Influence Map

I've recently started a Deviant Art Page and noticed alot of people were posting these influence maps with things that influence and inspire them. I felt I should try this out for myself  to show what influences me as well as try to gather my own thoughts of thing that influence me. Though i did find this to be a challenge mostly because I gather a lot of influences from different things ranging from art to music to cars to movies and other things. This map is a generalization for things that i feel have been big influences on me over the last couple years in my art and design. See if you can name all of them. (please enlarge for full quality)

My Deviant Art: http://spawnoftheed.deviantart.com/

Katamari!!! NAAAA NANANA NANA

Hate to be that person that just gloats about new posts only about what they got for sale but, I got this crazy awesome Painting that I did of a Katamari Ball.


http://www.etsy.com/listing/45196541/katamari-drips


for those who don't know, Katamari or Katamari Damacy is a game from Japan made by Namco that is totally full of Drug induced images and game play. the concept of the game is to pretty much roll things up starting with small objects and slowly getting bigger and bigger to pick up bigger and crazier objects, kinda like a snowball effect.
i mean just look at that crazy intro!!

and justcheck out that gameplay



Needless to say, it's probably, the most fun I have ever had in a game and I find myself going back to it over and over again just to roll things up into a giant ball. Makes me giddily and puts a smile on my face every time!

If you own a ps2, ps3, psp, or an xbox 360, pick up a copy of one their many games. they are so addicting and entertaining!

Mudkips on Etsy

hey guys, I think I finally have Etsy all straighten out. So 1st things 1st, there is mudkips! That's right, you can now have you're own awesome mudkip painting to love and hang on your wall. Now when people walk into your house, you can just be like "hey, I herd u leik these" and most people won't get the joke! AWESOME!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=44236216

I herd that u liek...

I'm definitely big into the internet and what is has to offer, especially when it comes to inside jokes. When writing comics in my high school and early college years, I stuck to mostly to silly inside jokes because they were always personal. they were between my friend and I and as long as they laughed i enjoyed it. When I began using the internet, i grew very fond of 4chan and the meme's because it was a source of inside jokes that my close friends understood and would have us cracking up for ours over all the silly phrases and gifs we would find. The one that has always stuck was the mudkip joke.



It made me laugh every time. So what better way to share it with friends and family then to give everyone I know mudkip paintings!!!I kind of went on a rampage of creating these things around Christmas this year but I had been working on a stencil for it for a long time... well not really... more like I worked creating the parts of the stencil and never actually printed it, cut it, of put it together. It pretty much sat on my computer for over a year until I had this fantastic idea of what to do for a christmas for allmy friends while I'm COMPLETELY BROKE(due to the economy and the millions of designs without jobs BLAH BLAH BLAH...)! the outcome of a month worth of mudkips was four 11x14 inch and one 24x36 inch paintings.



Needless to say, my friends we very excited for them.

since then i created one for my sister (she wanted one for her birthday) and one for my friend's little sister (yet another birthday girl). I'm beginning to think these things are a hit. i have another one sitting around here in my bed room that i think I'm probably going to try to sell off of etsy, just need to finish up my account and get paypal working properly. I'm defiantly going to think about making more since i have had other request for these things as well. I never knew there were so many adults into Pokemon. =)