The Asheville Mountain Xpress paper contacted me to do another cover illustration. This time, not a humorous, cartoon approach, but something to reflect the story inside about the many monuments, and streets in the city named after, or memorializing figures from the city’s confederate past. This was the cover that […]
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NOTE: This post is reprinted here from my blog. If you want to see all the posts about the caricature resolution 2017 participation, please visit those blog posts at this link. So here we are at the end times… I mean.. the final days.. I mean the last day of […]
2016 got such a bad rap that it was a popular joke to cheer its demise. I used that prevalent sentiment when commissioned by the Asheville Mountain Xpress to come up with a new year’s issue cover illustration. Here is the original, finished cover art, before the text was added: […]
Here is an art/military connected post. My two designs for a commemorative T-shirt for the class at Navy “A” school for the HM (Hospital Corpsmen) rating (job). It was at Naval Hospital Corps School in Great Lakes, IL (NCHS) in 1987. I don’t remember exactly how we ended up with two of them, I think […]
Good news to all those out there who don’t like Halloween or art or Halloween art or just my particular Halloween art in general…. You don’t have to ignore these any more because today is the last day of Drawlloween 2016 in Inktober!! Day 30 is: SKULLS AND SKELETONS Day […]
Day 28 calls for: GHOSTS A GO GO Day 29 specifies: BLACK CATURDAY The go-go dancers implied in this prompt necessitated some early 60s dance moves and surroundings for the spirits. To complete the crossover in the sketchbook spread, I decided on “cat” as a slang term for a cool […]
Combined with Day 26, which is: THEY CAME FROM OUTER SPACE! Day 27 is: CALL OF C’THURSDAY! Matt Groening’s Kang and Kodos won’t be laughing at the foolish Earthlings once H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic old one gets hold of them.
For the third year (not in a row) I’ve been commissioned to come up with a Halloween themed cover design for the local Asheville alt weekly paper, The Mountain Xpress. This year I was asked to do something with local architectural elements, such as the winged lions (I’ve been told they are […]
Day 26 is: THEY CAME FROM OUTER SPACE! I chose to draw Kang and Kodos from the Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror Episodes. Sketchbook is buffered by their action figures.
#Drawlloween2016 days 24: #mechanicalmonstrosity and 25: #entombedtuesday are in the #inktober#sketchbook!