Coffee book spread: preliminary work

Okeedoke this is all preliminary work a book spread for an essay on coffee. I choose to illustrate historical scenes from the essay. I'm still working on the color versions of these for the finals so stay tuned 

handwritten type for the title

According to the essay Muslim Imams first got the idea to use caffeine from watching the behavior of goats that had eaten magenta berries and they went bha-listic hahahahah... that's sheep not goats... sigh.

“The Imam found that he could juggle a dozen ideas in the time it normally took to consider a single one” 

“What hashish was to baudelaire, opium to Coleridge, cocaine to Robert Louis Steven- son, nitrious oxicede to Robert Southey, mesca- line to Aldous Huxley, and Benzedrine to Jack Kerouac, caffine was to Balzac”

Everyone from Ethiopian warriors that grounds it in to animal fat and ate it before a battle to soldiers in the civil war rallying the troupes with a cup of coffee, caffeine has been a part of the beginning for historic events.

ink line drawing

original drawing before I bumped up the contrast so you can see the brush work better. 

Blazac was also known for having such a caffeine fix that he snorted coffee grounds up his noose! talk about loving the smell of coffee in the morning.  hehehe

Da goats!

gray scale initial studies 

Type work for Street Justice

I've never considered myself good with fonts/type but as I've been messing around with Street Justice and I've found myself drawn to hand lettering. Not for text (it's way beyond my skills to be that clean)but in dealing with the title font. I just really needed to dive straight into it. I've been looking at some of my favorite album cover and seeing their approach to lettering. I came up with this brush pen lettering that's going to go in Street Justice ch.2

I've been doing these little studies on bristol... can you tell what I was watching while doing them

a Jar of sumi ink kind of congealed in my bag last week and turned to the texture of cottage cheese. However, it now make much odder brush stokes and shapes. I think that the Street Justice cover is going to have a similar looking title.

If you guessed the Mighty Boosh then you guessed right!

Sigh... the scanner didn't get the awesome yellows and purples in this one. Damn you Epson!

this one has nothing to do with fonts. It's just a fun ink study. can any one read my handwriting? 

earliest study, similar to the original way i was drawing the title

Street Justice update: ch.2 cover!

AHAHAHAHA I'm so excited! production for the second chapter of Street Justice is in full swing! The plot and scripts are done now it's time for the best part... actually drawing/inking it! There's so much to do and it's gonna be a while before anyone sees Street Justice related stuff but in the mean time I can give you a little teaser. The cover for chapter 2! I'm not set on the type... i've been playing around with it a lot... sigh... so it'll probably look different on the new issue. Plus it'll be in color! 

Editorial project

So in a resent assignment I was commissioned to create an editorial piece for a business magazine. the article dealt with websites popping up that were specifically attacking the services of big companies often times having the word "sucks" or "suckz" in the web address. The illustration that I came up with is a symbolic representation of the websites and companies relationship. So I put in some mischievous little internet trolling characters. 

final colors

made some alternative colors for the little guys... cause I wasn't so sure what they needed to look like...white didn't look good.

At some point I felt like I was designing power rangers...hmmm...

GO GO POKEY RANGERS 

An initial concept dealing with the companies response to all the negative feedback. When the companies go after the websites it creates more fires than they can put out... To be honest this is my favorite concept, but the art director felt with time constraints and potential changes to it I should go with the safer bet. I'm not complaining I like em all any way 

Final sketch

This was the long shot... but you never know, it could of been picked. No magazine is too classy to have a butt in it!

Character sketches 

Superhero with new color schemes and...

Some sketches of my own take on a couple superheros. I did these a while ago and I want to do some more now..

Hulk... feel like a banana 

demon Batman will kill you family... because he's sad on the inside :(

Alien robin chugged a soda and is rudely burping everywhere 

Edith Piaf poster

Here's a poster i did as for the late singer Edith Piaf. You might remember her music in inception, she was the french singer playing in the back ground that was supposed to signal when to give the kick. Anyway for the poster one of the guidelines was only to use color and shape

I ended up with this elegant swirl which I thought best represented her. Black and white I felt had a kinda old world quality which I liked. I used ink and open acrylic medium, which behave much more like oil in terms of texture and feel and yet their still acrylic paint! WHAT! thanks Grim Wilkins!

an alternative typesetting... pretty shitty this way but i felt it could of been done real well like this... i wanted to make a gradient from the "H" to the "E", "H" being black "E" being white but towards the middle this didn't because the "I" became too light... sigh ohh well