I’ve Been Missing Sharing Music, So I’d Like To Get Back Into Mixes. I’ll Plan On Having One Each

My first illustrator swap for Ten Paces & Draw is up! The format involves illustrators submitting a sketch on a topic, swapping them with others, then doing a final illustration for the sketch you receive. This topic was pet peeves. Check it out in context here! You can also see my sketch on the last frame of the project carousel. 

Here is a preview of some of the print goods I'll be selling this weekend at The Brooklyn Renegade Craft Fair 2013! I'm partnering up with Patrick Hosmer to bring you posters, patches, baseball scorecards, comics, greeting cards and more! Come on by and chat or get some sweet stuff this weekend June 22nd & 23rd! We've got booth #224 at the setup at East River State Park in Williamsburg. We're open 11am - 7pm both days this weekend and it's going to be great!

Some rough dino illustrations for a wood block puzzle project my girlfriend put together for a little one in our life.

Birds of Brooklyn Update

Still at work on the poster of the common birds of Brooklyn. This is where we stand at the moment. The plan is to do 15 birds for this poster, and 15 more for the rare birds version. This frequency rating is based on the Prospect Park Audubon’s statistics and my own wandering through my home park. Very excited to get this one wrapped up and printed!

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!

A new mix for the season. The previous soul mix was pretty great, but this one folks, phew. I also got pretty obsessive (shocker) about sweetening these old vinyl rips, seeing as though they were flat as all get out. Nothing fancy other than that, just ten excellent soul songs from the 60s & 70s. Please enjoy.

Season 3 Episode 5 in which a man in the electric chair promises to exact revenge on the heads of 5 men who have wronged him in his final years on death row. Seemingly reincarnated as a string of larvae - fly - man, Napoleon “Neech” Manley makes good on his hit list.

This is part of an ongoing project to catalogue the villains from the television series X Files. Check out the others here!

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.

A sad ending to the Orioles 2012 season... But hey! How about some new birds? I know the money ain't flowing into the organization, but could we get some better mascots? I'm willing to design them - call me, O's (think about that middle chill dude just hanging on the third base line).

Catch you next season. For now, Go Tigers?

Legends Of Rock #03 - Ray Davies

Next up, the leader of my favorite rock band*: The Kinks, Mr. Ray Davies. The first time I heard a Kinks record (middle school, Sleepwalker), it really did a number on me. The Kinks have been the most enduring and consistent musical obsession I've had since that first taste. Ray Davies is the man behind the sometimes absurd, sometimes lovely rock-pop group that spanned three decades. I'm afraid The Kinks are one of those bands that most everyone has heard of, but not so many have heard anything other than You Really Got Me or Lola. Hoping this will help and ya'll like the illustration! I'm starting to feel pretty honored to just draw these Legends, as I'm maybe getting a bit obsessed by each of them as I stare at their photos and read of their accomplishments all the while listening to their radical music.

The Incorrigible Kinks by Austineustice on Mixcloud

*yeah, of all time.

ae album picks: The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968) & Sleepwalker (1977)