Street Pizza and Fan Male

Here is some more art work I did for the band Street Pizza's new album, Cancerous Planet. The drawing below is taken from a really old sketch book. I didn't have much time and we needed another image. It just goes to show that you should never throw anything out, RECYCLE!

I got this helpful e-mail from a FAN the other day. It was a reply to a quote I gave him Tuesday March 2 of last year. Better late than never or in this case much better never.

Hello, I was the guy looking for the (Zombie on a Skate board)

to be used as a tattoo. Just for a 5x5 black drawing I was thinking more like $20. That is what most designs go for if I buy them for a tattoo from various sites. (He gives me links to two sites that show artwork, thanks,) $80 seems a bit high. If you are firm on that, it is o.k. I just won't be purchasing it from you at this time.

Maybe I'm being bitchy, you know, "Don't look a gift pig in the mouth, just take it to bed and shut up..." This guy want to give me money for my art right. Yeah, just like 7-11 or something.

and now the print is really big, i wonder if it will look like this in the blog...I have no idea how that happened, really.wacky.

When things work out gooder than you planned.

This is going to be the record cover for the grind/thrash/power violence band Street Pizza. There are a few more details that may be added to the final piece, because less is more, but more than less is better than none at all. They wanted the art to be kind of ugly, and I was tired of polishing my work, so it was a perfect match.

This will be a t-shirt design for the British Metal group Turbo-Laser. As you can see, evil space mutants are storming Buckingham Palace to kidnap the Queen. I really hope that there is a sequel to this song so I can draw more space mutants. They are really fun to draw.

I'd rather have one pound of atmosphereum than a ton of unobtanium.

This is the mutant from film sci-fi classic, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.

Below, is the skeleton holding a meteor containing the rare element atmosphereum and Animala.

Drawing, Yelling and Watching a ton of Movies and T.V.

So, I have this baby now and I've been awake for the better part of a month eating junk and watching trash to pass the time. I watched the 1975 sleeper hit, The Land that Time Forgot, which was much better when I was six years old. I also watched The Fantastic Voyage to the Center of the Earth, which was no good either. The movie seemed to be made by the same British production team and was also based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. There was an unintentionally funny running line about the sheep herder hired to lead the (un)fantastic voyage being paid in sheep. I also watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre Two--a slasher movie without a body count. Not even its cool sets and Dennis Hopper could make it decent. Ice Pirates kicked TCM II's ass.

The biggest happy suprise I had was a five part British mini series called Day of the Triffids. Not to be confused with 1962 movie of the Triffids which is not nearly as good. Day of the Triffids crushes most zombie movies into the dust.

I should have drawn a man eating plant that would have been useful because the Triffids are man eating plants from outer space. Just watch the movie and stop making that stuck up,"what an idiot" look. Killer plants are no joke and they teach use about the dangers of socialism.

It's been a long while, but I finally got back to marking up the sketch book. After my spiral into fat daddy land it feels good to be back into a sort of routine. I started off with some of the funny animals. They're fun and easy to draw. At this point with all I have to do in a day, it's got to be fun, easy, or nothing at all.

I've also been fooling around with some wacky word bubbles.

My bands demo is done please check it out. Loud, Dark, Heavy, Ugly.

http://www.myspace.com/occultistrva

So sorry it's a myspace link, ugh!

This kid heard it...

Check out this Blog. The person that does this has said some nice things about my work.

http://cathode13.blogspot.com/

Year end and looking ahead.

This first one is an evil mutant from Planet X . I did all the Ufos behind him for another painting but because of the specifics of the job the client only wanted one UfO to appear in the background. I have to scrap these others and it broke my little heart. Because I saved them on another layer I was abile to copy and paste them to the new painting that whipped up this from a sketch I had done earlier. You can't do that on canvas.

As I putting this together I can see that this next picture still needs some work done. The T.V.s and computers need some more dark purples and blues. This is what happens when you work at 2:30 in the morning, you remember things the way you want to remember them.

I'm doing this for my friend Jon Ramsey and his new record Sever Connection. Jon has taught me a thing or two about sticking to your goals and being true to yourself. He has insisted on paying more money for my artwork than most of my other clients. Most people I know want artwork as a favor and would tell me they didn't make enough to pay for the work. BUMS!

