Found A Whole Mess Of Truck Icons I Did Years Ago. Dusted This One Off Because I Liked It. Used To Work

Good good, Good bad, Bad bad: An American Werewolf in London

I got a new scanner!  So, folks, you can expect to see a lot more real life art, if you get my meaning. Watched An American Werewolf In London last night and it was straight up Good good. Another campy but seriously made horror movie. I particularly liked how afraid the guy was of becoming a wolf and eating folks.

It’s October so we’re watching spookies. Here’s good ol’ Deputy Dewey from Scream 1.

6:28am

A mini comic I thought up in the shower, where most of my good ideas come from. This poor guy just got his sunrise / magma flow times mixed up.

Album Art

Prescription Strength Hugs “Dude Supply EP” & ae Mix “St. Valentino & His Corpse Army”

DJ Lani Love’s “Warmth Of Love” & “Snow to Stars” mixes.

ae mixes “Soul” and “Soul II”

Unused Toolbar

Here are some cool-fun icons for a toolbar I designed but never got used. Icons: quarantine, un-flag, edit, link, star, read.

Stop A Thing - PSH

Everyone, I make music under the moniker Prescription Strength Hugs. I have never thought to share any of that on the blog until now which is precisely why you’re getting this and an illustration about something in the song!

Process Post: Cover Art

Again, a view into the way I work for better or worse.  Process of the cover art for DJ Lani Love’s winter mixtape Snow To Stars.  Projects for Lani always get me to work in a more sleek, hip fashion.  Not much room for smiling pixelart or batmen, but I’d like to think I can do cool too. You be the judge (I’ve decided this is going to be pretty cool if I stick to it, but your confidence is highly appreciated).

Step 1 & 2.

Left: Extra rough sketch for the basic layout and concept. I went with the snow and stars.  Right: Less awful rendering of Ms. Love. Coolness tip: head slightly raised, shoulders slightly back? Coolness. Who knows why.

Step 3 & 4.

Left: Serious cleanup of the face and hair with a rough shape for the space-blouse.  Right: Her hair loaded the right side of the frame unexpectedly - so the sweet gloves and dropping the collar for a bit more asymmetrical balance.

Step 5.

Clean it all up.  Next step will involve the tough decisions of shading, color, text, etc.  

Bird 5: Blue Jay

A very pretty, pretty mean bird: the Blue Jay. These things would always scare away the smaller birds on the feeder at my childhood home. In the city, they’re a bit more humble with nastier competition.

Another gig poster for the now Chicago-based DJ Lani Love. Changed up the style a bit this time to better portray her intended pop, disco and 80s setlist. I liked the look of the background on this so I made some wallpapers. You can get two versions of the wallpaper for your iPhone 4 or big old Droid right here.

April - Scott Pilgrim.

Continuing the 2015 calendar, this month is Sex Bob-omb playing a raucous gig. Think it turned out really well and was very happy with the screentone fade in the background. I tried out Manga Studio for the first time and really liked the drawing tools and the ability to minutely tune brushes. I’ll definitely be doing more illustration in Manga Studio, especially anything that needs variable line thickness (and dope screentones).