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Mixed media doodle collage over Carhartt ad - using oil pastels, pen, highlighter, fineliner and glue

Tried drawing on my iPhone using Adobe Draw. Before, I kinda got frustrated with drawing on such a small screen but I had fun this time.

Artwork done based on the song Draw your swords by Angus and Julia Stones.

These are ink applied with a brush/watercolor pen to a fairly sturdy sketchbook. They mostly feature aristocrats and irritated children.

Vintage weightlifters, surreal octopodes that look like my friends, and rabbits, rabbits, rabbits.

Listen, I wish I could explain the content of this sketchbook to you better, because you do deserve better, but I have nothing.

I doodled on a wall in an soon to open jewellery shop ...

Made in gouache and ink, "The Cat House," is a wonderful home ruled by cats.

Mural collab with OX Alien in Rotterdam for a school.

Did you ever have a page in your sketchbook that was so bad and so embarrassing that you tore it out and chucked it? This was one of those pages that made me cringed every time I came to it. So today I said to myself, "ENOUGH!" and ripped it out of my moleskine. But something wouldn't let me throw it in the can. Now, I'm not one of those artists that can't bring himself to throw away any of his stuff because each and every piece, good or bad holds some kind of sentimentality or sense of importance. This particular page was a result of a crappy angst filled day and stuff poured out of me. For some reason, it felt like I was throwing away some piece of my soul. There were parts that were overworked and others that were painfully too personal. So I decided to cut it up and put it back together in no particular order, however it seemed best. As I was pasting the pieces down it occurred to me that this had a comic book feel so I scanned the final and added the black borders in photoshop which I really dug. I like that it is cryptic and jumbled up like my brain can so often be. This reminded me of the awesome @johnhendrix who said something in his book, Drawing Is Magic that stuck with me. He said, "Don't worry about doing anything wrong. If you're hoping your sketchbook turns into a glossy display of only your best drawings, you are not carrying a sketchbook, you are carrying a portfolio." In other words, explore, take chances, loosen up and have fun. Try your best to go at it like an uninhibited child. In so doing, you will stretch as an artist by avoiding repetition and predictability. We all know how to do what we already know. To sum up, I created a bad page, and whether or not I was able to fix it, it expanded me. So, follow your pencil, pen, or whatever and let them take you to places you never imagined when you started. Then, maybe you will end up staring happily at the final and with childlike wonder, say, "man, where did that come from?"

"I'm spreading wonder with one word." ~A blackout poem from a recycled page of Dealing with Blue, a YA love story.

Current studio in 2014.

Rocks for my son to find at his birthday party

This is my tribute for popular KAWS. I inspired from Companion series and turn it with my style - Robolism. Ink on A3 paper. Open for commission.

Having fun drawing with various pens creating a two headed monster.

an abstract design used for hang tags

There's time when you scroll any-social-media-feeds and you found out a quote that motivate you. So, this is on of them that i found. A motivational quote from strong woman Jessica Lanyadoo

"Life will vaporize your daydream." ~ A blackout poem from a recycled page of Dealing with Blue, a YA romance.