Art of Patrick Wong

Death Ritual Illustration Runner-up in CQ31

Patrick — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:37:35 +0000

My illustration “Death Rituals” was recently recognized in Creative Quarterly, the Journal for Art + Design. I received runner-up for this piece and really excited to be included in the competition. The illustration is an editorial based on Death rituals in the animal kingdom by Jason G. Goldman. “Death Rituals” explores the capacity for chimpanzees [...]

Split Characters

Patrick — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:48:27 +0000

This is a short time lapse video showing my friend Ryan Tsutsumi and I painting characters on a black wall. The idea was pretty simple -we were going to start with the black wall and draw a line down the middle with his face on one side and mine on the other. Up until that [...]

Year of the Snake Mini Toyer Qee Custom

Patrick — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:09:09 +0000

This is a custom I worked on leading up to Chinese New Year this weekend – entering the Year of Snake in 2013. I wanted to make some artwork to mark the occasion and was set off down this path when Andy at Toysrevil had a call for Year of the Snake artwork he would [...]

Lose Yourself 10-Doh! Design

Patrick — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:14:50 +0000

About 2 days ago I had a package from Tainted Visions with 5 DIY blanks stolen from in front of my apartment. One of which was a DIY 7″ 10-Doh! figure I was going to work on in the coming weeks. I had to order again as my mailman promised not to ever leave packages [...]

Hand-drawn graffiti style denim jacket for DJ

Patrick — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 06:23:55 +0000

This was a recent project I completed after my Secret Wars series. A DJ saw my work and commissioned his own custom rocked out denim jacket. The 1st picture shown below is a process photo when I had the new denim jacket on my bench at the studio. The jean jacket was a XL Levi’s [...]

Secret Wars Part 1, No. 3 Custom Mad*L

Patrick — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:24:05 +0000

This piece was the 3rd one in the series around Secret Wars Part 1. Again this piece explores the mashup of “truth” and “legend” using the song from the Last Emperor as inspiration as well as Umberto Eco’s essay Travels in Hyperreality. In this custom 10 inch Madl figure, I chose not to humanize the [...]