Holy-haven't-posted-in-forever Batman!

Ok, I'll admit it, I'm a bit o' the slacker when it comes to this blog updating thing. I've had a lot of work come my way and a lot of shitty things (great things too!) take place to prevent me from keeping up with this.

Regardless, tis no excuse. That being said, here's some new stuff, some old stuff, and just some stuff.

Enjoy!

A bit more o' the freelance.

So a local theatre company, the Bradford Little Theatre tapped me to do a few pieces of art for them for their upcoming 2010-2011 season.

First off, I had to create a logo for the actual season. The theme of this year's season is "outside the box". So that was the basis of my concept for their logo. Turned out rather well.

The second thing on tap for the BLT was some artwork for posters, programs, etc. for their first production of this season called "East of the Sun". It's an adaptation of an old Norwegian folk tale. The imagery and the story are rather interesting. Here's what I came up with. It ended up being very very close to my original sketch/concept for it. It's always nice to see an idea come to fruition how you'd like it to.

Some commercial work. A bit of a change of pace.

Full Page Advertisement. I created the fish cartoon beneath the magnifying glass.

This was the logo I did and got chosen for American Refining Group's 125th Anniversary in the oil business. I did not place the top font and was provided with the graphic. I was going up against an ad agency as far as which logo they were to choose. I think it's a pretty nice accomplishment.

This is a cookbook cover I did for the United Way in 2008 for one of their fundraisers. I was provided with a color scheme and a title. It turned out very nicely. The organization was very happy with the result.

This is the artwork that appeared on the program cover, t-shirt and posters for the Bradford Kiwanis club's annual production.

This is the cover for the Bradford Little Theatre's program cover for their 2009-2010 season. All the plays were comedies and the group wanted that conveyed through their logo for their 13th year. Laughing numbers.

As much as I would love to make a living doing things such as Mountain Witches, Glass Bears and Faberge Egg Jellyfish, I cannot. At least not at this point. (Fingers crossed), someday I can.

In the meantime, I get a decent amount of freelance work from around my area for all sorts of organizations. I've done things for our local Kiwanis Club, United Way, local theatre and various establishments/businesses around the area.

These are examples of some of those things. Logos, T-shirt Designs, Posters, Advertisements are just a few of those you see here.

HOAP Patch Design

Hand-drawn font for Old-school black and white patch design for the hombres in Head Of A Poet. It's nice and blocked out to fit in a square nicely. A nice simple design. I heart typography.

Eyeless Abomination stuff #2

After completing the entrail critter, the guys wanted me to come up with an idea for a t-shirt/print/something that will be used. I heard the phrase "mountain witch" and couldn't get it out of my head. The above sketches are what my brain processed upon hearing those two words put together. Again, completely inked sketch (on newsprint - which made the ink flow very smoothly), some in-progress photos, and finally the finished product. This really really turned out well. Everyone, including myself was very pleased with this.

Eyeless Abomination stuff

So, after creating Eyeless Abomination's logo (see a few posts below), they asked me to come up with a graphic for their newest batch of songs they were working on. I call it "digital album art". Just something they can put up. Cohesiveness. Consistency.

What I came up with after a bit of brainstorming with some of the gents was an "entrail critter." Since I'm a visual person, I hear words and come up with an immediate mental image and go from there. It's how I work most of the time.

Here's the inked sketch and the finished product. Both of which turned out very well in my opinion.

More HOAP Stuff

This is just a mock up of the front and back of the design. I think it looks wonderful.

As posted before, my Faberge Jellyfish design is going to be used for Head Of A Poet's first t-shirt. I will post all 3 colors. Blue was chosen for the one to be printed. I think it turned out beautifully and I can't wait to see it printed!