The Shape of Water

I'm back!!!!! I mean, I never left, just been busy babies!

Here's a vintage inspired poster for the movie "The Shape of Water". Go see this movie, it's beautiful, sad, and moving. If you love Pan's Labyrinth, you'll fall in love with this new film by Guillermo De Toro.

I wanted to do something fun and reminiscent of retro film and dance posters. Trying to be as subtle and non descriptive as possible in the piece so i didn't draw spoilers.

I love the colors in the film and hope I did it justice here.

see you soonish and enjoy!!

Holy Update Batman!

I'm back!!!!

we'll i never really left, just been gratefully busy these last few months. Thanks to happenstance and a bit of good timing I've been doing some art for Creature Features art gallery in Burbank California. If you're in the area this month, check out their Godzilla themed art show, All Art Attack 2!

I've contributed two pieces of art, see below,  for their current show and one is actually painted! Been getting my hands dirty with acrylics and having a blast. happy with how these turned out and I hope to continue painting stuff for their future art shows, i really love that place. You can get limited edition prints of both as well originals only at their gallery so check them out this month!

Gojira - digital

Reptar!

Dead but Delicious... What We Do In The Shadows!

Please Please go and see What We do in the Shadows ASAP! I haven't laughed so hard watching a movie in a very very long time. 

 Immediately after the film i just had to draw one of my favorite scenes from the film with Jemaine Clements Character "Vladislav'. 

The movie is hitting US theaters in limited release in February and you can support the movie by visiting their Kickstarter campaign so please check it out! - M

Happy Krampus!

Here's a little Christmas treat for you naughty little ghouls and girls!

A watercolor and digitally painted portrait of everyones favorite Christmas creep Krampus. I hope to do another watercolor before years end, I have so much fun doing these. 

In the afterlife You could be headed for the serious strife...But tomorrow there'll be Hell to pay

Happy Halloween!!!

It's my favorite time of the year and here is my annual Halloween art piece. I was super influenced by the Squirrel Nut Zippers song "Hell".

Here's a super swanky bar in the afterlife full of Ghosts, skeletons and creeps!

Hope everyone has an awesome holiday!

#boo

i tried to think of the most harmless thing

I thought I had lost the original art to this but thankfully I forgot I had scanned it prior to gifting it to the Firefighters at Hook & lader 8, The Ghostbusters firehouse. Being its the 30th anniversary I was excited to paint this right and give it some new life.

so I hope you all enjoy it, everything was done in watercolor and then enchanted in photoshop a tad.

Long Live the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man...and Gozer the Gozerian.

A Halloween that's out of this world...

a little Halloween Art Treat from Me to you :-) ... Happy Halloween Ghoulies!

"Trick or Treat Abduction"

Midnight Rider

Halloween is so close, can ya sense it?

In another life I'm sure I would have been a Greaser, heck, I think right now I'm pretty greasy. In conjunction with my massive beard and October, I wanted to do a neat Fonzy-like Wolfman image. I love the idea of the Wolfman being a Greaser on his motorcycle riding down highways with the full moon by his side.

The Glasses were inspired by my pair of "Paranorman" IMAX glasses that I wear all the time lol.

Hope you ghouls and goblins like it :-)

Conquer!!! a Mars Attacks tribute

Ack...Ack...Ack....

I really couldn't find any great Mars Attacks t-shirt so I took it upon myself to make one! I wanted something really simple but full of color and sorta poignant. I've mentioned before that I am a huge fan of the Mars Attacks series of cards and the Tim Burton film.

So what better way to pay tribute than a martian profile propaganda!

Check out my two styles that are available at www.redbubble.com and use the code "ATREAT" at checkout to save 10% off. These shirts come in Peace!

http://www.redbubble.com/people/agliarept/works/10552351-conquer

13x19 Print signed for 20$ shipped of Black & White Version.

 

http://www.redbubble.com/people/agliarept/works/10553177-conquer-in-color?ref=work_more_artist_works

13x19 Print signed for 20$ shipped of Green Version.

Pacific Rim, the Movie Poster by Mauro Balcazar

I can't wait for this film.

I've been a fan of del Toro for many years, I've gone as far as meeting the man on a book signing even after my car had been broken into earlier in the day (Thanks you bastards). I had brought him a drawing I made him when i was younger, looking back now it was very rough and it's cool to see how my art has developed over the years. (pictured below). He was a great guy to talk to, very friendly and instantly spoke to me in Spanish when he saw me. Threw me off because it felt like i was talking to a normal person, i don't bust the Spanish out for just anyone, even my GF was awe struck lol.

When you mix my love for giant Monster movies and Robots you get the awesome that is Pacific Rim! I remember seeing the director Guillermo del Toro talk about the film at New York Comic Con (i Snuck into the press Q&A and got so close to asking him a question :-/ ). He talked about the Kaiju Monster films that inspired him making the film and what a great experience Pacific Rim was going to be. I thought, finally, a great Monster Movie done by a Westerner!!!!

The excitement continued when my GF and I bought tix to go see him speak at the Nerdist podcast live after the NYCC. He talked about the film further, going into detail about the Kaiju culture and the awesome Mechs that the films human characters pilot. It was a great night, hearing someone i actually admire talk about movies and his passion for making them (he talked about having to fight the studios to get Ron Perlman cast as Hellboy for Christ's sake!). 

 After hearing all this awesome pacific Rim talk, and after the trailer came out, I really wanted to try and design something that I would have loved to see adorn a movie theater. Honestly, I drew this for myself, when it was all done i stepped back and realize dthat this is why i am so looking forward to seeing the movie. Giant landscapes and two titans battling with the city as there backdrop, it's epic in scale and i get a feeling of wonder. (imagine if Cloverfield had to fight a robot, it'd even the odds lol)  Obviously I'm not privy to the monster designs so i embellished what i could on the poster.

so there you have it, I hope you like it. I know it's not a Modo print ( one day :-) i wish) but a lot went into this poster and I hope you connect to it in some way.

enjoy!- M

I hate you Freddy Krueger

never been much of a fan of the asshat you call "Freddy Krueger". Mostly because he caused me many a sleepless night terrified his gross face would come and get me and because my cousins are asswipes and tortured me. so in a way to get over my fear, drew this and thought it would help. hope you horror fans dig it, i actually had fun making the metal parts of his claw shiny and what not.