Revenge of the Nerds - Tri Lamb Talent Poster

      
 

"Tri Lamb Talent" by Mauro Balcazar

You Damn Dirty Nerds!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi folks,

been working on this one for a week or so and want to show it you guys.  This one is called
"Tri Lamb Talent!" and it's a poster I drew for the film, that I love, Revenge of the Nerds.  Loved this film as a kid and still love it as a semi-adult Nerd. I hope i did it justice, even drawing Lamar made me LOL so hard. I wanted to make it as 80's as possible and even managed to mimic the background off of those cheesy laser class photos.


Hope you all enjoy it as much as I did drawing it! - M

11x17 prints available signed and numbered for 20$ shipped in the US  (secured Paypal)
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Chillaxin on The Grid....

Done for practice.. Here is an illustrated take on the Tron Legacy world. Not a character in particular, just a program overlooking the out-lands on top of his light cycle (not a wheelchair lol). I like the style of Motorcycle gear they used on the film , i even bought the same jacket they used for the film and it rocks. Hope you guys like this one :-)

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

Avengers Assemble! my work in an art gallery this week

It's been a while hasn't  it?


Don't worry my gigapets, I am here to feed your need, or lack thereof, for some more art from me. I was invited to take part in a Angers theme art gallery a few weeks ago and jumped at the chance to submit some old school water color art.

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I usually am comfortable working digitally because I can always control-z my way out of danger, but not this time, i put pencil to paper and added a splash of color. Here's the haul...

                                       Captain American al la lichtenstein style :-)
                                        "Never Surrender!" - ink, watercolors, colored pencil.

 

I Love the Bill Bixby/Lou Ferigno Hulk show, LOVE IT!

-- ink, watercolors, colored pencil.

 

My first try at skin tone colored pencil, not bad!

 -- ink, watercolors, colored pencil.

 

Even Iron Man needs a jump start, ha!

-- ink, watercolors, colored pencil.

 

Traditional Japanese Inking style with Kanjii

"Iron Man" - avengers of their native land.

-- ink, watercolors, colored pencil.

2013 Happy New Year

It's been a hell of year and let the new adventures of Mauro continue onto 2013....see you in the future.

A Christmas story...sort of

I drew this originally as part of a friends magazine art project but dates got pushed back and I thought I could still use it somehow in time for Christmas. Here's a little story, albeit a weird one, about Christmas and well zombies sort of. enjoy and Happy Xmas- Mauro

Christmas or Bust!

this was a fun one. I love motorcycles and I'd be the 3rd elf riding the Ducati for sure. I thought it's be neat to do a biker gang style with santa and a few of his biker elves. Drew all the styles of motorcycles that I love. This is like a Christmas style "Wild Hogs". lol happy Holidays and hope you enjoyed it as much as i did - M

My Tiny Tina

I tried my hand at sculpting, molding and casting for the first time and had a blast making these litle Tina figures from the Bob's burgers television show. I love the character and my friends do as well. I thought it would be neat to make a figure of her that doesn't do anything, but also gave her a her 1 fan fiction book and a post it note that said "Tina" lol.

hopefully il try to make linda next one day. :-) - M

9 to 5 till i die!

Really digging this Bansky book i got at a store the other day. I connected with the visual pop his images had and each one conveyed a message.

I want to do that with my art and in my head i painted this image i just felt i wanted to share. Don't we all feel like that sometimes? I know some of my friends especially feel it for sure and I wanted this to be a High Five of sorts to all of you hard working people. so for all of us riff rafts slaving about i salute you!

think of it as a badge of honor or a coat of arms for all the hard work you do. carry on!

hope you guys dig it as much as i did drawing it.  - M

There is only one Robocop...MURPHY!!!!

"What's your name son?"........."Murphy!"

I've been thinking a lot lately about the movies I loved watching as a kid. There's a joy i get when reminiscing about my favorite character, costume, quote in a film. I've read a lot of about the new Robocop film and I honestly don't know what to think or feel about it. Will it work? Could it possibly be any better then the original?...

The movie being currently shot has an amazing cast, actors I'd never expect to see in a Robocop franchise; Sam Jackson, Michael Keaton, that just blows my mind. I'm excited that Robocop is coming back to theaters and the social conscious. in 87, the film hit all the right notes about what was happening to the US and it all felt gritty and real even tho there was a giant cyborg walking around. I miss the 80's when I think of films like Robocop.

With this new iteration, one of the major faults I have with the film is the design of the titular character. time and time again with superhero movies, never fails to use the standard muscle suit or the similarly abused "iron man" armor. just look at it, its all black, flat, a boring swat uniform on steroids. There's no love, no soul in it, it's void of any personality and more importantly lacking in Robotic appeal.

 I have no doubt the acting in this film will be great if not good, but for me, I just don't see this version of Robocop having the magic or presence waking into a crime scene. Even as I type this, I'm looking at my Robocop 18" figure from Neca, standing terrifyingly stoic holding his auto-9. The figure itself doesn't look comfortable, he looks so robotic, but then again isn't that the point?

I ended up drawing this photo above just out of pure disappointment and just a little sadness of having a childhood memory raped by a designer's poor imagination. However, I will always take pleasure knowing that my favorite version of Robo has had a long and healthy life in movies and tv show (so not so good) that I can always go back and enjoy. Regardless how the new film turns out, I will go on Believing that the real Robocop, the original Murphy, will still kick ass.

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.

Calling Dixon Hill come in Picard

Always on the case is Dixon Hill, the holodecks very own gum shoe. I LOVE detective stories like sam spade or philip marlowe and when our captain Picard first donned his fedora i was psyched. Here I'm paying homage to both the star trek character but also dick tracy, another great noir character.

Manos!! the Hands of Fate a Rifftrax event for the ages!

Oh My last night my best friend bought me tickets to go see the Rifftrax team of MST3K doing "Manos: the hands of fate" live at the AMC theater. well it was awesome, the movie was terrible and the Riff team just made it so damn enjoyable I had to go home and celebrate this terrible movie with a great lil poster to 1 of it's main stars!! (i'll get to you one day Torgo!). do yourself a favor and catch the MST3K episode where they riff on this great shitty movie!! its not one to be missed. thanks to Jeffy Jugbutt for buying me tickets.