David McHank - A Visible Artist

That week a few words were caught by me with David McHank a musician in San Diego, California. I came across his work with MySpace.com and believed it was a lot of fun, and modern. If you want comic books, characters, and bears, you'll appreciate his work too!What inspires you?David: I obtain it from all sides. Cartoon, kids' books, witty books, old cereal containers, heavy metal and punk records, Old National Geographic magazines, Jim Henson, Maurice Sendak, and Rick Fork. Music is just a enormous effect. Lots of times I'll notice a line in a track wrong and think of it that is accompanied by a visual. Plus I enjoy o hang out at the library...seriously, I'll only get there and draw out publications a at a time and scour through them.Where is the art designed for the general public to see and buy?David: I have demonstrates a times a year. I am likely to have one up in San Jose in June, and then I'll consider having yet another in San Diego next several months after that. Besides displays, if everyone is intrigued, they can look at my regular updates with this they can contact me either through myspace (htp;//) or email me immediately at heymchank@gmail.comWhen did you know you wanted to do what you are currently doing and when did you begin?David: I began doing fliers for bands when I was in high school. The initial show used to do a flier for was MDC with Nasal Sex at the Cactus Club in San Jose. It was a pretty bad flier.This was 1991, so I was 16. I did my first album cover in 1994, when I was a in high school for a group called Seed. There have been a load of fliers between the initial one and this recording cover, therefore I feel much better about my picture they used, it was a linoleum block printing of two ardyss international fighting and a guy freaking out. Because I was a little little child, I really always wished to do record covers and t-shirts for groups, they tried it on tops too, I nevertheless have one locked up in the archives.I think to answer your query. I believe if a moment is pinpointed by me, it'd be when I was 7 or 8 and noticed Yellow Submarine on TV, and questioned my godfather if he had any Beatles records. He'd Revolver and Rubber Soul, and I remember obviously staring at the cover of Revolver for hours, attempting over and over to pull it and copy most of the little details.What are your preferred what to use in your art?David: I get bored, so, this changes a lot. Some days I take advantage of brush and ink, sometimes it is acrylic paint, sometimes watercolor, sometimes merely a ball point pen. I also do a little bit of pixel stuff-- I attempted photoshop for it once but was more comfortable with the common microsoft color program.Do you've any favorite items you use when creating your art?David: Honestly, I wind up choosing the lowest priced little plastic handle brushes, the people you purchase a ten package for a buck at wal-mart over any expensive brushes I've used.... Which is a benefit, I suppose.Are you part of any musician communities on the web or offline?David: No... but myspace has been massive as far as assembly designers and reaching them. I'm friends with some people that are amazingly talented-I mean seriously strike me away...Martin Ontiveros, Scott Mcpherson, Mikey McCardle, Bwana Spoons, Travis Millard...those men are all disastrous. I am not at their stage. I found most of them through bands, or comics they have made.Do you've a bit that you've created?David: I'm more critical of myself than of someone else. There's one I am partial to...It is only a little bear falling asleep while fishing, and a pink whale having a glance at thim from underneath the surface.Other than that, I am pretty happy with the Lionel the Tiger image, which was drawn using my mouse in ms paint in about 4 minutes.The pieces that get the most comments would be the one of the Beulah Whale, and the Hialeah buck.What styles have you got in your art?David: Bears...drunk bears...something about beginning attracting them is addictive. Also, wings. I love that I could stay and work on their details...they're pretty satsifying to draw.Do you see yourself going in virtually any new directions?David: Yeah, that is something I am trying to always do. It's a balance...I do not forget my impacts and origins, but expand at the same time. Every once in some time, I get lucky and anything new happens of my brush, and I surprise myself.Thank you Daivid McHank!