TURBO-LASER!!

Power Metal Brits TURBO-LASER asked my buddy Will 'INKWOLF' Towles to bust out a logo for them. With a bit of help from yours truly here are the results!

ROLLER DERBY: Buh-Rownie Buh-Roozers!

Ah, revisions... Orange instead of pink, add a sash, make the skates more skatier and the boobs less Russ Meyer torpedo-y.

Brownie Bruisers!

I love doing team logos! I just have too much fun with them!

Elevate Skin Ink

Ato liked the design so much he's getting it tattooed on his upper arm.

He text messaged me after seeing this work-up, "That joint is fresh."

Aw, yea.

ELEVATE MUSIC final

ELEVATE MUSIC final sketch

Here's a logo I'm doing for Ato (pronounced like Otto), a co-worker, and his hip-hop group, Elevate Music. This is just a rough final sketch done with Pitt brush pen, Microns, Prismacolor markers, and white acrylic ink and brush. 

I had fun with this one because I'd never done graffiti artwork before. The book below is full of sweet, old school graffiti art from the 80s and helped me figure some stuff out. 

I'll post the final when it's done. Cheers!

Nothing Shocking

My Pop is an electrician. He got a new work van the other week.

I got inspired to throw down some signage for me Pappy's new van. Dig?

howdy, stranger...

Oh, it's been a while since I've blogged. I've been working my ass off at work and doodling a little when I'm on lunch breaks or at home or Beth's.

March 14th I started a new sketchbook, with better paper than the last piece of crap sketchbook, and I've filled about 28 pages with sketches, doodles, anatomy, and gestures.

So, I suppose the obligatory sketch dump is in order. Here goes...

I've been working on my main weakness as per usual: anatomy. One day I will be extra special good at it. This is from Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist by Stephen Rogers Peck. It's a pretty good paperback that I carry with me frequently.

These two are from different ukiyo-e prints from my Ukiyo-e book mentioned in a previous blog. I used the Pitt brush pen, Microns, and Prismacolor markers.

Here's a quick and dirty for my roomie's band The Black Times. Jim wanted an homage to the Ramones but with esoteric imagery a la Freemasonry, alchemy, etc. The triangle read '33' with the Freemason image but has been changed to a billiard rack with the 8, the cue, and the 4 balls for '804.' With time run out in the hourglass, a clutch of lightning and a scythe, the whole thing is roped off with an inverted ouroboros. Black times indeed...

Finished this one today on lunch break. Femur studies from the same anatomy book. Figured I'd mess around with some hatching too.

In an effort to improve my skills, I've been going to figure drawing sessions for about 3 weeks now. On Friday I go to the Visual Art Center on Main Street from 6:30-9pm. On Sunday I go to Ghostprint Gallery on Broad Street, just a few blocks from my apartment.

Actually I missed last weekend's session. Just plain forgot. But the first session yielded this drawing, inked with the Pitt brush pen and watercolored.

I see the glaring errors, and my old figure drawing teacher would probably bodyslam my ass, but I feel alright about it. Just alright. I feel better about the watercolors than the anatomy/figure drawing.

Let it go...

MAGICAL UNICORN BUTTER!!!

My girlfriend's into dodgeball. And after watching a couple of last season's games, now I'm into it, too.

I hadn't played since 7th grade. My buddy, who had turned me on to punk rock, and I would run amock all over the court and give our battlecry: "WAKKA-DING-HOY!"

But now I'm on a team again. At 35 years old. Beth is on two teams. She's on my team and on another called "MAGICAL UNICORN BUTTER."

So I had to design a logo/mascot for a little battleflag...