EVAN HAYDEN // blog

VERSION 2.0

January 11, 2010April 28, 2015 Evan Leave a comment

version 2.0!

*whew!*

I’m finally done with the revamp of evanhaydenart.com. As I mentioned, there may be some bugs here and there. If you spot anything, please let me know. Here’s what I’ve changed…

Design and layout. Fancier looking now, more colorful, and with darker accents. If you get nostalgic for the old look, you can take a peek at it here.
Added the Music page. Not much on it yet, as I’m just getting back into making music after a long hiatus.
Simplified some of the pages.
Moved the blog here, and replaced the main index page with a fancy landing page.
Made things load better on mobile devices
Fixed a lot of the problems with how things load on Safari & IE.

I also added several new (and a couple older) bits & pieces to the gallery pages… To the Illustration gallery, I added “Ting Terng” (something I did for the “covers” art jam on the Electric Ant blog), “Happy Birthday” (an illustration for a friend-of-a-friend’s birthday), and “Blind Beast” (A piece I did for Electric Ant issue 2. NSFW!). To the Design gallery, I added some examples of my graphic design and layout for Electric Ant issue 2, and from the vaults, I added “The World of Same Hat!” (the cover to a sampler of Same Hat!, a blog I cofounded with my best friend Ryan.) Yay!

Known bugs:

For some reason on all pages except the blog, if you hit ctrl+click (for example to open a link in a new tab), or hit right-click on the mouse, the page will redirect you to the index landing page. This is an annoying bug, and I’m hoping one of my more seasoned programmer friends can help me fix it. *hint hint*. For now, just hit back in the browser if it does that to you. I’m hoping to fix this asap.
On a smaller note, I need to tweak the way the outline formatting is on the thumbnails on the gallery index pages. I’m very sleepy now, but I’ll try to get that cleaned up in the next couple days.

Special thanks to Ryan, Melinda, Dawon, and Jason for helping me to test the design on a variety of resolutions, operating systems, and browsers! Anyway, enjoy the new site! I have a couple new illustrated-photo works coming in the next couple weeks, so look forward to that 🙂

caution: wet paint

January 9, 2010April 28, 2015 Evan Leave a comment

Okay, I’ve uploaded the new site, and it’s functional, but there are some cranky bugs to zap. Most notably the links page, and little aesthetic bits on the gallery pages, bio, and blog. I should have as many of these bugs as I know how to fix (remember, I’m more of an art guy than a computer-science guy) taken care of within the next couple days, then I’ll announce an “all clear” when I feel confident with it. Hang in there!

watch out for falling debris during construction!

January 8, 2010May 1, 2015 Evan Leave a comment

things are changing...

Hey kids. I apologize for the grievous amount of time since my last post. My life ended up getting thrown into a tizzy in November when I found out my dad needed heart surgery, so I came back to Michigan to be there for that. Since he also has needed help around the house during recovery, I have been here in MI since then, and will be going back to San Francisco on January 19th. Dad’s doing great now, so that’s awesome, but I haven’t had much time for art-making lately.

In other news, what I have been working on in my free time is the revamped version of this site (version 2.0 if you will). I’ll be posting that online at some point this coming week, and since I don’t claim to be a master programmer, there will undoubtedly be some glitches here and there at first (ie: missing graphics, dead links, messed-up CSS). If you spot anything weird, please let me know. The good news is, once I get the new site finished and the bugs zapped, it should load better and look nicer than the current site. It will also be a little more streamlined in functionality (I think I bit off more than I could chew when I relaunched my art site in ‘08). There will also be a new section, and certain pages will run better on mobile devices.

The other big change – and this might sound counter-intuitive – is that the blog is going to move from the index page to a dedicated blog page. I know it’s more the standard now to have a blog be the landing page for one’s art gallery site, but I sort of miss having the old splash page fanciness I used to have. Plus, frankly it’s embarrassing to have a three month old blog post at the front of my site in busy, chaotic times like this. So… what does this mean to you if you subscribe to my blog? It should mean nothing really. It looks like WordPress is pretty good about moving the address of a blog without cancelling out people’s RSS subscriptions. That said, I’ve never done it before, so if it doesn’t work, you might have to manually change your subscription address. I’m going to tentatively have the blog at www.evanhaydenart.com/blog (but I’ll keep you posted)

Anyway, new site coming very soon, as well as two new illustrations this coming month (one’s almost done)! Happy 2010!

come to APE!!

October 13, 2009May 1, 2015 Evan Leave a comment

Hey kiddos, it’s that time again! Alternative Press Expo is almost upon us, and you should come and visit my table! I will be there with my buddies Ryan Sands, Hellen Jo, Derek Yu, Calvin Wong, Anthony Wu, and Ryan Germick, and we will be selling all kinds of comics, zines, prints, and other goodies. Keep reading for info…

APE 2009

INFO…
Saturday October 17th, 11am-7pm & Sunday October 18th, 11am-6pm
at The Concourse (620 7th Street, San Francisco CA) View Map

Here’s a map of where we’re gonna be in the building (we’re called “Bang Gang”, and are at table #418)

APE MAP 2009

This will be the debut of issue 2 of “Electric Ant” – the comics & literary anthology zine that I do with Ryan Sands. Several of the contributors in the book will be at the show, so be sure to come. Come on by, say hi, and buy some shit!!!

