I whittled a collection of fruit and veg for my nephew. All hand carved from basswood with a Carvin’ Jack knife and lightly finished with a smooth sandpaper to preserve the faceted look of the knife cuts. Main body colors were applied with an airbrush using Vallejo Model Air paint. Details painted on by hand with brush. First real foray into carving and will be doing lots more.
Really enjoyed the first issue of All-New Wolverine in which Laura Kinney (X-23) takes up the mantle of Wolverine. She was a fun addition to the original crew in All-New X-Men, bringing 'oh so tough' I've been missing with no Logan. Hope it keeps up! Felt like drawing her gearing up into that classic uni.
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Being from Maryland, this baseball season was the best anyone could have hoped for. Despite the Nationals having the best record in the league, my allegiances remain with the Baltimore Orioles. Tonight, they battle for the wild-card spot, so in support, I drew the new/retro logo that I'm quite fond of (glad to be over the lifeless bird silhouette). Go O's.
I was working on some icons for a live music app today and somehow I got to messing around. What isn’t surprising is that skulls were the subject of my messing around.
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”
Misspelled Characters: Captain Americat
New segment, folks, in which I imagine a world where careless writers pass along a minimally but catastrophically mistyped script to the artist who does his/her best to make the character function as intended. First up: Captain Americat. No shield pictured because it is being used as a milk saucer.
Legends of Rock #06 - Paul McCartney
Fab four going strong with the guy holding it down on the low end and writing a whole lot of tunes - some not the best, but some timeless and wonderful. Don't get much bigger a rockstar than Paul.
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!
Airline Colors
I’ve been flying more than usual lately. Sitting in airports, you get a good look at airline branding. For as much money as they must put into the marketing and collateral of their brand, so little of it stands apart from its competitors. I suppose this makes sense when all they’re really trying to do is appeal to the largest audience possible, and this will always involve snoozers design. I had to go a bit out of the way to try to find airlines that didn’t use only red, white and blue (thanks Lufthansa). Feels good to return to some more "studies."
Good good, Good bad, Bad bad: Buffy
I watched the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie last night, and while I remembered it being good, I had not remembered how good. This is a fantastically funny, stylish vamp/90s high movie. Self-aware camp and super likeable vampire make-up makes this Good good. One of the finest scenes involves Paul Reubens getting stabbed with a ruler.