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I visited Cambodia last August. It was an amazing experience. It's a beautiful, fascinating country, I could go on and on about it but this blog is for art not pontification. Anyway, the main transportation is by "moto" which is a scooter or bike. Saw families of 5 or 6 people, including babies, all riding a scooter at the same time, without a helmet in sight. Wild! This piece is from a photo I took, and it's done punk-rock style like the cover of a Clash album.
Every year Megadeth runs a contest to design the Christmas card they send to their fan club. This is my submission. I think I followed the rules and made the deadline with time to spare, but I'm not sure if they received it or not....and I didn't request confirmation. The results have been posted, though, and I'm thinking my submission accidentally ended up in someone's junk mail folder. Either that or the card I made is too religious (knowing Megadeth I seriously doubt that's a factor), or vector art is more reviled than I thought? ;-)
Oh, and I'm not discrediting the winners, there's some cool stuff this year (and as always, art is subjective):
Megadeth Christmas Card '09 winners
Overall though I enjoyed coming up with the concept, and drawing it. I feel good about the color and composition and I enjoyed messing with a traditional theme. I hope you like it, too.
Maybe I'll save it to submit next year. For now, it's going on the blog.
This was for the department pumpkin decorating contest, I whipped it out the morning of, using whiteout and a Sharpie. I cannot control when the muse strikes. ;-) I got first loser, second place.....Sorry, it's no DUNNY but what the hell.
I saw Megadeth play last night, it was a great show. Unfortunately they played at my least favorite venue here in the city, the LC. I've never heard a band sound great there, it's just a big concrete and steel box so the sound is usually terrible. That new guitarist is awesome, though. Last night I saw probably the most talented group of musicians I've ever seen.
This sketch is inspired by the song "Knoxville Girl" from the Louvin Bros. They played years ago, they were a big influence on country musicians and Johnny Cash in particular. When they weren't singing songs praisin' Jesus, etc. they were singing "Tragic Songs of Life" including murder ballads like this one. They also sang a song about nuclear annihilation called "The Great Atomic Power" which was later covered by Southern Culture on the Skids.
Hmm, songs about murder and nuclear war, and you wondered what could possibly be the connection in a post that started with Megadeth and ended with the Louvins!
Quickly added some color in Photoshop.
Haven't posted anything in awhile. Don't you hate it when you start drawing in the center and then run out of room on the side?
Continuing to try to simplify and not over-draw.
From the corner of a page of "notes."
I've been on a skull-banner-tattoo-design kick lately.
Could be worse, eh?
In other news, my friend's BioDiesel shipping company has used my image a few times now. So it's increasing the amount of people who have the opportunity to ignore my drawings! Seriously, though, they have used it on their website and they sent my wife and I some wicked nice hoodies with the image screenprinted on it.
Hit the link to see the website, especially if you happen to be a shipper/trucker who uses sustainable resources:
http://www.blueskyshipping.com/sustainable_truckers.php
I think you'll agree this image speaks for itself.
Have had a bit of a dry spell as far as sketching inspiration goes. Oh well.
Was in a meeting the other day, and drew this stuff.
I've been busy. Better busy than bored!
I am doing a blog co-op where we all sketch something on a weekly (or bi-weekly, or monthly more likely) theme. Here's the link.
This time around was killer robots. I drew this simple bot and tried to pile the weapons on. Graffiti, too. It's hard to know when to stop! Guess that's what deadlines are for......
My buddy Josh is a bike-tinkering wrench-turning greasemonkey. And I say all that as a good thing. He's got a project bike and he's documenting it in a blog as it progresses. Having used this blog for posting art, I gotta admit, it's decent motivation, so I hope he finishes. And finishes soon, as the bike he's building will be mine, and summer is fast approaching. Here's the link: http://joshrustrockets.blogspot.com/
Anyway, I made the banner, and we're quite happy with the results. Often times, less is SO MUCH MORE.
Pretty cool. It'll never get approved.
I haven't posted anything in a while. I've been busy.
