07-25-2012

So maybe not everyday...guess my animal a day will be every other day. Anyway. Here is a woodpecker...interesting creature. Guess I should move to color at some point...next time.

Headsnatcher EP Cover

I love pen and ink and this was a very satisfying piece to work on. A lot of Microns were lost in the shaping of this thing. Stippling is a harsh technique, it tends to destroy all your tools.

This started as a simple drawing of an elephant skull and being as I have a tendency to lose myself in my drawings the idea ended up being too small on the initial surface of 8.5x11". I ended up spray mounting the drawing to a larger board and continued to expand the idea.

Anyway, it came out great! I had to take some RAW photos of it and piece it together in Photoshop for some extra flair. I'll probably develop a tri-fold composition and get it printed for the actual product to sell. Custom make the CD's myself. Once that is done I'll post photos of it too.

This drawing I originally did my sophomore or freshman year of college at SVA in a tiny sketch book I used to carry around and I just really enjoyed the pencil work and distortion in it. I actually found that sketch book and decided to scan in the image and redraw it in Illustrator and just complete the image.

I wanted to create this feeling of being in a back alley by using negative space to crate the environment for me. It was a bit of an experiment for me since I have never really worked extensively in that manor. 

I have about 3 or 4 more of these crazy drawings that I will be redrawing in Illustrator in the coming months.

Inked Life - Aaliyah Source Mag

I was commissioned to do a piece that resembled a magazine cover with the subject matter being Aaliyah de los Muertas. This was an interesting project involving some photo manipulation and good ol' line drawing. Also, since they wanted it to look like a magazine it took a bit for me to convince them that a rectangle would not necessarily look nice on a shirt. Once that was settled it was down to aesthetics.

We started with the full face paint and decided that the half face was the way to go considering we really wanted people to recognize that it was Aaliyah. I wanted it to feel a bit more like an illustration so I did a lot of freehand manipulation.

All in all I think it came out pretty nice and I can't wait until they print it on shirts.

07-10-2012

Goats! Probably my favorite animal, eyes are gorgeous but I didn't draw them. I will definitely have to revisit these guys.

07-09-2012

Decided to start drawing a different animal every day. Nothing crazy, just 30 minutes, 2 or 3 renders. More if I feel like it.

Lion time.