New slideshow video honors the late hip-hop innovator DJ Screw.

 

  It's been a while since my last post.  I've been working on this idea for a months.  It's a new slideshow video that features a couple African creatures that were "screwed & skinned" meaning I didn't added their flesh and fur and only drew them in their skeletal forms. It's an extremely weird and wicket idea that I always attempted no matter how difficult and complex will it be for me to construct every animal skeleton and make them look alive and mobile.  It turned to be extremely fun and I will very likely do execute more.  However, these crazy illustrations were specially made for a tribute to a innovative hip-hop dj who influenced me to develop this idea.  He goes by the name of Robert Earl Davis who was famously known as the original southern hip-hop pioneer DJ Screw who invented a style format of dj'ing called "Chopped and Screwed".  DJ Screw; a club dj based in Houston built his career out of slowing down, mixing and chopping up songs from various rap artists to make mix tapes for the clubs and mixing his slowed down versions for various rap artists in the south.  He has been heavily prolific at dj'ing and producing mixtapes until his untimely death on November 16, 2000.  This year marks his 20th year anniversary of his passing and ever since his untimely death, his music has impacted the entire music industry & culture.  To me I shall consider him a genius.  So if I were to put together my next slideshow containing skeletal creatures & call entitle this "screwed and skinned", I have to make sure I pay homage to the hip-hop legend who set the trend for musicians and artists like me.  So here it is deviants.  "Screwed & Skinned" - A wildlife art tribute to DJ Screw (RIP 1971-2000)  I even added a rap song to play in the backgound called Bouncin' and Swangin' by Houston rap artist E.S.G. but this is the chopped and screwed version mixed by DJ Screw.  So enjoy this slideshow.  I might not post again for a while but I'm more active on Instagram so be sure to follow me @worldofmiguelsalvador.  You will get to see more art and stuff.  Happy holidays and ya be safe out there.  2020 sure has been awfully shitty due to this pandemic but we will get through this.  Stay healthy and be safe and cool.  Taaa...

Miguel Salvador is now on Instagram plus more original art added to The Dark Museum!!

 Aight fellas!! I'm loathing social media as bad as so many of you are now & I've been hesitant for years to do alot of business through outlets like Facebook & Instagram.  Now that things have improved a bit for artists to expand their horizon to mingle with the audience & work with the fans I had to once again run with the program & join the rest of the herd lol!! Maybe there could be more room for new opportunities?  I'll see what happens... Anyway I've officially launched my Instagram page so be sure to follow @artofmiguelsalvador so you can be able to get to be far deeper into my Nethaworld & other related realms. Instagram button is on the upper right side.

 Also I got to add more original art for sale (more new art coming) to my webstore; The Dark Museum & is now open.. Store button is on the right side.

So have a look around, shop around & thank you all for tuning in & following up on my blog & enjoying all my art I've been posting & sharing over the years... I really hope you all appreciate them as much as I do? Take care everybody.  

The Dark Museum is now open!!

This has been so long in the making now that it has became final & official!! My webstore which I happen to entitle "THE DARK MUSEUM" is now launched for all my fellow deviants to have a look & shop around for some good ol' art to own for their collection.  I started it off with only a handful of original art for sale that are created & authenticated by yours truly, Miguel Salvador.   However more stuff such as limited edition prints will be added to my store in the near-future.  I built my store with Storenvy which is a secure online marketplace & as far as payment methods are concerned,  I accept Paypal.   All original art displayed in the storefront are in stock & ready to be packaged & shipped out.  You can open up the store by clicking the link below.  Taa... 

                                                                             

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Miguel Salvador reappears out of "spring hibernation".

   

  I have to say it sure was a devastating event that shook everybody & the whole entire world, so bad that it drastically impacted all of us creatures great & small, young & old, beautiful & ugly. This had me retreating to my den where I just laid there for couple of months where it turned into a "spring hibernation".  Well I seriously hope everyone who have been checking for me are just as safe & sound.  It was horrible that this pandemic has to come about & invade us & our health.  My thoughts do go out to the ones who lost their lives.  But we all gotta realize that viral pandemics are another aspect of the natural revolving door, they have been since the dawn of time & they are got going anywhere as long as there are lifeforms.  They will take over the world again.  So the only things we can do in order prepare for the next pandemic is to: eat healthy, get on your daily exercise, practice proper hygiene methods, & spend more time in nature where there are less other people.  I sure did it & I managed to survive this devastating period.  Remember; health is wealth.  If you don't have it, you can't spend it.  Now that I reappeared out of my den,  I came up on here to tell you an update.  I do recall mentioning back in March that I'm setting up a webstore where you can be able to purchase my art.  Well here's what I can tell you.  I do have enough art pieces up for sale but they are all original pieces & I'm apparently looking for a high-caliber print shop where I can place orders for limited print runs.  However, I can assure you that almost all of my originals I will have up for sale are not gonna be that expensive & they are all gonna be mounted, wrapped & then packaged securely after your online purchase.  Another note!  I also came up with a name.  I'm gonna name my store "The Dark Museum".  It's the same name given to my lab but the store will be a part of it,  It more like, an extended dwelling.  The issue now is, I'm apparently finding the right online shopping outlet.  I'm undecided if Etsy will be the right outlet to display my art (?).  So all that I have said; give me another week or two until I can find the right outlet that will present my store they way I wanted & will satisfy the both of us.  Shall I return.  Taa!!

