Admiral Browning Sandwich Hot Rod poster

My boys in Admiral Browning hit me up with a great idea for a poster... again! Here's some of what they messaged me with:

"The giant sandwich idea:
The vision is a hot-rod sandwich with a spider driving. Like a piece of Big Daddy Roth hot-rod art where the car is an awesome delicious sandwich with huge racing slicks, doing a burnout."

So there you have it, with some elbow grease and alot of research I made this poster, diggit:

True Templar of Doom benefit show poster

I saw the Gates of Slumber a bunch of times, maybe in Washington DC where I used to live, definitely in LA where I live now and in Vegas once. They were always on the road and always down to play a show it seems. It was a shock when their bassist Jason McCash left the band a couple years ago but an even bigger shock when he passed a couple months ago: some bands and even musicians you take for granted and think will be around forever.

A friend from the Maryland music scene is organizing a benefit show for the family of Jason and asked me to do the poster. Check out the event:

True Templar of Doom: Benefit for Jason McCash

Tickets can be purchase here

I'm all for the benefit and show and would love to be there in person, one of my favorite Doom bands Earthride is playing their first show in months, a year? either way they're legit, just like the Gates of Slumber and Jason.

If you'd like to donate directly to his family click here!

Onto the art: I decide to hand draw everything and keep it black and white to be as Doom as I can get & to be able to donate the finished art to the cause. Hand lettering is my weakness and I ended up redoing the text in Photoshop, you can see the finished drawn poster with original lettering in the 2nd pic below:

 

Some o the sketches and drawing process:

RIP

Days of the Doomed Fest 4 poster

I've been lucky enough to have one of the nicest promoters in the "biz" ask me to do his Doom festivals poster for the last 4 years, Mercyful Mike Smith is a solid dude, check him out at https://www.facebook.com/mercyfulmikemp and the fest at www.daysofthedoomed.com/‎. I love working with him and what he's doing in the upper midwest to help an underground scene.

 Some of the process below:

DEETS:

Obelisk dot com banner and stickers

 

First up! Visit www.theobelisk.net now!

Visited it? Cool, thanks! Ok here we go: This site is one of my favorite sites for heavy music and I when he asked me to do the banner image I was stoked. The sites also been a big supporter of my art so I was more than open to his ideas for the banner that it should have an octopus, obelisk, desert and sunset. All except the obelisk itself are staples in my bag of tricks! 

 

Above you can see the 3 mock ups I gave him, all pretty similar working on the same idea, as well as the color mock up of the chosen version. I do the color mock sometimes to get color changes myself or the client has out of the way before I do the final art and to have the color choices ready to dive into once the line art is squared away. It can also take alot of the pressure away before I color it which can save time 2nd guessing my color choices later in the game.

 

Above is a timeline of the final art taking shape. In the first version you can tell I drew the octopus by hand and scanned him into the mock up art then began to draw the background and clouds with the tablet in Photoshop. The 2nd version has the old mock up logo for placement and most of the outlines finished while the 3rd has all of the outlines and some details finished.

 

Here's some details of the art, even though its web banner on the medium size I went into detail on it because I knew they wanted to print stickers from the art snd I wanted to create some prints to give away.

Below are a couple of the prints and below that is the art for the sticker!