Nose Bleed

A lil warm-up doodle

Rockodile

According to wikipedia, crocodiles first appeared several million years ago. I assume that is enough time for them to develop good musical taste.

The Little Prince

My brother used to play the first Katamari a lot when I was in high school and there was something so strangely appealing about it. Fun concept, simple/clean visuals and one of the catchiest soundtracks ever. In fact, I'm probably going to go listen to it now.

Roll on little prince...

Professor Panda

Here's a lil project me and my girlfriend put together for the ever-rad Em Beros. Her sister just became a professor and is apparently a baby panda, so we made her a custom-covered Moleskine planner.

Beastie

I'm pretty sure this guy lives out behind my apartment building and is the one always knocking over trash cans and shoving cats off of fences at 3 am. One of these mornings, I'm gonna get jacked up on coffee and fist fight him.

Garçon

Sometimes artist put a lot of time into the meaning behind their works and creating high-concept images. Sometimes I draw this...

Coffee Truck

Found an old sketch of this when I was cleaning my desk, and decided to slap some colors on it.

Legend of Zelda

You kids can keep your fancy loftwings. Back in my day (1764 AD) the only way to catch some air in Legend of Zelda was to jump off crap holding a chicken. 
...or hover boots, or have a weird giant owl carry you around, I guess.


This was originally going to be a 25th anniversary piece for the series, but after messing around with it for a little bit, I put it aside and forgot about it for a little while (9 months). I'm sure it's fine though. People celebrate 26th anniversaries right? RIGHT?!?

Anyway, this is my little tribute to a series that made me what I am today: Pale and covered in chicken scratches.

Doses Album Art

So I know this band named Doses...

...and they recently put out their debut EP, "Take the High Road," and were cool enough to let me doodle all over the cover of it.

 

It even won a cover art contest at Dyingscene.com

You can check out their music, merch, tour dates and even find semi-nude photos of them on their facebook page. 

Card Shark

This started out as a timed experiment to train myself to paint faster, digitally. I got a little carried away with it though...

Spidey and the Sandman

A while back, we did a weekly design challenge based around the word "sandman" and this was my entry. I recently found the image I and figured I'd slap it up here.


On a related note, I finally saw the Amazing Spiderman movie. I was surprised at how much I like a spiderman movie when it's not full of Tobey Maguire goofy, grinning face. It felt a lot more like the comics for me and despite its flaws, I thought it was much watchable than Raimi's movies.
...Now if only J.K. Simmons could be Jameson again...

Prints, iPhone cases and Nonsense now available

 Doesn't everyone need an image of a banana peel vomiting it's innards wrapped around their iphone? Yes, yes they do. Every single person.

I've been toying around with the idea of selling prints for a while now and I've finally decided to open up a shop on Society6. There's a bunch of prints of past work on there and a few iphone cases and cards. If you'd like to check it out, just click the "shop prints" link on the right of the blog.

If there's anything you'd like to see added to the shop, just let me know. I'll be adding new work as I make it.

Trip to the Market

This is very loosely based on an old woman who goes to the same laundromat as me. Cranky old people are just the best.

Heart Attack

My girlfriend was talking to me about heart attacks the other day. Now I take a slightly longer pause before slurping down an entire pizza.

Keyboard Cat

This is another piece from the ol weekly sketch group that has become less than weekly. The theme was "silly kitties" so I thought I'd do a keyboard cat. It quickly became less of a silly kitty and more of a sad, soaked-in-cheap-gin sort of cat. And mega kudos go out to anyone who recognizes the song lyrics.

Ron Swanson

"You know what? I am going to have that third steak after all."
 
When I grow up, I want to be Ron Swanson.

IP Ogre

This is a character design I did for ipogre.com. Never turn down a chance to draw some ogres.

When Coffee Met Donut WIP

This started off as a piece for a weekly sketch group at work. I think it's pretty heavily inspired by a conversation I had with Jake Murray a few years back about ideas for gallery shows and one of the ones that got thrown around was inanimate objects falling in love.

The file has since been corrupted, so I don't know if I'm ever going to finish this, but I'm liking how it looks so far. Maybe one day I'll be overcome with burning passion and desire and with a tummy full of coffee, I'll charge forward and finish this lil fella up. Until then, you love birds...

Summer the Kid

This is a character design for hip hop artist, Summer the Kid. He's starting to fire up his internet presence, so he wanted a little sun-headed mascot. You can check out some of his stuff at http://summerthekid.com/

Valentine's Day

This is the valentine I made for my girlfriend. She likes to pretend she doesn't know what Sarlacc's are. It's adorable.

Sleepy Time Tea

I'm really falling behind on posting these weekly designs to this blog...
Anyway, this one's from a few weeks back based on the topic "In the Dark."

Things like this make me realize just how simplified my design process has become:
Step 1: Draw something cute smoking a cigarette.
Step 2: If the cigarette didn't work, replace it with a cup of tea.

The Bat

Fresh from this week's design challenge, the topic this time was "noises batman makes." This might make some people think of "Bam" or "Pow" instead of French. That's understandable.

Medusa

A group of guys at work have started a weekly design challenge. Last week's topic was "Evil Woman." It was really close for me between this and a Toddlers in Tiaras mom. I might have made the wrong choice...

Sometimes I feel a little bad for Medusa. Other times I realize it's probably silly to feel bad for something that never actually existed.

Good Morning

It's the first Monday of the new year, everyone!
Mornings are getting harder and harder...