Ogressa 'Warts and All' digipak

Heres a brief, on words, blog about the Ogressa 'Warts n All digipak art I did last year. Zach of Dali's Llama approached me to do the art for this side project of his with our mutual friend Trent of Whores of Tijuana on vocals. He told me it was a fantasy theme and to go wild with the female ogre theme. I created what she might look like, some scenarios she might be in and then went for it. For the art itself I tried to make it a bit messier, more raw and not as precise as before. I may have missed the mark and been too clean but I'm still into the final results.

Below is the final art, click on the image to make it larger:



Here is a Youtube clip with some of the art included:



Here is some pics of the final printed digipak:





Below are some sketches presented to the band as a starting point:






Some rough pencil sketches right here, the final pencils are pretty close to this;







....and now for the final pencils:







Last but not least here are some details of the work, showing the rougher dirtier feel I was going for in the final pieces:

Yawning Man at Cafe 322 poster

I dig Yawning Man. It's always a thrill to do a project related to them and when I got the word that they had a show coming up and probably needed a poster I jumped at it! Special thanks to Erik Davies their number one fan for giving me the heads up on the show and pushing me to create something.




This image and idea is something I had been working on off and on for awhile when not working on commissions. The sketch above is from a little sketchbook I sometimes draw in while traveling. I saw a shirt someone was wearing on a plane that I thought looked like this but on 2nd glance while exiting the plane it was more Birth Of Venus than Lady Gaudalupe.



Above is some reference art. I took from here and there as you can see.



Heres some early workings on it including the ink scan. I started off with the lines being pretty simple and direct, funny how the final image retained that simlicity overall but more due to a time constraint.



^ And here is a version I was toying with, how to get the poster to appear like its on a stucco wall. I spent alot of time looking for the right textures for this and playing with their visibility only to go with the white version. Thats ok, managed to catalog some of the randome textures I've collected while I was digging through them.






LOOK ABOVE THIS TEXT!!!! ^^^^ Here are some pictures of the printed poster, it's true!

Ogressa 'Warts and All' album art prints

I created some art prints of the Ogressa 'Warts and All' packaging art but sans logos and type and uncropped. Theres 5 prints in a slipcase, times 5 slipcases and only 5 printed of each slipcase. So 25 sets total. I oversaw the printing and color correction on the prints and ahnd assembled the slipcases myself. Theres only 10 available for purchase so get them while they last.












Purchase them on my Etsy page:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/83765852/ogressa-warts-and-all-album-art-prints

Ogressa CD release show poster

This is a show poster for the Ogressa project, a side project by Zach of Dali's Llama. The packaging art has a fantasy art theme inspired by the main character, Ogressa. For the poster I wanted to give the appearance of a medievil "wanted" poster or advertisement. I really wanted to silkscreen the poster on a brown stock, maybe parchment like or whatever I could find that was close but money and time got in the way and I went with a 4 color print on a brown stock. The art of the face was taken from the CD art and converted to a brown tone with black lines, I'll post the album art blog soon.

Here's some inspiration for the look of the poster, I wanted to keep it pretty simple and maybe use a border:



Some details of the finished art:





Some early incarnations, searching for the right look:



Here is a pattern I found in a stencil book and scanned that saved the poster from wandering aimlessly:



A couple more revisions after I found the right path:



The file I used to print with, I took pout the background so it wouldnt clash with the cream colored paper and roughed it up some more in Photoshop to make it look more distressed:



And heres some pics of the printed poster:

To Blog or Not to Blog, is that the question? Plus: Battle Stations detail pics....

Been thinking about this old blog lately, it's use and future. I jumped on the blog boat a little late, probably 2 years past the initial blog craze, and it seems blogs are on the way out now at least as a must have to get noticed out there. Blogs seemed to replaced websites or magazines and were shorter in preparation and execution, it looks like now the blog is being replaced by even shorter bursts of information and images: Twitter and Tumbler. I enjoy the newer style of sharing info with Twitter and Tumblr, I really think the potential for information or images to catch on and "go viral" is 100 times more powerful than the Facebook or Blog method of sharing. I might start a Tumblr page soon just to get my images shared and passed around more often but I won't be abandoning the blog, yet. My blog functions as a news page, technique tutorial and way for me to share some of the behind the scenes process that goes into my work. It might a little heavy on "me talking about me" but I get a kick out of nerding out over the details of art and how it was created by artists I enjoy and hope you dig what I present here. Im not saying I think my art is rad enough for you to savor all the details, just that I wish more artists Im into revealed more of how they work and thoughts behind it and I'll do it myself for anyone interested. Anyway, as long as I have time, the blog stays.

Speaking of sharing info and details, I was looking at some details of older art and realized I never put up any for the Admiral Browning Battle Stations, so here goes: