tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048Sun, 11 May 2008 10:15:44 +0000http://studygroup12.com/images.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)Blogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-2465244882775757476Sun, 11 May 2008 10:14:00 +00002008-05-11T03:15:45.220-07:00 I saw it in IMAX and it was actually pretty amazing. It reminded me of FLCL or some of the other fast-paced, post-modern anime of recent years. It was very fun, psychedelic, irreverent, and interesting. Basically like “SUPERFLAT: The Movie”. It was also pretty stupid in some ways, but I think that was all kind of on purpose. I’d say that even if it wasn’t 100% successful, this movie is one of http://studygroup12.com/2008/05/go-speed-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-8919175305353455115Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:25:00 +00002008-04-29T22:25:34.966-07:00I just came across these videos directed by my good friend Jorge Torres, they're from a dvd he did set to the music we made as a band called ONA ZETTA. Probably the most rewarding major musical collaboration I've ever been a part of, Ona Zetta started as 4 track recordings Jorge did on his own, then we imported them into my old Power PC computer and I rearranged them a little (or a lot, dependinghttp://studygroup12.com/2008/04/ona-zetta.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-6850253105729850857Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:43:00 +00002008-04-07T07:20:36.999-07:00 "Spartan_Worries" OH MAN. so the Magik Show at the Pony Club was a complete success! click this image to see a photoset of the whole show: I've also scanned and uploaded my own contributions to the show here. I ended up doing a lot of painting with gouache, which I'm getting really into. "Hidden Ghosts" "Hongry Man" Here are the two things I did I'm most proud of. "Wizard Battle 1: http://studygroup12.com/2008/04/magically-yours.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-8879532441793775125Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:37:00 +00002008-04-09T07:06:26.645-07:00I'm not sure how in the world I've managed to not post about this, my first job at curating: art by Till Thomas art by Rey Ortega and Theo Ellsworth It's been kind of insane, actually. Here's the press release: The Pony Club Gallery is proud to announce their show for April, 2008: "The Magik Show". 41 artists from Portland and around the world converge to bring you their vision of what magichttp://studygroup12.com/2008/03/magik-show_31.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-891328743823359951Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:07:00 +00002008-03-23T03:17:43.652-07:00 Found in a Portland area thrift store, these are probably from the '30s. There's a bunch of bootleg American characters in addition to Tagawa's Norakuro character. Fleisher Bros. & Disney characters share the page, drawn with gloriously off-model designs. I kind of love this, it only cost me $9.http://studygroup12.com/2008/03/suiho-tagawa-decals.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-6370838592833556147Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:24:00 +00002008-02-09T23:24:25.723-08:00 ""Well It Sure Feels Intentional"" ""Some Things Cannot Be Unseen"" ""My Battle Armor Only Works So Well"" ""Which Part Did You Even Want?"" ink, pencil, ink wash, gouache. Series of super hero deaths done for the Alter Egos show at the Pony Club Gallery, curated by Jennifer Parks. You can see bigger versions at the flickr pages.http://studygroup12.com/2008/02/heroic-death.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-187783584474888819Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:02:00 +00002008-02-09T22:19:04.001-08:00MEET THE SUPER DUDERZ: THE PINK POUNDER FISTORR THE NUCLEAR CRAB Gouache figures. Cut out and stuck on the wall. Done for the Alter Egos show at the Pony Club Gallery, curated by Jennifer Parks.http://studygroup12.com/2008/02/super-duderz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-4902692961424027145Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:55:00 +00002007-12-22T05:05:23.464-08:00 This is old stuff.. I think it's from the end of 2004? For my Thesis/Senior Project in school, I made a body of work I called "My Neighborhood", and these portraits were one part of it... the real center of the show was a series of large hand painted & drawn landscapes detailing a strange little neighborhood, with some characters travelling from one panel to the next, and these continuing http://studygroup12.com/2007/12/my-neighborhood-portraits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-5520459776059410375Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:22:00 +00002007-12-20T11:38:05.451-08:00Some recent silkscreens. I've been doing a lot of tube imagery, the meaning of which is probably pretty transparent even without the titles.. This one is probably my favorite. If you've been reading the blog, you've seen this in various stages, here's the actual silkscreen. If you scroll down, you can see the computer mock up of my color scheme, and see how things change from idea to actually http://studygroup12.com/2007/12/uncontrollable-tubes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-6178521335916021664Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:27:00 +00002007-11-19T17:37:39.847-08:00 My tribute to ROM: SPACEKNIGHT for the Floating World comics art show, a benefit for Bill Mantlo. I really dug rom when I was a kid, even though I came to him kind of late. It was weird shit. Everyone should go to the show on the 6th. You should also go to the show at the pony club that night, because I'll have a shit ton of prints like this: http://studygroup12.com/2007/11/dire-wrom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-8439067843536491308Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:37:00 +00002007-11-10T13:42:17.433-08:00I drew these two on my birthday. I was in a kind of distracted state of mind, but I kind of like how they came out. Here's a drawing of my friend Jennifer that really doesn't look a lot like her, but somehow does. I like the expression on her face here, it's a little heartbroken, or maybe like she's having a very intense moment on an acid trip or something. This drawing actually started out as http://studygroup12.com/2007/11/birthday-sketches.