Gauntlet Hair is playing this Friday, opened by Raleigh Moncrief.
I’m not quite sure what’s supposed to be happening in this poster. I really just bluntly smashed ideas together.
Vague inspiration:
And here’s a version of the poster without text.
Just finished the first Friday Night Rock poster of my last term at Dartmouth. Woo! Japanther’s playing here on friday, opened by Doe Paoro.
This poster shows that I am too in love with CMYK color schemes, cartoon blood, and this Xiu Xiu photo.
Another pokémon remix.
Since the canonical magmar is so bumbly and goofy looking, I wanted to see how far I could take him in the opposite direction. I stumbled upon this aged shaman look while playing around with the frilly/tiled texture on magmar’s arms and pondering the Karura (which apparently inspired the original design), and I though it got the job done. It also turns out fire’s pretty fun to draw.
Between this guy and gengar, I’m really disappointed in my ability to come up with interesting and plausible poses for characters. I have no idea why magmar would stand like that.
It’s finals time again, so naturally I decided to procrastinate by doodling some pokémon “remixes.” Here’s an attempt at the original ghost family, drawn with lanterns and oni in mind.
Note: I drew a “scary clown” Gengar a while back, with very different sources of inspiration
Falsetto noise-pop band Headless Horseman is playing at my school on friday with folky alum Tica Douglas. I’m pretty psyched.
I initially didn’t think I would manage to do a poster this week, since I’m overburdened with work (and I’m spending the next three days on a quick trip to the bay area for some interviews). But lo! I timeboxed myself and made a poster happen.
This one was inspired in no small part by the fantastic Mr. Hipp, with his loud color schemes and wobbly lettering.
I recorded the process of illustrating this poster, which took just shy of three hours. You can watch me do it on vimeo.
Surprise: another concert poster. It was largely inspired by Ty Segall’s music video for “Goodbye Bread”, which is great (and mildly nsfw). I may have slightly exaggerated the length of his hair, though.
See this poster’s process video here.
This piece was stylistically inspired by one of my favorite tumblr artists, Jemma Salume aka Oxboxer. I love how she uses lines (see this and this).
First concert poster of the winter term! O’Death is playing at my school on Friday, but I’m missing it and fleeing New Hampshire for a few days for job interviews in sunny Silicon Valley.
In other news, it looks like my cintiq’s colors are way off. Tweak and color-correct as I may, I can’t seem to get the color palette to resemble what I thought I was working with on my tablet.
I don’t care what the calendar says; there is a thick blanket of snow outside my window, so winter has officially begun.
I’ve been feeling the influence of illustrators like Victo Ngai and Marc Johns* lately. I’m toying with different styles and keeping a few goals in mind:
All three of these are challenging for me, since for the past several years my “finished” style of choice was vector art with solid colors, clean lines, and no outlines. I’ve been having a lot of fun trying to change things up.
Afterthought: the more I think about colors and composition, the more I realize I know very little about either. I’m not very happy with the colors on this piece, but the smoke, hair, and scarf were fun!
*who I discovered when the internet idea police accused me of stealing his wildly original idea of putting antlers on a person.
I made another concert poster! This one’s for Titus Andronicus and Old Abram Brown this Friday. It’s looking to be a pretty fun show.
I let text placement be too much of afterthought for this one, so it’s all a little haphazardly crammed together. Oops. I may have also gotten a little carried away with that sailor-tattoo lettering.
