Normally I think that Body Painting is just an excuse to be tacky, and for the most part I am right.  This morning on Stumble Upon something came up though, that made me grin thanks to my 18+ course hours in Art History.

NSFW, but not Pornographic either:   Examples of Body Painting.

Just found this one today, and I have been steadily working my way through the months of archived strips. Monster Commute is a cute and simple little strip that updates week daily (that’s Monday through Friday).

The premise appears to be that Hell is traffic, and your morning commute is your own personal Hell. Having worked from home for the last half of a year, I can say with all certainty that this premise is correct. Anyway, Machine and Beastio are trapped in the car together on their way to work, for what appears to be eternity. Its fun. The writing is super awesome, and I’m LOL’ing at every strip, but I am certainly amused. The art is drop dead gorgeous, and I am fully envious. I wouldn’t want to abstract the Vlad cast quite as much as they have here, but the colors/textures are exactly what I am trying to learn to do.

I give Monster Commute two thumbs horns up, and suggest you give it a read.

Proud to announce: New Hell Jones strips soon (well, relatively soon, anyway).   Wanted to show off my Hell Jones creation from Marvel’s Create Your Own Superhero toy.

(Note that Hell Jones has been cross-bred with raptors.)

A couple more sketches done on the iPhone while sitting in a waiting room.