Dusk: The Lightbearer Promo Illo (Pen and Ink on Artboard)

"It has been said that is always darkest before the dawn, but what happens when all light and hope disappears at Dusk. When the twilight goes dark. When everything goes silent. What then? During the gloaming, during the time before the crickets begin to sing. The time of the eventide. What will you do? Will you be able to stare down the silence? Will you face the fear? Will you peer into the gaping quietude and hold steadfast? Will you put a face to the unrighteous? Will you try to imagine what the silence looks like?"

Dusk: The Lightbearer Promo Illustration (c) 2006 Shugawash Experiences (Pen and Ink on Artboard)

Power Girl (Pen and Ink on Artboard)

I know alot of you are saying but Jeff or Kool or j or Starchild or Geek or Jerk or whatever you know me as are saying .... "Hey, Doesn't draw superheroes too and comic books" --- "What's up with the Ansel Adams stuff?"

Well here you go for all the comic geeks.... One of the "Big Guns" of DC Comics.

I will be posting various pages this weekend of my sequential artwork so keep an eye out.

j

Power Girl (c) 2006 DC Comics

Power Girl (created on Comic Board 11 x 17 Artboard with a hb pencil inked with a rapidograph pen and copic inking pen. Scanned into Photoshop where it was colored digitally)

GM - Hey Thom what are you looking for in a TAT --- shoot me an email..

You will also notice that my Comic book art is signed Kool and my "Fine Art" pieces are signed 'Kulisek".

Gary's Mountain (Rapidograph Pen)

Another Commission.

Unc Unc, is this Storm King or a picture from Storm King?

'Gary's Mountain" (c) 2006 jkulisek

"The Captain" (Rapidograph Pen and Ink)

Another Cross Hatching Commission from last year.

I still remember the game after he did. when the catcher's position was empty...the crowd was so silent








" Now batting numba 15, Thurman Munson, numba 15"
Enjoy!
"The Captain" (c)2005 jkulisek

Amy and Jason Doce (Rapidograph Pen )

Hey Cousin Allie!!!

You still owe me a picture of your Mr. Davenport so I can Finish giving you your wedding present.

For the rest of y'all (sorry my time in Oklahoma is slipping out), over the next couple days I will be posting some cross hatching comissions I have done over last year or so.

j


GM = just me, some photographs and a rapidograph pen...



( AM/Jay-- thanks for hanging this will such promience in your house and thanks for letting me post this.)

Amy and Jason Doce (c) their perspective parents

Enrica (Design2 Colored Pencils/Markers)

I keep the colored pencils out and work on a poster design that I think is pretty kool but a little hot as well.

All me --no computer tricks AM. As the kidz say, "I'm keepin' it Real YO!!!"

A quick footnote ( known affectionately as a geek moment or GM, From now on. So on future postings if you see a GM treat it like a PS on a letter. So when you see a GM thta means you are about to enter the geek zone.)

GM: The Design2 colored pencils. They stopped making them about 5 years ago and I wasn't able to find that I like to replace them. Then like a dream I found a art store going out of business selling a few gross of assorted colors on the greatest of inventions EBAY. So the Kid made a bid and won them. Know they have a place of honor at the crib right next to my prince bootlegs and my Jack Kirby Thors. (See Addie --I can ramble with the best of them)

Enrica (Spanish) "Rules her household."
<"Enrica" (C) jkulisek 2006 created with Design2 Colored Pencils/Markers>

Dagny (Design2 Colored Pencils)

In part of my trial to get back in touch with my "organic side", I also was experimented this weekend with some colored pencils.

Two constants of my work, you will begin to notice is:
1. The effect of negative space or the really the absence of positive space to define forms and shapes
2. The strong eye conduct or lack of made by my "models".

I definitely like the my old design2 pencils and the inherent softness of the images.

for the record -- I did use photoshop on this but only to scan it in. No tweaking. No technological "tricks". No retouch just a clean scan.

Thanks again for listening to me ramble. Or reading me ramble.

j

Dagny(Old Norse) "New Day"
<"Dagny" (C) jkulisek 2006 created with Design2 Colored Pencils>

"Sun" (watercolor sketch)

I have been wanting to get "dirty" again by using my brushes and watercolors --so much of my recent work has been strictly digital -- adobe illustrator/photoshop and my wacom tablet but I didn't want to lose the "touch".

For this piece I used my watercolors to create a different look -- I definitely like the way the watercolor paper gives a nice background hue. I then scanned it in photoshop and "tweaked" it slightly. Can't escape technology 100% I guess. Hope you like it ... Especially you.

<"Sun" (c) jkulisek 2006 created with faber-castell watercolors >

Welcome (or Welcome Back)

Welcome to Pinupaday.com version 2.0 !!!

This is a work in progress and will be hopefully updated a lot more frequently then pinupaday.com v 1.0.

If you have any questions or comments -- whatever--- hit me back at the comments field.

I will be posting some of the images i posted over at the old Pinupaday over time as well so if your missing some of your favs ---don't worry they will be back.

As for why you're here --- I tried to come up with an art nouveau film noir piece (kinda)

Ladies and Gentlemen .... I give you ABHA!

Abha (name of Indian Descent meaning lustre or shine)
<"Abha" (C) jkulisek 2006 created in adobe illustrator>