Drawing Frogs Like A 4 Year Old. Easy.

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”

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."

“Fancy It Up” Numbers

Feel free to use these techniques on handwritten job applications or other important handwritten documents and forms.

Signature Woes

I changed my signature about a year ago. It was a big deal and I’m still coming to grips with how it deteriorates under pressure or time constraints. Time constraints here mostly mean impatience, because I can’t remember the last time I was given a certain amount of time to make my signature happen.  Anybody with signature woes knows what I mean when I say pressure. It has to look good.

Dude Supply EP

New sample-heavy pop music under my music makin’ moniker Prescription Strength Hugs and some cover art as usual done by plain ol’ austin eustice. Enjoy, thanks!

If you’re interested, samples used:

1. Seen Everything

Ode to Billy - Arthur Lyman,  Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead ,Love Lives Here - Faces, I Move Around - Nancy Sinatra,Sleepwalker - Kinks

2. Ol’ Blue Eyes

Beyond The Reef - Martin Denny, Os Grilos - Marcos Valle, Strangers - Kinks, Llulla Mak’Ta - Yma Sumac, Danse Calinda - Richard Hayman, Tudo de você - Marcos Valle, Procissão - Gilberto Gil

3. Questing

Hawaiin War Chant - Arthur Lyman,  Faut-Il Que Je T’Aime - France Gall, We Got The Beat - The Go Gos, Incacho - Yma Sumac

4. Aztec Rock

Oya Ka Jojo - Les Volcans De La Capital ,Similau - Martin Denny ,Melody - Serge Gainsbourg, Lola - Kinks, Come Dancing - Jeff Beck, Got To Be Free - Kinks, Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin, Crystal Days - Echo & the Bunnymen

5. Dude Supply

Want Your Love - Alzo & Udine, Come Dancing - Jeff Beck, May This Be Love - Jimi Hendrix, Windowlicker - Aphex Twin, Tightrope - Leon Russell, 2/1 - Brian Eno

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.

FEBRUARY - Lord Akira.

Continuing the 2015 calendar I'm making of comic book characters my girlfriend admires. All building designs taken from the insanely talented Katsuhiro Otomo. It was nearly impossible to follow his level of detail and organization of thousands of lines. To counteract the pain I felt rendering those buildings, I went a bit looser on Akira. Tried some screentone, ended up not applying it heavily enough, but was pretty pleased with the final result. You can track the months here.

This is an alternate look for the upcoming art for DJ Lani Love's new summer mixtape. In this version, the text for Lani Love is large and interacts with the front row of trees. I really liked this treatment but also have to admit that Ms Love was right in requesting a smaller, more cohesive nametag down at the bottom. Final version coming soon.

Yoga Me

I started doing yoga a month ago. Doing the job I do, I was in pretty serious need of yoga without really knowing it, with all the sitting and staring for most of every waking hour.  I’ve quickly become obsessed, as I am known to do, so I drew a picture of me doing yoga thinking about the things I think about when doing yoga.

Oye

Been mega busy with works but this one slipped out in all the pixel work I’ve been doing.