My very first photoshop

This poster for X-men Evolution was my first stab at Photoshop, almost a decade ago. Up til that point I hadn't so much as opened the program. Not too shabby if I do say so.
Actually, the more I look at it the shabbier it gets, especially the bling on wolverine's claws.

April Flores Sex Toy Art show

Thanks to everyone that showed up! Big thanks to April and C. Batts and especially Victoria for putting the whole thing together. Here's the poster for the show and the original art without the print.

Clark Park Fest: Take two

Hopefully the rain gods will have mercy on us this time around.

Sketchbook

At the End of the Goth Rainbow.

The Ugly Fishling

A Haiku: Eating bad toadstools. Starts seeing Little blue men. Gargamel bugs out.

The Jimmy Show

I got sucked into this movie earlier tonight and I just need to vent. "The Jimmy Show" synopsis:
Independent film about a working class shlub in New Jersey. Loses job, loses wife, loses kid, mother dies, the end.
One of the most wretched and self-indulgent movies I've ever seen. It was like having to sit through a two hour recitation of poetry from a Fifteen-year-old goth kid.
If anyone feels the need to experience this movie, all you have to do is drive to the Pine Barrens in Jersey on a cold winters day and gently place a gun in your mouth. Oops, looks like you can't afford bullets, so there's nothing left to do but crumple into a fetal ball and cry and cry until your tears form frozen walrus tusks on your chin. Awful.

The Quest for Peace

My hat's off to you supes, especially the bricklaying. I never knew that among all your powers you also had masonry-vision.

Get it? It's a pretty plesiosaurus with sugar on top. Hah!

Another Threadless Win! Hooray!!

That's right folks, Roni and I won on another Collab on Threadless for "A very Naughty Bear". I just got my shirts in the mail and they look freaking great! Hurry up and get one, they're selling out pretty quick.

I likes me sum tee sharts.

Hi gang,
Check out my new winning designs on www.moderntee.com !! And while you're there you should vote on the designs that I still have in the running.
Should be getting printed soon, so do your part in helping the economy get back on track by pre-ordering several dozen shirts now. Unless you're some sort of commie terrorist hippie type, in which case you can go suck an egg.

Globalization is such a choad

Okay, Here's my spiel: Work has been slow. Like, really slow. I've been doing this professionally for over a decade, so I really don't want to have to resort to getting a "regular" job and start all over again getting paid bupkus for an honest days work. I've tried agents, but agents rarely replied to my emails and when they did, they told me that they're having a hard enough time getting work for the artists they already have on their roster.
T-shirt contest sites like www.threadless.com and www.moderntee.com have been very good to me, but I can't live off of contests.
So there are freelance sites like guru and elance that offer quick jobs for illustrators. You pay a yearly fee, and you get to bid on jobs they post on their site. Simple right?
Yeah, except for the part that in a global market, folks from China and India are charging $2 an hour or less. It doesn't matter how good you are, or how much experience you have, businesses will usually pick the lowest bid of the most adequate illustrator, even if it's awful.
Plus, there are a LOT of scumbags out there who'll try and scam the system. They'll email me and say they're considering me for the job, but they need a quick (and free) example of how I would tackle a sketch. And of course, being desperate to impress and also being a ginormous chump , I say okay and lo and behold, they never get back to me. Here's the scam: they ask the same thing from dozens of other artists, and before you know it, they've got hundreds
of pieces of free art. Inconsistent styles, but these guys aren't exactly looking for quality here.
Pretty sneaky.
Like this guy who wanted a few quick concepts of a tank underwater:

Whipped those out in a few hours, he requested some revisions, I begrudgingly revised them, and then he pulled a Keyser Söze and poof. Gone.
Seriously man, I hope that guy drowns in a bathtub filled with hobo pee.
Whoa, that's a bit harsh.
Maybe just regular pee.

Tee design for The Spades

Clark Park Festival

Emily and I will probably be doing some fancy face painting for the neighborhood kids while sipping warm beer, so come out and join us in our little corner of West Philly.

Who runs bartertown?

She's just big boned

Yo wonder woman so fat her belt size is "Equator"
Yo wonder woman so fat she went to the movies and sat next to everyone.
Yo wonder woman so fat when you get on top of her your ears pop!
Yo wonder woman so fat she goes to a resturant, looks at the menu and says "okay!"
Yo wonder woman so fat she fell in love and broke it.
Yo wonder woman so fat she sat on a quarter and a booger shot out of george washington's nose.
www.fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com

i can't stop

More vagabonds, rogues, drifters and itinerants

The Homeless problem

The problem with the homeless is that I can't stop painting them. There's just something about their weathered faced, the way their tired eyes seem to stare into that middle distance. I know it's kinda messed up, but whatever. It's not like anybody is paying me for this, so I can do what I want.

Taking a whiff

I worry about the germs in the holes of bowling balls. Nobody cleans those holes.
there are years of impacted pizza fingers in there. Taco fingers. Chicken fingers. I'm amazed those balls still have holes.

Awesome

Jamie Hewlett roxx coxx

Publes

Truly, Boy George is a national treasure. This little ditty popped into my head a few days ago and I found myself searching for the video on youtube.


That red wig he was sporting kinda looked like an unruly mass of rusty publes. Honestly, I thought I was watching a Cindy Lauper video for the first few minutes. I used to love the idea of war until I heard that song and saw those school children prancing about. It's such a shame Mr. Boy is off to the big house for thrashing that nice young prostidude with a length of chain when he was next in line to get the Nobel prize.

Some random sketches....

More T-shirts

Check oot my t-shirt design on Threadless.


Everyone should go there right now and buy one.
What else? I these designs up on Moderntee.com

I'm back!

Finally got steady work again. Unfortunately it's hush hush for now, but here's some recent sketches and t-shirt submissions:

Pooossst!

Haven't posted in a while.
Then again, it's not like anybody looks at my blog, so I guess I'm having a conversation with myself. Does that make make me schizophrenic?
This was for a campus created by Frank Gehry.