Rock Em Sock Em Boxing promo flyer

Wanted to spruce up my recent Rock Em' Sock Em' art and through a classic vintage inspired Boxing flyer would work!

I made sure to the include the year the toy was first introduced and the dates are pure fiction :-)

Also, Madison Sq Garden because everything great happens there! - M

Retro Rock Em, Sock Em!

Every night in bed i stare at my Rock Em Sock Em robots in my bedroom. not having any real display room for it, it sits on top of a cabinet where I can perfectly see it every night.

I've always been in love with those robots, the designs so simple and beautiful and I wanted to somehow depict that. To show off the cool designs and the "gravitas" of this boxing bout, I wanted to spotlight them from below and show off the cool curves.

Hope you all love this one as much as I do! - M

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

Wait 'Till They Get A Load of Me!

I just re watched Batman (1989) on Netflix and wanted to do something different. I've been meaning to draw the Dr Seuss' Grinch for a while and i thought Jack Nicholson's introduction line was perfect to use for the Grinch, re interpreted of course :-)

Merry Christmas Grinches!

"Christmas Freaks terrorizing...Wait 'till they get a load of me" 

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. 

The Final Level - the Last Dragon 30th anniversary print

Thanks to my friend Craig at The last Dragon Tribute site, I will be at the The last Dragon 30th anniversary reunion & screening of the film in NY Nov 8th. Since my original last Dragon poster was the 1st piece of art I drew, I wanted to make this 30th anniversary really special by designing a new art print for the show.

One of the challenges I had with creating this new piece was trying to re tell a story that I had done in my first Last Dragon poster. My style and art has changed vastly since my first attempt and I really wanted to re do the whole poster. but doing so, wouldn't be fair and a cop out. I was a little worried I wouldn't be able to come up with a great way to show you how awesome this movie is.

Thankfully after a long night of sketches and pizza, i realized that the film in many ways resembled Brice Lees' Game of Death. for example, Bruce Leroy, much like Bruce lee, has to go through different levels of fighters until he reaches the big boss for his final test & fight. I wanted my layout to have this hierarchy to it, showing the minor henchmen all the way up to the big boss, sho nuff.

there was such a bevy of crazy oddball bad guys I could have drawn but I really wanted to include some of my favorites heres. Really had fun bringing this to life and I hope I can share my love of this film with the fans of the film this Nov 8th to celebrate such an awesome film!

Thank you to all the fans of my 1st poster and for supporting what I do!

Shine on!

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

T U R T L E...POWER!

I finally did it! For years, ever since the movie, all I ever wanted to draw were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was always afraid however, never really felt good enough or worthy to draw them they way their creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird did. Fear has always limited me in a lot of things and sadly drawing the turtles was one of those struggles.

With this being the 30th anniversary of the TMNT and almost the 25th anniversary of the film, I had to do something to celebrate my favorite film and characters of all time. With mere weeks left until the New York Comic Con, i started to sketch Leonardo, just to get this angst out of me. Wary at how poorly I might draw him, angry at how little confidence I had translating my thoughts onto paper.

Surprisingly, when i had finished Leonardo, I smiled and realized I was able to finally draw him the way I had drawn him in my mind over and over.  Instantly, what started as a one-off turtle, evolved into the final piece you see here. This layout, has been sketched in my head for at least 24 years and i can't believe I was able to finally bring it to life. 

I sincerely hope you all enjoy this as much as I did drawing it, Cowabunga! ....hehe, I made a funny!


I will only make 30 of these available as prints for the New York Comic Con. Any remaining after NYCC will be offered for sale through my site www.MrMauro.com 

Father and Son

I really wanted to add a little turtle next to my Splinter art I did a month ago or so. After a sleepless night I finally was able to bring it to life!

I am going to take this one to the New York Comic Con and see how it does. I really wanted to do all 4 turtles but the more i thought about it, the more I like the idea of a non-specific turtle training with his father. I opted for the classic red traditional color bandana like the comics too.

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.

La Evolucion - The Evolution

This is a piece that I did for an art show a few months ago. I only now realize that I never had a chance to upload it here. It's a very open ended piece and was done in watercolors and then colored a little digitally. I had no real theme when drawing this but wanted to show some sort of progressions with life and technology and music meet.

I hope you all like it

Hail Caesar!...rise of the planet of the apes

After watching rise of the planet of the apes I needed to draw something fast! The movie was so much fun and its amazing how far CGI has come. I honestly forgot the apes weren't real very soon once the movie started. I thoroughly enjoyed the first rebooted film and this one really stands out on its own as a great film into the franchise.

So i whipped this drawing up. and what i thought would be a quick little drawing turned into a full fledged painting, a lot of fun was had with this piece, enjoy!


*UPDATE!!!

after posting this I saw that Caesar himself, Andy Serkis, had liked my photo on Instagram. This has made my day!! really glad I got to draw this. Now go watch the movie!!!

Hamato Yoshi...The Splinter

This was a really fun drawing I got to do after free flowing sketching on a note pad. With Splinter here, I started to do a traditional lined drawing but I wanted to test myself and relied on colors only to bring this to life. The TMNT are my favorite characters of all time and I wanted to something fun in time of the new movie and the new surge of interested in the turtles.

Here is Hamato Yoshi in his prime. I hope to have this be part of a bigger piece in time for the New York Comic Con in Oct 2014.