RA the Rugged Man

This mean mug is one of the sickest MC's to come out of New York and has been doing his thing for decades coming up and rapping alongside some of the greats. This past year he rolled through Hamilton for a show and I got the chance to do some live art at the show and did this portrait of the man.

@RAtheRuggedMan

Pikachu Dissection

Kind of a rough idea for something I might pursue a series of. This was a school project.

KONG!!

King Kong poster, this was to be for a conceptual film festival, I chose to do Movie Monsters and based in in New York, and what bigger monster that terrorized New York than the King himself, KONG!!!

Attack of the 50 ft Woman!!

ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN!!! The second instalment in my monster series, first one was Undead Beauty, my girlfriend models for these pieces, she's the best. This one comes from the classic 1958 movie. Not sure which will be next but stay tuned ghouls and gals!!

Jason Voorhees

Happy Halloween everyone, I'm going to post my slasher pieces up here for the next few days until the October 31st. First up is that bastard child we all love, here's my favourite incarnations of Jason Voorhees.

The Doctors

The 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who is coming up next month, check out the piece I did to commemorate the shows many characters that have played The Doctor. - charcoal - 2013

Frankenstein's Monster

Frankenstein's Monster - Boris Karloff - ink 2013

Robert Johnson - Crossroads

I havn't done any comic stuff in awhile. So, I figured I'd have some fun, no pencil, no planning, just went into her. This is the story of Robert Johnson, the blues player from way waaayyyyy back, he wrote the song Crossroads. It's been told he sold his soul to a demon at a crossroads in order to play the guitar so damn good. Look him up, great music.

Yours Truly Poster

Most recent commission work I did for a show coming up on the 19th of October featuring Hamilton Hip hop artists T.Y., Hachey The Mouth PEACE, Bosquiate Clique and Mat Heddle (Slur). For more commission work swing by the page on this site. http://anthonyhaley.blogspot.ca/p/commission-work.html

Ron Perlman

Looking at it now...there's a couple things I need to fix and forgot to detail up a bit but..baaahhh it's done enough for school, I'll fix those tomorrow.

Ron Perlman rough colours

Been stuck in my Sons Of Anarchy faze lately trying to catch up with the series, finally start season 5...shhhh... Here's a piece I've been working on so far of Ron Perlman as Clay from SoA. He's still all in grey, just been trying to meld the background together with some textures then get into the painting of the face.

Sisyphus

Some school work done in my sketchbook. Based on the Myth of Sisyphus.

The Emsee Presents Empty Promises

One of the latest commissions I received was for The Emsee's album cover for his latest release "Empty Promises". If you havn't heard of this monster of an emcee/producer you should! He was one of the finalists for Canada's Got Talents and since then has been creating and working on this piece for the world to see. The give a listen online check out http://the-emsee.bandcamp.com/album/empty-promises And try to get your hands on a physical copy!!!

This was from the first single released off of Empty Promises, titled "Return (To The Music Biz).

I worked in my usual fashion for these two piece. I like to sketch out my work in pencil and once I've got my pencils fairly cleaned up I move into my ink. I work very traditional in the first stages then once I've finished the inks, I scan and begin to work and paint digitally in photoshop.

Childhood Fears

Never had a fear of going to the bathroom. Just thought I'd say that off the bat, this was more inspired by the scene in "Look Who's Talking" when the kid has the nightmare of the toilet wanting his peepee. Anyways, something for school, but I think I might sell this as a whole piece at the Fan Expo in August. Already plottin' and schemin' on what I'll be bringing new this year.

Stained....

Yeah so, it's been awhile since I posted anything on here. Been real busy, for those who have facebook, please be sure to follow me on there as well at www.facebook.com/doodlesundertheinfluence

Onto some of the work I've been doing since last semester,

These three pieces were done in November for Mindbender Supreme, a Toronto emcee who's been running a muck around the underground of Toronto's hip hop scene for over a decade. I got this job through OurSis Sam, a promoter based out of Hamilton. The photos were taken by a dude named Christoph, and I just manipulated colours and filters on photoshop.

I've started to get more work doing gig posters since Mindbender, this one here is for Everyday People, a hip hop (and I do mean HIP HOP) group based out of Hamilton. EDP is, Part Mada, Sin Yung, Pranx and DJ Kryme Won. This show is coming up in March, don't miss it!

This is the newest poster I've done for the Steel Gold shows that happen the first Thursday of every month. Next one is a biggie, and features myself and my comrade G performing as The Genius and The Demon. This show happens March 1st!

This here was the cover I did for Gavin and I's rap duo, The Genius and The Demon "Weird Science and the Spiritual Side of Things". This is the third release we've put out and it was released on Friday the 13th January, 2012. to check it out www.thegeniusandthedemon.bandcamp.com

Every year I make a Christmas card for my family, so this year I went with the Dark Knight, Batman. This was the first time I added colour to the cards.

Onto some more recent School Work, here's a piece where we combined two feelings and create something. I took love and greet and mixed it with Primus and took the names off some albums and used that imagery to describe greed.

This one involved having to find a song with a social or political statement behind it. I went with Hamilton emcee, Lee Reed's The Bank from his latest release Emergency Broadcast.

This wasn't for school, but is one of the latest commissioned illustration I did for a friend of mine Dan.

Other than all this, I've still been working a lot on HC stuff, hopefully I can start posting character designs soon. I've start working on storyboards for the guys to animate, I've also been doing a bit of animation/illustration for Dominant Factor, a group of videographers and graphic designers based out of Hamilton and Toronto.

AND also just got word today about FAN EXPO 2012! Myself and my three friends, Jeff, Dean and Adam will all be there again to sell, showcase and draw for all you lovely people.