Illustration Friday "Slither"

Getting wild with the gradient mesh today...

Art Show + Shirts for Sale

Flyer by Me and Laura G

I'm pleased to announce that on June 4th in Greenpoint The Blood Dumpster is having another art show and party event, Pyrophilia. I'll have a brand new piece in the show AND we will be debuting the new Blood Dumpster T-Shirt I designed. Fret not if you can't make it to the show, the shirts are available for pre-order at the BD website.

Hope to see you all there. Please RSVP on the Facebook event page if you can.

Process for Blood Dumpster Tee

Today I was working on the first T-shirt for my artist collective, The Blood Dumpster. I took a bunch of screenshots during the process so I thought I'd share.

Here's the first sketch. I tend to go pretty literal with things, so i drew bloody things coming out of a dumpster. (I assure you the collective isn't all about drawing dumpsters and blood. Mostly. )

Pretty fun, but I wanted to push it farther and add some detail. After some feedback from the group and several attempts at refining the sketch I came up with this draft.

I scanned it and opened the file in illustrator. I rotated it a little because I sorta drew it on a slant and i wanted teh dumpster to be more upright. Here as some of my initial "inking" lines.

I'm generally using  a single custom brush with he Brush tool. You can see I'm ready planning out some of the colors.

We're planning on doing it on a black or red shirt, most likely. Therefore, I wanted to create a white backing/border so all the black lines would still read on a black background.

Here I started doing some fills with a halftone pattern to get some depth out of the limited palette.

Cleaned up the shading shapes. Looks pretty awesome on white background, but we want to print on a black shirt...

...and that border looks a lot sloppier in high-contrast.

So i went in a made it a lot tighter, and dropped it from the blood splashes and smaller parts that didn't quite need the outline. Last, I added The Blood Dumpster logo and my ol' siggy on a skull. Also the nipple is squirting. That way, you know, it looks more nippley.

Illustration Friday: "Equipment"

Haven't heard from me in a while, eh kiddos? Been a little busy round these parts for the past few weeks, but I finally made some time to do some personal work. Well, sorta personal. An Illustration Friday assignment, which i guess is half-way personal. Been doing a lot of blending lately and somehow I stumbled upon the theme of amputation...so a pirate with a blender for a hand was the natural choice for the "equipment" theme.

I promise there will be more complete sentences. In the future.