Okay, I lied.

First another update- this one about my biggest project in the works.

I really need to get on the ball with the Sasquatch poster. I like what I've heard of The Pica Beats so far, and I'm crazy excited to get the chance to do a poster for them. The prospect of screen printing it is more than a little intimidating, but I am going to try and keep things relatively simple with just two colors. I want to give photo emulsion a try though, so I guess I'm going to be turning the bathroom into a darkroom for a day.

The general concept is still in flux, but my two main visual inspirations are the covers for a couple of my favorite EPs. I want to go for something slightly twee yet haunting, and so I immediately though of Belle & Sebastian's "3.. 6.. 9.. Seconds of Light" and My Bloody Valentine's "Glider."

No one writes about the woes of being an awkward teenage girl like Stuart Murdoch. I bought a reissue of this at about age 16, and I still remember all the words to "Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie." The liner notes had an eerie little story about a boy in a copy shop that tied into the grainy, blown out photo on the cover. It's one of my favorite B&S covers still, and I wish I had my copy here with me in Brooklyn so I could reread the story now. I have some photos from some recent springtime adventures I might try playing with in Photoshop as such. I want to make a sort of damask and then use that as the first layer of color for the photo.

This EP was my introduction to My Bloody Valentine, and I listened to it compulsively. I love that the couple kissing on the cover is so distorted and abstract that it was only after many cumulative hours of staring at the cover that I realized what it was. I have a photo in mind that I want to work with to a similar effect for the top layer of color. I've been doing some stuff lately with using a lot of tiny lines. It makes my eyes spin, but I like how some of it has been turning out. I'm thinking big and abstracted with swirly text in a deep blue....

Here is a portrait I did recently using the kind of lines I am talking about. I did this drawing of my friend Jazz for a flyer but then ended up reworking it as desktop wallpaper for my laptop. All of the swirls were done in Illustrator though, and for the poster I want to sketch and ink everything by hand and then go to a copy shop to get it resized for the screen.



Okay, now I'm really off to vector some skulls.

REBOOT

Busy busy busy. I want to start using this again to keep track of projects and help me start thinking about how I want to set up my future portfolio site. So here are some updates.

I've been doing some stuff lately for this kid's concert series- NYC bands cleaning up their lyrics and playing matinee shows for hipster parents and their offspring. The first flyer was kind of maddening to pull together (series artist's block + being mad sick), but I think it came out okay.



The series is being sponsored by CMJ now too, so I did a quick banner ad for the upcoming show. It was kind of rad to see something I did (even if it is just a dinky banner) on a legit website.



I am trying to come up with some ideas for a permanent logo at that size for the CMJ site. I was playing with some Craig McCraken-ish ideas for the first flyer that I ended up discarding, but I want to try and revive those for this. Or something at least. I drew a little monster guy in my sketchbook who I think is pretty cute, but I haven't found a job for him yet.

But first- vectoring some sad skulls!