Goblins of Fire

I was watching this movie the other day and feeling really bad about things. I doodled this design on a piece of paper and decided to turn it digital. Ta-da!

This is also my first attempt at using an effect-generated texture. I like how it adds to the medieval look of the colors and subject matter.

Dear Summer

I've been toying around with this Bamboo tablet from Wacom---something I thought I'd never do---and I'm having a good time. This is my first comic made entirely with a tablet, for Snippets magazine.

Terrible Yellow Eyes

Maurice Sendak turned 81 yesterday and I celebrated by drawing up some pictures of Max from his Where the Wild Things Are. I was invited to participate in the Terrible Yellow Eyes project, featuring some work by my favorite living artists and that's where my pictures are to this very day. Amazing, right?

So, right after I submitted my pictures, I made one I like a gratrillion times better. Oh well...

Self-Portrait (Blanket Magazine)

Blanket Magazine was kind enough to invite me to contribute to their Portrait Issue (out today!) and asked me to make a self-portrait just for them. (I guess I cheated, though, 'cause I kinda made it for me, too). 

How rad is this cover? They include the image as a free wallpaper in the magazine and they also include another wallpaper and font that come as a package. Very cool. 

It's been a while since I consciously made a self-portrait and it was a fun project. I haven't done much with digital imagery, so I designed my portrait in Illustrator. It was fun enough that I just might make some more pictures like this...

In other news: 

>Thursday, June 4: Free concert at Gurus in Provo from 8-10pm

>Friday, June 5: Exhibit of my newest series of drawings "New Mistakes" at the Utah Arts Alliance Gallery in SLC, 6-9pm (music by James Barlow and more pictures by Gheybin Comish and Patric Bates)

>Saturday, June 6: 1-hour concert at Wheeler Farm as part of "Farm Days", with Andy Bean, Mitch Parker, and Jordan Hix