I Made A Little “booklet Of Warning” As Part Of A Proposal To My Wife. Working In Black And White

Man, Seattle is a super great city. We went to Pike’s Public Market and got some excellent sweet and savory pastries and of course saw some fish get ceremonially tossed. Then we biked to see the Space Needle and neighboring architectural interests. After plenty of biking in the rain, we ended the day with a viewing of the strangest movie I have ever seen at a great cinema that prides itself on cult rarities and good beer. If you’ve any interest in bizarre, psychedelic Japanese horror movies of the late 70s, see House (1979) pronto. More soon.

Take a Septembral stroll with me through 10 new choice tracks. As usual, most are what's been on heavy repeat, filled in with classics from the vault that fit just right for a Septembral stroll. Enjoy.

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Prescription Strength Hugs “Dude Supply EP” & ae Mix “St. Valentino & His Corpse Army”

DJ Lani Love’s “Warmth Of Love” & “Snow to Stars” mixes.

ae mixes “Soul” and “Soul II”

Been reading a bunch of books from the Parker series. They are excellent, no-nonsense crime books about one hard hombre. I had a little difficulty coming up with a design that worked, because he is described in one way, but reads in another. Described in the first book as:

Big and shaggy, with flat square shoulders. His hands, swinging curve-fingered at his sides, looked like they were molded of brown clay by a sculptor who thought big and liked veins. His hair was brown and dry and dead, blowing around his head like a poor toupee about to fly loose. His face was a chipped chunk of concrete, with eyes of flawed onyx. His mouth was a quick stroke, bloodless.

Throughout the books, he seems to get a bit more charming and attractive to women (maybe a bit of the Bond progression, from blank mold to a model man's man). I went with a more grizzled look, huge hands and an overall brutish appearance. Characters often call him the meanest man they've ever met, but he's just brutally principled and a fun character to read because of it.

New "Hey, Koo!" haiku comic. Things exploding is bound to be a theme with a power like Koo's. Written by Kalia Armbruster with art by me.

Dream JRNL #1

It is not a necessary evil, but an ever-present one: the abbreviated vocabulary used when texting. Like typos, you must be ever vigilant in a time of incredibly disposable communication. There are moments however, when typos happen; usually in those rushed or half-focused texts. For the past few months, I’ve been doing this thing where I will wake up and punch out a text with an autonomous thumb. I scarcely remember doing this in the morning but am always amused by them. So far, nothing bad has happened, so I haven’t switched to another form of alarm system that doesn’t have MMS capabilities. I actually don’t know what MMS stands for, I just know that it stands for something that means texting. Here is an example of one of these dream texts. Funny how just a little typo makes you look insane…

April - Scott Pilgrim.

Continuing the 2015 calendar, this month is Sex Bob-omb playing a raucous gig. Think it turned out really well and was very happy with the screentone fade in the background. I tried out Manga Studio for the first time and really liked the drawing tools and the ability to minutely tune brushes. I’ll definitely be doing more illustration in Manga Studio, especially anything that needs variable line thickness (and dope screentones). 

More of the pixel-rockers. Rockbands need maracas too. I think this guy may run undercover stage security.

More art in a long line of art for DJ Lani Love. This mix was done for the nail art magazine Tipsyzine. They're both pretty excellent at what they do, so head over and check out the pretty wicked nail art and Lani's other mixes. Yeah, and don't forget to actually look at the album art! 

My first illustrator swap for Ten Paces & Draw is up! The format involves illustrators submitting a sketch on a topic, swapping them with others, then doing a final illustration for the sketch you receive. This topic was pet peeves. Check it out in context here! You can also see my sketch on the last frame of the project carousel.