SFG Garbage

The garbage I come up with when I'm bored at work - a whole lotta zombies. Click to enlarge & see if you can identify all the different types of zombies as well as who a couple of them are. Hope y'all digs!

Happy Easter - Jesus Hates Zombies

I know they all might look the same but the taglines are all different - I couldn't
decide on just one. This was made as a
tribute to / Easter present for Stephen
Lindsay - creator of Jesus Hates Zombies. I thought it might be fun to design a movie poster.

Harvey Milk

I'll admit, before the film I had never heard of the man named Harvey Milk, and seeing his story as played by Sean Penn is what inspired me to do this portrait. From what I've looked up, Harvey truly was an inspirational human being. What is most heartbreaking to realise, is that all he was really fighting for was the right to be human.

"Ya gotta give 'em hope." - Harvey Milk

Alison

Arp's Bike

Christmas present for my girlfriend's dad - his old bike.

Stanton Street Saints Page 1 Preview!!!

Check this out, ladies and gentlemen! I am more than proud to announce that I, Mark Slater, am currently in partnership with Stephen Lindsay (creator of Jesus Hates Zombies) on his newest comic, "Stanton Street Saints / Almighty Warlords." I'm not sure how much more I'm allowed to say. This is special preview of page 1! Hope y'all digs!

Art by Me
Written & Lettered by Stephen Lindsay

Eustace Tilley Contest

The New Yorker is inviting all artists to reinvent their classic, first ever, Eustace Tilley cover. This is my submission to said contest. I figured I would go with something I did not see anyone else had thought of. More on the contest here: 2009 Eustace Tilley Contest.

Hey look! My humble submission is up on the website. Sadly I did not anticipate the sizing of the image. Ohwell. I'm just stoked that I can say I submitted something to The New Yorker.

SFG: Magic

For the Sugar Frosted Goodness theme of "Magic." Andrew and Kyle, I hope ya like it.

Life Drawing 1, 2009 - Finished

Well, here it is! The finished product.

Life Drawing - Jan 12th, 2009

Went to a life drawing class last night at the Kennedy Gallery here in North Bay. It was fantastic to finally get out and draw as part of a class again. Click images for better view.

Shadow Box!

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men!? THE SHADOW KNOWS!! Ha! Get it?! It's a SHADOW box! I know, it's awesome, thank you. =D


On display now at the Kennedy Gallery, North Bay. Go check it out!

Star Wars - Set 1

Black and white original drawings for Bobba Fette and Sandtrooper. And, yes, the Fette is throwing up a sign there - after all, if you've ever heard "Fette's Vette" by MC Chris, you know just how gangsta this Mandalorian is.



Coloured

Funatomy 2 - Against Me! Inspired.

The idea for this one has been kicking around for a while. I've always like these lines from a song by one of my favourite bands, Against Me! I've also taken a recent interest in drawing detailed(ish) parts of human anatomy. All sharpie. Hope y'all likes!

Is it art?

Behold! My latest creation. This was done over on a fantastic website that was forwarded to me called http://jacksonpollock.org. Being able to create a work like this as quickly as one can on the website, however, begs the question: is it still art? The entire point of Jackson Pollock's work was that it opened a new door to artistic expression and pretty much gave birth to the whole Abstract Expressionism movement. Now that someone has created a flash program that allows ANYone to create similar pieces, do Pollock's original paintings still hold as much meaning? It's a fun website. I suggest you check it out. (Then you too can create works like this, have them made into massive prints and sell them for more money than they are clearly worth).

Evil Dead: The Musical PHOTOS!!!

CLICK on the PICTURE BELOW to see ALL our pictures from all three visits to Evil Dead: The Musical.

Rambo

Well, I finally saw RAMBO in theatres this past Friday and, I must say, it was pretty freakin' awesome. Despite a brutal and slightly hard-to-take beginning with imagery based very much in reality - the whole genocide in Burma - the rest of the movie kicked ass once Rambo started killing all the bad guys with either very big guns or his trusty very big knife. A great way to round up the series.

I will probably get a lot of flak for this drawing because Rambo appears very forelorn, but I feel that, as often as we want to see our hero characters as the tough-as-nails, guns and glory people they are, throughout all four movies, Rambo IS underneath it all a deeply upset and troubled individual. In this picture, I felt Stallone did an excellent job in getting that message across in the final scenes after the big bloody battle.

I feel the true message of John Rambo is conveyed in this image, coupled with some of his final words in RAMBO III; "I want what everyone else just like me wants. For the people of this country to love me just as much as they love it." As much as war is in his blood, it is not the life his character enjoys it is merely what he does. The John Rambo character is meant to demonstrate the depravity, inhumanity and thanklessness of war and to gear pathos toward the men (and women) who fight for their country and who, consequently, are either shunned for being a part of the action or get no recognition whatsoever for fighting for the causes of good.

Anyway, that's my shpeel. I hope you like the pic. =)