Lucky '13

Napkin sketch (Hanukkah napkin)

Research

Sketch

2 Color/Ink Test

Final card, 7" x 15"

Envelope design. 
Happy New Year!

What I Learned this Year

For the St. Louis Egotist.
Click to enlarge pages.

Scenes from Nakatomi Plaza

(click any pics to enlarge)

 

 From Famous Fictional: Places/Things at Mad Art Gallery, November 2012.

Doomsday Preppin'

A buncha images I made for Woot's Armagedd-OFF! apocostravaganza going on this week.

There's also this prophesied secret shirt available for sale somewhere in the bowels of Woot's ziggurat.

True Holiday Disasters

Here's my cover to this week's Riverfront Times. It's an opener to the annual holiday comix issue (read it here).

Sketch and alternate idea:

Happy Holidays! Stay safe out there!

Civic Duty

Tomorrow night (Friday, Nov. 16th 2012) I'm in this show opening at the Northside Workshop in St. Louis. It's called "St. Louis: A Collective Declaration" and is a show of banners / reimagined city flags by 18 locals printmakers.  It was my first attempt at screenprinting on clear acetate, and the results are interesting, I think. That is a white kitten fur static clung / embedded in that tentacle.

How Coffee Works!!!

!!! Here's an infographic (click above  to enlarge) I made about one of my favorite things for The University of Michigan's college of Literature, Science & The Arts magazine, the Spring 2012 "Food" issue.

I got to reuse a bunch of caffeine-addled research I did for last year's How Coffee Works / US Patent #597.7311.143 print.

The magazine's color palette:

2 possible graphic directions:

The blueprint sketch, which ended up being sort of a composite of the 2 ideas:

Lineart:

Final art in the magazine !!! Let's all go get some coffee.

 

Famous Fictional: Places & Things! Screenprint

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Famous Fictional: Places & Things opening last Friday night at Mad Art Gallery. It was really fun. Pic's of all the amazing art to come soon! Here's some nitty-gritty behind the poster. Sketches & Ink tests:

Final Digital Art:
Final three-color Print:

Detail: