Hey, check out this shirt I got in the mail!

Dig it! The shirt is signed to me by Alessio Andolina, the Italian Savate champion.

I also got an unsigned version for bebopping all over town in with style. Thanks Paul, for this ultra fun project and thank you Alessio Andolina for the presents. I do so love getting mail!

Hola, my amigos. Dig these classy t-shirt designs I did for my pals at Wing Ranch. I am never sure about anthropomorphizing  the animal you are about to eat at said restaurant, but hey, I am just a hired gun.

Hopefully I’ll get some pictures of the final shirt on a hot waitress.

This is going to be a t-shirt for Alessio Andolina, the Italian Savate champion*

*at press time.

Beauty surrounds us every day, Sometimes you just have to stop and take it in. Just kidding. Everything is ugly and awful. This wasn’t always the case, though. Once upon a time, you could go to your local Shell station to get a tank of gas for a nickle and a free masterpiece. Case in point, this!

I picked this up at a local antique store- Eh, what the hell, I’ll give ‘em a plug. I was at Rust N’ Dust in Chamblee GA, and I picked this up as well as a Batman comic with the first appearance of Poison Ivy on the super-cheap tip. Zzz, right? This pamphlet from 1960 on collecting rocks really grabbed me. I guess you can see why.

Every figure, every line is masterfully drawn. All the staging, all the compositions are captivating. The ‘shaky’ lines, the tasteful spot colors gives this drab subject a touch of whimsy, which would no doubt be missing if ‘How To Collect Rocks’ happened to be published anytime after mid-century.

I really dig the way this unknown artist (man, I wish I knew who did this) handles wrinkles and drapery.

Treasures don’t always come from the musty ground like this booklet suggests, my friends, sometimes it comes from large corporations from an era where they felt they owed us something for our patronage. No, thank YOU, Shell.

Sometimes a client will change their mind when I am pretty far along in the process and ask for a completely new design for a character.

…and you know what? Sometimes the client is right.

SOMETIMES.

So check it, man. Here’s an invitation I knocked out for a first birthday party. I took all the rest of the info off of it, because, quite frankly, I doubt you are invited.

This also marks the second time I mined this ‘Alice In Wonderland’ poster. Eh, what can I say? It’s the first and last thing I see everyday.  Oh,GAWD, who am I kidding? I am a hack! I don’t deserve to live!

Anyway, happy birthday, Rocco.

Now this is an odd drawing, even for me. Well, I guess I should say this is an odd drawing especially for me. I don’t really like horror in general, and I pretty much hate zombies.

Why, you ask? They scare the ever living shit out of me, and I don’t enjoy that sensation. I can live without that imagery floating around in my head.

Hear that, Adam from The Dollar Bin? The things I do for you.

Enjoy!

Dig it! Here’s a new commissioned drawing of my beautiful English pals and all-around-lovely couple, Ruth Sneddon and Alex Noodle. Also pictured is their canine companion Kidd.

Apparently, Pixar came out with a movie that has a passing resemblance to this image. I have never heard of it, but it seems to be up for an Oscar.

Remember, like the Beatles, I am for sale. Want me to draw something for you? I’ll do it no matter how stupid the idea. The important thing here, is that you give me money.

Drawing eleven dudes is never that easy of a task, unless of course you draw them yellow with an overbite.

Oh sure, these might superficially resemble Simpsons characters, but what can you do?

(click to see ‘em big and without black background)

Here’s a generous helping of vector drawings from a few years ago for instructional chess videos. Yeah, so these are exactly new, but I never posted them here. Hey, at least I am trying here.