New site!

Hey everybody! I have moved my posts over to Tumblr to showcase my work and inspirations. Check it out: negative_space + grumble, grumble..

October Rust

Here's a sweet new litho print that I will post at higher res on my *temporary* main site later. Pretty fall colors, not-so-pretty fall subject matter. Clue: think folk song "Hollis Brown."

It was a three color deal, and it's my first print multiple color lithograph. It was printed using pronto plates of an ink drawing with 2 layers of digitally drawn tones. Lotsa headaches, but lotsa fun for sure! I'm moving on to stone litho next week. Legit!

A pause for Metal.

Arik Roper caught my eye again. Love the lettering.

Blog? What blog?!

I am back to posting and hopefully I can keep it up this time 'round! Sorry, folks. Well I should have some neat stuff to share since a lot has happened since my last post. Mainly, I am out of my foundation art courses and on my way as a print-maker :) There are some sweet updates to older posts and a whole grip of new, exciting influences I've seen this summer. And I promise to show my work from now on. Here's a quick one I'm doing for lithography, and I'll be back with more soon!!

I know it's a little old and you may have already seen it... but damn this gives me the best goosebumps ever.

I'm trying a new format for the blog: I'm gonna show images of things that have affected me over the past week so that you folks can get a better idea of the "negative space" that informs and inspires me. It's a little more conducive to my mode of thinking and hopefully will inspire you, me, and help generally organize my thoughts and communicate to whoever may be tuning in. 'nuff sed.

Fit to melt faces !,,!

Arik Roper just melted mine! I really dig Fillmore posters from the sixties, and Arik just takes them and gives it a mean Frazetta punch with a hint of Alan Lee fantasy colors. Amazing typography mixes with rad stoner rock imagery to make a pretty effective brew. Definitely something to enjoy!

Soon!

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Swear to god, there'll be some new stuff soon! ...Really!

Finger salute.

One last "single finger salute" to that asshole., originally uploaded by Draplin.

Draplin, you so crazy!

66,882,230 Obama fans can't be wrong

So cool!

Stroke of (a) genius

So I've been trying to bone up on my inking skills lately, and so I've been scouring the interwebs for new, different pen/brush techniques to little avail. And, lo, I stumbled on an artist that at once melted my face off with awesomness! While reading Proof, there was a secondary story drawn and inked by one Connor Willumsen that reminded me of Paul Pope's style, yet very unique.
At any rate I was thoroughly impressed by his body of work that includes comics and some definitely boss illustration work. And he's a spring chicken at only 22! That makes me feel all old and stuff :3 An inspiration for sheezy!

AAAAAAAAGGGHHhhhhh....!!

Effing hilarious. And informative 't boot!



Check out Aesthetic Apparatus. They're my new heroes. :3

Ahhhh... the 80's.

Here's some scans I got from my family's Childcraft encyclopedias. I've been looking for a particular late 70's-early 80's illustration style and rummaged though some old books. Hilarity! These photos are are a good indication of why we young people in our twenties are love kitchy crap from childhood. I love the image of the small child using the saw! We need to trust kids in workshops more often :) Oh, and the shell cleaning one is disturbing- just gather the animal-cruelty endorsed in the snippets of text. Good times. Serial killers in training. At any rate, nice, clean drawings+creepy subjects+hideous colors=fun childhood!

Gutenberg's my homeboy

This is so cool! I've been seriously considering the printmaking emphasis for my degree, and this only makes me more "out of sorts." (watch it and you'll get it) =3


...and this one showcasing Hatch Show Print. That's how you make a poster! If you like it, check out 36point's episode with these dudes.

Sound like some Janky bizness to me...

So it just so happens that my favorite indie hip-hop labelStones Throw Records also makes my favorite album art hands-down. And I gonna go out on a limb and say that their art director Jeff Jank has something to do with it =3 He has an awesome respect for the dying art of the album cover that I'm sure we can all relate to and mourn. It seems that everything he touches is just sweeter than hell, right down to the little jpegs attached to the periodic podcast mixtapes (say that 3x fast). StonesThrow=so good=Jeff Jank!

School Daze!

OMG! So sorry kind peoples! I've probably lost anyone who's ever looked at this blog with my terrible tardiness!! I'm blaming it on the new school year. That's my story and I'm sticking to it :P Anyway, things seem much more stable; moving's done, school is in full swing and my new work schedule is now ingrained into my circadian rhythm.
So here's a piece I'm submitting to a rad, local eco-friendly company called Green Element , and hopefully they like it! I went through a few drafts, but decided to go for a vintage Fillmore poster style. I think it's pretty rad. Gonna see about colors and such soon, so stay tuned! C U soon (promise).

Sorry! :(

Sorry for the long delay between posts! I've been getting ready for school and birthdays and moving and god knows what else is next. I've been painting a bit, so I'll try and get some pics up in the next coupla days and probably some sketchbook scans. See you soon... promise! In the meantime (and totally randomly) scope out the new Terminator trailer. So rad!!

Iceland is cool. (pun intended)

Sorry it's been so long, folks :( I've been trying to find stuff to show you what I find really inspiring and tie them together in a nice little package for you :)

So here's a topic that keeps surfacing for me: Iceland! It seems to me that everything I see coming from that little corner of the world is so damned aesthetically pleasing! The design, the street art, the music... even the freaking landscape is beatiful!

It looks like a fractal with those unreal colors. Here's an oldie combining the stunning natural beauty with Björk's "Joga" and some awesome video processing:

And I just saw this while looking for some street art samples. It combines a painted wall piece with projected images. So cool.

It's all got a very unique style that I think draws so well from their environment in such a beautiful way. The colors I see used in buildings and art; the sparse and haunting chords and vocals of the music (traditional and contemporary) all seem to to be taken directly from the local pallette. I love seeing art as a mirror that shows our immediate perceptions and reactions to our habitat. Even their economy is very self-sufficient in their long use of geothermal energy to heat and power their homes and even run their cars! Never ceases to amaze me.