Smoke Drawing (2011)

Drawn with candle smoke on coated paper.

Rejected Artwork (2010)

These were submitted to childrens/young adult type magazine as samples of my work and they were soundly rejected. I ended up selling some of the originals, so it wasn't a total loss. 

Crooked Fingers (2001) and the New Pornographers (2001) fliers

This is the first flier that I made for the Grog Shop. I still like the image, but am saddened by what an ignorant savage I was at the time. I hadn't quite figured out what "art supplies" were, so this was drawn with Uni-Ball pens and Sharpie on copier paper. At the time, drawing fliers was kind of a lark and I simply used what I had on hand to draw with.

  

This is the first flier I drew for the Beachland Ballroom. As with the above Crooked Fingers flier, it was drawn with Uni-Ball and Sharpie on copier paper. It took about twenty fliers until I made the leap to Micron pens, india ink and Bristol paper. I'm pretty sure I didn't want to invest the money in fancy pens and paper because I am insanely cheap, and like I said, doing fliers was a lark... I just wanted to get into shows for free! Now that I've drawn about a thousand fliers (and gone through reams of Bristol, mountains of micron pens and rivers of india ink...) I wish I'd made the early investment.

Warlocks flier (2000)

An earlier work, about a year before I started doing fliers for the Beachland and the Grog Shop. The Warlocks and Razak were both great bands, but I don't think Walleye actually played this show. I don't think Walleye actually existed, come to think of it... 

Gypsy Hawk flier (2011)

One of the guys from Octolope suggested that I do something with "an ancient obelisk" so I did this. The obelisk is buried beneath the sand...

Parting Gifts flier (2011)

I wish that I could reuse this image a million times. Inspriration for this struck when I looked out my window.

Appleseed Cast flier (2010)

I was watching "Day of the Dead" and it inspired this flier. There's a shot in the film, right before we meet Bub for the first time, that looks a bit like this. The grey tone was made with the last little bit of Chartpak Format Sheet that I had.