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Recently I was asked to complete a few videos for a company that makes official information about buildings and construction projects available to the public. Above is the main overview video addressing the problem of blight and how the software addresses it. It was a fun project and I’m pleased with the results. It allowed me to utilize a style that was fun and capable to telling a procedural story. 

I took this project through all stages, completing storyboards, illustration, animation, recording voice-over, sound and music.

June - Turtie Needs Work.

Continuing the 2015 calendar project, June is Turtie from Steve Wolfhard’s Turtie Needs Work. We love this minicomic beyond reason and I can only pretend to make a strip as good as the originals. Here it is. That’s 6 months, half of 2015 down and printed. More coming, obvs. 

The Fine Art of Design.

Did a magazine ad for a great vintage shop in Palm Springs. Was a fun project and allowed me to do more textural work which I’ve been getting into recently, and a touch of screentone which I’ve found hard to incorporate into my style but like the challenge a lot. 

May - Catwoman.

Continuing the 2015 calendar, this month is Catwoman à la Tim Sale’s covers on the excellent When In Rome series who worked à la the excellent René Gruau. I used a Gruau illustration for pose reference and the Sale covers for general styling. As a bonus, the recipient of these pages liked this one best so far. More coming.

April - Scott Pilgrim.

Continuing the 2015 calendar, this month is Sex Bob-omb playing a raucous gig. Think it turned out really well and was very happy with the screentone fade in the background. I tried out Manga Studio for the first time and really liked the drawing tools and the ability to minutely tune brushes. I’ll definitely be doing more illustration in Manga Studio, especially anything that needs variable line thickness (and dope screentones). 

Wrestlemania 31 Icons

Made some icons for this year’s Wrestlemania. They were printed out as stickers and used on bet-sheet score cards. Pretty fun little project.

March - Hellboy.

Continuing the 2015 calendar project, this month we have the incomparable style of Mike Mignola. By far my favorite comic artist and writer. Here we have HB and Kate Corrigan enjoying a bowl of ramen at Chuko in Prospect Heights Brooklyn, the location of my girlfriend's and my first date.

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.

A quick GIF for the ongoing project that my graphics crew at mTV works on each day - a character or thing Drawn From Memory.

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

Happy New Year Late!

This Christmas, I made my girlfriend a calendar and am still in the process of making. Every month it features different characters from comic books we both enjoy. Here we have the wonderful Lumberjanes. I went with the cover artist Noelle Stevenson's style and since it's the Year of The Goat - goats. Eleven more to come in this series. Enjoy some 2015.

Been working on early stages of an ABC book. All pretty goofy alliteration with some fun animals. Twenty six is a lot of letters...

Found a whole mess of truck icons I did years ago. Dusted this one off because I liked it. Used to work in pixels so often.

Been reading a bunch of books from the Parker series. They are excellent, no-nonsense crime books about one hard hombre. I had a little difficulty coming up with a design that worked, because he is described in one way, but reads in another. Described in the first book as:

Big and shaggy, with flat square shoulders. His hands, swinging curve-fingered at his sides, looked like they were molded of brown clay by a sculptor who thought big and liked veins. His hair was brown and dry and dead, blowing around his head like a poor toupee about to fly loose. His face was a chipped chunk of concrete, with eyes of flawed onyx. His mouth was a quick stroke, bloodless.

Throughout the books, he seems to get a bit more charming and attractive to women (maybe a bit of the Bond progression, from blank mold to a model man's man). I went with a more grizzled look, huge hands and an overall brutish appearance. Characters often call him the meanest man they've ever met, but he's just brutally principled and a fun character to read because of it.

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!

More art in a long line of art for DJ Lani Love. This mix was done for the nail art magazine Tipsyzine. They're both pretty excellent at what they do, so head over and check out the pretty wicked nail art and Lani's other mixes. Yeah, and don't forget to actually look at the album art! 

Another "Hey, Koo!" haiku comic, worded by Kalia Armbruster, arted by me. This one got a bit intricate, what with all the lazers, although I am getting a lot quicker with the pencil art sketches that are used mostly wholesale for these panels - scanned in and digitally inked. Kalia and I have been working on some backstory stuff for Koo and are going to start doing "artist inserts" every fifth release which should hopefully flesh out the character and the world. More soon!

My buddy does an epic Wrestlemania party each year, so I made some "get out of a shot" cards for the various games where when you lose, you drink. I think it's the only way to get people pumped about wrestling if they're not already. I went with a few famous finishers here. I'm new to wrestling but I already know I missed the best guys, namely Hulk and Macho Man.

Another "Hey, Koo!" to add to the soon-to-be collection of haiku comics written by Kalia Armbruster and arted by me. Still settling into this line-art style with flat color. It's a great exercise and I'm having fun working within the restraints. More to come, ya'll.

New "Hey, Koo!" haiku comic. Things exploding is bound to be a theme with a power like Koo's. Written by Kalia Armbruster with art by me.

This is the kick-off of a new series I'm working on called "Hey, Koo!", penned by Kalia Armbruster and drawn by me. We'll be putting out a bunch of these haiku comics in pretty much random order and hope to compile them as a collection later on. But for now, enjoy the man with the lazer hands. 

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.

Finally got around to making some art for my bocce team: Texas Forever. We roll every Sunday which means we lose every Sunday, but hey, we have fun doing it. I think if we get this on a shirt, no one will want to beat us or will just fall in love with us.

A Brief History of Captain America's Duds

I have a friend who is both a Captain America nut and a uniform aficionado. As a birthday present, I made a big old poster combining both. Here we have the main iterations of Steve Rogers' (one Bucky if you're counting) uniform throughout his career in the Marvel Captain America universe. He went through some hard times of disillusionment and physical adversity and his choice of costume did pretty well in reflecting that (except maybe the laughable The Nomad getup). Suffice to say, I learned a whole lot about the man in stars and stripes. You can get this beast over at the shop. The poster is 16" x 20". GET IT!

I was commissioned to create an art piece for a newborn's room/nursery. It came out really well AND I got to draw a whole bunch of dogs. Win win. Want one for your tiny baby (or grown adult)? Email me!

Every year, I host a dumpling party in which we make a heck of a lot of dumplings and watch a whole mess of movies starring a selected, beloved, actor. This year, it's John Cusack, so I drew him on a poster for the FOURTH annual ae Dumpling Party.

BEATLES UPDATE!

I redid the Beatles print because I wanted it to be a little more get-able for folks, and this one's 60% less money. Also, it looks real great in black and white (with some nice texture), especially given the subject matter. Perfect for any BeatleManiac in your life. Get it in the shop!

Beautiful morning here in NYC. Some more poster work for the inimitable DJ Lani Love. Went for a dot instead of my (what's slowly becoming trademark) loose stipple patterning.

My sister has this dog named Mabel, she's a real piece of work (the dog). I made this for her (my sister).

Prints!

Get all the fab four. Put George in the dining room, Paul in the den, or all of them in your quiet place. A set of four 8"x10" giclee prints (300gsm, 100% cotton, bright white, matte). What a present... to yourself (or someone else). Get 'em here!