Poster Gig

So one of the projects I have just recently completed was creating the official poster for the Revenant Film Festival!
My good man Geoff at Revenant Magazine hit me up a while back, and here is the monster we have created!

This project was a fuckin' blast to do, and I am pretty pleased with the way things came out. Below are a few process sketches and color-ups, and I wanted to work in an homage to Forrest J. Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine covers, so that was fun too. Anyway, if you can make it up to Seattle for this momentous, gory, brain-splattering festival of Undead Cinema, get info and tickets HERE! Thanks again to Geoff and everyone at Revenant for the great opportunity!

Initial rough sketch and color idea:


Sketch for final piece:


And this is what I had originally intended as the style, but when it was in process I knew it was just going to be too goddamn muddy and confusing, so I reworked the sketch and colored it up in a more graphic style for the final. I hate how this one looks, except for the blood and guts, they look alright. Too dark and confusing on the rest.

Metropark/Obey Public Works Competition

Yes, yet ANOTHER entry for ANOTHER t-shirt design competition. I am really happy with how this turned out, so if you are too, vote for it HERE!!! All consideration is greatly appreciated, as I could use the exposure!!! Thanks for checking it out!

Mutant Alien Birthday Cake

This is a flyer (flier?) for a co-workers birthday. I have been asked to do a few flyers lately, and they are proving to be some really good exercises.

Prrty Food in COLOR

This is a piece I did for my good friend Joe, the mastermind behind Prrty Food, for his new anthology he and Ric Schuster are putting together.



OPEN UR MIIIIIIIND!

PLEASE check out all of the Prrty Food work these fellas are doing. The characters are absolutely amazing, and the whole comic series is hilarious.

Prrty Food + Skeleface = DIE.

New Works

This is a sampling of works from my new series, Spookshow.

Gig Poster

This is for a local show coming up out here. I had lots of fun with it.

Commission

This was commissioned by a friend from high school, actually, for a friend's birthday. I give you... Leopard Fox.

Green Eyed Monster Contest #2

Hey everyone, here is the image I submitted to the Green Eyed Monster tote bag design contest. Winner gets $500, so I would appreciate all the votes I can get! DAMN THE ECONOMY! Anyhow, you can vote here. Thanks!

PS Publishing Illustration

This is an illustration (sketch and final) for a story an upcoming publication by PS Publishing. I am on vacation, so I will post more details about it later. ENJOY!

Drawing for "This is the End"

So, coming up on the 6th of the month is the "This is the End" group show being held at the Alternative Cafe in Seaside, CA. It is being curated by Joshua Graves, owner and operator of The Creep Machine. I was very fortunate to be in his last endeavor, "Attack of the B Movie" last April here in San Francisco, and it was an honor to be asked to participate in the new show. My piece is titled, "The Return to Darkness," and is 6"x10" and is in a big, elaborate frame (I will post a pic of it once I get a good one at the show) and is being sold for $425.

I would have sold it for less, but once all of the framing and shipping and commission are taken out of it, there won't be much profit. But, that is not the point (at least not right now!) it is just going to be great showing work with some fairly big guns. Check out the preview site HERE! And, if you happen to be in the area, swing on by on the 6th and party with us at the opening!

Slime On for Threadless

Hey guys, this is a shirt I designed and am most likely going to submit to Threadless. It is only up for critique now, but you can check it out here! Please check it out, rate it, and leave some comments! THANKS!

Monster Behind the Mask

This is a new piece I am thinking of using for the entrance of my updated website. Eventually it will have some sort of background, but they are hard for me, so I am showing it alone for now. Enjoy!

Halloween rules.

Wolfman

"Even a man who is pure in heart,
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms,
And the autumn moon is bright."
-Gypsy Poem

I cannot express through words how much I love the Wolfman. One of the most tragic characters in horror history, and as far as I am concerned, Lon Chaney, Jr. presented the greatest werewolf of all time. I hope the upcoming remake will pay the homage it deserves. Anyway, here is my take (still in progress) of the famous Wolfman.



Beware the moon.

Halloween Horror! for Urban Threads

Hey guys, this is what I had in mind for the Halloween design for Niamh. I am emailing it you her as well for her to check it out and see what she thinks, but I would love some input!

Up-your-date

Okay, here are a few samples of what I have been up to (outside of my F@#%ING JOBS).



This is still in progress.

Also still in progress.

A super crappy scan of a painting...STILL IN PROGRESS!

I usually only get time to work on these after I get home from work at around 10:30-11pm, and I work on them into the wee hours of the morn before going to work again at 9am. And that is only when there is no freelance to be done, so progress on personal work has been a bit sluggish, but I hope to have a decent body of work to start soliciting to galleries by the end of October.

The Spectre

This is a piece I created for a submission to a group Halloween show in Massachusetts. I will tell you all more about it if I get in. Anyhow, I like how it turned out.

Skeleface or die and come back as this thing.

CALABRESE!!!

That's right, these boys are crankin' out the tunes full of death, destruction, ghouls, ghosts, vampires, and everything else that my life revolves around. I have been listening to these fellas for a while now, and have always been impressed by the artwork used on their albums, posters, and merch. So, naturally, when I found out they are DIY and hire on artists themselves, I did my best to appease the Horror Gods, and they were kind enough to give me a shot. So, I was hired to dress up their blog for them with a header, blog-separator, and a portrait of my good man, Jimmy Calabrese. So here are the finished pieces, and I encourage you all to CHECK THESE GHOULS OUT!!! Website AND BLOG, House of Mysterious Secrets. Seriously, super catchy music, with awesomely dark lyrics, all wrapped up in a screaming, bloody bundle. So here are the pieces.

This one is an image for the break in between blog posts, similar to IWYS.


This is the title banner for the blog, House of Mysterious Secrets.


And this is the portrait of Jimmy Calabrese, who enjoys skeletons, H. P. Lovecraft, and The Creature From the Black Lagoon.

Varan

Hanging out with Ric Schuster one night, cranking out freelance, I finished up and asked Ric what I should draw. He asked if I would draw Varan, a sweet Godzilla monster for him. This is what I came up with.

Slug Monster!

Goofing around in illustrator. He leaves a mess.

Holler.

I need more pieces with legs, so here is a start. Holler.