THE ARCHIVES

Throwing it back to September 2012 and UGH WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ABOMINATION I’M GETTING MAD JUST LOOKING AT IT. DUMB. DUMB DUMB DUMB. Get off my screen.

Throwing it back to September 2012, where emotional weather objects were all the rage. This is the start of those clouds with smiles and frowns and scowls. It was my trademark for awhile. I HAVE TO find the full res pic of this. This one tugs at my heart strings for some reason because I remember just going nuts with …

Throwing it back to October 2012, now. My boy Funky Frank messed with the wrong people. People with guns. People with rotating arrows. Another of the 5×5 for a CD booklet that never came to be. Early Wacom Intuos days. Some heavy handed drawing with some familiar color palettes. Sorry Frank, you done got GOT.

Throwing it back to a chilly October, 2012 — Where viscously horrific video-game predators were all the rage. One of my first ventures into digital coloring with the Wacom Intuos. Drawn with blue pens, scanned into Photoshop, desaturated, manipulated, violated. Then painted with some home made texture brushes — you feel me? Pac-Man jonsing for some ghost flesh. Click the …

Throwing it back to August 2012. In the future, everything will look like this, or so I thought 3 years ago. Clouds will be green. There will be a lot of pipes. And there will be one pipe that looks very phallic. This is the future whether you like it or not. Traced this whole thing in Illustrator with the …

Throwing it back to September 2012. The Bronze Eye. If you stare into the Bronze Eye, your soul will be forfeit. An ancient Egyptian overlord. Or something like that. I think he crossed paths with Hatchet Hand a couple of times. One of the many 5×5 series I did in hopes to create a CD booklet for my old band, …

Throwing it back to September 2012, a time where I was obsessed with the robot master, Magnet Man. Who am I kidding. I still am. Magnet Man on a melancholy trip to his inevitable doom. Sorry buddy. Drew it on paper, scanned it, colored it with homemade brushes. Click the pic for better resolution shot. This one’s available as prints …

It’s my picture. I can name it whatever I want. Throwing it back to October 2012, when grumpy, constipated old men with propellers on their heads were all the rage. This one went through many phases. I think this was one of the first Wacom Intuos tablet drawings I really put a decent amount of time into. And I think …

Throwing it back to October 2012, when I was just rockin out in my Toyota Corolla to some sweet El-P jams on my sweet iPod which was later stolen by what I assume was a greasy fat man pursing his fingers in the YMCA locker room.  I was also getting down with Aesop Rock for days, and days, and days. …

So, this was one of the very first drawings I ever put into Photoshop and colored. I thought it fitting to be the first installment in the Archives section. It was for a college Illustration class. The assignment was to illustrate something for a “hip” New Bedford Mexican restaurant. New Bedford is a fishing community, known for whaling… and Scrimshaw …