Hey guys! Haven't updated here in a while. I feel like that's what I always
say when I write a journal. I should just make a header that says that...

Anyway you all should check out my Etsy shop!

I've got two new prints available to buy, but they
are super limited! So get em while they last!

(damn I wish I had a sub so I could post pics, this journal
probably looks mad boring)

Also I put up some original art work! So get that while it lasts
too!

[link]

ALSO I made a special blog page for my
Halloween mixes, Kandy Coated Kackles!

[link]

You can find all the mixes on there up for download, except
the Christmas one, still gotta upload it.

I'll be making two new mixes this year so stayed tuned for that!

That's about it. See ya!

Hey guys, I am happy to announce that I will currently be taking commissions!
Since I have moved to a new place and now have to pay rent (among other things) and I'm currently in job limbo right now I will have plenty of time to draw you guys some kick ass stuff!

Here are the prices:

$15 for Sketches
$20 for B/W Inks
$65 for Digital Piece of 1 character
$75 for Digital Piece of more than 1 characters
$85 for Traditional Marker Piece of 1 character
$95 for Traditional Marker Piece of more than 1 characters

And here's how its gonna go:

There will be 10 spots open for Sketches and Inked drawings and 15 open for Digital and Traditional pieces. Once those spots are filled I will not take any more commissions until all the pieces are finished. Then I will re-open the spots.

Some Rules:

Please please PLEASE note what kind of things I usually draw. I will draw anything from:

-fictional existing characters from movies, shows, cartoons, video games, books, comics...
-caricatures of people, celebrities, musicians, you, your friends...
-monsters, animals, creatures, cartoony things, hot chicks, ugly dudes…
-and course your own original characters!

If you commission me to draw your adorable new born baby or a respectable portrait of your family, it will probably look very boring. I also will not do any kind of porn or hard core fetish stuff. I will also not do any kind of furry porn or furry fetish stuff.

How to Contact me:

Send an email to zachbellissimo@gmail.com and title the subject "Commission".

Messages are ok too, but email is preferred.

Make sure you send me a DETAILED description of what you want. Include photo reference if it is an original character of yours or a photo of someone.  If you send no photo reference I will NOT search through your gallery to find said character.  Also a lot of people do tell me "do whatever you want" that is ok too, but just be aware that I WILL DO WHATEVER I WANT hahahah!

How to pay:

Paypal Paypal Paypal PAYPAL! Send the money to zachbellissimo@gmail.com

If you are really interested in commissioning me and can't use Paypal, talk to me and we can work something out!

Thanks for the interest and support guys :]


SPOTS:

Sketches/Inks

1. Katie

2. Ross

3. Grant

4. Chris

5.

6.

7.

8. Devin

9. Jen

10.

Digital/Traditional Finished

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

Whoo! Thanks everyone for the good tidings and wishes.

More art will come from me as soon as I get all my stuff from the
moving van. All my art stuff was packed in there.

See ya soon, DevFarts!

-Z

Hey Deviant farts!

I'll be moving to LA this Friday! Taking the plunge, I've lived in New York all my
life so this will be quite interesting.

Not much else to report. Just thought I'd update!

Today the king of all wild things is gone. Maurice Sendak has passed away at 83. A big inspiration to me. I would have loved to have the chance to have met him, but I did get to see his original works on display in NYC.

Rest in peace, Maurice, take care in that big rumpus in the sky. Thank you for all your wonderful gifts. When I look at your work I feel like my supper will always be hot.

The show I've been working on since June at the amazing Titmouse Inc. is finally premiering on
Disney XD APRIL 30th!

Its called Motorcity and its fuckin amazing. The first episode if up for free download on Itunes!

Watch it here: [link]

My name is in the credits too! Very Excite!!!

As some of you may know that the big bad evil government
shut down Megaupload today, the biggest file sharing site
on the whole internet (I believe 4 percent of all the internet's
information came from there.)

So that means that my Halloween mixes,
Kandy Coated Kackles, need a new home!
Because as of right now, there is no way
of downloading them!

Can anybody suggest a filesharing
site that lets you have a free membership
and can upload extremely large files?

I'll be drawing some requests and playing lame music.

[link]

Christmas is great, so it may seem
I bet some of you still long for Halloween
Don't fret and don't panic
Here's some yule tide songs to make you go manic!
Its called The Creeps of Christmas
And as you can see
The creeps celebrate the season rather differently

Krampus catches naughty kids
and brings them to his lair
Wolfman is jealous of Santa
He may have more hair!
The Bumble tries to eat Rudolph
Though he's too slow and dumb
Frankenstein is very festive
Putting up the mistle thumb!
Dracula will suck egg nog
From a jugular I bet
This gift is for the Headless Horseman
Its a severed head in a basket!

The Purple People Eater can still rock and roll
The Ghost of Christmas Future is for whom the bell tolls
The Gremlins always cause such a clatter
Jack Skellington creeps in to see what's the matter

The Grinch just hates Christmas
The whole damn season
Boris Karloff suggests
No one quite knows the reason
And Jacob Marley sits tortured in his heavy shackles
He'll cheer up when he listens to some Kandy Coated Kackles



download: [link]

Merry Christmas to all you ghouls!

-Zach

Hey guys, like I said before I'm going to be
selling some original art.

So here's whats up!


[link]


[link]


[link]

Each purchase comes with a free sketch, some prints and a postcard!

I'll probably put up more stuff to sell soon, but this is all
for now!

