New Album Art

This is the cover for some new album art I'm making. This is all cut from a sheet of paper, about 6x6". I want to do more little scenes like this.

Below is the sketch I decided to go with for the cover. I love the look of silhouettes and describing objects by their shapes. I've painted over the album title, because the musician is still deciding between a few really great titles. The music is absolutely beautiful and I can't wait until the album comes out.

Schlock Mercenary Puzzle

Howard Tayler is Utah's creator of Schlock Mercenary, where it is "the 31st Century! Humans entered the galactic age over 900 years ago, and now do business with all manner of alien folk." 

The online comic has a loyal following, including my dad, who decided to collaborate with Howard and make puzzles with some of Howard's artwork. I never knew just how much time and effort went into cutting a jigsaw until Dad started making 'em and believe you me: these are high-quality puzzles! One puzzle is being auctioned off on Ebay right now and another will be sold at LTUE's auction this Saturday night.

Howard had a few things to say about the puzzles, which you can find here.

Bottom line: if you are a fan of the comic and/or are in need of a rad, high-quality puzzle, this is your chance!

Desert Noises

Photos from Weston Colton of the artwork I made for Desert Noises album.

Weston came over on Noah's birthday and we set up the diorama on my washer and dryer, with a black blanket for a background. We put up a light and Weston took some photos. It's so nice to see the album printed. The songs are gorgeous and Desert Noises just posted their first music video on YouTube. 

From the Sketchbook

Here are some more doodles from my sketchbook. I've been getting excited about continuous contour line drawings again and I've been trying a few new things. Once I have something worth sharing I'll post it. Oh! And have you listened to M Ward's newest album? I mean, dang!

Singled Out

This is an illustration I was invited to make for Square Magazine's wedding issue, coming in another month and a half. The article is on being a single guy in Utah---pretty much a solid plot for a horror movie.

Ballers

Here are a few continuous contour line drawings from my sketchbook. 

It's simple: you put your pen down and draw one line without retracing or picking up your pen until it's finished!

The drawings are from this book of basketball history from the library and Noah just loved the book! Ever since we checked it out he is always drawing "basketballs", no matter what marks his crayons and markers make.

Let's Just Be Friends

Mankind Magazine invited me to contribute to their February issue and I did just that! The magazine has a blog following of over 8,000 visitors a day and most of them are out-of-towners.

Desert Noises

Desert Noises just had their CD release party last night and the place was packed. Andy and I had a blast listening to RuRu and his brother, then Desert Noises. 

Last November I was asked to do the cover and CD art for the album and I was given carte blanche for content, treatment, etc. I decided to try something entirely new to me and I made a diorama. All the images you see are photographs of a minitaure cliff sprinkled with an untimely snow. The back cover sports a centaur made from a miniature of a horse and a separate minitaure of a farmer.

The process was really new and fun for me and I took a lot of photos. I think I'll post some of 'em later. In the meantime, you can get the CD from Northplatte Records, Graywhale or through iTunes.