UKIYO often refers to a style of artwork popular in the Edo period of Imperial Japan that depicted the lives of courtesans and the nobility. It celebrated a life of excess and luxury. The word itself is a combination of two characters: UKI, meaning “floating,” “frivolous,” or “cheerful”; and YO, meaning “world”,…
The biggest complaint with MoS movie seems to be that it needs to be a bit more light hearted or “cartoonish” as it were. And he is reassuring us that this movie will be very serious. And that is terrible.
I’m a PhD student studying the sonic experience of museums...as part of my fieldwork, I make these “listening sketches” – drawings I make while sitting in a museum with my eyes closed, making marks (I’m creating a lexicon of representational symbols) on a page that correspond with the sounds I hear within my field of…
I’m writing and drawing a webcomic with my sons Jack (11) and Will (7) called E.P.I.C. Bros. about two brothers whose dad is a superhero, and they entertain themselves by going into his Incredo-Cave and playing with all the supervillain weapons and gadgets. Also, there is a hamster butler. No, really. It posts three…
Ex Machina in progress
In the year AD 62, the exiled Roman Empress Claudia Octavia was sentenced to death by ritual suicide by her former…
I’m working on some horror attraction sound design for this coming fall. I’d show you guys, but there’s an NDA and I could get fired. I’m basically just sitting in a recording studio “backstage” at an amusement park recording and editing screams, horrific effects, and intense music designed to frighten people.
I’m working on a companion piece to my graphic novel UKIYO which should be coming out the end of this year or the beginning of next.
Have you been drawing a set of nebulae trading cards? Carving all-butter replicas of Renaissance paintings? Building…
My graphic novel UKIYO should be hitting the stands in August 2015. I really hope you all like it. www.facebook.com/carypolkovitz
While I am waiting on the edits for my first graphic novel, UKIYO, I decided to work on a more down-to-earth, slice of life story called "Meaning but Without the Words." Here is a sample of a page from it (without dialogue. I wouldn't want to give TOO much away).
For my birthday, my wife got me a 1920s Underwood Portable typewriter...and a typewriter to USB conversion kit.
cyberpunk inspired music video, coming along very well i might add :) hopefully finishing up the bulk of it and moving on to fine details tonite
This article seems like it should mention the fact that the new artist for Batgirl is Babs Tarr. And her design (with Cameron Stewart) is the best costume since Jamie McKelvie's redesign of Captain Marvel two years ago.
Looks awesome.
Really love the art style! Looks great!
Completed: Watercolor interpretation of King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King
This is 3-bromopyruvic acid. It has a lot of potential in killing cancer cells, but has a few problems. I may have solved one.
Reimagined versions of every ship from the classic Wing Commander Universe!
UKIYO (a graphic novel in a speculative fiction vein). www.facebook.com/ukiyo.cp for updates.
