doing/talking about ART/DESIGN/DRAWING etc. but anything creative is good, having a stimulating CONVERSATION is great. whether it's about something "serious" or something ridiculous, it's all good. I enjoy observing and exploring the little things in life, cause that's what really matters. relishing that great piece of cake you had the other day, why a 22 oz. "pound cake" is ironic. going thru daily life and trying to find the little pieces of fun that makes one smile, laughing at oneself and each other, all that stuff is good. Besides drawing, LAUGHING/making someone smile/laugh is my crack. I enjoy SPORTS but don't have much time to do it as much anymore. tennis, volleyball, rollerblading are fun...i guess I'd include laughing a sport too, my stomach gets quite a workout, heh. I also really love words/wordplay and WRITING, and writing stupid silliness...and answering questions, with stupid silly answers. Ironically, I'm not that big on reading books- go figure. maybe go figure 8 too, if you are so inclined. you decline? well at least I got that to rhyme. hah! did it again. wow. yeah, me are retarded, heh.
foods!--love cake! pastries, baked goods, carboyummyates! french fries and other potato-tasticness, barbeque stuff, buffets, crabcake, chocolate/dark chocolate, chocolate covered pretzels, pretzels, sour dough pretzels, croutans, cherry coke, steak, bourbon chicken (but only when it's cooked just right), poptarts, muffins, spices
It's "Itchy & Scratchy meets Samurai Jack meets Family Guy meets Calvin & Hobbes meets Kill Bill meets Kung Pow meets Ren and Stimpy"
It reads more like a comic strip with a gags/or excessive violence/disturbingness every page that you don't necessarily have to read in order...but at the same time there's an underlying story and layered stuff that if you do read in order or read again carefully, it will hopefully be entertaining as well. Mostly it's a fun wild silly ride. give it a try...for the sake of the children! heh.
I just updated the look a bit so it's a bit more user friendly and you can see when I update pages easier.
**OPEN CALL PIN-UP CONTEST!! I'll choose 5 to be printed in the print version of the "Hyper Demented Turdle Showdown" Graphic novel. I'll aslo give you a sketch in return- your choice of what I draw. for more details check the blog posting above!**
*PART 5: LEGEND OF LIQUID FURY: "Will of the river"*
It's controlled insanity, an experimental kickass action graphic novel. written by co-creator and fellow studiomate, Kurt Christenson. We're putting the whole thing on our Ten Ton studios website HERE!
SYNOPSIS: Wulong, a young student of the lost kung fu style, LIQUID FURY, returns to his childhood home only to find it has been destroyed by the oppressive United Corp. and its superhuman assassins. Vowing revenge for the destruction of his home, Wulong sets out to find those responsible and make them pay...
Kurt and I have been working on this book for 4 years and it's been a labor of love for both of us. All 174 pages of the art are now finished (I finished it in Dec 2005). Kurt is currently lettering the book with our new font developed by Richard Starking's Comicraft based off of my handwriting.
here's a very cool quote from writer Joe Kelly after reading our preview book of Liquid Fury:
"Liquid Fury is a mind-bending blend of martial arts mythos and groundbreaking visual storytelling. The little Big Bang signaling a new direction in esthetic and sequential art. It is a remarkable freshman effort by Chris and Kurt, who have effectively thrown down the gauntlet to other creators with their ambitious vision."
-Joe Kelly(writer of: X-men, Steampunk, Superman, cartoon network's "Ben 10" (co-creator) and many more
*PART 6: CHRONO MECHANICS: SILVER & BRONZE from Alias comics*
more about this comic
HERE!
I pencilled, inked and colored all the pages in the slide. Book was written by Art Thibert, Rich Birdsall and Pamela Thibert. We got some cool quotes from Bill Wray, Stephen Silver!, Judd Winick and Doug Tennapel. Book is out now from ALIAS comics!
