Best request from a client ever: “a swan that breathes fire and holding a handful of arrows and a sword with a shield like a cross between the patriotic eagle imagery and a dragon?”  I had to draw that, no bones about it.  Too fun.

This one made me glad to be a hoarder.  I had been carrying around a banged-up piece of scratchboard since COLLEGE (um, over ten years), and pulled it out on a whim to make this t-shirt design for local music club The Legendary White Swan.  I knew it was going to go on a black shirt, so scratchboard seemed like a fun way to approach it.  Of course, once I started, I got totally obsessed.

FEATHERS AND FEATHERS AND FEATHERS AND FEATHERS AND FEATHERS AND FEATHERS AND FEATHERS AND FEATHERS AND FEATHERS.

It was a fun, awesome, obsession wormhole, and now I want MORE SCRATCHBOARD.

A tattoo commission for a friend.  He requested a Jackalope with true antelope antlers (rather than the deer antlers that you see more often), surrounded by a wreath of sagebrush.  I added the crown and the bleeding paw.  I love tattoo commissions, and thinking about line weight and silhouette a bit differently.  I am always incredibly flattered that someone would  apply my art permanently to their skin, it’s a great compliment.

This is the second tattoo design I’ve done for this person – he already has one of my winged rabbits and some finches on his upper arm.  The Seattle tattoo artist who inked it stayed remarkably true to my mark making, I was very impressed.  I’m not sure of the artist’s name, but I’ll post it here if I find out.  They changed the proportions a bit, making the wreath smaller in relation to the jackalope, but I think it works far better given the forearm location.

A trio of print ads I did for the owners of Sputnik, Rio Rita, and Beerland here in Austin.

T-shirt design for A+S Farms, an awesome local slow-food farm that organically and humanely raises Registered Gulf Coast Sheep.

I had made a drawing of the two-faced sheep for an art show last summer, inspired by a trip out to their farm.  They loved the piece, and requested that I create a screen print-worthy design out of it.  I retained the delicate texture of the piece by laying some added linework over a fine halftone screen generated from the original drawing, and also added the wreath of shears and some minimal copy.