Steez Apparel

I posted a photo of the drawing drying, but I don’t think I ever followed up with the finished product. Here it is. Steez t-shirt I did back in June. Available HERE. 

The Progress of Steez

All colored. Just a few more steps to go and it'll be on a shirt. And a koozie?

Gettin' There

Next up is to add some minor color.

You are TERMINATED.

These 3 pieces were going to used in this collaborative project where all these illustrators would do a few spoof sideshow posters and then they'd be arranged on the wallets like a giant wall advertising a coming sideshow. But, I think my excitement for the project became public knowledge, which inevitably caused it's termination. It's hard when a project you really want to work out and spend a lot of time on ends up getting tossed out. It's happened a few times and It'll always be something that bothers me for a few days after I get the news.

I originally only had to do the black and white versions because the art directors were going to be taking care of the color and designing a specific border to be used on all the illustrations, but I decided to color them all myself so the project wouldn't feel unfinished to me. Enjoy the two versions and the thumbnail sketches.

Stickers of Lore

When you grow up in a small town, and are denied access to the local bars due to the legal drinking age requirement to enter those bars, boredom sometimes gets the better of you. So you create imaginary bike gangs and you ride around with your friends all night, occasionally making a pit stop to eat a "road dog" in front of the neighborhood strip club. Then years pass, you grow up(?)  and all of a sudden you feel inclined to make stickers commemorating that weird time in your life.

Learn something new. Here's another meaning for the word lore: The surface on each side of a bird's head between the eye and the upper base of the beak, or between the eyes and nostrils in snakes.