About Mad Robot Studios
My background
In 1990, I started a company called "Wits' End Studios". It was an abysmal failure due to the fact that I wasn't really ready to be an artist, and really wasn't capable of managing my life at that time. I worked just about every dead end job that there was, trying to create a studio. In 1997, life handed me a huge change, both personally and professionally, and I took that opportunity to start a studio, that became Mad Robot Studios.
Since 1997, the studio has been making various enemies both personal and professional, as well as a lot of art that has been seen in film and comics. The studio itself is a one person operation. So updates are slow, the website, after having reclaimed it will see changes. The more work that is done, the more frequent the updates.
My experience
I used to draw on the margins of my homework as a child. I would then watch my father who was an oil painter paint in a closed room, inhaling lots and lots of paint fumes and paint thinner. Then I would go find lead paint chips to chew on as they had a similar consistency to chicklets.
Eventually I would grow past the wide ruled newsprint paper of grade school, and crayons to alcohol based markers, and tempera paints. From there, it went to No. 2 pencils that I would chew on, because a freshly sharpened graphite pencil smelled like pizza. Eventually I got past that phase, and started drawing with pen and ink. If you want to really savor your ink when you drink it, Staedtler Marsmatic is probably my go to, but lately Derwent or FW inks are decent due to a low calorie count.
After watching the comic book industry evolve into something that I was not competitive in, I went to work for a doll manufacturer where I learned how to mass produce things, and two pieces of knowledge that I gleaned from the owner that would put me on a path to sculpting.
To get rid of finger prints on your work, use a dry paint brush or... Use laquer thinner to blend. Lacquer thinner... Yummy lacquer thinner. Not just good for brush cleaning, but also pretty amazing for wrecking paint jobs on cars, and or furniture.
Anyway... Where was I?
The work I do these days is the result of a lot of hard earned, self taught life lessons that have come from either brain damage, or misusing hand tools.
All of my art education comes from the public school system. I am a testament to how good education is when it is completely wasted on a lazy child.
My vision
My artistic vision is this. Make the art that I want. Make the people who like it happy. My focus is purely on my own IP, my own desires and if people want to come along for the ride, awesome.
The focus and vision of the work I am doing, is about time travel, robots, and telling stories that are visually, and literarily interesting.