The Nelson and Garrett Super STOOPID Sketchshow.

It's that time again peoples. Yeah that's right another sketchshow. This time will be different as my partner in awesome Garrett Zientara will be co-hosting. He's no artist, but he makes everything awesome.

Now there are a couple of things different this time.
1) Garrett, but you already know about that.
2) I have switched to Ustream.tv
3) There will be some latency issues so you gotta be a little bit more patient for me to respond.
4) FREE PRINTS!!! Well, kinda, I haven't worked this out fully yet, but I will explain how that will be during the livestream.
5) There is a baby!!!!! Yeah it's really awkward when no one knows you have fathered a child and they hear blabbering in the background. So I warn you now she is very talkative and you will hear her "talking" in the background. Also I may have to step away and change a butt or two, make a bottle or something else so whatevs...
6) New computer!!! This means better quality drawings! Less compression and faster painting!
7) I'm working on doing some guest artist shit, but you'll have to see what comes of that.


The new channel is USTREAM.TV/CHANNEL/NELSONTIPSWORD

All you have to do is go there and watch, you can also watch any previous videos I have done as well.
I think this covers it all, but I'm not sure so I may update this later peace.

Coloring Book???

Hello all, I was browsing deviant art the other day and came across this illustration by Babsdraws:

I really loved this image and wondered what it would look like in color so I decided to give a go at coloring it. Make sure you check out the original artist at: http://babsdraws.deviantart.com/.

Now here is my rendition of the piece:

Let me be clear I do not think that my image is better than the original artist, or that I am a better artist. I just wanted to recreate this in color. 

Psuedo-Study

So I have tried to upload this pic about 15 times now and every time there has been parts that are corrupted, which is frustrating me. Nonetheless I decided just to post this anyway, since the problem areas are not overwhelming.
        I have the idea that painting images is a great way to figure out how people structure their painting. This method can also teach the person doing the study a great deal about how they themselves paint. This is my attempt I found this really gorgeous painting on conceptart.org while browsing through a sketchbook, unfortunately firefox crashed on me and I lost to whom the painting belonged to, but after a little searching I found out who the original belongs to.
       Viktor Fetsch is his name and Oh Lawdy! is he amazing. 

Here is his version (above), I think I got it pretty good and close to his likeness. Though I wanted to see about leaning towards warmer colors. I don't know how well I did that, I was really pushing my colors towards the hue of Viktor's at some times so I screwed up, but hopefully I worked those areas out so that you can't tell.
Check out more of Viktor Fetsch's work, this is not a request, do it.
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?179065-Fetschbook
http://fetschart.blogspot.com/
http://fetsch.deviantart.com/
and if you want to follow him on twitter he's @ViktorFetsch
Thank you for viewing!!!

Blood.

I decided to finish this piece with some blood. The imagery felt sufficiently creepy enough with out it, but I have never painted dark and glossy blood like this before. It wasn't too challenging (I covered my face with fake blood blood made form corn syrup/water/red dye for reference) but I think I will benefit from this little study.

Repainting

This right here is the culmination of dedication, perseverance, and imagination.

This is a piece that I am currently working on. It is a piece that i am recreating from a mural I did about a year ago up at The Factory Arts Studios. It's one of my favorites so far and rightly so. It measures at about 45 by 58 inches.
Admittedly this is just a teaser, because I have gotten further in the process than what is shown above, but I wanted to show a simple start of the painting first. I plan on uploading a comprehensive walk-through on how this painting came to be later this month, keep checking in and I'll provide you with more content until then!
On another note this will also be a print available in my shop. There will be two version one will be a regular version with the usual options (standard, archive, canvas); the second option will be a highly archival museum quality print on dense weight paper or canvas but limited to 25 or so prints. Each will be numbered and hand autographed by me.

If I may take a moment I would like to thank all those who have looked at my blog (even in passing), have hired me for a commission, or have bought a print from my shop. It really means a lot to me. Seriously.
I have work, then I have this. While my work is constructed around art, it can be tedious and mind numbing, but when I get to make art for myself it is kind of like when you walk hoe from school and when you get home you take off that ridiculously heavy back pack and park your ass on the couch and chill out to some after school Tom & Jerry.
For every person that gives me money or supports my blog by sharing on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc; you give me a lil' more enjoyment in life and that is never a thing to be granted.
Make sure you come back real soon I'll be posting a High res painting you can download (or just right click> save as) and print off at home then hang on your wall.
Word to your mother.