Music
I like a bunch of different stuff...MUSE!!!, My Chemical Romance!!,Evanescence, Kay Hanley/Letters to cleo!, the Used, Eisley, Garbage, Reveille- Bleed the sky album, Superdrag, Chevelle, No Doubt, Dishwalla, Fiona Apple, Mindless self Indulgence, Linkin park, Korn, Matchbook Romance, Chronic Future, the Living End, Zebrahead, Incubus- science album, Weezer-Pinkerton, Phantom of the Opera, Toad the wet Sprocket, Live, Cold, Kelly Clarkson, Maroon 5, Nsync, yellowcard, Justin Timberlake, Jay-z, Holy Hand grenade, System of a down, Static-X, Hoobastank, Bush, Dragpipe, Silverchair, Skindred, Sevendust, Everclear, Rooney, Me first and the gimme gimmes, Papa roach, Taproot, Fefe Dobson, Grade 8, Jem, Steriogram, Avenged Sevenfold, Jimmy Eat world...
also...mxpx, eminem, head automatica, Head pe, Guster, Mudvayne, the Pillows, Alanis Morrisette, Tracy Bonham, Jason Mraz, Ok Go, Dashboard Confessional, Missy Elliot, Foo Fighters, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Beatles, Elastica, Cranberries, SpineShank, Apartment 26, Sarah McLachlan, 311, Snot, Bloodhound Gang, Adema, Ace of Base, Trapt, Fastball, Audioslave, 30 seconds to mars, Breaking Benjamin, Kottonmouth Kings, mono, trapt, Rage agaisnt the machine, the Vervepipe, the Vines, Keane, Coheed and Cambria, Keane, Nelly Mckay, Elliot Smith, Damone, Shakira, All-American Rejects, Lucy Woodward, Ludicris...add more later
update: (1-06) BAYSIDE kicks ass!!! also been digging: the like, panic! at the disco, flyleaf. 2-06--Family Force 5-damn! just heard them, they kick ASS!
update: 5-06-Dragonforce!- bad ass, blonde redhead, dropping daylight, metric, and LADY SOVEREIGN!! like a british female eminem. check songs- "random" and "battle/boys and girls/wigga" dammmmnnn. also can't stop listening to new Muse single "supermassive blackhole" new album july! hooray!!!
8-06--pink spiders!=catchy goodness.
1-07- McFly- catchy. Forgive durden- is awesome! I am ghost- awesome too. Red- has some real badass songs, sorta evanescence/linkin parkish. The Rasmus- catchy fun. Kiss kiss!- ben folds-ish meets rockish + strings
Movies
Blade 2!, Punch-Drunk love, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Constantine, Eternal Sunshine, Hero (with Jet li), Matchstick men, Anchorman, Starship Troopers, Serendipity, Oldboy, Se7en, Versus, Shaolin Soccer, Emperor's new groove, Aladdin, Aliens, Powerpuff girls movie, FLCL, Identity, Terminator 2, Unleashed, Fight Club, the Nightmare Before Christmas, Saw, Kung pow!, House of Flying Daggers, Dead leaves, Bound, Hercules (disney), Moulin Rouge, Butterfly effect, Hard Candy, Lucky number Slevin, Dark knight, Talladega nights, Sympathy for Mr. Vengence...
Television
Gurren Lagann!!!! Conan O'Brien, Scrubs, Family Guy, Friends, Futurama, Simpsons, Robot Chicken, Samurai Jack, Gilmore Girls (that's right! check out that dialogue!) Ed, the office, teen titans,30 Rock, Top Chef...
Penn State University US illustrator, designer/logo/T-shirt designer etc.
Kaman's Art Shoppes Allentown- Dorney Park/Wildwater Kingdom, PA US Assistant Manager/ Park Caricaturist
April 2008--present
Great Wolf Lodge Resort Poconos, PA US Caricature Artist/ Supervisor
Nov 06--April 08
Marvel Comics US Writer, Penciller, Inker, Colorist, Letterer
"Strange Tales #3" November '08
chUa! ART! Wrote and drew a story for Marvel comic's "STRANGE TALES #3" check my blog for a teaser-- > chrischuaartturtle.blogspot Posted at 4:09 AM Sep 11 view more
**I'm accepting FREELANCE/COMMISSIONS: caricatures, cartoons, superhero pics, pinups, covers, sequential art, tattoo designs, any kind of illustration etc. e-mail me at CHUA @ Tentonstudios[dot]com for any inquires. I'm pretty flexible and very easy to work with, just ask anyone that's worked with me.**
**NEW!**www.chrisCHUAartTURTLE.blogspot.com/-- my art blog! check it out! like now! see crazy caricatures and more! woo! like go, stop reading and clicky mcClickster on the link above.
