Ribbon of Souls update

In the final stages of the tattoo design. Colours have been saturated to give more of a feeling of old skool sailor tattoos to correspond with the dark noir of Chris Lefler's 'Street' tattoo on his other arm.

I imagine there will be more tweaking over the next month with possibly a character change or two ('Are there too many naked women?' I ask myself).

Visual Art Assassination interview

Interview with online art magazine.
http://visualartassassination.net/
2008/07/30/the-art-of-brute/


Visual Art Assassination is an East Coast Art Collective with members as far north as Connecticut and as south as Virginia. The VAA Collective is made up of a tight group of socially conscious art activists. The purpose of the VAA is to use art as a weapon to empower the mind and facilitate change. Visual Art Assassination is a completely independent, exclusive and self-contained organization that relies only on it’s inner core members.

Popaganda show in Prague

Poster for my forthcoming show at Mad Bar, Malo Strana, Prague (from June 11-July 13)

Blokefight

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alancharness/2909382268/

A very old KMFDM rough that was never used. I think I then re-adapted it for use as a magazine cover.

Thanks to Alan Charness for posting this.

More BRUTE! Helmet roughs

More rough helmet designs for Bimmerworld racing team.

I first built a basic helmet shape in 3D (Poser 4) and then textured them with the artwork, taking snaps of the front, back, sides and top plus a three-quarter profile. Finally, in Photoshop, I cut and pasted them over the helmet line-art and photos supplied by the company.

Keep posted to see the final design evolve.

Loco!

Another from the vaults, this time from the collection of my friend and patron Robert Lee who commissioned this painting from me back in 1996-97.

He has since restored it to its former glory.

BRUTE! KMFDM Tohuvabohu Swordgirl

My original ink artwork for KMFDM's album Tohuvabohu goes up for auction this week.
Be sure to bid for this unique, hand-drawn figure.








Go to eBay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270379032529&rvr_id=&mfe=sidebar

Kurator magazine cover by BRUTE!

Too few times in an artist's life will come clients offering him creative control over their content.

And so it was with now-defunct Kurator, whose art director seemed happy enough with my work until last month when they went suspiciously quiet and refused to answer my emails.

A quick scan of the web reveals no such magazine. Ah well.

Its a bitch of a time to be starting up such endeavors and my condolences go to the staff of yet another deceased monthly art and design title.

UPDATE: I spoke with the editor of the mag who informs me that they will be back in business in the next couple of months once they sort out their advertisers.

Here's the first of two covers I did for Kiev-based Kurator magazine.

Ink Originals from the featured cover will shortly be available from this blog.

BRUTE! Crash Helmet Designs!

One of the cool things about my job is the opportunities it throws up to make you see the work in a new light.

I was recently asked to do a series of helmet designs for a racing team and was intrigued by the way the shape of the helmet dictated the dynamics of the art.
Shortly after sending in these roughs, I began to build and texture the helmet in 3D, the results I will post later.

prototype [GAME-VIDEO] - HD

Lethal-looking prototype for upcoming game.

BRUTE! gas tank design

A while back, bike builder Paul Solar asked me to come up with a design for his motorcycle gas tank.
Here is the final product.

Musashi Tattoo

The final image for Vincent Compean's calf tattoo featuring legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi conquering a fictitious monster. This took me almost four months of research and conceptual designing and I am more than happy with the result, especially as its fantasy aspect is one that's relatively new to me.

Check back to the blog in a couple of months to see how the tattoo is progressing.

To see the monster head in detail, go here: http://bruteprop.blogspot.com/2009/03/monster-head.html

The Rotring Art Pen Sucks!

Are YOU the type of artist that likes to wander around your studio covered in ink?

Do YOU like to spend 30-40 minutes cleaning your pen after only 5 minutes of use?

Are YOU interested in using an art instrument that makes a quill look like a laser beam?

Then this piece of shit art pen by Rotring is just for YOU!

Vectips Interview with Aidan Hughes

http://vectips.com/tips/interview-with-artist-aidan-hughes/

An interview I did with Vectips, a site specifically featuring the work of vector-based artists and illustrators.

Stephen Tompkins

http://cargocollective.com/stephentompkins

Check out this guy's work. Bizarre but captivating. I like it!