Pegboard Nerds HERO

The very first commission I received from Monstercat was to paint an illustration featuring my Pegboard Nerds character, Rivet, with mods of the two guys that make up the duo, Alex and Michael. The piece was finally used as album art for the group's latest single "Hero"!

(Original depiction of Rivet)

EDM Arena Comic Teasers

Development of the EDM Arena story is currently in the works. Here are three pages of separate parts of the story:

A virus has infected Channel 42! How will Redmau5 deal with this AI?!

G and Stranger stumble across an enraged Vicious Infectious! What will happen next?!

Skrillien loses control of his ship! What is this strange planet he's about to crash land onto?!

EDM Arena Challenger Reveal 7

Second character reveal for batch 7!!!

Maki (Mat Zo and Porter Robinson)
     - This is my first attempt at a dual-artist character. Maki and her little partner Evander come from Mat Zo and Porter Robinson's music video "Easy". At first, the Maki character was solely going to be the Porter Robinson character, but it was more interesting and made sense to include Mat Zo with the design since "Easy" was a collaborative song.
     - Porter's influence is seen in Evander, who's face and glitchiness comes from Porter's upcoming album "Worlds". Maki's outfit uses influence from Mat Zo's logo.
     - Maki's sketch had been sitting on my computer for quite some time and it was because I had a hard time figuring out what she should be wearing. I modified her outfit from "Easy" and also looked at some of the practicality from the costumes in Firefly because of her backstory.
     - After her little escapade in Neo Tokyo (or wherever the "Easy" music video takes place), Maki decided to remain outside of civilization and live a quieter life. She went further into engineering (because it would be interesting if she built the EMP bomb/explosive thing hidden in the duffel bag from the music video) and took an interest in communications (based on Porter Robinson's song "Language"). Evander was upgraded to Evander 2.0, who's still a little glitchy but helps Maki record, communicate, and understand alien languages, such as the ones spoken by Skrillien and Nom Nom. Maki set up a base of operations outside of The City called "Synapse Dynamics" (song by Mat Zo) and her work in communications has greatly aided in the advance of Channel 42, the world's #1 TV station, run by Redmau5.

Many of these characters are starting to develop heavy backstories. If EDM Arena can't be a game any time soon, there may be a comic or short stories about it.

The long post of art that I haven't put on my blog until now

Since I got a Tumblr account and Twitter I've been using those places for posting quick doodles and random art stuff. I draw so much and I never know exactly where to put it because some of it's sketches, quick draws, or silly things. Here's some the work that's happened:

Pikachu Used Thundershock

I have a playlist dedicated to electronic music called "Pikachu Used Thundershock". If it were to be personified, this is what it'll look like. It's always updating - right now it currently has 103 songs with a duration of 8 hours (the time this painting was created it lasted 7.4 hours).

Savant the Meowstic 

Feed Me the Mega Mawile

LRAD the Mega Aerodactyl

Some Pokemon + EDM influence quick draws. Been playing a bunch of Pokemon X and these are three of my team Pokemon.

 

My work laptop died at one point because I was stupid and accidentally spilled apple juice on it. During its absence I brought out the Sharpie and Faber Castell markers to draw these swirly Pokemon and a teaser for upcoming EDM Arena skins.

This skin pack was released on Valentine's Day (which, to be honest, is my least favourite holiday).

The Bloody Beetroots

Really wanted to draw someone vaulting over another person's head for a long time. Finally did it when  I was inspired by The Bloody Beetroots' album "Hide".

Knife Party

SOFI and Deadmau5

There was a strange ping of inspiration after listening to some Korean pop songs that led to these paintings which have nothing really to do with Kpop. :[ Just putting it out there, the songs I was listening to were T.O.P.'s "Doom Dada" and Taeyang's "Ringa Linga". :P
I do want to continue this series though. This new, quick and sketchy style is really fun... may have to listen to more Kpop to get back into it.

Mad Neon - Finale

FINALLY did an EDM Arena painting. The sketch for this pic had been sitting on my computer since the end of last year, and it wasn't until this week or last weekend I finally got to painting it. This shows one of Mad Neon's techniques, probably titled after his song "Finale".

And now here... have some KP shenanigans: (warning: coarse language :P)

EDM Arena: Character Skins 2

Releasing a new series of skins!

The ideas behind each skin:

- {Onyx} Skin is based off of the EP art of Krewella's Play Harder.
- {Predator} Skin comes from The Upbeats' latest single "Predator" and influences from the famous alien character dubbed the same name. (I was super excited to buy this song - it was the first idea I came up with for this skin batch.)
- {Nouveau} Skin is based off of the album art of Camo & Krooked's Between the Lines.
- {Alchemist} Skin is based on Savant's character, the Alchemist, who appears on several of his album art.

Depending on how many more designs can come from these characters, a skin pack will most likely happen in the future.