move! Now I am going to go watch them while I scan in some new pieces!

The toy craze continues.

2007-07-28T10:59:00.000-07:00

So this week we discovered Forbidden Planet on Broadway and 13th, and N&L Game Trading Inc. on Elizabeth.
If you click on those links you will realize why this is a problem for me. I am going to have to start paying for student loans soon and it seems this recent toy addiction has me going over the edge to bankruptcy. I get paid on Wednesday and I already have enough wants to kill the pay check. The poor thing never had a chance.

On a good note though I got this awesome mystery Blue Dragon figure from a blind box I bought at N&L!

Awesome huh? He was the only "???" in the series.

K so this wasn't really good news. I just wasted more money on a toy. /killself

On an even better note I have off this weekend for the first time in 3 weeks and hopefully I will be able to get son fun in my life.

In art news, I will soon be adding a Fashion category too my portfolio because I just finished designing my super cool friend Jeanette's van for her. Only one. The left one. I think. Her brother is also an artist so we collaborated and each took a shoe. I'm gunna start doing more for my friends cause I enjoyed it, it's fun trying art in a different medium. The update should be soon so check i it out. Also I will be starting my special project gallery soon also. It involves dead babies. Doesn't that sound exciting?

I'll update again whenever something more interesting happens to my life. Bye everybodys.

A good day for the city.

2007-07-22T20:13:00.000-07:00

So I got out of work pretty nice and early today. Around 5:30. It was good because I got Joe to come out and hang for the day. I had a bunch of things I wanted to pick up around town and he needed to get out of his house since he's been playing World of Warcraft for the past week.

So at 5:30 we met by the fruit stand on Broadway right at the exit of the F train subway stop and went on our way. We hit some clothing stores, that we said we would go back to for sweet Tees but we didn't. Then I got to hit the book store to try and pick up a new read for my long rides home and I got to get Edward Gorey's "The Gashlycrumb Tinies." It's a illustrated macabre children's alphabet book filled with rhymes describing the deaths of 24 children, each with a name for every letter of the alphabet.

We got to St. Marks and we picked up some sweet new hats. I got a green and white trucker (that I plan on stylizing with love) to match this sweet black and green crossbones hoodie, while Joe got this sweet pinstriped fedora. It was naice!

So of course in the city you are expected to see some unique individuals. We were walking and stumbled across the most beautiful crackhead I've ever laid my eyes on. He was mumbling something incoherent to himself and we walked by with eyes wide open. I turned and asked the man if he liked photos and he said "Yah dip doodly dip do da photos gah gah goo!" So I pulled out my camera phone and he posed for me like crackheads like to do, and I promised him a front cover in GQ. I lied but the picture came out sweet.

Pretty isn't he?

Anyways after spending about 85 bucks on all sorts of things, we parted ways on the F train and went home. All in all it was a chillaxed day. Picturific.

Additions to the family and a Tim Burtonish sort of mood.

2007-07-21T16:46:00.001-07:00

So one of our 3 family dogs, Sadie, got knocked up by one of the 2 other boys about a month and a half ago and just had a litter of adorable puppies yesterday! They are about the size of my palm and squeak like little mice. Here are some pictures of them.

They are great - and 600 dollars a pop.

So anyway I just finished the book Burton On Burton.

It was the revised edition that had a foreword by Johnny Depp, who explained how his experiences were working with Tim Burton. Burton has been like a lifelong inspiration for me so I had to read it after I heard how great it was and how in depth it explained his thinking/creative process behind his amazing stories and characters. It pretty much gave a biography on his life and a full analysis of every movie he's ever made as told through his words and narrated by Mark Salisbury. Explaining every detail behind conception and filming.

Now I am in a super Burton mood, after going out and buying Corpse Bride for 9.99 from Best Buy I have already watched it along with Beetlejuice and Nightmare. Be sure to see some serious Burtonesque stylized artworks in the near future. He is a genius. I want to meet him more then ever now.

I am spiraling into an addiction and sleep deprived driven state of insanity.

2007-07-18T21:50:00.000-07:00

So now that I have a blog I figured I should like post and stuff regularly. So here I am. Extremely tired, and feeling as if death's cold hand is upon me for I haven't slept a normal nights sleep in what seems to be about a month due to the schedule Rockstar has me on. By the way I work at Rockstar Games NYC as a tester for anyone who didn't know, and as of right now I'm living there more then home. It's nice, the people are fun, and I get to play games and eat free food and enjoy city life on my daily breaks. But I am still slowly dying. I don't even know where I am right now.

I seem to have an extremely addictive personality when it comes to the dumbest things. I use the term dumb loosely because the current addiction I am involved in is nothing but fucking awesome to the max.

I've been a big fan of vinyl toys for the longest. The Japanese style of graffiti art transformed into tiny and/or gigantic vinyl art pieces are so unbelievable attractive to own you just can't help but drop your wallet when you find a place that carries them in bulk, and long story short I found that place and the wallet was totally dropped. It's a little place down 2nd ave. called Toy Tokyo.

I've known about Toy Tokyo for a while but it's one of those scary little shops that you find yourself entering and overwhelmed with the amount of unbelievable goodies they have to offer. You usually wind up leaving there dumbfounded, unable to buy anything because everything was just too cool, or you leave feeling like a champ because you just spent your entire paycheck on toys that are awesome until later when you feel like a tool because you just spent your entire paycheck on toys that are still awesome but make you hate life.

So anywho me and my friend Pete from work have this whole "let's cover our goddamn cubicle desks with as many tiny vinyl toys as humanly possible until we get fired" thing going on, or so it seems. We've already lost a lot of money to this horrible addiction to surprise boxes that you can get at most vinyl toy peddlers. Heres what they look like.

The ever popular Gloomy Bear Mystery Box

The Smorkin Monger

And the even more expensive Monsterism Island set

The whole addiction stems from their damn mystery - you never know what could come out of one of these insanely attractive boxes you know could possibly bring you seconds of joy. You can usually see on the side of the boxes what you are capable of getting. What you could get. What is possible! This is the catch, because no matter who you are there is almost always at least one damn mini-toy that you know you would kill a child to possess. This is where the credit debt begins.

I've threatened the shopkeeper with his life to only sell me one box per week from now on because he is raping my pockets in the most deviant of ways.

Damn you Gloomy bear. Damn you!

This is great

2007-07-17T21:37:00.000-07:00

It's my first professional Blog. How unbelievably cliche' is this.

::high five::

Thanks to Joe Laurino btw for the online portfolio.
It made the phallus happy.

More updates on life will be on the way soon cuties. Maybe then you will care. :O