EDIT (from the fuuuuuture!): Click this photo of my buddies and I to see a ton of photos from APE 2009!

“Off the Wall” post mortem

October 12, 2009April 28, 2015 Evan Leave a comment

Getting to posting this a little late, but I was in LA for a week. Anyway, I wanted to share some pics from the “Off the Wall” art show. It went well. I met some really awesome people and got a much bigger display area at this show (4×8ft). I spray-painted a neon pink, yellow, green & silver background of “asa no ha” pattern (my favorite pattern!), over which resided eight large prints.

I wanted to share some pics of the show with you, as well as some photos of the process of painting the background. Hope you find these fun!

(click the pics to go to their respective Flickr pages with bigger views)

Off the Wall - setting up my art space — wall in progress

Off the Wall - Ryan & me — My good buddy Ryan & me. (protip: don’t wear a rubber jacket to an art opening. So sweaty!)

Off the Wall - buddies! — L to R: Christina, Melania, Max, Kaoru, Andy

Off the Wall - Patricia & Oliver — Patricia & Oliver

Off the Wall - Sarah and Jay222 — Sarah and Jay222

It was cool to run into Piper Robbins & Alisha Fumiko Harada former students at the art school I used to work at. You’ll see them in that last pic! In other news, while at the show, I met Charlie Jane Anders from io9.com while at the show, and she featured my work on the site the following week. That was pretty rad! (I was also in the week recap)

Let’s see what else is new… I’m tabling for my fourth year in a row at APE this coming week, but more on that in my next post…

hello again

September 29, 2009April 28, 2015 Evan Leave a comment

Welcome!

I want to take a moment and say hello to all the new folks coming to my site! Many thanks to Chris at Space Gallery and Charlie Jane at io9.com for spreading the word.

Take a look around, and I hope you enjoy what you see. I have all kinds of varieties of different art on the site for your viewing pleasure. If you are interested in buying prints of some of the pieces you see here, drop by my Society6 store!

– Evan Hayden

“Hunter”

September 26, 2009April 28, 2015 Evan Leave a comment

Hunter Howdy kids! The “Off the Wall” art show went well. I met a lot of rad people and there was a great turnout. I had a pretty deluxe setup for my art at this show. I’ll post pics soon. In the meantime, here’s that new mystery artwork I did a couple days ago:

It’s the second in my new, second Robot Army series. The model is my good buddy Raphye. She was a good friend of mine back in high school, and I hadn’t seen her for ten years, until we reconnected on my recent three week trip back to Michigan. I think she makes a good model. I did another shoot with her, which I’ll post soon.

I also posted a ton of non-illustrated photos and a video from the robot shoot, which you can see here!

Off the Wall

September 21, 2009April 28, 2015 Evan Leave a comment

Hey kids, just wanted to let you know that I’m going to be in another art show, this coming Friday at Space Gallery in San Francisco

“Off the Wall”
Friday, September 25th, 8pm-late
admission $5
Space Gallery (1141 Polk St, btwn Sutter & Post)

I’ll have a bigger presence at this one than I did at Beyond Recognition. I’ll have about eight prints in the show, all pretty big size. One of the pieces is a brand new one that I just finished about 20 minutes ago. I’m not going to post it on this site until after the show, so it’ll be a surprise if you make in in person!

Beyond Recognition post-mortem

August 6, 2009April 28, 2015 Evan Leave a comment

The Beyond Recognition show went well for me. I showed eight pieces, and sold half of them. Yayy! It’s looking like I will be a part of the follow-up show, happening in September. I’ll keep you posted… It was a fun show. My 15 year old nephew was visiting me for a few days, from Michigan, so it was cool to expose him to some good artists. In addition to 2D pieces, there was some sculptural work, as well as fashion, and some bands played. Lots of people showed up – maybe about 200-300. Here are a few shots from the evening (click the pics to go to their respective Flickr pages with bigger views):

Beyond Recognition - my art space — My bit of wall space

Beyond Recognition - happy customers! — Happy customers!

These fine folks from Jubilee Hair Studio bought four of my pieces!

I loved this girl’s art. Check out more.

“Zipperface” + an art show “Beyond Recognition”

July 27, 2009April 28, 2015 Evan Leave a comment

Glaaargh, hellishly busy still, and in addition to the usual business, I’m preparing to move to a different apartment in a week, and also for my nephew’s visit to SF over this next week. BUT: some news…

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13th at Space Gallery (1141 Polk St, San Francisco CA)

I have several pieces in the “Beyond Recognition” show, and the opening is this coming Friday. I will also more than likely be selling prints while there. Come check it out and say hi!

Also, I made a new illustrated-photography piece, “Zipperface”, featuring my favorite muse again (Dawon). This is a disturbing scene that came to me in a dream back in 2000, in which a girl approaches me, pulls a zipper from her forehead, and starts to expose her skull, before I am jarred awake. Yikers. This is a first in a series of illustrated-photography based on dreams – hopefully to accompany a graphic novel of dreams (if my schedule ever permits it)

More soon hopefully. My next creative projects after settling into my new place (old place technically, as I’m moving back into the apartment I spent my first 4 years in SF in), will be focusing on Electric Ant issue 2 design and illustration, and adapting Maruo’s Panorama Island into English. (yayyyy!!!) You’ll have to wait a while for that second one to come out, but it’ll be worth it. Ryan and I are salivating over working on it, and are treating it with the care and respect it deserves!