This Is The Kick-off Of A New Series I'm Working On Called "Hey, Koo!", Penned By Kalia Armbruster and

Got a new segment coming in which I illustrate Legends Of Rock (and most likely other genres). Hope you like.

TV - Adventure Time

I’ve been at my Home home in Maryland the past few weeks. I’ve been doing a whole lot of bicycling (they have hills here, real hills) and catching up on some design work. Being that there isn’t a whole lot of night life (not something I take much advantage of in NYC when I’m there but it’s nice to pretend I would), I’ve also been catching up on some television. I was completely unaware of one of the awesomest animated things ever made: Adventure Time. Completely hooked. Extra funny, some awesome character design, and moments of great stretchy animation. To a lesser extent, I’ve been playing some cell phone games too, one being Sword & Sorcery. And now, these two things combined.

Pixel Strut

Another snippet from the Pixel Art Project, which is one of a few but the main one going.  This dudes got a pretty wicked strut.  With as few pixels as I had to work with, it turned pretty hard pretty quick but I like the product.  Check out the making of here for all the janky steps.

Little snippet from a new poster series that I'm wrapping up called SIx Shapes 6 Things. Stay tuned for the prints.

M&M Wedding

Meg & Mike, the sweetest couple, asked me to work up a whole graphical package for their summer wedding. It was a real pleasure figuring out which elements represented each of them separately then worked together as a whole package. 

The main double-sided wedding invite contained a mixture of flora from the bride's and groom's respective region mixed with some from their wedding location, Ithaca NY.

The back of the invite was maybe the funnest part of the project. This hand-written font I worked up really seemed to fit the style of the couple and the mood of their farmer's market, DIY wedding.

Many of the elements I used in the main invite were then used for name and table cards. Here's a good portion of them all laid out above.

Meg & Mike chose passages (sometimes lyrics) to accompany my illustrations on the table cards. 

The illustrations made their way onto name cards the guests could match up with their assigned table. *Photo courtesy Anna Simonak. 

The groom and I even brewed up a special champagne-style beer for the wedding and I hand-cut a stencil and painted the bottles with its fitting batch name.

Yesterday I posted a Happy New Year for all the folks who follow my blog. After that, I went about my work day as usual, getting back into the swing of things after a most excellent break the past week and a half. During lunch, however, I checked the blog, I suppose egotistically, and the strange and happy dragon on the front page really struck me. I made a few doodles on a notepad and surmised what he or she might look like at different angles. As I did, a mascot for the year of 2012 took shape and seemed rather undeniable once done in color. This is Newton.

Recently had several conversations with folks about the history and current state of the Bond franchise. I'm a pretty huge fan of the series as a whole, but could be a whole lot happier about the current choices being made about the (historically) suave and cunning spy in the suit.

Working on a character for a new haiku/comic mashup done with haikuist Kalia A. Comin' soon. Yeah, he shoots a laser out his fingers.

Season 3 Episode 10 in which a supposed NSA agent tries to keep Mulder and Scully from uncovering a dastardly alien-human hybrid experiment gone bad. This is the guy that was in the fantastic zombie film Pontypool, which I highly recommend for anyone liking radio-play style, mostly implied horror.

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

Bird One: Bufflehead

Kicked off the new bird-poster project in earnest today. I’ve a duck to show for it. Messing around with a few art styles and so far this is the one that is sticking. Not something I’ve really done before but I’m liking the direction. I especially like the slight caricature look of this guy while retaining that aviary nobility… Much more to come. This is 1/30 (I think).