Another album cover I made surfaces from the deep...

About 3 years have passed since I met up with local hip-hop artist Legion X to create album cover art for his music projects & then being totally blown away after he made a music video that featured one of the illustrations I made for him (see April 2017).  It was truly a blast & an honor working with him as he became one of the easiest & downright coolest clients I ever worked with.  It was a fun local opportunity I couldn't turn down on or else I would be a fool if I did.  Well last month, the cover art I created for him has surfaced on some music streaming platforms.  This one was for a special short collaboration project X made with another talented hip-hop artist from Spain who goes by Chester.  The title for their EP is called Cthulhu Raps which was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's classic story.  X was fortunate to have me as his artist at that time after reading some Lovecraft & thinking of my style of art.  So hell yeah!! I was 100% with it.  I fully illustrated the cover with pencil, pen & ink on an 11" x 14" 2-ply paper, knowing that I will make a couple of mistakes. When I submitted the art to him, he was very impressed.  The only alteration that had to be made was the pendant. When I saw it displayed in all current platforms, I thought the finalization looked a little better than the original drawing because of the alteration.  Nevertheless, this was a hellava fun project we got to team up for.  Now the music behind the album art was interesting too as X & Chester are both wild lyricists and the theme sound they are on is very experimental.  It has an electro-rock atmosphere all throughout. Even the remixes extended from the EP were pretty amazing, as they were remixed by Peter Lansford.  Another aspect that will stand out is that Chester's lyrics are all in Spanish but he went in & killed his verses on every track on this EP.  Shouts out to Chester for being the other half of this project as he is one of the most talented Spanish hip-hop artists I know & I hope to hear more music from him in the future.  Cthulhu Raps is now available on music streaming platforms like Apple music, Spotify, Amazon, Youtube

                               

Nethaworld Youtube Channel sets sail with a full "short storyesque" art video slideshow "Pantera En Palenque"

  Aight then deviants, if ya are still out there on the look out for me; it has been quite long. But haven't neglected the Nethaworld. NEVER!!! I'm back than ever... Back in the mix!! Back with the full launch of my official Nethaworld Studios Youtube Channel!!! That's right you hidden creatures!! It's been a lil' overdue about extending my body of work to youtube so you can view & explore a wider range of wicket biodiversity throughout my future artistic renditions gathered in a series of art video slideshows.  Not only that; I'm going to handpick art off my slideshows & be able to make limited edition prints of them to be sold on my future Etsy store... Don't forget I'm also in the midst of working on my first nature-inspired illustrated storybook "NETHAWORLD: Dawn of a New Age" which sorta initially the same title of my imprint inspired the story.  Anywho; I've been knocking out so much art so there's alot more coming; for show & for sale!!  In the meantime, enjoy my 1st full video slideshow of all new art I just completed for my channel. Damn!! It took quite a long time for me to put this all together starting from the 1st initial concepts to mastering the finals of my pieces... This slideshow I made is actually in a form of a short story, it portrays a lone jaguar or "pantera" as the Spanish calls it, that survived a global extinction hiding deep in the ever-standing ancient man-made ruins of Palenque.  However, one lil' thing you will notice in the elusive robust cat is that it's pelt & flesh is completely skinned & removed away. It's stunningly a skeleton lurking & that is basically all this cat has left & more stunningly, it's still alive & lurking underneath the looming storms of post-extinction as you view & hear it's surroundings.  Regardless of its skeletal state, the jaguar shows no sign of slowing down & falling apart and no matter how it does it, it still got it's all to go in for the next ambush...

Media used for this slideshow are: colored pencils on black paper, pen & ink on 2-ply Bristol paper, & scratchboard 

Go see the video & please subscribe to Nethaworld!! Taaa...