Art Friday : Android Jones - Musical Art & Much More
If there’s something that puts me in a better mood than listening to beautiful music by previously unknown electronic musicians or feasting my eyes on the artwork of newly-discovered artistic talents, it has to be chancing on glorious eye kandy related to music (and about electronic/club music no less 
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Today, I present Andrew Jones who’s better known as Android Jones.
© Andrew Jones
This is my favourite piece - can you believe that Andrew actually did this piece live during Temple San Francisco where the Goddess Alchemy Project performed during the Touch of Truth event on 11 Nov 2007. While I’ve never been to a club, I find it simply quite amazing that anyone can accomplish any productive work in the darkness of a club and with the music blasting from the sound system 
© Andrew Jones
Another three favourites - I love the contrast between the cool blue and warm red hues - makes the pictures look more intense and energetic while maintaining the cool, relaxed appearances of these practised, professional turntablists and DJs.
Not everything is about music though - there’s a couple of other non-music related pieces that I quite enjoy, mainly because I’m a big fan of skulls
© Andrew Jones
A more gritty modern re-interpretation of Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
© Andrew Jones
If you care to take a closer look at this piece, you’ll notice that besides the morbid skull and moth (or are those wings?), there’s a Mayan/Inca/Aztec mythological figure on the bottom left - there’s plenty of such intricate nitty-gritty details in his works that reward the careful or patient viewer.
Check out all these works and more in their original high resolution at Andrew’s blog or visit his official site at www.androidjones.com where a pillar of 1000 portraits done in a span of 2 years and 9 months (at the rate of one portrait per day!) is proudly displayed on the left of the website. Massive Black DVDs also sells several Android Jones video tutorials as digital downloads.
© Andrew Jones
And by the way, you might also be interested in visiting DEITRIX ArtWorks - I wouldn’t have discovered Android Jones without dear DEITRIX’s links 
MORE @ THE DOWNLOAD MUNKEY:
Fabric CD Coverart
Hed Kandi CD Artwork & Wallpaper
Skull A Day
My Favourite Pepper Project Entries
startdrawing.org - Asia’s Drawing Portal
Tiger Translate 2007 - Asian Artist Showcase
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bfcH7hlaln8
Preview clip of Androids latest DVD.
It’s pretty amazing what he can do with Painter and Zbrush. Plus he’s really made a hit with the live work and concerts at the same time. He is huge right now.
Android is the only artist that could make a wrist band full of pens, pencils, and a wacom tablet pen look cool.. Anyone else wearing that would get laughed at…
The one idea of his that I like is the Wacom tablet hooked to a guitar strap by 2 C-clamps.. If I actually stood up like he does to work I would look into the same thing.
I use a giant tablet as well, but use it in my lap or on the desk..
Excellent post!!
Doesn’t seem to load for me - maybe it’s blocked at work. Will try again at home
I didn’t really know that he’s the man of the moment until I went to conceptart.org to research something else for the blog yesterday night while finishing up this post.
yeah, all the guys that are a part of Massive Black are very talented..
Yeah, I just went through their amazing portfolio. I thought they were just publishers of DVDs for artists, didn’t realize that they were an artist collective
Speaking of artist collectives, the first one that comes to mind is UDON who do a lot for work for the comics and games industries.
UDON has done tons of stuff… didn’t know they did most of it till I checked their website out.
Yeah me too - I first learnt of them while looking for some Street Fighter artwork.
If you like UDON’s stuff, you might want to check out the artists of Singapore’s Imaginary Friends Studio too - they’re pretty good with a varied range of styles - my favourite is Ukitakumuki.