I love you...

... if the day comes where someone hurts you, I will kill them.
Happy Valentines Day.

Nickie age 9 and a half

Gonna start mailing out child like drawings to famous people and businesses. Hope they hang them up! I have a really good one for a neighborhood laundromat where I (my 9-year-old stick-figure self) thanks Jesus for the driers that pretty-good work.

H in short pants

Another sneak peak

This, as well as the previous "sneak peak" are some mental flushings for an upcoming project titled Rare Form.

The letter D

Formed by a hard object poking a soft mass.

Sneak Peek

1-800-SKEL-MON

Skeletor applies his mental powers towards a capitalistic venture.

Sweetness why you pay $4.99 a minute fee for psychic advice? I, Skel-Mon will give it to you for less than $1 a minute? That's right, less than $1 a minute! Tank you for calling young lady. Dis be Skel-Mon. About 10 months ago accordin' to the 10 of Cups, there was an event with the short stocky man. Don't know what me sayin'? Tink back mon... 10 months ago... I didn't say you knew the stocky man well, but there be a short stocky man. YES te one shaped like a bell!! Tat is te one I talkin' about! Baby... I'm here with bad news for you. The Fool's card has shown to say you often foolish, you foolish to doubt me earlier 'bout the stocky man, you foolish with the stocky man... Caller you ready to continue? You called' me fool-mon. You do not already know dis he did you dirty. My friend, it was your foolishness that let this snake in your grass with out proper cover. You know what I'm talkin' 'bout now. Go take the test, the burning and discoloration is not a coincidence.

Flip the script...

This past Tuesday I rented Angles & Demons and after watching it I wanted to try my brain at creating an ambigram of my name. Ambigrams are those typographical treatments that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation. In my research I found that this display-type form originated in the late nineteenth century, rendering the stories claim of them dating back some 400 years historically incorrect. The ones featured in the film (earth, wind, fire, water, and illuminati) were created in blackletter by current king-supreme of ambigrams is Mr. John Langdon. 

Ambgrams are not mutually exclusive to blackletter-type, they can be created in any style in which the artist is comfortable and/or competent. I did feel the pairing was complimentary and stayed with it. Rather than using contemporary blackletter I used characteristics indicative the late 19th century blackletter based off the of Albion-Gotisch created in 1880 by Hausschnitt Von Benjamin Krebs Nachf. The other type on this page is based off 19th century letterpress.

 

and flipped....

 

Time for a REBUS

Left the ol' sketch book at home, so I made you a rebus. I'll give the following hint: 

The correct phrase is 6 words. 

Remember, this is where pictures make a phrase and details have a purpose. See if you can crack it. Enjoy.

Obsessed...

with letter-forms, typefaces, lettering... well the entire universe of typography, my work is very type focused. The majority of my drawings take place during moments of conceptual thinking or brainstorming for clients projects. This tends to leave my personal work in a state of static, never evolving and always pushed off to the side. As of recent I've been re-inspired and feeling the creative juices flowing through my insides. With this change in my body and mind, I have several projects lined up and am very excited to progress and share. Here we have a doodle that developed from the humanistic attributes of the letter "V". The lettering for the V is a unique typeface I recently developed and will be using more frequently. The Heavy-Script paired with the letter is based off 1930s Showcards. 

On my way to where the air is sweet.

Shoot, had some difficulty deciding do I draw Cookie-Monster, the first addict I came to know or the Grouch, the one that showed me home is whatever you define it to be. Fuck addicts, Grouch took it.

Reach on up and reach on in...

Inya Day / Paul Johnson flashbacks all week long...

Keep pushin on

things are going to get better

it won’t take long

keep-on pushin to the top

War & Death

When we all rise to be better men solutions without bloodshed will be adopted to policy. "If there is a next time, let us invest in erasable lead rather than a fresh crop of body-less head." 

Heaven no, hell yeah.

Played a bit of the ol' fill-the-page for the halloween-theme. Here is a satirical sketch for all those saying "It don't make sense, goin' to heaven wit the goodie-goodies, dressed in white. I like black Tims and black hoodies." I'll revisit this sketch to do a finalized version.

THE REVISIT:

I had forgotten just how much I hate "fill the page", the result is always clutter without purpose. Below is the revisited sketch. When in doubt I must remember K.I.S.S., keep it simple shit-for-brains.