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Man, Seattle is a super great city. We went to Pike’s Public Market and got some excellent sweet and savory pastries and of course saw some fish get ceremonially tossed. Then we biked to see the Space Needle and neighboring architectural interests. After plenty of biking in the rain, we ended the day with a viewing of the strangest movie I have ever seen at a great cinema that prides itself on cult rarities and good beer. If you’ve any interest in bizarre, psychedelic Japanese horror movies of the late 70s, see House (1979) pronto. More soon.
First day in Seattle. Super awesome. Got up extra early on account of the time change and got all the bicycles out of the shipping boxes and ready to ride. Went to the gun range and shot a wide array of 9mm pistols. This manly activity made us realize that doing guy stuff can make you feel less manly if you’re pretty uncomfortable doing it. So then four of us tried to split a cigar but we ended up only making it half way through. I think we redeemed ourselves though, by inventing Bliskey - which is beer and whiskey, naturally. More soon.
I have begun the Super Trip, wherein myself and two friends travel from Seattle to Los Angeles via car and bicycle. The first day wasn’t so exciting because it involved getting to JFK, sitting in an aeroplane for 6 hours then settling in at the friend’s apartment in Seattle. There is so much to come on this trip, and I plan to post some drawings.
Non-Threatening Rorshach
The character Rorschach from Watchmen is a pretty scary guy; but that is only because his ever-changing mask cooperates and swirls into menacing ”what does it mean?” formations. I prefer a mask that does not share this glum attitude towards symmetrical mood projection.
Friend Mold
Friend Mold is a comic I wrote and illustrated about relationships, detailing what one must go through to become more than a friend to a member of the opposite sex. Digital release took place over the months of January and February with the last page arriving on February 14th. If you're interested in publishing Friend Mold drop me a line!
Good good, Good bad, Bad bad: An American Werewolf in London
I got a new scanner! So, folks, you can expect to see a lot more real life art, if you get my meaning. Watched An American Werewolf In London last night and it was straight up Good good. Another campy but seriously made horror movie. I particularly liked how afraid the guy was of becoming a wolf and eating folks.
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.
X-Villainy
I've undertaken a project to catalogue all the bad guys in each X Files episode. I've started on season 3 since that's where I was when getting the idea. I've about 200 or so left to do... Poster series to come. You can check out detailed info for each here.
6:28am
A mini comic I thought up in the shower, where most of my good ideas come from. This poor guy just got his sunrise / magma flow times mixed up.
Logos
Rebrand of RegulationRoom.org logo - a site that houses newly proposed rules from various government agencies.
Alternate mark for Regulation Room, sticking with the "ribbon" motif that has historical value to the brand.
Logo for DJ, blogger, fashionista Lani Love.
Logo for a solo performance theater festival organization group.
Logo for a Bethesda, MD based psychotherapy practice.
Logo for a creative industry jobs listing site.
Logo for website devoted to all things hiking, conserving and experiencing natural beauty around the Washington DC metro area.
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”
I DR NY
My wonderful friend has been going to medical school for long enough to be forced to decide where to do her residency. The possibles were Boston, NYC, or Philadelphia. Thankfully for all, especially me who has come to rely on her medical advice, she will remain in NY! As a not-going-away present, I painted her a little something because she will, in fact, be stethoscoping New York. Watercolor (which is awesomely cheap) on water color paper (which is awesomely pricey.)
Rad photo by Mike Wechsler
Game Art
Space Game - concept art for a tower defense game based in space.
Ghost Ghoster - character designs for a game about putting ghosts to rest.
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.
Good good, Good bad, Bad bad: Daybreakers
I watch a fair amount of movies. Most of them are bad movies. This is just something I do. This segment is devoted to all the movies I view. Last night I watched Daybreakers in which Willem Dafoe is cured of vampirism after being launched from a wrecking car, catching on fire from the sun’s rays and being extinguished moments later in a dirty waterway… It does get pretty gruesome at the end. Overall, this qualifies as a “Good bad” movie. It was pretty easy making Ethan Hawke look freakish; the hard part was making Willem Dafoe look remotely human.
File Under Fine Art: What is Nudity?
Pardon my absence the past week. I have been in Florida where it snows never, shines stronger sun, and offers communities single, double, even triple gated for your safe retirement. But upon my return, New York proved to me once again why it is great: The Armory Show Modern. Some great work from artists all over and in such a monstrous locale it took hours to get through. I imagined many of the attendants of this contemporary art show having the below conversation.
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.
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.
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.
Truck Repair
Pixel art out the wazoo, folks. It’s gonna keep coming, so I hope you like it. I do. Here is a little something I made for a website in case it went down… which is kind of a bummer, so I tried to make it fun.
Double Business
Working on an identity for DJ Lani Love, who also happens to be half of the fashion blog Sugar Rock Catwalk. For the upcoming NY Fashion Week, she needed something that could do double duty, as she will be DJing the Independent Fashion Bloggers event and there as a representative for the blog. Information overload on business cards is a tough thing to deal with. I tried to keep it clean with a lean font and simple graphics. As with nearly all projects, there ended up being a designer’s pick and a client’s pick. On the internet, you get to see both!
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.
Hair Brain
I believe my hair is gaining majority control over my brain. Evident after shampooing twice this morning, one application on top of the other, already lathered and shaped to my daily specifications. I need to haircut shop. Which celebrity’s photo should I take to my lady?
Process Post: Cover Art
Again, a view into the way I work for better or worse. Process of the cover art for DJ Lani Love’s winter mixtape Snow To Stars. Projects for Lani always get me to work in a more sleek, hip fashion. Not much room for smiling pixelart or batmen, but I’d like to think I can do cool too. You be the judge (I’ve decided this is going to be pretty cool if I stick to it, but your confidence is highly appreciated).
Step 1 & 2.
Left: Extra rough sketch for the basic layout and concept. I went with the snow and stars. Right: Less awful rendering of Ms. Love. Coolness tip: head slightly raised, shoulders slightly back? Coolness. Who knows why.
Step 3 & 4.
Left: Serious cleanup of the face and hair with a rough shape for the space-blouse. Right: Her hair loaded the right side of the frame unexpectedly - so the sweet gloves and dropping the collar for a bit more asymmetrical balance.
Step 5.
Clean it all up. Next step will involve the tough decisions of shading, color, text, etc.
The Transformative Power of User-Comments.
Some one-color pixel art I’m working on for the big ol’ project, Regulation Room. We’re launching a newly designed, newly content-ed version at the end of the month, so I’m in major crunch mode making and animating pixel art for the various videos that explain the site.