What kind of Art Blog would this be if I didn't show you some work that was rejected by a client and bitch about how unfair life is sometimes? Not a very good one! I did this pen and ink drawing for a Metal Band(No way, Get out of town?!) who i will not name. I spent a ton of time on this and it was the first drawing I finished after the birth of my kid.

I would have been a lucky man if that was the worst thing that happened to me in 2009 but this wasn't the case. My dog Babygirl pasted away in August. Everyone who got to meet her agreed that she was the best dog ever. Losing her was one of the hardest things I've ever gone through. My wife mentioned that she would have really enjoyed the snow we got this past week and then someone e-mailed me this picture from last Christmas out of nowhere. We love you little dog.

(Why is this blue?!?)

To end on a happy note, this is my son, Joe. He was born on November 20th around 11:00. He is my greatest work of art. He is also a tyrant who has taken sleep away from my wife and I. We still love him and are looking forward to getting to know him.

I used to Blog stuff...

So, I was Blogging every few weeks for while and then I stopped. I don't stop drawing, pick up a drug habit or get a job. I've been working on a few bigger projects that took up more of my time. I didn't have anything new that was finished. No, nothing was done but I figured it's time to blog about it regardless of this because I'm almost up to ten viewers. It's time to shine.

This is the new t-shirt design for my band Occultist. I feel that the band counts as one of the long term projects. I've been in the group for a few months...

It's a bat.

I'm working on a comic book with the writer/director Eric Miller. His movie Mark of the Damned is one of my favorites. Good thing he lives in Richmond Va. This makes working together easier.

This "comic" is going to take many of my times so please don't hold your breath on account of this stuff. At this point I'm still only working out characters in my sketch book and doing a few thumb nail pages. (I will show some more of these later in the Blog)

more sketches...

dinosaurs and more...

and a robot.

Remember the good old days when I did Blogs about the cute cartoon animals? Well they're back! And I've got big news, I'm at work on a comic with some of these animals in it.

"Two comic books?!?" you say' "You must be out of your skull!?! Where do you find the time?"

One answer is, I don't Blog anymore. Another answer is that, I have a habit of biting off more than I can chew. Just look at this damn Blog, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. I just can't stop myself. It's not like I don't have plenty of things I need to be working on. I have deadlines looming, a child on the way and I need to get my drives license. So, what do I do? I start not one but two comic books and then I Blog about them, genius.

The idea was also to get this Blog done quickly.

It has not been a quick process at all. It's taken me a while and, so I'm not getting it checked for spelling. Please be kind with the criticism.

The book is going well. I think people will like it in the end.

Here are a few thumb nail drawings. I put them all together so 1. you could just read them and spoil the comic and 2. thumb nails are drawn quickly and don't look that hot. I thought putting these together would make them look cooler. I don't know if that's the case but it did take me a lot of time. So, please enjoy this on a few different levels because I worked too hard on these.

I was also listening to this crappy comedy radio station on my computer while I worked on this, torture! Please, please enjoy this, even though it's a bit long.

It's like ideas in motion or something. Please agree, now.

So in conclusion, I spelled some stuff wrong and the Blog has too much junk in it. Better luck next time.

!!!Get This Album!!! In Defence, Into the Sewer

In Defence, Into the Sewer

I just got Into the Sewer in the mail a few days ago, and I think this is one of my favorite albums that I have done artwork on. I worked with these guys back in the winter of '08 while they were recording. In Defence is a hardcore band from the midwest who have been playing and touring for a while. This new album swings in the direction of cross-over (Hardcore Punk Rock mixed with Heavy Metal) that is very popular these days. This might be a strike against them, but they really hit it out of the park with Into the Sewer. The record is tough, mean, and a lot of fun.

Right or wrong, at the time I was working on these two pieces I was way way into the idea of painting in Photo Shop. It would have been great to be able to paint on a canvas but I was low on time, money, and space. I picked up a few copies of Imagine FX, a great digital art magazine. If you are at all interested in PhotoShop artwork, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy. It's a very useful resource even if you're painting outside the computer.



Into the Sewer is a fun record, and you need to give it a chance!


Yes, they spell there name wrong on purpose and they have a song about that too. Check this one out!