MOGGG: From the Archives

Digging through my closet for some work to hang up in my office space at home I found an old sketchpad, a huge ass 14x17 one, that I used to use and inside were some forgotten treasures from as far back as 1993. Amazing how some stuff can still hold up after so many years. I'm always chucking artwork every few years but the stuff that stays seems to really last. There are a few new pieces from the last few weeks mixed in as well. So here they are...

The Yin Yang Ninja was one of those things I created back in the early 90's during my Ninja Phase. I have no idea what the Chinese letters mean.

These characters, Omega 7 I created just a week or so ago. I've been watching a lot of new animation for kids on Saturdays and got inspired to do something straight up Superhero / classic comic book stuff. No grounding in reality, gritty goth crap which has become the norm in comics today but imagery / heroes geared for a young audience who would be real heroes. Symbols of strength and goodness. A nod to the Golden Age of heroes, spandex be damned!

VENOM. This was done originally as a tattoo design for a friend who chickened out and never got it done. I went all out on the anatomy and details and he pussed out, go figure.

Years ago I was commissioned to design some stuff for one of the guys from Jodeci (can't remember his name at all) who was creating a side group called Swing Mob. The final design was bought and is owned by him but I always liked these leftovers and kept them in case someone else wanted to have them tweaked for their idea.

This came as a surprise to even me. My dearly departed sister Melanie. I never thought I could ever bring myself to paint her image but it just happened unexpectedly about two weeks ago. No idea how I held it together while making it but I did. I try to draw strength from her memory and the Buddhist teachings I've been studying lately. I'll miss her forever but will carry her with me equally as long.

Somewhere around '91 I was commissioned to do some Pebbles n Bam Bam designs for a new line of t-shirts that hit the streets the same time as the first Flintstones movie came out. I was given a monster folder of P and B designs right from Hanna Barbara and had to learn how to draw them as if they were real. Had to learn the shape of the faces, their hands, etc. The trick was to make them "street" and hip hop without getting trashy. Some of you, if you bought Flintstones shirts back then, the hip ones anyway, were probably wearing some of my work. I don't have the ones the company bought off me but it was a fun gig.

Years back I was sketching various images of this Angel I'd dreamt of and studying his deconstruction. He went through many changes and some of them are lost or still hiding in my closets somewhere. At one point he became cybernetic. There's a lot of commentary on religion mixed in but I won't share that because it will kill the concepts in your head. You feel what you want from these sketches.