Latest Illo: Sunstone Magazine

Here's an illustration that I did for the most recent issue of Sunstone Magazine. Check out the online version of the article (with the illustration) here: https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/the-widening-tent/ All of the line work (what you see in the black and white version) is ink and brush, all the color was done in photoshop. 

More Motorsickle Madness!

Helmets are for sissies, right? No, HOTRODS are for sissies! Just kidding, everyone. Neither of those things is for sissies. I'm just headed up to the print shop to get a batch of prints of this BRAND NEW piece, available for online orders as well as for the show this weekend. The ink is barely dry! You could get a print of this before anyone else in the whole world! Hand-colored versions to follow...

The Misfit Promotional Illustration

Ever since reading it sometime in high school, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" from Flannery O'Connor has been a favorite short story of mine. I've been preparing promotional material over the past month or two, and I did this illustration from the story as part of it. If you haven't read it, the story's full text is available free on line, and I would recommend checking it out. If you have, you will most likely recognize the character of the Misfit. This scene has always been one of the most poignant to me. I've always had a very distinct mental image of the Misfit's appearance, which I think I got about 85% true to my imagination in this drawing. I was lucky to find decent reference of Fred Gwynne, whose features come pretty close to how I pictured the Misfit. His face provided a good foundation to work from. As you can see, the parrots and blood spatter are absent from his shirt in the original line art. I drew the birds and blood separately in black ink on tracing paper over the original, then scanned them in and colored them digitally. I haven't settled on which color version I like the best yet (these are two of four-ish examples). I'll be making postcards to send out to art directors before Christmas, so if anybody wants one sent to them, let me know. I'd love to expand this out to 4-5 illustrations for the story sometime, but I've got a comic project with DV Brother Nate that is due to be brought to the next step, so the series will have to wait for the time being.

 

Ott Mit Uns Finished!

Here is the final product of the Gott Mit Uns/Otto Dix mashup I started about a year ago. The border rope was touched up, and an inner circle was added, as well as the sunburst lines inside the leaves and lettering. The first post can be found by clicking on the "german" label link at the bottom of this post, which explains the background of the drawing. I have transparencies made to expose a screen and start making shirts, but I threw on a little too much emulsion on the first go around, so I'll have to strip the screen and try again. Until then, you all can enjoy the digital version.

Hoppin Honda!

Here's my latest Monster Shirt design. The initial purpose of the piece was as a gift for my good buddy Steve as thanks for his generous help on fixing some issues on my motorsickle. This is why the bike in the design is my favorite of his collection, his 1966 Honda cb450 "Black Bomber". The subsequent purpose of the drawing (with adjusted text and title) will be to screen shirts of the design, Roth studios style. Above you see my process from conception to completion, with the initial inking, reworked final inking, photoshop coloring experimentation (the purple one), and prismacolor/white gouache touchups hand colored and lettered version for Steve (who I guess acquired the moniker "Carburetor" sometime in the 60's). Since the cb450's of the 60's share a main motor block with my own ride, a '72 cl450 Scrambler, it was simple to take the proportion sketch of the cb450 (seen directly above) and convert it into one of my cl450 (seen directly below) for use in deciding what kind of handlebars I wanted to change out for the goofy stock desert racer bars. All inks were done with my trusty #3 sable. I'll be giving the original of the top image (a hand colored print) to Steve this weekend, hoping to win him over enough that he'll help me with the handlebar install. I'll post the adjusted T-shirt design ASAP, at which point anyone interested can get in touch with me to get one. 11"x17" posters with personalized text are also available. 

Some School stuff I never posted

Here are some projects I did in school last semester that I forgot to put on the blog at the time. They were both done in my Narrative Illustration class, taught by Bethanne Andersen. The Peter Pan cover represents an assignment consisting of 15 illustration comps, 1 final illustration, plus front and back covers. This was my favorite piece from the series. I played around with some coloring on it, I might post some of those experiments later. The Richard III poster went through several phases, with this being the final. I designed it with screenprinting in mind, hence the simple line work and color scheme. I wasn't trying to replicate the work of Coop or Kozik on this poster, but I did have their posters in mind when conceiving of the layout.

Final Project for Narrative Class

Our final project in my narrative class was to create an illustration for Stowaway, a travel magazine run by BYU students. The requested illustrations were very broad, so the produced illustrations were also very broad. It was a fun project, though. This is gouache and india ink on illustration board.

Euro Crisis Cartoon for BYU Political Review

 My good friend Taylor at the BYU Political Review asked me earlier this week if I could get a cartoon in for the next issue, and I was stoked to put something together for her. After talking to some professors who helped clear up some of my misconceptions about the Greek Euro crisis (most notably my friend Professor Tom Spencer), I was able to form what I feel is an accurate (however biased towards Germany, go figure) cartoon. The middle shows my initial inking, before cleaning up and editing some lines to increase clarity. Merry Christmas Europe!