*MY ART!*
(note: I'll be updating these slides with new pics, so check back or just check my blog above)*
Caricatures of celebs + Caricatures of comic book pros like Bendis, Silvestri, Mark Millar etc.
*PART 3: LIVE CARICATURES*
I started drawing live caricatures in Sept 2006 at Dorney park and continue to draw live at Great Wolf Lodge (an indoor waterpark in Poconos, PA) the below slide are some of the ones I've done. check back as I'll be updating with new pics or just check my blog posted above, where newest art is posted 1st and where you can see all of these upclose
***www.CHRISCHUA.deviantart.com*** also visit our message board (the links below) for NEWEST art from me (still catching up to current work with my deviant art account):
my studio I share with 2 writers and 13 diverse artists who are all amazingly talented and some of the best people you will meet:
www.TentonStudios.com
***where I'm at the most. To see more of my silly insane postings, along with a whole bunch of hilarious talented people that post there, hop on over. It's also where I post new art/project news quicker
Ten Ton Studios Message board***
I'm very dedicated to achieving my art goal/dream.
My priorities in life right now is to 1st focus all my energies/most of my time on attaining my goals in my career, giving it my all while I'm still young enough and can, try to get things established and then hopefully all the other pieces will fall into place and be better off for it. so yeah, I draw a lot and think about art a lot and spend a lot of time trying to improve and learn new things.
I've been pursuing my 1st love-illustrating comicbooks for most of my life and have recently(in 2006) decided to shift my focus more on doing illustrations and caricatures which I've always loved as well. I still love doing comics and will continue to do it, but I'm pursuing caricatures more aggressively at the moment. We'll see how that turns out. oh and if anyone wants to commission me for caricatures let me know :)
I'd like to think I'm a pretty nice and friendly person, I really try to be as those types of people make me feel good and I hope to return that great feeling back to others. Once you get to know me/I get to know you, I tend to open up more and goof around a lot and goof on people but it's all in good fun. If you're not having fun with it, then you probably won't see that side of me...unless you REALLY suck, then maybe i'll keep goofing on ya, heh ;). I'm pretty quiet sometimes and sometimes you can't shut me up. I REALLY don't want to be the annoying guy, so I can tend to be pretty quiet/shy at first, observing things until I figure out how much of me you can take/ I get a sign that you're cool with me/me being more me...and then I slowly open up and can get real chatty and silly. I work better the smaller the group and really enjoy one-on-one conversations or just smaller group conversations, y'know, cause sometimes you'll be in a deep strong opinioned discussion on something and it's good to have a tie breaker...y'know, to prove that I'm right, ;) heh. nah, I'm pretty open-minded and like a good strong opinioned disussion. I keep it friendly and civil.
I'm VERY interested in people and finding out what makes each person tick. It fascinates me. questions rock! I like asking questions. I'm not as much into the whole party/bar scene, smoke(booo)-filled crowded spaces, having to shout to talk to the person next to me so they can hear me. what? I said, "hear me", BUT I can still go with the flow at times. I don't take myself too seriously and am usually pretty happy-go-lucky, but I do have a serious side and will stand up for what I believe in as well as protect my friends and family fiercely.
I get along with pretty much everyone/lots of different types of people. if you are arrogant/cocky, disrespectful, dishonest, rude then I will not like you. If you are fake, are easily swayed by peer pressure, are afraid to have a certain opinion because it's not "cool", are judgemental, can't think outside the box at times, then we might not get along. be proud of the things you like and don't like(movies, music etc.) regardless of what anyone says.
not sure how all the above comes across...probably better to just get to know me and form your own opinoins or maybe ask people that know me, usually you can get some good insights by talking with those people...although there's only a few people that REALLY get me.
