Embracing Monotony: David Ross and Steph Perez > David Ross

These artworks revolve around “Blank” D.I.Y characters, a term coined in the designer toy field. These blank toys are 3Dimensional canvases, open for any artist to interpret and appropriate to give each a unique personality that is reflective of the artist working on it. All the blank characters I design stem from humor, love, and fears that I had as a child. As I begin my own customization of these blanks, I discover adult themes and adult character traits, ending with a community of wayward characters occupying this childlike inception.

I study my blanks through many mediums to better understand and flesh out their back stories. These include mediums typically used in the lowbrow art scene such as comics, animation, toys, 3D technologies, and graphic drawings. Working in the field of "making" nurtures skillsets in art and technology that mimic the DIY mentality of these underground art movements. Ideas of play, collaboration, and tinkering carry a childlike comfort that are reflective of these characters and my drive to create them.

Anthropophagus’s Polydactyly Phalange
Pencil/Ink/Marker
17” x 11”
2019
Anthropophagus’s Polydactyly Phalange_2
Pencil/Ink/Marker
17" x 11"
2020
Anthropophagus’s Polydactyly Phalange_3
Pencil/Ink/Marker
17" x 11"
2020
Anthropophagus’s Polydactyly Phalange_4
Pencil/Ink/Marker
17" x 11"
2020
Anthropophagus’s Polydactyly Phalange_5
Pencil/Ink/Marker
17" x 11"
2020
Anthropophagus’s Polydactyly Phalange_6&7
Pencil/Ink/Marker
17" x 22"
2020
Anthropophagus’s Polydactyly Phalange_8
Pencil/Ink/Marker
17" x 11"
2020
Anthropophagus’s Polydactyly Phalange_9
Pencil/Ink/Marker
17" x 11"
2020
Twinky & Humans
Pencil/Ink
17” x 11”
2018
TwindeX, twinky, TwindeX & Twing!
Pencil/Ink
17” x 11”
2018
Twumb & Twing!
Pencil/Ink
17” x 11”
2018
Twiggies
Pencil/Ink
17” x 11”
2017
Lil’ Voyeurs
Ink/Crayon
17” x 11”
2020
Marble
Pencil/Ink
41" x 36"
2020
Climb
Ink/Digital/Print
10' x 2'
2020
twinky Technical Drawing
Pencil/Ink/Marker/Digital
11”x 8”
2020
Twing! Technical Drawing
Pencil/Ink/Marker/Digital
13”x 10”
2019
TwIDdLe Technical Drawing
Pencil/Ink/Marker/Digital
17” x 11”
2020
TwindeX Technical Drawing
Pencil/Ink/Marker/Digital
14”x 9”
2019
Twumb Technical Drawing
Pencil/Ink/Marker/Digital
17” x 11”
2019
OGLE
Pencil/Ink
10”x 15”
2020
Y
Pencil/Ink
27”x 25”
2020
X
Pencil/Ink
26”x 25”
2020
Saturday Morning Prison
Pencil/Ink
58”x 43”
2020
Garden of Steve
Clay/Photograph/Ink
24 x 96”
2013
ToeyToons
3D Scanning/3D Printing/Paint/Wood
14” x 7” x 5”
2020
Stubbed Toes
3D Scanning/Resin/Paint
4” x 8” x 3”
2020
Royal Toes
3D Scanning/Resin/Paint
4” x 8” x 3”
2020
GI Toes
Resin/Found Object/Paint
13” x 8” x 4”
2020
Tunny
3D Scanning/Resin/Paintpen/Found object
6” x 5” x 3”
2020
Bartkira #5 Cover
Lego/Photograph/Digital
10”x 5”
2017
Bartneda
3D Scanning/3D Printing/Paint
12”x 8”x6”
2017