The Year of Nobody

 

I have to admit, every time I write here is mainly because I forgot to do it and somehow something reminds me I have a blog. It is almost 2026 and that I know of, I must be one of the few people who still have a blog -- at least nobody I personally know has one -- Writing these lines from my Manhattan office on a Friday afternoon.

Besides the Metal Souls series, this year has not been the best one for me art-wise. I really should start dedicating more time. Unfortunately I also didn't do any art shows given the effort they take every time, not barely break even (if lucky) with the costs. Let's hope the coming year is better.

Otherwise, I did travel a lot again this year (which seems to be a constant fortunately) and also worked quite a lot while not travelling. I have been thinking about buying a Samsung Galaxy tablet as an incentive to draw more while not on my desk. However, I'm on my desk most of the time so not sure how much of a difference it will make haha. 

I have been thinking about selling art online through Bitcoin-only purchases as an experiment. I am not sure however how many systems exist today for an easy shop setup that's Bitcoin focused. Maybe I should work on making one. I also still want to make a boardgame one day, since it's also another one of my good hobbies.

I hope you all have a great year 2026, I hope for you and also for me, to invest more time on our hobbies in the coming year. Stay safe!

Metal Souls Series

 

I've been away for quite some time, but here I'm back to my digital relaxation spot. There haven't been many updates regarding my art lately and especially since my last blog entry. I don't feel excited about the art shows I did last year anymore, but that hasn't stopped me from drawing on a weekly basis. While looking at my past work, I realized I had a lot of fun working on the Fruits & Veggies series back in 2023/2024. I have then decided to create a new robot-inspired series called Metal Souls.

I'm not sure how many entries this series will have, but I don't think it'll be more than eight. I originally wanted to do a four artworks series but I think eight will do it. Expect a new robot every week on my site! The Metal Souls section is already live here: https://okcerk.com/metal-souls

'til next time-

End of Summer '24

 

I sometimes forget I have this blog page while life keeps distracting me constantly. But indeed this was a fun summer, I went to Europe once again and finally stepped in Scandinavia for the first time. Lovely Norwegian fjords, castles in Copenhagen and Swedish meatballs, what a pleasure. I'm now back to NYC waiting for the cold weather to arrive, or not waiting but it's unstoppable.

This week I'll be doing a new Pancakes and Booze event, my third one actually and will conclude my art events for the year. I did enjoy doing two events at Green Point Gallery, even though it was a bit hard to arrive to the place. Hopefully I get to find a few new places next year to display my art and maybe sell some.

I have a few more trips before the end of the year but I hope I manage to make time to draw a bit more. The amount of art pieces made this year is not big, but I hope the quality gets better. I'm also searching for a new series to make, since the Fruits & Veggies was so much fun.

Not much more to add, I'll see you all soon ##

The 2024 art extravaganza

 

Well hi! Right after the crazy end of year with the Fruits & Veggies Series (where I ended up making 36 of them and I'm now planning prints for upcoming shows), I went on a two month trip to my home country of Argentina. There was no new content in this lapse, for which I'm a bit ashamed of but there was really no good time to sit down and draw.

I'm now back and the proper planning for the year has started. So far I will be attending two art shows -- one at Green Point Gallery and a new Pancakes and Booze in the coming weeks, both in Brooklyn, NY. Hopefully I get to bring new content for the second one, since I'm planning to get the Fruits series printed out soon. On that note, people seem to have loved the series and it may be a great idea to do a new one later this year.

Another idea I have been brewing is creating yet another coloring book and maybe a comic series, but that's yet to be decided.

On the NFT side, the project has not really caught much traction so it will still be there on the site, but I have just released a new homepage that removes the NFT focus. I'm back to displaying simpler content, with a link to the new Fruits series and the latest artworks uploaded. I may go back to NFTs one day, but unfortunately the craze is long gone and I have no idea how to catch traction on new users. This has been a lot of work with little results, but I'm glad about the project regardless since it's been an awesome experience. Maybe by creating more art and improving the website, it will start moving again one day.

Thanks for being there!

-Andres

Fruits & Veggies Series

Hello internet! Unfortunately I was not able to attend my second Pancakes and Booze art show this September due to horrible weather that day and the fact that it was being done outside. I arrived at the place and as they were setting up an outdoor tent, I decided to not attend that day since it was pouring rain like crazy. Sorry :|

As of today, the new Fruits & Veggies series is up on my website. This just randomly started after a friend saw the initial Tomato drawing and asked if I was making a fruit series. Then I realized a tomato can simultaneously be both a fruit and a veggie, therefore I continued with vegetables too. I will be adding a few more in the coming weeks so stay tuned!

Looney World NFTs + 1st Art Fair

 

I often forget to post updates here, but that's because most of my updates these days occur over Twitter. Anyhow, it's been an epic 2023 so far:

In March I released my first official series of NFTs called Looney World NFT. This was an interesting experiment and indeed it took long hours, days and weeks to get everything ready. The hardest part was getting the website Metamask logging and furthermore displaying the NFTs on the site. I have to say this was probably the biggest blocker. The actual creation of setup and blockchain handling of the NFTs happened over AutoMinter, a tool a highly recommend if you ever work on your own NFT project. Finally, the social media and community engagement was as always quite rough. I was well aware I was releasing an NFT collection during a massive NFT bear market, but I still had a lot of fun. The Discord channel is still alive, although not very active. The channel has mainly become a way of keeping the community up to date, but not much more unfortunately. I will keep working on the collection, there are a few web updates coming up and I'm planning on releasing exclusive content only for NFT holders. A Looney World NFT Series 2 may be on the horizon, probably for 2024.

On another note, I will be finally exposing and selling my art at an art fair / event called "Pancakes and Booze". This will occur on July 20 in Brooklyn, NY and I am getting ready by setting up prints, books, trading cards and more! I'm really looking forward to my first in person art event :)

Finally, as always I've been uploading new artwork to both Instagram and my website, trying out a few new things and enjoying myself.

Hope you all have a great summer, take care of yourself!

Big web updates

 

Welcome to 2023! It has certainly been a long time, but here I am once again. I took a nice long break in December, went to Europe for 3 weeks and had a real blast. As always, the thing I missed the most was making art, so once I got back I went straight into my hobby.

Here is a list of everything going on at the moment:

• NFT project: The project is ready for launch and will drop an exclusive post here about it soon. The mint is set for launch through Autominter and I'm aiming for end of February / beginning of March. However, I'm trying to set a community on Discord and there is an Alphabot running to sign-up. Depending on how many people have signed up, I may extend the date by a few more weeks but no more than that. Regardless of the reception, this will just be the beginning and new collections may follow.
• Server side rendering: The site has always suffered from SEO problems. To be honest, the Google search visitors have always been low. The main reason was easy: Links across the site were not easy to discover and I never had server side rendering. For the past week, I spent a considerable amount of hours setting SSR to run on my site and finally achieved it. This together with an automated sitemap.xml will hopefully bring a lot of SEO enhancements. The first page to load (you can test it by hitting Refresh on any site) will now be super fast since all the content is returned straight from the server -- no more waiting spinner on the first load.
• Grid view page: This new page (see image above) has the purpose to also help on SEO. The artwork collection pages (digital and ink) which have had an on-demand infinite scroller since forever, even though they got amazing performance for the user, they were really hurting the search engines crawlers. These new pages (see all digital and all ink) will for sure help out finding content across the site.
• New artworks: As always, the latest artworks are found on my Instagram page. I have yet to do a big content update on the site, which will probably come some time today or tomorrow. Because of the NFT project, the amount of digital drawings last year was huge! Expect a big update on the site :)

Til next time!