The Wrestler’s Lament
Saturday, July 31, 2010 | Permalink | Comments [0]
This guy was meant for something more, but I decided to change direction.
Sour Grape
Sunday, July 11, 2010 | Permalink | Comments [3]
Keeping with the theme I established a couple of posts back, here’s a new pattern I just completed — this time featuring scared screaming spooks. Pop culture is filled with stories of aliens and ghosts haunting our bedrooms — I thought it might be fun to turn the tables and have them scare each other for a change.
With these patterned illustrations, I’m really interested in deconstructing the surface and exploring ways to abstract my use of shape and color as I describe form and space. There’s an aesthetic developing here that I’m really happy with — time to go start the next one!
Orange Mummylade
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 | Permalink | Comments [3]
Something new! I got to thinking recently about the similarities between the outfits worn by mummies and ninja and it amused me that these two historical costumes — which have absolutely nothing in common — visually pair pretty well together.
This piece is, in a way, not yet finished. I don’t want to reveal my plans just yet, but the more astute viewer might note that this illustration can actually be tiled.
Sort of interesting, right?
New Print For Sale
Monday, May 3, 2010 | Permalink | Comments [0]
I have a new print available for purchase in my online store!
Jack, The Giant Robot Killer is a 9″x12″ giclée printed on acid-free fine art paper. Each print is signed and numbered and the edition is limited to 200.
You can buy one here.
Banner Day
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | Permalink | Comments [0]
Just posted a new strip to Haiku Comics. Please check it out!
Wonder Woman
Saturday, April 17, 2010 | Permalink | Comments [0]
Did this little drawing last week and I thought I’d share. I had a huge crush on Linda Carter when I was a kid. Ah, youth.
Self-Portrait
Saturday, March 20, 2010 | Permalink | Comments [0]
For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you already know that I was knocked off my feet this week by a pretty bad cold. It probably didn’t help that I mixed up the Claritin and Sudafed in the medicine cabinet. Well, at least I didn’t have to deal with allergies on top of everything else.
Anyway, before I got sick, I had been dabbling with a new way of approaching my work in Photoshop. I’ve always relied on a pencil sketch when I work in the program and I wanted to see how things might go if I tried to just paint digitally. No pencil sketches or scanning of any kind — just me and the brush tool and a couple of layers.
So far, I really like the results. Its stylistically somewhat different from the work I’ve done up until now, but it’s really starting to bring me the same kind of pleasure I get from oil painting, but without requiring a ventilated studio space and expensive paints. I’m excited to see where this goes.
I thought for today I’d share a little self-portrait I did yesterday — it’s a bit of a caricature, albeit a subtle one. There’s another piece that I previewed on Twitter the other day, but I’d like to fiddle around with that one a bit more before posting it here.
If you’d like to see me turn into a zombie, I used this self-portrait for Friday’s Haiku Comics.
T-Shirt Pre-Order!
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Permalink | Comments [0]
I am very pleased to announce that Haiku Comics is producing a zombie themed t-shirt featuring my artwork. The 4-color design references a comic strip my brother and I made last year, but the art has been significantly cleaned-up and fine-tuned. I’m really excited about this project and can’t wait to see (and wear) the final product.
If you’re interested in buying one of these t-shirts, we are currently running a pre-order and offering $3 off the regular price. We’re hoping that this price break will be enough incentive to get in some early orders so we can get a better idea as to what sizes will be popular. After all, the last thing we want to do is invest our money into mens large t-shirts, only to discover that the bulk of the orders that come in are for womens medium t-shirts.
Because we all know how popular zombies are with the ladies.
For the mens t-shirts, we will be silkscreening onto black Alstyle 1301 t-shirt blanks. I personally bought and tried on several different mens t-shirt blanks to ensure that we picked one that we could feel confident people would enjoy wearing. The Alstyle 1301 should be familiar to a lot of guys, it’s very popular with surf and skate companies.
Womens t-shirts are going to use black American Apparel 2102 t-shirt blanks. This t-shirt blank is very popular and well known, so we’re pretty sure that it will be well received as well.
Anyway, the t-shirts will ship mid-April. If you’re interested in purchasing a t-shirt, please visit the Haiku Comics online store.
Haiku Comics Celebrates One Year Anniversary
Thursday, January 14, 2010 | Permalink | Comments [0]
I think the title says it all. This milestone is the fulfillment of a childhood dream.
More art to come soon, by the way. For now, please check out my comics: http://haikucomics.com
