exciting stuffs

*this pic updated

So this is a cool project that I have been working on in my free time-collaborating with a local screen printer making gig posters. The first poster is for Neko Case. The image is based on her new cd, "Middle Cyclone." Her show was Sunday and totally rocked. The band got their copies and the rest of the posters are being sold at K&M's Etsy and on Gigposters.com The other poster is for M. Ward based on his new cd "Hold Time." If you aren't familiar with him, he does a collaborative band with Zooey Deschanel called "She and Him." He is incredibly talented, I went and saw that concert last night. His voice is out of this world. I couldn't believe that the posters sold out before he even went on stage! These will also be sold on Etsy and Gigposters. If you aren't suffering from the recession go buy some! I will be collabing with the printer here and there. I hope to sharpen my poster skills-the fusion of type and illustration is so rad. There is also a tiny excitement to have a band approve of an image that you sweat over, lol. A huge thanks to Melissa!

apparitions

I got some schtuff to share! First, these top two pieces are done in Illustrator with a texture added. I may add them to my Etsy shop as prints. It's always fun to see my work translate into vectorland-only because it's such a damn struggle in the beginning. Thinking in all shapes while trying to convey a certain emotion can be a challenge.


Also, this past weekend some close friend/family members came to visit and 4 of them were ghost hunters. I got to hang out with them all weekend, prying their brains and asking all sorts of questions. It was a blast, and I loved seeing all of them again. We went to the Coke Museum, Varsity, and then to the Oakland Cemetary, lol. I also met a psychic/median, who was incredibly friendly and shared some future things with me-it was crazy on point.

Ghost stories were a big part of my childhood and where a lot of my imagery derives from. Usually my brothers and I would scoot into a cozy palette on the floor. My dad would light a candle and a cigar and sit in his big old chair to tell us scary tales. That was something that happened as often as morning cartoons, and we loved it. With it came nightmares and a lot of nightlights, but hey.

And here are some more sketchbook pages.




I have some exciting projects in the works, but this is all I can share for now. Also listening to the Sookie Stackhouse series at work, it's pretty entertaining. Ok, done with splats of useless information.

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Sketches coming soon!

Finally posted on Jooperwits, which is now the "Occasion Thoughts of Grim and Wit." This is easier for me to manage, trying to be funny daily is hard considering that I tend to have multi-faceted moods, haha.

Also, this is the coolest thing I have found on the internet inn a long time-The Uniform Project. In a nutshell, she wears the same designed dress for an entire year, making it look like a different outfit everyday. Proceeds fund better education in India for kids living in the slums. In an over-saturated world of ideas this is pretty cool. The outfits are also very inspiring for drawin' purposes.

Lastly, if you can identify this animal, kudos to you. Someone at animal-crackers-r-us must have used another planet's animal reference guide. Unless the Stump-neck giraffe-sloth found it's way out of extinction. Hmm, sounds like a drawing waiting to happen.