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VERSUS THE CITY

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What I’ve been busy working on for the past few weeks…

“VERSUS THE CITY”
Chris Yee X Gerald Leung

Kaiju (怪獣, kaijū) is a Japanese word that means “strange beast,” but often translated in English as “monster”. Coming in all shapes and sizes, these creatures rise from the dark of the ocean and volcanic undergrounds of Earth to do battle, with the city as the ultimate battleground.

Paying homage to these bizarre beasts, Chris and Gerald venture through slipstreams of influence from old legends of the silverscreen, the dynamism of the manga panel and the wacky nature of the East to give birth to their creations.

The Tate Gallery
345 Glebe Pt Rd
Wednesday August 29
6pm

Be There!

A Day at the Races

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I was asked to sketch up a chalk mural at BWM advertising agency. The wall space was roughly 8m in width and 3m in height. All up it took around 4 hours to finish.

BIGϟBAD

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A villain’s equivalent of a megazord. Click for a larger view.

On another note has anyone else noticed that Cell is the silkiest villian ever designed?
Lime green all over print? game over.

2039

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Some new new of that upcoming apocalyptic future

Space Death 33

human>black goo>kaiju>stomach alien>death>zombie? in that order

The World Watcher

One of the first organic beings ever created, this guy can be found quietly scanning the world from the clouds above. He creates order in the world fighting off incoming dangers aswell as restoring balance by materializing animals and nature from his consciousness when needed. Or something like that…

 

In other news Quake 3 is on flash!
http://q3fl.impulse12.com/
its kinda dodgy and takes ages to load but it exists nonetheless and that blows my mind, truly closer to that Prometheus promised future.

All Grey Everything

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So along with the comic heres a preview of another personal project I’ve been working on, soon to be released in a printed greyscalyle zine. A large focus on Greyscale as the new theme of the zine but more on that later yo
four arms vs ϟϟϟϟϟϟ

This piece is kind of a b-side to the painting I did for Hyper Reality. It began as an initial idea I had when planning the first piece but ran out of time to paint as a second piece. I might revisit this with acrylics later, who doesn’t like hero/villain fights!?

Something I started ages ago. fashion/fantasy/girls/animals. Playing around with drawing textures and repeats, more to come.


Surf & Turf

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Through the week I have been working on some artwork for the newly branded Pub Life in Surry Hills. With the artworks I tried to create an old school Aussie Pub type feel trying to recreate illusions of a hand painted/airbrushed look through photoshop. To see the rest of the series go over there and check em out in person and while your at it go grab the fiendish O.G. burger. Grease level one hunned.

O.k. Rap time – one new, one old and one funny. The order, you decide…


and one for MCA

Ultra XX

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My piece for the “Hyper Reality Dimension XX” gallery the other week.
This was my tribute to all of the high energy, Saturday morning Jap Heroes of the 70s/80s/90s. Besides my “Evil Ryu” spin on the godfather, Ultraman, other side elements I tried to include were some of this, this, this, and this.
Initially I was going to do a whole piece on Guyver entirely, my personal favourite growing up but I was afraid it wouldn’t be as easily recognizable. So I did the next best thing and created a mash-up instead. So yeh If you don’t know please check Guyver out, I guarantee the most bizarre, dark, violent version of the good old power rangers type you’ll ever see (titty laser cannons? you can’t beat that).
The piece is acrylic and a bit of spray on a 40 x 30 canvas.

Photos of the event are now out courtesy of aMBUSH gallery which can be found here

The online catalogue to check out all of the other works can be found here