"I'm sorry I pimp-slapped you into that china cabinet..."

New Art- "Momma..." by Samax Amen

While you were watching the Lakers take it from the Mavericks on Friday night, I was one of the featured artists at ArtLoveMagic's monthly coffee shop event Art & Coffee, where I did this digital piece live. I drew it on my laptop in photoshop, while it was being simulcast on the bigscreen teevee.

Samax on ArtLoveMagic Radio

For those who don't know, my dude Michael Lagocki is one of the founders of local art collective ArtLoveMagic, and has recently started doing a radio show designed to shed light on the local art and music scene in Dallas. Because we're friends and stuff, Mike has been trying to get me on the show for some time, and eventually he got me into the studio...

Taskmaster Convention Sketch

Taskmaster #3 by Samax Amen

HULK (monochrome...)

Here's the black and white version...

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Hulk commish

did this for one of my Twitter followers (whaddup, MutantStar!)

"Some Bald Joker..."

This is a commission from a client on Elance who is creating superhero/portrait mashups of a bunch of his employees. It might lead to more work, so don't be too surprised to see more of these...

hot diggity...

As you may know, I was commissioned to do a tee-shirt design for one of my favorite emcees, Playdough of the mighty Deepspace 5 crew, to coincide with the release of his new album Hotdoggin'...

did I mention STAPLE was AWESOME? Well, yeah... it was!

I had a blast at STAPLE indie media expo in Austin, TX. Here's photo of me drawing Taskmaster for a commission (I make a lotta my con money from commissions). I didn't bring a camera, so this

New Drawing: Cyborg from the Teen Titans

Daily Sketch for Monday was Cyborg, the brains/muscle of the Teen Titans...

quick Crossbones drawing

Crossbones by Samax Amen

"Shacklebound" Illustration

This piece was my first job on Elance, a freelance bidding site. I was actually surprised to be selected by the client, but my style was exactly what he was looking for. Yay, me!

Iron Man drawing by Samax (in case you missed it)

I did this Iron Man piece for a commission for  DwainIBe of my Twitter familia. I started to cop out and do the 80's Iron Man, but I thought I  would try and do a version of the one from the movie.

Zombie-In-Chief?

 Last year, I offered a free drawing with any paid subscription to my magazine GhettoManga Quarterly. I got a lotta strange requests, but this one was easily the weirdest...