May 29 2008
Pipe

It’s been a while, but the series continues.
May 25 2008

I found this great Olan Mills family portrait at a thrift store. 40 cents later and it was mine. I wasn’t a big fan of the frame so I was going to move the picture into another one and I found these other two photos behind it. I’m guessing this one is for a high school yearbook photo or something:
And this one, this one is the best. Of ever.

May 20 2008

Fisticuffs. An old font based on an older font I found in some thrift store type book years ago. Capitals only on this one. It works best at big sizes.
May 18 2008
I found this homework assignment walking around by a railroad track. Not too sure what to think about the teacher’s choice of words.

May 11 2008
A look at a recent commisioned piece that I’ve been working on for a while:
The idea was to do a medical illustration type thing. The pencils:

The inking probably took the longest out of any of it:

A picture of me with the artwork to give an idea of the size of the piece:

Throw some lettering and some watercolors on it. And blood. Some of my actual blood, and this is what you get. From the start to finish it was a little over 1o hours of work and I think it turned out pretty dang good.

May 03 2008
Another thrift store find from the other day was this book on gas warfare from 1975:

I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet, but I pretty much got it for the pictures anyways. Like this guy in an early French gas mask. It was pretty much just 32 layers of the finely woven cotton fabric muslin.