Mongrol's Art

I have a few pieces I rescued from a near disaster a few years back - my main body of work was lost - two whole portfolios of stuff just gone - but I managed to save a few of my favourites... I hope you like them

I used to use Pencil to sketch and fill, and then a set of Rotring metal tip ink pens to do all the ink work on most of my pics...

https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img294/1927/libertycapcf0.jpg - Liberty Cap - drawn in a mad session with a Turkish girl i used to know, this is how I saw her in front of me... the brew we drank was ... well, psychedelic


https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img164/1781/comegetsomekf2.jpg - Come Get Some - a drawing of a trooper from the ABC Warriors - this one is a Terminator of the Termite Religion of Terra, run by one Tomas de Torquemada...


https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img178/9561/fishhs3.jpg - Fish - one of the greatest things to happen to me was when an old friend, Sparky, had this image tattooed on his legs - one fish per leg - i was deeply honoured - this is a copy of a copy I managed to rescue and needs re-inking..


https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img164/9900/tankgirl1lm4.jpg - Tank Girl - just because, i like girls who drive tanks

Mongrol wrote:

https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img294/1927/libertycapcf0.jpg - Liberty Cap - drawn in a mad session with a Turkish girl i used to know, this is how I saw her in front of me... the brew we drank was ... well, psychedelic

Oh my god. Was this in the 70's??? Girls aren't what they used to be..apparently

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Damn good stuff Mong!

thanks you two

i'll post more when i can get my ass in gear to scan them in

I am excited ..but have to wait till I get home to look.

Its great. Very good Mongrol.

~big smile~

I've seen some of these before. In fact I seem to recall one of your pics...of a dragon?...or a serpent of some kind, that I said would make a wikid tat. Could be the memory playing tricks though. But yeah your stuff is very swish, wish I could draw like that.

Shogunate wrote:

I've seen some of these before. In fact I seem to recall one of your pics...of a dragon?...or a serpent of some kind, that I said would make a wikid tat. Could be the memory playing tricks though. But yeah your stuff is very swish, wish I could draw like that.

Yeh i posted these ones on my own website - just a mess about url really - they're the only ones i've got scanned - i need to do the rest i've got i think


and yep here's the 'Bearded Serpent' one - https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img119/456/beardedszw8.jpg - this isn't complete as this was pre-horn drawn - this needs a some digital fixing to darken some areas and sharpen the edges to make a much better template for a tattoo - one day, one day lol



really glad you like them Shog

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https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img164/9900/tankgirl1lm4.jpg - Tank Girl - just because, i like girls who drive tanks

Hahahah! Just great!

WOOOT

finally got home to look.

Very nice mong !

I was really into the swirling black and white amorphic swirls and waves as energy. (see my #9 doodle for example of my obsession. cira early to late 80's:)) I think something about psychadelics + the wieght and thicknes of air may have been involved (pre-dates some more tribalisic later designs that I noticed gaining momentum in the 90's)

I gotta hand to ya Mong, I didn't know you could make this sort of work.

And to be honest yet again, this is more my style

Dreadwolf Mistwalker wrote:

WOOOT

finally got home to look.

Very nice mong !

I was really into the swirling black and white amorphic swirls and waves as energy. (see my #9 doodle for example of my obsession. cira early to late 80's:)) I think something about psychadelics + the wieght and thicknes of air may have been involved (pre-dates some more tribalisic later designs that I noticed gaining momentum in the 90's)

You know, it is funny... parallels are odd things.. kind of a symbiotic psychic pulse of thought, a convergent wave of idea hitting many receptive brains round about the same time...

.. I do think that...

I was/am always into the idea of manipulating perception, especially in art, M.C Escher always top of my list of perception stepping and broadening artists who must have lived interesting lives, at least in their minds, and how they were able to freely veiw the world...

... what luxury...

I really got into the idea of trying to create 3 Dimensional perception on the 2D surface paper, and studied such things as Masonic Architecture, Dynamic Geometry and of course Choas Theory in as many aspects of Nature as I could fit in my head!



and thanks Raptor and Guild for commenting - every artist likes appreciation!

https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img294/1927/libertycapcf0.jpg

I was lucky enough to see Mongry's work before...well at least my favorite (see linky)

Artist : One who makes art.

How can you define an artist? An artist could be a great painter, for example, but to me an *artist* is something significantly above and beyond that in achievement.

As every definition of art must be controversial, so any definition of artist must be as well.

Art is everything, not only painting, its music, writing and crafting.



"The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created."
(William Morris (1834-1896), English artist, poet, and social reformer; leader of the Arts and Crafts Movement.)


"What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician? . . . On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly on the alert to the heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness."
(Pablo Picasso.)

"An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible."
(Robert Henri. )

Nice post Amorey.

Sure even stark utilitariamism (Bauhaus) is art.
Infact if you look around you right now..everything you see is in some manner artistic. Simple aesthetics of say computer design, the desk..a pen even.

Amorey wrote:

"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created."
(William Morris (1834-1896), English artist, poet, and social reformer; leader of the Arts and Crafts Movement.)


"What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician? . . . On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly on the alert to the heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness."
(Pablo Picasso.)

I think i love William Morris and Picasso just that little more today!


and you too Lei


one other one I didn't post - The House of the Dying Sun - http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=houseofthedyingsunbv3.jpg

I always secretly wanted to be a comic graphic artist... though my old drawing desk and my Rotring pens were all lost a few years ago in the chaos..!

very impressive Mong !!!!!

(yeah comic book artist , I think we all go through that dream dont we ?)

Dreadwolf Mistwalker wrote:

very impressive Mong !!!!!

(yeah comic book artist , I think we all go through that dream dont we ?)

thanks mate - equal and more returned to you for your work


(sigh - yeh don't we just eh)

Sneak peaked at your pictures before Think I made some feedback back in the time as well

I like it (OF COURSE!)

I agree about M.C Escher being quite amazing, or a-maze-ing Funny that you and Luke got some of the same aspects in your art ...Like my father when I think of it...interesting.

Mongrol wrote:

https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img294/1927/libertycapcf0.jpg - Liberty Cap - drawn in a mad session with a Turkish girl i used to know, this is how I saw her in front of me... the brew we drank was ... well, psychedelic

This one is amazing...

thanks V for Vilje and Sound