25th Anniversary of the release of Super Mario World

Here's a pece I made to Celebrate the 25th release of Super Mario World for the Super Famicom. It's a fun little illustration which is also  available to buy as a print with the option of a custom frame direct form Level Frames:

 

https://www.levelframes.com/collections/scott-balmer-collection/super-mario-world​

 

There's also a write-up on how this piece came to be at Things to Do in LA:

 

http://www.ttdila.com/2015/11/exclusive-super-mario-world-by-scott.html​

A selection of my work is available to buy from Level Frames

Just a quick post to say that you can now get prints from Level Frames from a selection of my work but not only are there different sizes on offer but also the option to order a custom frame to go with your selection, and best of all it's done in the one place.

https://www.levelframes.com/collections/scott-balmer-collection

Guillermo Del Toro Art Show - The Faun's Fable

Here's my piece for the Guillermo Del Toro Art show currently being held at Gallery 1988 (West) as promised.

This piece is based around the Film Pan's Labyrinth and modelled after combining the characters with an hour glass depicting two worlds with the conflict amongst the rebels on top and the other fantasy world on the bottom.

This illustration is available to buy from Gallery 1998's website in teh form of a print on wood and is one of a kind.

http://nineteeneightyeight.com/collections/guillermo-del-toro-in-service-of-monsters/products/scott-balmer-the-fauns-fable-wood-print?variant=6503032001

 

Hellboy 20th Anniversary show opens today

Today is the grand opening of an official Hellboy show the celebrating 20 years from the very first comic to the movies. 

This show features work from over 100 artists including myself, with a verity of work including this amazing poster by Kaz Oomori adorning the walls at the HERO COMPLEX GALLERY in LA.

IT looks set to be a great show for all to come and see what paranormal activities await our favourite wisecracking demon. 

Alternate Ending Show

Here's an up and coming show that I'm involved with which starts next month (Dec 14th) at the Bottleneck Gallery in NYC.

teaming up with the good folks at Silver Screen Society the show focuses on creating Alternate Endings to myriad of popular films, from classics to cult status films this show should be one not to miss.

I'll post my contribution to the show once the show is up and running.

Tee Design for Made in the Now

I've designed a Tee for the good folks at Made in the Now which pits designers/illustrators to design a T shirt based around the popular current events that happened in the news that week.

This T shirt is only available for limited time, 7 days to be exact so get in there.

http://www.madeinthenow.com/shirt/380.html

Hiding from the Morlocks

Here the the piece that is being shown for the iam8bit show 'so you created a wormhole' .

prints are also available and can be bought from the iam8bit link below:

store.iam8bit.com/index.php?search=wormhole

Cagoule Magazine

Time seems to be whizzing by so here is a bit of a belated Happy New Year Message an a long overdue post for this blog just to say that things are fine.

Anyway, the two images above were done for the first ever issue of Cagoule Magazine who are responsible for its sister publication Anorak Magazine.

Cagoule magazine is more of an Anorak magazine aimed at adults but has the same level of design flair and content but for an older audience.

What i had to illustrate here was an article on a very brief history of the bra, but what made this a great and fun piece to work on was being unleashed to have as much creative freedom (within reason of course) to produce anything i felt was a perfect fit to the article.

I always try to keep some small parts in the unknown as it adds a certain thrill working out the problem in real time. I guess i'm addicted to having to think up things in a matter of seconds.

Cagoule should be available at your friendly neighbourhood creative book store or can be bought over at PresentJoy's online shop http://shop.presentjoys.com/product/cagoule

mass in motion

this started like as an idea for a client that wasn't picked but i thought i'd take it further.

there's a few more from that commission which i am gong to take further.

but anyway, this piece has been make into a print and is going to be auctioned in Edinburgh for a good cause.

more can be found out on the Aartvark blog on when the auction is, should be a fun night.

aartvarkauction.blogspot.com/

Some work from Hylozoism exhibition

The Hylozoism show is coming to an end (ends this week on the 27th so there's still time to see the works of both Jake Blanchard and myself) so here are a few pieces which appeared in the show.

intergalactic protect-zoids

This was done for society6's SuperHeroes San Fran exhibition and is available to buy not only as a print but also as a laptop/iphone/ipad skin for here:

http://www.society6.com/studio/scottbalmer/Superheroes_SF

Push Cycles print & printing party

Push cycles who have just celebrated their first year, decided to mark the occasion by creating the PUSH Art Club in which the first run of five prints from five different illustrators/artists are on sale right now. Each print is a limited edition of 30 and cost £30.

But you'll have to wait until the second or third run until you can get your hands on this:

But what about the Printing Party I hear you say... well tomorrow (that is Saturday) Push Cycles will be holding a special event where you can print from a selection of four 1 colour designs onto tees by your very own hand (i think) so you could be walking away with this 1 colour wonder on a tee:

Be the envy of everyone and be there at Push Cycles

based at 35c Newington Green N169PR London for a chance to walk away with this guy on your chest.

Play Calendar

It feels that this was done an eon ago, it was around about june that I was contacted to see if I would be interested in doing an illustration for the Play! calendar which was being produced by the folks at Eiga Design in Germany.

After the piece above was done, all i knew as that the calendar would be released later in the year. Time passed and i Had forgotten about this until that email pinged in my inbox showing links to the finished product.

the calendar/book is a really nice piece of work lovingly put together and is well worth a look.

I've only got 2 links on where to order this. (one from amazon.de and another outlet) if you are interested:

www.nbvd.de/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=25

www.amazon.de/Play-Design-Kids-Henning-Otto/dp/3939028215/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287647068&sr=8-2

the big daddy

haven't added much to this blog in over a week so to make up for it, here are a few pieces that i have done recently.

the piece above is available t buy as a print at society6:

http://www.society6.com/studio/scottbalmer/the_big_daddy

poop in the woods now available in the society6 shop

the poop in the woods print has made it into the society6 shop and is available to buy in three different sizes and also in stretched canvas form.

below is the direct link to the print:

http://www.society6.com/shop/product/56828/prints?cl=3

8 pillow designs now available to buy at envelop

envelop is a place where designers can put their work on a range of textiles from aprons to oven gloves and for my first addition to the envelop store, i have designed 8 pillow covers that are available right now. here's a direct link to my section in the store.

edit: i've fixed the link to my section of the envelop store, sorry for any inconvenience this may of caused.

here are some close-ups of the designs featured on the pillows:

Glug London presents - Toys R'US (& Noma Bar)

This Glug event is for tonight so if you want to go down and see some and buy TOY goodies (tee's and glow in the dark prints) head down there.

Noma Bar will be doing a talk about his work as well as Grant Orchard talking on his work and with BAFTA award winning Studio AKA.

limited edition print now available to buy at the working proof

This screen print is now available to buy at the working proof. It is a three colour screen print on 285 gsm fabriano so its on nice thick quality paper and is limited to an edition of 50.

you might be able to see the trees from the images above which are quite subtile but they are there if you look close enough.

not only that 15% of sales goes to the 'kids in need foundation' so its also helping a good cause as well.

the print costs $45 and only available from the working proof.

Unbreakable now available to buy at howies

The good folks at howies have now put this addition into their catalogue, my 'unbreakable' design now available to buy from howies stores and also through their online store here.

Now before anyone rushes off to buy one there is one catch, and that is its for kids only. So if you want your little 'uns to be the best decked out kids on the street or if you can squeeze into a smaller size knock yourself out. Maybe if this is popular, just maybe howies might print an adult version, who knows.

for anyone still reading this, this image was drawn with 100% posca pen in the blue verity then made white by means of alchemy.