new blog background

I made this a while back in one of my sketch books and i really wanted to color it and put it as my background, but my in first try i wasn't satisfied with my color choices 

This one is with edited colors. I like it much better because now all the colors have abetter flow and i'm loving how the orange guts pop more. The only thing is even though i formatted the file the right way my computer screen is too small to see it all, so it crops right before you see the guts...  sigh

here's what i was talking about... to be honest I think the red is ok but that purple background... I just got a tacky kind of feel from it all. I going to try in fix this version though, because as I was redoing it I changed the black lines to different colors and I think if i were to rework this color scheme I'd imitate that.

The original sketch book drawing. SHARKBATS!

sex and death

This illustration is based on a dream i had. I woke up before it ended so i had to make up an ending. This is how it goes

"once upon a time Napoleon was surveying a battle field after his latest victory. As he walks a gust of wind blew his hat off and it landed in the middle of a briar patch. Napoleon was so distressed because the briar patch was thick and he couldn't find a safe way in. Just then death appears before him and offers to retrieve the hat on the condition that he must marry his daughter. Napoleon agrees and death recovers his hat but warns Napoleon to always be faithful to his daughter. for if was he was ever to cheat on his daughter the consequences would be dire. Years pass and Napoleon is invading Russia.thinking that death can do him no worse harm than the Russian front he indulges in a brothel. While mid-way into coitus he feels a sharp pain in his sided like a branch of thorns was wrapped around his bladder. from that day forth Napoleon's rein spiraled downward. This was because during every battle the thorns would tighten around his bladder and he would spend the remainder of the battle in the lavatory, urinating. This continued till he was defeated at the battle of waterloo. Napoleon cursed death until the day he died... of a bladder infection while in exile.

There is still some computer editing that needs to go into this peice plus I'm going to translate the story into a poem and fit the type on either side of the napoleon skeleton .  

some new Street Justice friends!

I've been doing some character sketches for these rat monsters that appear in the new chapter of Street Justice. They've been living down in the sewer and have been awesomely mutated!

This "little" guy is all evil and stuff because he's got no fur. look at him plotting revenge!

Woah! what a badass, all scarred up and with extra limbs sticking out... I'm gonna add color to the other don't worry.

AA DERRP. It's not the brightest light bulb in the light bulb museum but make sure not to get caught in it's creepy mouths. They're nasty 

Coffee: Color illustrations

color finished digitally 

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!