...there's 3 sides to every story: 1 side, the other side, and the truth. I just thought that's a cool saying I heard, there's not much drama in my life for it though, heh.
oh and if you have a question, ask me, if you ask someone else and they don't have their facts straight/came up with thier own wrong impressions and that's your answer you're going with then it's not my fault that you missed out on going straight to the actual source, just sitting right in front of you.
controlled chaos.
Who I'd like to meet: friendly happy people, good sense of humor! yay for sillyville!, artists/writers/caricaturists/creative types--networking. those that enjoy discussing art/can appreciate it. I like using slash marks /! yay!, people that can take a joke/ribbing and dish it right back, people who smile a lot/ laugh, are respectful, have good hearts, people whoe care, are kind, are hardworking, are trust-worthy, are loyal, have morals, are curious, people with goals/dedication/passionate about SOMETHING. people that like my art OR hate it.
people who can give me HONEST opinions on my art (or anything in general actually) and whether you "know" art or not, it doesn't matter, ALL feedback/opinions are good as long as it's honest. I like hearing different opinions and viewpoints. except for yours, you suck. ha, just kidding. bring it! I like when people can call me out when I'm dumb, screw up, my joke sucked etc.
ANYHOO, blah blah blah, I know, heh...pretty much cool down-to-earth good-hearted people will do, heh :)
oh and anyone that I've drawn a caricature of at Dorney Park,PA, Great Wolf Lodge, Poconos, PA or anyone I drew a commission convention sketch, it'd be cool to hear from ya! and anyone one that is a friend of our Ten Ton Studios.
*note--myspace people with fronts to try and get me to your crappy "sexy"(not) webcam sites or your crappy scam ideas or whatever please don't bother wasting my time. seriously, who gets suckered into that crap? I don't always have time to check all friend requests thoroughly but once I find out, you'll be deleted as I'm shaking my head at you. and no bands too.*
*I'm not gonna litter your comment box with shameless plugage spam so please don't do that to mine, unless you want me to delete you. seriously, I will delete you. but mindless rambling and nonsense fun comments are always welcomed, heh :) thanks!*
Hey, guess what? The third installment in our Adult Mutant Ninja Turtles series has arrived!! If you were subscribed to us on youtube then you’d already know this! (Hint Hint, go subscribe youtube.com/randumbact) If you don’t have a youtube account then you should really consider making one! LOL, but enough with the youtube promoting, let me get on to why I’m really leaving you this comment…Episode 3!!! If you haven’t been following the turtles series then just click the links at the beginning of Episode 3 to go watch the first two episodes. Anyway, here ya go, please let us know what you think and tell all your friends about us. Trust me, they’ll appreciate it!
Hey guys, just wanted to stop by and leave our newest video, SAW: Year Two. It’s a follow up to our most watched video ever (SAW: Year One) so be sure to check it out and leave us a comment with your favorite part. I didn’t want to take up too much space on your pages so I didn’t include a link to part 1, but if you want to watch it first to refresh your memory then just head over to youtube.com/randumbact
Thanks again for watching and supporting us!!! Don’t forget to tell all your friends about us.
Hey Randumb Fans, hope you had a great weekend and an awesome 4th! How is it that fireworks never seem to get old?? Anyway, I just wanted to stop by and leave Episode two of our Adult Mutant Ninja Turtles series. I sent out messages when this video came out a week ago, but I wanted to leave it as a comment as well just in case anyone missed it. Also, I think some of the messages didn’t process and I know you guys would be devastated if you missed an episode in this hilarious series!! I’m including the link for Episode one as well just in case any of you missed that one or if some of your friends want to watch. As always, thanks for watching and please let us know what you thought!
Hey guys, Lovebird from Randumb Acts here! Just wanted to drop by, say what’s up, and leave our newest skit for your enjoyment. I personally think its one of the funniest ones ever so make sure you check it out and let us know what you think.
Hope you enjoy watching it and please be sure to tell all your friends about us. Randumb Acts is on the rise…spread the word!
Chua hi! I sent you a MS friend request and you accepted it, thank you!! I have one question about Art. I've been drawing portraits for 6 years now from photographs and live as well. I practice every single day for about an hour. When I draw from photos it comes out looking good, but when live it comes out not so good. Why is that? I practice so hard.. Thanks for reading, maybe you could help.
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"
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