NICHOLAS GAZIN'S DRAWING BLOG

6:09PM - I drew tattoo flash for Honor from Cerebral Ballzy.

Honor asked me to draw him a rockabilly-ish tattoo for his hand. I did a bunch of drawings. I don't know yet if he likes any of them.

7:59PM - If You're in the LA area then check out this show I am in.

Some really great artists are in this and most of the post-its are selling for $20. See the ones I drew here. Thanks to Johnny Ryan for mentioning me to the curator.

1:50AM - I'm in Meathaus's Go For The Gold 3.

This text and the above image are from the Meathaus site.
"Meathaus’ new anthology sketchbook features: Andy Ristaino, Arik Roper, Benjamin Marra, Bob Flynn, Dash Shaw, Dave Kiersh, Esao Andrews, Farel Dalrymple, Jason Sacher, Josh Latta, HARVEYJAMES™, Inés Estrada, Jesse Moynihan, Katie Rice, Kevin Fagan, Michaela Zacchilli, Mu Pan, Nathan Fox, Nicholas Gazin, Nick Bertozzi, Peter Chung, Rebecca Sugar, Ron Wimberly, Sam Kim, Thomas Herpich, Victor Cayro, Vincent Giard, Vincent Stall, Zachary Baldus, Tomer Hanuka, James Jean, Brandon Graham, Robertryan Cory, Al Columbia, and Chris McD.

You can pre-order it right now and it will Priority Mail out to you first week in December along with a bonus mini doodle zine and optional Chris McD doodle (just select what you want in the store)."

Meathaus has some of my favorite comickers and illustrators within it's membership and I ended up going to SVA after talking to Tomer and Stardog at a comic convention when I was seventeen. I've wanted to be in a Meathaus book since I was eighteen. Now, eight years later, I am.

1:37AM - I did drawings on post-it notes for a show at a Giant Robot store in Los Angeles.

These are drawings I did for a show of drawings done on post-it notes that's going to be held at GR2, a Giant Robot store in Los Angeles. Here's what it looked like last year. They'll be $20 each if you're going to be in LA whenever this thing goes up. More details to follow.

10:49PM - I was interviewed about my art for a show called True Artist.

TRUE ARTIST - Nick Gazin from Party House TV on Vimeo.

I think it went pretty well. I didn't stutter and I only accidentally lied when I said that I grew up in New York. I meant that I was born here but grew up in Connecticut. It was my idea to film it in front of a haunted house.

9:06AM - My Second T-shirt for the Black Dahlia Murder, "Monsters."

Here's my second T-shirt for heavy metallers, the Black Dahlia Murder. It's a baseball T-shirt with my drawing printed on it with that sublimation process which is more like chemical dye than silksecreen. It makes for a smooth garment. The logo is applied with green rubbery translucent ink that sits on top and looks like boogers.

Check out the nice things that people are saying about it on BDM's Myspace page. The kids have started some big argument about it. Internet arguments are really funny. You edit and re-edit your comments and the next thing you know you just spent your week arguing with an 18 year old from England calling himself Moshpitguy13! Walk With Me In Hell

Bobby Garcia had this to say:
"I'm tired of all u fuckin kids crying over if this shirt is scene or not or just clothes in general!.. metal Is Metal !! NOT A FASION u don't have to dress a certain way over the music u like! If u like the fuckin shirt well fuck buy it! That bein said!! bDM fuckin ownz!"

Spoken like a retard, Bobby, but I agree all the way.

You can buy the shirt here.

Here are some detailed views of the parts of the drawing that I liked the most.







Here's the full drawing in black and white and color. The black isn't quite as dark as it should be.

8:55PM - The New Vice Book With My Drawing On The Last Page Is Out Now.

Vice put out a sequel to their Vice Guide to Sex, Drugs and Rock N' Roll. It's got the best articles from 2003 - 2008. It's pretty great if you ask me.

My Vice overlords liked the above watercolor image so they asked me to redraw it in black and white. I did but they ended up just using the original. I prefer the one I drew in ink, personally. You can buy the book here.


The first version.


The unused second version.

4:30PM - I am better than a movie, according to some.

You can see the original thing where nice things are being said about mehere.

3:04AM - My first T-shirt for NLSL Kult.

You can buy this from NLSL Kult. It's $25 and there are about fifty of these. If you want one then run, don't walk, to your parent's credit card and use that money to buy this thing for you.

3:53PM - My first T-shirt for the Black Dahlia Murder.

The websites that sell this shirt are referring to it as "Skeleton Throne" although that wasn't meant to be anything more than the image's file name.

You can buy it for only fourteen dollars here. Check out the band's website here.

1:31PM - I did a drawing for a little booklet called 24 Artists Inspired By Where the Wild Things Are.

This is a drawing/painting I did for a little booklet of art inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. I drew my brother as Max since my brother seemed transformed by his anger and recently returned to me. Being in this book was a huge honor. Among the other artists are Tony Millionaire, Shintaro Kago, Matt Thurber, Ben Jones, Hellen Jo, Lisa Hanawalt and other people who blow my mind.

Check out the other artists who were involved in the project at the 24 Artists Inspired by Where the Wild Things Are website. You can download a PDF of the book and download my image as an iPhone wallpaper image.

You can even read an interview they conducted with me.


Here's the cover.


Here's my page.

6:22PM - I did the cover for this Spider bags 7".

I did this for the Spider bags, You can pre-order it here.

10:51PM - I drew album art for Franz Nicolay.

The Front


The Back

When I first met Franz he was working at Cosimic Cantina, serving tacos to NYU kids. I recognized him as the accordion player from World/Inferno Friendship Society and soon he was teaching me the instrument. When my moustache got long enough he gave me my first moustache wax. Now he's in a popular band called the Holdsteady who were referenced on Lost and opened for the Rolling Stones. He asked me to do album art for him and i did the front and back covers as well as those center circle stickers and a fold-out poster of this image.

You can pre-order the record from Team Science Records.

4:42AM - King Khan & The Shrines and Golden Triangle Tour 2009 shirt

A few months back I did a tour poster for King Khan and the Shrines and Golden Triangle's 2009 tour. They made it into a T-shirt that was given to the bands. I got mine the other day.

2:03AM - My Kodiak shirt for Mishka is now available.

Buy buy buy from Mishka.


You can get it in black, green, or white.

1:31AM - I drew a T-shirt for Jay Reatard.

One of my favorite modern rockers, Jay Reatard, asked me to do a tour poster and shirt for him. If you go to one of the shows on the Shattered Records Tour you can buy the poster and shirt I made. It was a big honor for me since I relate heavily to the violent paranoia of his lyrics and draw while listening to his music.



Here I am wearing this shirt. You can buy it on his tour. I don't think it's for sale on the internet yet.

10:04PM - My Wrestlers shirt for Rockett is now available to buy and own.

I did my first sketch for this on January 14th 2008. I drew the final thing on August 18th, 2008. Now you can finally wear it.


It's part of the fall line from California based company, Rockett. You can buy it here.

3:14AM - Two Men

1:43PM - I Drew Flyer Art For Another Myopenbar Event.

I also will be DJing at this thing.

8:45PM - I Drew This Poster For Jay Reatard's Upcoming Tour.

Jay Reatard asked me to do this tour poster for him. I listen to his records a lot so this was a big deal for me. I was inspired by European comics, somehow.