this is a ten minute sketch I did at lunch today, instead of eating lunch. I just wasnt hungry. It was done in red colored pencil on this weird ass sage green scrap paper left over in the press room somewhere. I was reading “Wormwood Gentleman Corpse” and this used a similar technique. I screwed around in photoshop to put the words on the shirt. That took forever. My computer sucks.
I’m going to attempt to post something everyday for at least the rest of the month. It might be a drawing or a painting or just a sketch or a process piece, but something everyday until October. By then, I hope to have the hang of larger more formatted posts, which I will do every two weeks/ to a month. Those will include drawings, pin ups, illustrations and design work I’m doing, tattoo flash, plus more detailed explanations of process and reference.
This piece is part of my first flash sheet, which I will post at some point. It was an exercise in making pieces that are constructed like tattoos and gave me the idea of doing themed flash sheets. I want to do one or two sheets based around the names of goth songs and death rock bands. This one is a take on the Christian Death logo.
One of the things I’ve been doing lately as an exercise is pin ups of characters from things that I like. This was actually the first in the series. I wanted to do a Bela Lugosi style Dracula. the drawing was in pencil and then inked and scanned where i cleaned it up slightly. In the works is a more interesting comped image including a custom “bat” photo shop brush and a really cool looking pen and ink moon. I might try and put a mist text element into it. It’s just slow going comping anything in photoshop on this ‘puter. It is fucking ooollllddddd and sllllloooowww.
I have found a word press theme I like, (coraline) and need to get to editing it to my liking.
Here it is, I’m finally gonna be on the internets! I will be posting illustration and assorted printed and designed ephemera here. so keep looking. I will make this thing look more interesting as I figure out how.