My Buddy Does An Epic Wrestlemania Party Each Year, So I Made Some "get Out Of A Shot" Cards For The

Bird 11: Yellow-rumped Warbler

This is a fun bird that you see pretty often. The "yellow-rumped warbler" category is often used to generally classify a group of four different warbler varieties, if you needed to know that. This is one of the cute ones. I have the Birds of Brooklyn poster nearly all laid out with type and everything. Should be rolling it out real soon. 

Night Before Le Tour

The Tour de France begins tomorrow. This will be the first year I watch with any interest. I recently read the book It’s All About the Bike and it got me seriously into the idea of long tours. Learning about how these multi-day races began and what those first competitors suffered through made me look with a pretty critical eye on the modern Tour de France - with its teams of mechanics, daily massages and limit per day. In the old days (some hundred years ago), these men would ride as long as they possibly could (in extreme cases, up to three days without getting off the bike). They were often drugged up and half-crazed and some people died, so I suppose this had to be addressed at some point. Learning a little more about the course I’ve decided the daily set stages and all the pampering of the riders at each day’s finish line does not detract from the challenge of what must be an excruciating 3 weeks. So, I’m pretty excited to see some serious bicycling. I think also, they pee on the bike. Here is what I imagine each competitor will be dreaming tonight.

Five Deadly Venoms

Pupil #2: The Snake from Chang Cheh’s (much more) story-driven martial arts film Five Deadly Venoms. One hand represents the snake’s head, the other the tail. Trying to keep the warmup game going.

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Doing some hand-drawn animation test stuff and decided to use some of my favorite characters. Here's Abe having a spotlight swung onto him, getting spooked, and getting pretty upset.  Check out my fancy blog for an outtake.

Season 3 Episode 3 in which Giovanni Ribisi plays a lightning-infused youth bent on getting the Virtua Fighter highschore and his boss’s wife. His name: Darin Peter Oswald.

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

At the end of a week, sometimes you just need to get Airborne.

Unused variation of a magazine ad. 

Year In Review

Phew, today marks the 2 year anniversary of my starting this blog. It was a slow starter the first year, trying to figure out exactly what to post and how to talk about my work. The blog underwent a huge shift this past year, in tone, content and importance for me. It has become a place to experiment with new techniques, make jokes, write music, and share what goes on in my everyday life as an illustrator and designer. I plan on pumping up the volume exponentially this year on the blog and all things AE. Looking back at the year, I picked out a few posts I was particularly proud of and hope to match and maybe top in 2012.

2011 was the year of illustration. My work shifted heavily towards hand-crafted, fun imagery - a departure from my more precise and clean design previously. My 6 favorite images of the year pretty clearly show this trend.

Closeup of a poster I have at the printer's. Proof, then the whole shebang. Prints of this available soon.

Our dog Frankie.