OLD DRAWINGS. CHAPTER TWO, ANSWERS

OLD DRAWINGS. CHAPTER TWO. BACK STORY, THEN ANSWERS

The painting below was never used for anything....

Below: Earache Records', Thrashing Like a Maniac, a new school thrash compilation. It's not great but not bad considering that I taught myself how to use PhotoShop as I worked on it. Some jerk from Terrorizer Magazine called it, "just crap", that stung a bit....

Above: demo art for Fatal, Born to Thrash.
I really wanted to draw the little baby dick.

Above: T-shirt art for Battlemaster

Look up for: record cover for No Way Records' Compilation No Bull Shit #2

The great folks who did this comp also run a amazing record store called Vinyl Conflict located in the illustrious Oragon Hill neighboorhood. If you're in Richmond, you must visit!

At 12 o'clock you will see flier art for a Municipal Waste show. I worked so hard on this, and it still ended up awful.

Above: cover art for Cannabis Corpse's Blunted at Birth. I took a day off from work to do the inks for this one. I draw too slowly...
Above: T-shirt for Homicidal Threat. I think that they broke up before they ever printed the shirt. I also think they paid me in one dollar bills and quarters.

Above: T-shirt and Cover art for River Freshney

Above: T-shirt for Final Attack

Above: This never was used for anything...

I came up with the psudonym Inkwolf, because I was hunting for a "real job" and I didn't want the Cannibis Corpse album cover to pop up in a Google search on my name. I got the idea for the name from the movie Wild Zero. It stars the Japanese rock band Guitar Wolf, whose members are Guitar Wolf, Bass Wolf, and Drum Wolf. I figured I'd be Inkwolf.

Great story, right?....

Well, how about more art next time.

OLD DRAWINGS. CHAPTER ONE. THE RISE OF INKWOLF

OLD DRAWINGS. CHAPTER ONE . THE RISE OF INKWOLF

A drunk friend of mine asked to see my portfolio the other night. She wanted me to design her tattoo in the way drunk people I talk to at parties often do. It gave me an idea. I figured this would be a good time to post my old wares. It will offers people who haven't seen much of my art before a better notion of the caliber of lowlife I am. It also presents me an opportunity to post lots of content because I'm not finishing drawings as fast as I was a few months ago. Enjoy!

Above, t-shirt design for Battle Master http://www.myspace.com/battlemaster

Above, t-shirt design for War Graves http://www.myspace.com/wargraves

Up, t-shirt for Raw Sewage, I think they broke up...http://www.myspace.com/rawsewage

Hate Beak cover http://www.myspace.com/beak666

Alcoholic Mosh http://www.myspace.com/alcoholicmosh

Painting for Municipal Waste t-shirt. You can look up this band on your own.

"Who or what is INKWOLF?", you keep asking. What dose this strange name have to do with drawings, heavy metal and t-shirts? The questions begin to multiply in you head and you are unable to stop them. Is Inkwolf among us in flesh or is it an ever present conviction, a theme, that haunts the darker corners of our minds? Did Inkwolf do stuff for Cannabis Corpse? Did I drunkenly ask Inkwolf to design a tattoo for me that I never got? I will try answer those stupid questions in the next installment of Old Drawings. Thanks for playing, yal.

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.