Illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS
Experiments / Presents / Collabs / Just for fun

For as long as I can remember, I've been drawing on anything & everything that I could. From drawing crude super heroes & Garfield when I was younger, my skills have gotten better but my subject matter hasn't changed too much. I've never been one to draw super realistic (though I can, thanks to art school). Drawing should be fun! and I try to make everything I do fun for both me & anyone who sees it. Check out a few of my works. Some are related, some aren't. This is just a section for some of my favorite projects that I mostly just created for fun.

Andrew Walsh (.WALSH.) contacted me to do some collab with some of his photos. He just told me to do whatever, and I went with it. I definitely did, and I think things turned out pretty well.

These two were presents for my mom & ex-girlfriend based on their dogs. Augustus (Gus) was my ex's Corgi and she always wanted me to draw him as a gentleman. I finally went with it when Christmas rolled around. My mom saw it & liked it so much that she hinted at wanting one for her birthday based on her Yorkie. That's where Woodward (Woody) came into play. They both liked them & I couldn't be happier about that.

My ex-girlfriend & I share a common fascination with Grave Yards. They're just so creepy & the atmosphere is really great. Anyway, we took a trip around to a few on a cold fall day & took some photos. I always feel as though ghosts are hangin' around with me when I'm around places like that, so I gave them life. Erin got nicer ones while mine looks like it's going to drag me to Hell. It happens.

Valentine's Day card for Erin. We're both into gross stuff. The floral border is based on her (awesome) sleeve from the book, Wonder Bear.

My best friend James also shares my love for the occult / creepy stuff / monsters. So I took this old poster of a hula girl that I grabbed from a thrift store & painted over it. The white pieces are actually paper pasted to it for a smooth coating, where as the red is supposed to be grungier. "Far Out" is also one of his favorite terms, so I slapped that on there to pay homage to him / cover up "Aloha".

Pete at Traveling Kid Productions / Tall Ship Records approached me to do a quick flier for an upcoming show with Abandon Kansas headlining. He said I could do anything to their photo (within reason) to make it appealing / get kids to come. Even though they had a nice photo... pretty much every band does. I wanted something else to grab attention, so I made them a monster squad. Well... they liked their old photo more. But I like this one! So here it is, more-or-less never seeing the light of day before.

A friend of mine started up a very cool t-shirt store called BRAINBOW where she would get her favorite artists to design shirts & use any profits to just get more & more artists printed. Mine was one of the first & I called it LAY TO WASTE. It's a mash up of my love for Kawaii characters of Japan & Gods/Demons from different cultures (primarily Hindu).