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!

Lots and Lots more art

Hand Inked Concept for a friend's indie hip-hop project.

An acrylic painting I did a few years back dubbed "Strawberry Squid"

This painting was a present for my brother and his wife. It turned out nicely.

This post is just gonna be a bunch of stuff that I've done over the past few years that really isn't anywhere on my Facebook page, myspace page or otherwise... some of it may be repeats, but that's ok. I lose track of what art I do sometimes.

Faberge Jelly - Finished

Here is my Faberge Jellyfish design. This ended up getting used for Head Of A Poet's design for their first t-shirt to be printed. I will post the 3 alternate colors I came up with for their shirt design.

Enjoy!

H.O.A.P.

The fellas in Head Of A Poet had me come up with some logo designs for them as well awhile back. I came up with 4 original, hand-drawn ones and let them pick which one they would like me to redo and clean up (i.e. digitally) to use as their actual logo.

Ended up using two of the logos in the end. One for their main logo, and one for a patch design.

Here's design #1 for their main logo.

Death metal logo

Awhile back, some buddies of mine started a new death metal band called Eyeless Abomination. I was asked to come up with a logo for them. This is what became of that. Your traditional (YET readable!) death metal font/text. It turned out well and the dudes were very pleased with it.

Where o' where to begin...

Ok, I'm not gonna lie, I got quite a bit lazy with this blog. I had a bit of a lull in the action as far as my artwork was concerned. Shortly thereafter that lull, I had an explosion of stuff I had to do.

Got a pretty nice freelance gig doing some art for a local company that does laser engraving into wood. I get to flex my creative muscle a little bit and offer some input so it's quite nice.

As for everything else, I've been a busy one.

I'm gonna try and break up these posts in chronological order.

Music as of late:

(Today actually) Allegaeon - Fragments of Form and Function

Led Zeppelin - albums I-IV

The Acacia Strain - Wormwood