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-2845616183561436882Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:46:00 +00002007-10-17T00:01:11.276-07:00Hey there. I missed SPX and I have been working on art nonstop instead of having awesome fun times with all my friends. Here's a quick update of sketchbook stuff. I'm working on stuff for the Pony Club group show in december, it's mostly going to be a lot of tube imagery. This is the 1st sketch for a print that will be in the show. I've been drawing a lot of wizards lately, in addition to http://studygroup12.com/2007/10/diversions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-7410650747116597621Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:28:00 +00002007-10-07T01:29:29.331-07:00 I started this sketchbook in 2003 at APE in SF, and then lost it for a while and just found it again. Lots of talented people have done drawings in it, and it's only about a 5th of the way full. I'll keep adding scans to the set as needed.http://studygroup12.com/2007/10/my-convention-sketchbook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-7886745616120137650Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:33:00 +00002007-10-06T12:43:28.162-07:00 just a little figure drawing update. done post-stumptown. Speaking of Stumptown, it went really well. The Pony Club table was well received and we sold a decent amount, but it was also really great just to be able to hang out with long lost peeps and such. Also, there was some cool stuff to look at. here's a link to my pictures from the show: And here's a kind of semi-suave looking me taken http://studygroup12.com/2007/10/reading-study.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-5532436622982897375Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:57:00 +00002007-10-01T10:05:37.778-07:00 I normally hate jam comics, and this one would have been no exception, but Josh Simmons' old roomate Karn (Carn?) did this awesome panel that was completely random from everything else, not to mention beautifully drawn. I felt like I had to somehow respond to this panel alone, albeit with a not so beautifully drawn panel of my own. I'm pretty happy with the sequence. Also, Stumptown was this http://studygroup12.com/2007/10/metaphysical-jam-comics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-798048441586983696Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:54:00 +00002007-10-01T20:34:13.585-07:00Dr. Galapagos Placemat drawing Drawn in crayon while waiting on food at Imbibe, PDX OR Sketchbook collab w/ Farel D. Farel Dalrymple took the left side (i did the smoke plume) and i took the right. Faced with his drawing i went super simple. I think we were sitting at TUBE?http://studygroup12.com/2007/09/more-random-art-shizz-dr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-2166769268067732422Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:11:00 +00002007-10-08T21:31:26.163-07:00some stuff I'm working on (click for bigguns: bluelines of my pencils for page 23 of Dr. Galapagos pt. 2. I've started scanning in my pencils, converting them, then printing them in blue on bristol. It makes inking fun again! So the answer is yes, I'm still slowly working on issue two (sorry!) line art for a print i'm working on. started as a sketchbook drawing that I blew up and inked. It's http://studygroup12.com/2007/09/artz-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-8776639704466903753Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:50:00 +00002007-06-29T17:12:39.019-07:00One more blogger promising more frequent updates! Thing's have been rather dry in art land for the last couple months, other than this art show I helped put together: click image to see the whole show photoset on flickr Also: work continues on the much delayed Secret Voice #2. Sorry again to any and all who have been waiting for it. Real life kind of got in the way, A LOT. I'll post some http://studygroup12.com/2007/06/funbook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-116976544549021116Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:50:00 +00002007-01-25T14:50:45.503-08:00Yes, the second issue of my comic series, THE SECRET VOICE, is finally coming out!! You can order this through all fine comics shops, just tell them you want it, if you want to be up on your game, bring in the Diamond order code (found at the bottom of this blurb below - If you don't have #1, the code for that issue is JUL052538, they can order that too!) to make it easier on your overworked http://studygroup12.com/2007/01/secret-voice-number-2-is-available-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-116131861193794111Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:28:00 +00002006-10-19T21:30:11.946-07:00Here's a link to the J. Dilla video my friend Chris Palazzo (designer of the Secret Voice logo, and collaborator on many top secret future endeavors) worked on: http://mixtapeclub.com/projects/jdilla/ I think it's pretty awesome.http://studygroup12.com/2006/10/j-dilla.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-116102256748916703Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:15:00 +00002006-10-16T11:16:07.500-07:00Here's some mostly finished pencils for Doctor Galapagos chapter 2, page 6, from the slowly gestating Secret Voice 2... This chapter is 34 pages, the book itself will be another 64 page whopper. (click to enlarge) http://studygroup12.com/2006/10/sneak-peek.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-115333776730800657Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:32:00 +00002006-07-19T12:36:07.323-07:00 So I've posted some of my old comics stories on my flickr account for people to read, since the books they appeared in are now out of print: Smog Emperor V. The TV Guy, from Project:Superior St. Xixis, from Superior Showcase #0 (click "All Sizes" to see the images at a decent size while clicking through) ENJOY!http://studygroup12.com/2006/07/free-comics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-115178016818938455Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:55:00 +00002006-07-03T12:50:00.830-07:00» Superman Returns the dvds and condoms he borrowed Old friend and New Roomate ZP and I went to see Superman Returns in IMAX Wed. night. It was quite a spectacle. If you liked the first two movies, you should probably love this one, as it's a direct sequel (ignoring 3&4) and pretty much all the actors do great jobs taking up the reins from their predecessors without slavishly imitating them. http://studygroup12.com/2006/07/superman-returns-dvds-and-condoms-he.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-114068083379202896Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:46:00 +00002006-02-22T23:47:13.803-08:00here's what's so far my favorite painting I've done for this art show I'm gonna be in: which is of course, a visual reference to/based on, this comic book cover: YOU DA MAN, CURT SWAN!http://studygroup12.com/2006/02/new-painting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285048.post-114014580393076678Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:07:00 +00002006-02-16T19:10:03.940-08:00my face as urban folk art: Photo taken by Ryan O'Malley, who is also the artist of the stencil. This was on Highland Road in Baton Rouge for about 6 months or more before Katrina ripped the sign down.http://studygroup12.com/2006/02/my-face-as-urban-folk-art.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (zack soto)