Been listening to a lot of Maynard James Keenan's creative project - Puscifer of late, wound up doing this piece, so I consider it indirectly linked (or at least subliminally inspired by) the music. Check out their stuff, you can buy it on iTunes or through their website.

Bad Habits / Good Music

I Want Your Skull is a limited run black and white publication and website, that focuses on art featuring skulls. The folling is my entry in the May issue. I didn't get picked, but hey, it was a fun exercise all the same.

The Final Piece, entitled 'Thug Life'

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And here's a set of concepts, no particular order, although you'll notice I did start it in colour.

CreativeProcess

OleeHere

My new friend and compatriot from Vinyl Toy Freaks, Marine was kind enough to send me Olee, his resin platform toy. Check out Marine's fine wares / works / art and some vinyl news at his Tummy Toys site and at Monikceltic.

For anybody interested, here's a design sheet I drew up for the Olee platform. It's in PDF so anybody who wants to give the Olee platform a shake can try it out.

Olee-designSheet

Download and Enjoy

Over at the VTF forums a creative request was put out for some mini-card designs. Here's my contribution.
For those interested, check out the VTF community, it's a cool place to shoot the breeze about art, vinyl and creative pursuits!

Design 1 - The People's Republic Of Vinyl
Based on Chinese Propaganda posters, I used the base of this design for a promo for VTF a while back and decided to work it up into a mini-card.

Minicard_01

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Design 2 - Horrorpunk Roots
I make no secret of my proud punk roots, so here's an old school appropriated image horropunk style card, this one has caught a couple of favorable comments over at VTF and is probably my personal favorite too.

Minicard_02

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As always, comments are more than welcome.

Speaks for it self I guess, I'm doing a short series in this style, just for fun at the moment, but I'm working of turning it all a little more tangible too! More soon.

Deck

ChiefPrint

Well after a bit of organising and some deep thought, I've come up with a brand for any future Urban Vinyl / Art projects I will be attempting this year. (I currently have one at a quoting / pre-production stage and the other is at the 'wouldn't it be cool' stage).

I've got it down to four colour variants of the logo, so check it out.

The Ultracool

Produced this piece with S4ndman, it's his turn to mess with it now, but I thought I'd put it up here for worldly perusal. I think it would make a pretty cool art print.

BoombuJam

S4ndman (aka Mathew Beers) keeps a vox blog that deserves the more appropriate classification of Online Magazine, Vinyl Addiction. He's also the creator of the Bully Boombu art toy and a wide array of very cool artwork and graphics.

As if that's not enough, he's also one of the major proponents of Vinyl Toy Freaks, an online community of Art Toy lovers, who discuss contemporary art, urban vinyl and anything else that comes to mind. The site also maintains threads by some of the urban vinyl industry's heavy hitters (Erick Scarecrow of ESC Toys, Sket One and MAD to name a few!).

I think the title says it all!

HowILearntVampiresCouldFly

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I did this Mike Mignola inspired piece a while ago, but thanks to a few comments posted by friend and fellow artist Rick, I thought I'd put it up for perusal! The robot guy is a little derivative of the Amazing Screw On Head, so if I ever do any more with this stuff I'll replace him with a different character. The skeleton character is the ghost Miyamoto Musashi (just to add to the trivia in this piece, the print on Musashi's kimono is a modified version of my business logo) and the whole thing taps into my love of 50's Sci-fi / Horror flicks.

Enjoy.

Tntsb

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Extending on the 8 Ball Crew's home town. Not sure where I'm going with it but the overall concept is growing. Suggestions welcome!! Also I've added a detail shot of the imp character, I pushed this one pretty hard in terms of Illustrator. It was a lot of fun! Also producing the 8 Ball and Radioactive Broadcast Logo / Graphics, this little project is taking on a life of it's own!

ArctownRadioImps

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