Thanks guys!

Hey guys,

Just doing a little update here.

Ummm work's been stressful, yet fulfilling.

We've been working on a show for Disney and just saw the first
completed episode and its pretty awesome. The show probably
won't be out until next year but I'll let all you know about that
when the time comes.

Nothing else has been going on really. I'm working
on getting all the Kandy Coated Kackles together in
one download. I'll probably do that around Christmas.

Also around Christmas I'm going to put some artwork up
for sale. Check the poll on the side.
I figure I'd do 3 at a time, one classic monster,
one Batman villain and one Alice character, for variety.

Yeah.

Well guys, its Halloween again and I'm doing something very special this year. I'm sharing my personal Halloween playlists with everyone! I've been collecting kooky tunes and spooky tracks for about 7 years now and I really feel like sharing with everyone! So for the next 13 days I will post one mix tape up until October 31st! So we got 13 mix tapes in all. Each mix will have a cover drawn by me (some might be new art some might be old since drawing everyday has become difficult for me during work). Also each mix will have some secret treats that you can only hear when you download them.

I'll update this journal every day with a new mix.

Let me know what tracks are your favorites and also if anyone wants to suggest some tracks leave a comment down below!



Volume 1: Ectoplasmic Essentials
Download: [link]



Volume 2: Groovin' Goblins
Download: [link]



Volume 3: Voodoo Vibes
Download: [link]



Volume 4: Bad Blood
Download: [link]



Volume 5: Hillbilly Haunts
Download: [link]



Volume 6: Monster Mojo
Download: [link]



Volume 7: At The Devil's Whorehouse
Download: [link]



Volume 8: Stays Dead Even In Milk!
Download: [link]



Volume 9: October Octave
Download: [link]



Volume 10: We Belong Dead!
Download: [link]



Volume 11: Howlin' Ho Down
Download: [link]



Volume 12: Rotting In The Attic
Download: [link]



Volume 13: Weenies In The Hollow
Download: [link]

I want to thank everyone for really digging these. This was something I wanted to do for a while but was never sure how to go about it. I didn't think they would be such a big hit! I want to thank everyone for your lovely and heart warming comments and thank you to the Strange Kids Club for keeping up with the volumes and posting them every day. You guys are genuine. It really makes me so very happy to see so many people completely immersed in the spirit of this fine holiday and what better way to get the full effect than with music. Now these are my own personal playlists but the beauty is you can mix and match them to make your own mixes or start from scratch! Whatever you want! I'm so glad to finally be able to share this with everyone, for the people who haven't heard and even the people who have but still enjoy it anyway. So what now? Well I think from now on, every year I'll come out with ONE mix tape since I pretty much just shared my entire Halloween library with you all and it was a lot of work making 13 covers. So look out for volume 14 next year! I hope you all have a fun, happy and safe Halloween and thank you once again! Stay spooky, guys.

Hey guys! Come next week my film will be bumped off of the CARTOON BREW FRONT PAGE, to make room for the other films! So lets give BLENDERSTEIN some final weekend viewing love, what do ya saaaay? :]

[link]

WHO'S GOING?!?!?

Yea, fuck that shit.

Anyway I'll be there Sunday with when there's less people and
everything's on sale. Even though I'm all for stealing shit at Comic Con cuz those
assholes didn't refund my ticket after I couldn't go a couple years ago. 100 bucks
down the drain. Squaresville, man.

But I guess if you see me say hi and I'll give you a Blenderstein postcard.

Peace and chicken grease!
-Zach

Hey all!

Check out this interview I did over at
the Strange Kids Club! A super awesome blog
about anything horror related!

[link]

Hey guys!

First of all I want to thank you for watching my film and supporting me for all these years.
I know some of you have been following me for quite a while now, so thanks for sticking with me.

As a treat for all of you I'm posting some early development ideas that became Blenderstein!

This is part 1: [link]

And if you haven't seen the film, here ya go!: [link]

Enjoy!

So here it is! Finally up, my thesis film Blenderstein!

[link]

Comments appreciated! I hope you all enjoy it!


-Zach

Well guys!
I'm happy to announce my film was chosen for
Cartoon Brew's 2nd Annual Student film fest!

[link]

Mine plus 9 other films from different schools
all around the world will have their online premieres
on the site!

Told you guys, you'd get to see it soon!

I'll make a post when its up!

-Zach

So my film Blenderstein! was invited to be in the Midsummer's Night Toons screening!
It showcases 6 shorts and mine is one of them!

Here's the trailer where you can see some snippets of my film, the first clips to be
shown online ever!

[link]

If anyone's in NYC this Friday, stop by! Here's some info!

[link]


-Z

EDIT: LINK UPDATED! No idea why they deleted it and then put it back up O_<

Wow! So my "100 Years of Vincent Price" joint got a DD!
I didn't even notice since I was at work all day lol.

I'm really glad there's so many people out there who remember and admire such a unique and wonderful person.
All the comments I'm getting on it really bring me joy to see how people feel about him.
Its even better that its a community of artists since Vincent himself had a huge love for art.
I've been on a Vincent kick even since after his 100th birthday and although I haven't nearly half of the films I drew
on the sticky notes, I make it a lifelong goal to eventually see them all!

So thanks to everyone out there who loves and respects Mr. Vincent Price!
He truly lives forever.

And of course, thanks to Vincent himself. For the inspiration.
Look out for more Vincent artwork from me in the near future!

Good night,
-Zach