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ASCENDED MASTER

OH SHIT! First illustration of the new year! I painted this in gouache for the cover of Mimi Thi Nguyen’s upcoming book, The Gift of Freedom, to be published this July by Duke University Press. Click to view larger:

Ascended Master
Gouache on craft paper
6×9″

As an added bonus, here is the test palette on which […]

TWIN SISTER

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:
I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

Twin Sister
6×6″
Brush pen & gouache on four Post-Its
for Post-It Show 7, opening at GR2 on Saturday night:

LOOK TO THE FUTURE

A preview of the last illustration I’ll do in 2011. Pencil on computer paper:

Good night
Schlaf gut
어서 꺼져

BAY AREA NATIVE

This is a new painting I did for “Devil Town”, which opens tomorrow night at Gallery 1988 on Melrose. This illustration, like the rest of this finely curated group show, is inspired by the haunting Daniel Johnston song, “Devil Town”, while also serving as a sort of homage to South San Jose, where I […]

THE GENTLE ART OF SELLING YOURSELF

VOTE FOR ME HERE
BUY MY SHIT THERE*
PUNCH OUT A DICK
GOOD NIGHT
*I got me a new store at bigcartel. THAT’S SO MONEY!

SKATE OR DIE

Remember when you were young and wild, leaning on chain link fences, trespassing on foreclosed homes with your teen gang, and looking for dried out pools to skate? Yeah, me neither. I squandered my youth wringing my hands and constantly panicking about the future, and on top of that, I never learned how to skate. […]

FUCK YOU, FRIDAY

This is my new business card. It’s a current portrait of me, adjusting to my new life:

JUDITH FINDS LOVE

My appalling rendition of the Gentileschi masterpiece, “Judith & Her Maidservant”, is now available as a limited edition, numbered giclée print, produced and sold by the lovely Rotopol Press in Kassel, Germany. This is a single print run of fifty, and they ain’t gon’ print it again, EVER, so hand over your euros HERE.

And […]

PROSTHETIC HEAD AUX

Finished this watercolor illustration last night, six months overdue. Commissioned by the very patient Woody F., who requested that it involve ramen. Because of my incredibly limited skill set and narrow field of interests, I drew some young dirty people eating instant cups of Shin Ramyun on a gray beach day, and I sorta […]

FISH LATE FISH

You might have already heard, but the good people of Poketo recently released a wallet featuring an illustration and a corresponding comic strip I did for them (click to view bigger):

You can buy just the wallet, or you can upgrade to a Hellen Pack, Hellen Mega Pack, or Hellen Super Mega Pack. All shit […]

HAMBURGER ÜBER ALLES

QPop invited me to contribute a painting to their upcoming HAM BA GA show (”celebrating the hamburger lifestyle”), so I did a real small portrait of young brooding women. No, I don’t know how to draw anything else. Click to view larger:

Brush pen, watercolor, pencil on Arches
5×7″
Calvin pointed out that the burger I […]

WE RESPECT YOUR DARK POWER

Here is a long-overdue illustration, commissioned by David H., of a bunch of textile-laden nude women. DARK RED N RICH, BITCHES (click to view larger):

12×9″
Brush pen, Micron, and watercolor on Arches

YEAH I COULD GO FOR SOME BLOOD

I AM MOVING TO LA IN TWO WEEKS OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!! I’ve been living in the Bay Area since 1990, so I figure it’s time to get a-movin’, yeah? Incidentally, I’m having a yard sale. Won’t you come and dig through my shit?

I drew our house in pencil for this flyer. I am going to […]

I like you so much

Lotsa shit bin happening to me, dude, but I’ll tell you aaaaalllllllll about it later. In the meantime, watch this awesum video by Crazy Band, full of girls I don’t know but internet-admire. SKATING ON THE FUCKING FREEWAY!

UP YOURS, NARC

HELLVIN is heading to Toronto tonight, for TCAF this weekend! Visit us on the first floor, at table 141, part of a veritable island paradise with Ryan Sands and the Koyama Press militia. I have two new giclee prints, a couple paintings, a shitload of stupid buttons, and no new comics. CH’YEAH! […]