If you're looking for unconventional shit to stuff a stocking with this year, I suggest you check out this man-tyke of a tome, I HATE: The Art Of Todd Bratrud. Unfamiliar with the name? Todd's been making graphic waves ever since he first started working for Consolidated Skateboards in the late '90s. The scene by then had grown a bit blasé with a preponderence of logo boards, but Todd bucked the floundering Donner Party and found new frontiers to rape, pillage, plunder and burn. Doubt me? Congratulations! It's a man.
His artistic themes run the quirky, offbeat, off-kilter, and cleverly absurd gamut. His women are alternately chunky, bruised, damaged, tattooed, tailed, green, or dead, yet all oddly hot—the same deft artistic touch that R. Crumb bestows upon his big-bottomed brigade of illustrated female figures.
Beyond that, he's the first person I'll cite as providing me with a good swift kick in the creative ass when I was at a waffly low in my own drawing career, so I can never say too many great things about Todd and his perpetually fresh output—this book included.
Check out the sampler plate below and see if he doesn't whet your appetite for arty destruction, too...
I HATE: The Art of Todd Bratrud features a selection of his work from such companies as Nike SB, Flip, The Skateboard Mag, Volcom, Enjoi, Teenage Runaway, The High 5, and many more. Spec-wise it's the exact same look and feel as the first edition in this series, WARNING: The Art of Marc McKee [see this previous post], clocking in at 96-pages in a full-color, fun-size, 6.5 x 8.5 softcover format.
Order your copy today for the hot shit price of only $19.95: I HATE: The Art of Todd Bratrud
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Posted by: Flor | December 15, 2011 at 07:21 AM
This is such a cute little candy purse. Love the embossing and your reindeer is darling! :) I think the kids will have fun making the reindeer punch art at our "kid's Christmas" get-together next week. TFS Angie! :)
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Style of art and vibrant colors are great, content a bit disturbing. Whats the frame of mind of this artist? Is it insanely abstract, creatively hyper, or somewhat twisted imagination? Im just saying, NOT to insult or offend. ( :
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Posted by: Devon | December 16, 2011 at 02:08 PM
One summer I drew over 50 portraits of Todd wearing his famous Happy Halloween shirt. One of them i drew with chapstick.
Posted by: Devon | December 16, 2011 at 02:09 PM
We made big pots of pasta and had spaghetti dinners; we had pre-party parties; we had TV watch parties; we had birthday parties; and we had Christmas parties. The photo is from one such Christmas party. It was 1995, and we certainly dressed the part. My closest friends and I baked cookies and breads and made dips and worked tirelessly on our little holiday party menu; we even had an annual ornament exchange. And aren't we cute?
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