A few members here have expressed an interest in seeing some of my artwork, so I've selected a few things that seem anonymous enough to post without worry.

I'm going to try to put these in roughly chronological order, starting with some early drawings from high school and a few projects from art school (mid 80's to early 90's). The first several were products of my experiments with LSD. Someone else might deserve some credit for the second one as I think I was looking at a poster in my friends house while drawing it, but I was pretty fried. A few of the others were tattoo designs (the wizard is on my right arm), Necron 99 was a friends' band, Most of the others were art school projects. The last two were some of my first attempts at painting with oils, all the other color ones are colored pencil.

Awesome stuff CH...
loving the pencil work especially the two dragons..
You better be going for the Fun page..

how come your new stuff would give you away?

Midway through my art degree I got interested in tattoos, then dropped out when I was offered an apprenticeship at a local tattoo shop. The first pic here was actually done while I was still in school, prior to any specific tattoo training. I'm still rather proud of how well that one turned out, considering I had no idea what I was doing. The last one is part of my own self-administered forearm sleeve.

I stuck with the tattoo gig full time for about 5 years, changing shops once. By then I was sick of doing flash designs, and also sick of the people I was working for, so I went back to school. I have a lot more pictures than this of course but only wanted to show ones that were original designs or ideas they brought (not flash), things that were at least somewhat interesting, and that I also had good photos of. Looking through my old stuff I'm really saddened by how crappy a lot of the photos are, and have left out some of my favorite pieces because of it. I sure wish today's digital cameras had been around back then!

Thanks!

I'm putting up newer stuff too, just give me a minute

After going back to school I got interested in computer graphics, and started learning to work with 3D modeling and animation. In one of my classes I met someone who was working with a small startup company that needed a few artists, so I jumped onboard with that. We spent about 3 years working on a space strategy game similar to Starcraft. We were in development at the same time and would have been competitors if the game had actually ended up being released, but at the last minute the president of our company got into a disagreement about revisions with the big production company who was paying for everything, so the whole thing ended up getting scrapped. It's kind of a shame too, because it was really a cool game. We had twice as many playable races as Starcraft, and in addition to ground based missions you could also build fleets and fight in space to take over other star systems and colonize new planets, similar to something like Master of Orion.

So this is a small part of my contribution to that project, a lot of it was just modeling spaceships and buildings, and doesn't make for very interesting pictures. Some of these are stills from animated sequences I did, but I can't get at those video files right now. I might try to dig more stuff up later this is just what's easiest to get to.

So after the video game company folded I started my own company doing web design and a little freelance illustration work. Here's a pair of techno album covers and one of the rave flyers I did for a music promoter in Madison in the early 2000's. I also got into some sculpting, costume work and SPFX type stuff for a few years, but wasn't making much money and didn't stick with it. I'll see what else I can dig up from this time period tomorrow, then get into my main obsession for the last 6 years or so - glassblowing.

WOW! Love the art Crazyhorse, If your in the Illinois area with a tattoo gun you have a customer Keep it up

Nah I sold my tattoo stuff years ago to buy glassblowing equipment. But thanks very much! The Guy you want is Guyomech. He's light years beyond anything I ever did, and I believe may be somewhere near your neck of the woods.

Crazyhorse...thought you might appreciate this...

Blown Away... understatement..

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1LEG6Y/:t!dZMm4E:ApOqn4JQ/i.minus.com/iRJ4rX3qpcBTm.gif/

Yeah I've seen that done before, and it never ceases to amaze. They make it look so easy, but trust me, it's not! It's trying and failing hundreds of times that makes it so graceful.

Unfortunately that's a completely different type of glass and glass blowing than what I do, those techniques wouldn't work for me at all. I can and do make horses, the process is just very different. But furnace work is definitely something I want to learn one of these days!

Just gotta say Crazyhorse... you do incredible artistic work! Keep it up and thanks for sharing with us

Oh man oh man oh man!! That sleepy dragon is so awesome!! I really like your landscape with the pointilated tree and the unicorn woman is so good!! I wish so bad I cold draw with such clarity. I have gotten better with pens, but have far to go! The man in the loin cloth reminds me so much of a trip I had this summer while camping.

I got some prismacolors like you said. I had meant to for a while, but luckily you motivated me to finally do it. I should have some good stuff coming out soon. I am very happy with how they can almost look like paint quality with the supplies I got.

Also, I would love to learn glass blowing. They have a good glass museum in my town with classes. If I had my own setup I'd make nice glass smoking devices! And of course, other nice things too.

Thanks for putting some stuff up!! I may never meet you, but I feel like I know you on a different level. Art is good for that!

Thanks I really appreciate it! But man all that stuff is just soooo old lol. It feels like a lifetime (or 3) ago. Here's another version of the uni babe.

Great art is timeless, no?

All your stuff looks great... What 3D programs were you using?

...and of course I'm very curious to see some of your glass!

Thanks for posting this Crazyhorse, I enjoyed viewing your work.

Thanks much! 3D was all done in SoftImage. It was one of the top programs at the end of the 90's, along with 3Dsmax and Maya. Don't know if anyone still uses it. My 3D skills are WAY out of date! But I might get back into it one of these days, I enjoyed it a lot and there's SO much you can do with it these days.



So I'm having a ridiculously hard time finding much of my work from 2000-2005, I've been digging through my hard drives during spare moments over the last few days and I'm still not finding a bunch of stuff that's really important to me. I know it's got to be somewhere but I'm stating to worry a bit

But for the time being I guess I'll just skip ahead to 2006 when I started my glass apprenticeship.

Unfortunately I don't often get to do the kind of work I'm going to post here, the vast majority of the time I'm working on really basic stuff just trying to pay the bills, similar to my time in the tattoo biz. But I'm working my tail off to change all that, and hope to eventually be able to make higher end work like this my full time gig.


These were some of my first experiments, made during the last half of 2006.

2007-2009