art by ZAWADI NOEL
bkk UNZINE art magazine aims to showcase the talents of artists and to bring creativity and community to audiences around the world.
ONWARD BOUND
Much love to everyone who came to support the BKK Comics Art Festival… We really had a ball and special thanks to our special guests Eldo Yoshimizu and Rimui Yumin, our workshop instructors Adisak “Das” Pongsampan, Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray and Andrew Zeal, our partner foundation Children of the Forest, our sponsors The Embassy of Belgium, The Japan Foundation, Clip Studio Paint, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency and of course all the artists and vendors who were the lifeblood of the exhibition and convention.
bkk UNZINE intends to keep the momentum going and bkkunzine.com is your best place to keep up with all the exciting announcements!
We’re especially excited with this month’s issue, themed “Sexual Awakening,” as it’s full of entirely new talent… and what beautiful work they produced. An awakening indeed, and we hope to see more fresh faces in the issues to come.
At UNZINE 95, we’ve still got Monday Night Draw and life drawing sessions for everyone to enjoy, as well as workshops on painting, perspective and more on the horizon!
Enjoy the artwork below and send us your artwork by November 25th to close out the year with the theme “Retro.”
Next month’s theme is….
Accepting submissions now through December 24th.
featured artist
WORSHIP
by ZAWADI NOEL
digital painting, Clip Studio Paint
I drew this illustration on my flight back to the US from Thailand. It depicts a couple from an old story idea of mine. Their story is about an agoraphobic angel living in an old Manhattan apartment on the Lower East Side who falls in love with the woman who delivers his groceries.
Animator, Designer, Illustrator, Painter, Sculptor, Performance Artist
Zawadi is an artist whose work centers on honoring and uplifting marginalized communities through fantasy. His art style is influenced by Japanese manga and French comics. Zawadi has spent over 20 years creating custom comics from individuals, and coaching artists of all ages on how to strengthen their technique, imagination, critical thinking and storytelling.
SHUB-NIGGURATH
“The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young”
by BIGEGGS BLACK PEN
pen on paper
Outer Goddess of blackness tentacles, also considered the symbol of fertility by some cultists. She's known as a mother of a "Dark Young,” one of the most infamous entities in Lovecraftian lore.
Illustrator, Painter
Bigeggs Black Pen (Tae) ia a Thai full-time NFT artist who also considers himself as a representative of H.P. Lovecraft. His drawings are inspired by cosmic horror and dark fantasy themes. He is also interested in culture around the world and represents it with a new perspective in his own art style, telling a unique story with every piece of his art with traditional drawing pen on paper and watercolor style.
SAFE WORD
by KRIS
pencil on paper
“Safe Word” is about self discovery.
Writer
Kris is an American writer and art model. She draws inspiration from her life in Bangkok.
2-PLAYER GAME
by DAISAKA
digital painting (Procreate)
This began as a study, and I added my own bit of seasoning as I went. I enjoy drawing characters in some form of distress that can be expressed in their faces. I feel like the face is an entire body in itself, capable of sending a message as potent as one could express with the entirety of other body parts.
So this was hard for me as the subjects are not seeming to be in much distress. I added sweat—it didn’t help much.
Concept Artist, Comic Artist, Illustrator
daisaka is a third culture artist who grew up between Japan and the US. He spent many of his early years traveling, and took on art as a means of stress relief. It is still very much a means of stress relief.
WHOA
by DA_KEY
digital illustration (Procreate)
The only thing that came to my mind when I read the theme was how it felt to experience an "awakening" like that as an adult person instead of a teen like most people. That's partly because I'm on the asexual spectrum and partly because trans people like myself don't get featured in the mass media things that usually cause awakenings. And when we are it is usually not a flattering, genuine portrayal that lets us be both human and hot. So I made an illustration about a character going to an art market and buying a porn zine made by trans artists, from another attractive trans artist, and reading it and thinking "that's the attraction everyone is talking about? we could have had that the whole time??". The posters on the walls are also little easter eggs for the works that influenced me a lot, Nimona by ND Stevenson and Be Kind My Neighbor by Yugo Limbo, which was the first time I read an 18+ book with a t4t (trans 4 trans) sex scene, and it was incredibly goofy but also portrayed genuine attraction.
Writer, Illustrator, Comic Artist, Mixed Media Artist
Da_key is a multi-media artist and writer self-defined as just "illustrator,” who makes art of the things in its head. They are mostly self-taught, fascinated by old book illustrations made with ink and dip pens, watercolor and anything else artists used before digital art became possible. They also love the vibrant colors that digital art provides and the new possibilities of it that don't exist in traditional art (like the lasso tool, have you heard of that thing? Life changing!).
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next month’s theme is….
Accepting submissions NOW through NOVEMBER 25th
