Mad Max For The Silver Screen Society's May Gallery. Thanks To Trevor Basset For The Invitation!

Happy Friday!

& the end to another crazy-busy week amirite??

This is my piece for Jimmy Giegerich's much-anticipated Bits in Multiples of 8 Video Game Fan Art Book (it'll be B&W in there).

Today's warm-up: this neon swamp grump 🐸

Hey, I'm a sophomore at MICA and I'll hopefully be taking your digital illustration class next semester. I thought your name sounded familiar and when I looked you up I saw that I've already been following you on tumblr, which was a really weird small-world moment. I just wanted to say hi, I love your work, and that I hope I can get into your class before it fills up!

Thanks! I hope you can too, but I think it HAS filled up already (my gosh!).

The Magician

Meanings: influence, awareness, ability, creative power, confidence, determination, a beginning, ego, desire to dominate, inspiration, focus, taking action, charm.

This is my piece for Light Grey Art Lab's upcoming show, Tarot, Mystics, and the Occult. I pulled The Magician, the card which starts The Fool's journey, which was awesome and intimidating! There are a ton of great artists taking part in the show, and everyone's piece will be compiled into an actual Tarot deck, which you can pre-order here! 

Here's a question: can you guess which fantastically low-budget 1960s horror (?) film The Magician's cloak is an homage to?

Mad Max

The flower-child witch and her bob-tailed familiar.

This is among a set of four prints, pages taken from my new zine “Cauldrons & Casseroles”, that will be available for purchase at SPX this weekend. You can find me at tables F6-7 with Jimmy Giegerich, Kali Ciesemier, and Sam Bosma. Come visit us!

ARGUS, the many-eyed demi-god, is a psychic-type mystical fighter who specializes in paralyzing her opponents with her gaze and holding them in crippling mental pain. Nearly impossible to sneak up on, she maintains a vigilant defense against physical attacks with evasive hovering, as any contact with her eye-covered body can do serious damage. The large eye on her forehead, when opened, casts a heavily destructive wide beam of light, but it forces all of Argus's other eyes closed and leaves her vulnerable for the duration. An orbiting shroud covers the eye until she needs its power. Fighters that want to take on Argus should employ blinding techniques: bright flashes of light, obstructive smoke, or sprays of ink. While impervious to attacks of willpower, physical attacks can bring Argus down easily if fighters manage to blind all of her eyes.

Okay, now come up from that deep dark pool of nerdiness...this is Argus, my submission to Jenn Woodall's latest anthology zine, FIGHT! Round 1! It features many talented illustrators the likes of Kali Ciesemier, Sam Bosma, Jimmy Giegerich, Valentin Seiche + more, and it's gonna be rad as hell.

Helllo! I just want to say you inspire me so much! I found you a while back on the book report. I just thought I would let you know and I haven't asked anything on here yet. I'm really trying to get back to drawing, I've neglected it far too long. I usually lean towards print design :)Soo question! Do you use a tablet to draw digitally sometimes? Or is it always scanning in and adjusting the levels? If you ever draw with a tablet do you have any tips? I'm discovering lots of neat tricks for photoshop with line work but i was just curious if there was anything you wish you would have known starting out with the tablet!Okay! I'm just being long winded now, thank you :)

Hi! Thank you! Great to hear that I've inspired a designer :) I ALWAYS use a tablet to draw digitally! Daniel Krall put it in the best way for me: if working with a tablet is like working with a pencil, then working with a mouse is like trying to draw with a block of wood with a point of graphite sticking out the bottom of it. The tablet was a little awkward at first, but I just spent a day messing around with it until I was used to it and now I can't go back. Just take a bit to get the hang of it, and pair it with key commands in Photoshop, and drawing digitally will seem much more ergonomic. You'll love it.

spendin all day in the print shop. “Cauldrons & Casseroles” and covers!

I had the opportunity to work with Meg Mateo Ilasco at Anthology Magazine recently for their 2013 Winter and Spring issues. Here's my illustration for their seasonal Screen Play article and a map (which I rarely get the chance to do!) for their feature on Oakland. These were both uniquely-proportioned layouts and so this was a fun exercise. Anthology is a beautifully designed and curated magazine, so if you haven't already, definitely check it out!

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EDIT: I'd credited Anh-Minh Le as my art director initially, whereas Anh-Minh is the editor of Anthology. My mistake!