Yes I just referenced New Jack City.

So 2009 has been a bit of a slog. But 2010 is looking alright. have fun tonight, be safe.

IN YOUR FACE!

I had always presupposed that my drawing in class was a way of maintaining a certain amount of preoccupation when I get bored. Basically I’ll doodle as way to keep from REALLY acting out.

Seems science has got my back on this one. Doodling, whether drawing geometric shapes or cowboys, is your brains way of staying active when not being challenged. Doodling keeps your brain from slipping into full on day dreaming, which is much more intensive.

So there you go.

*an exception to Wylie Ferguson and Pearletta Williams, who always encouraged and never held me back.

I always knew my parent’s interior decorator had a job during WWII helping to repatriate art. I was a little surprised to find him mentioned in Smithsonian magazine for the part he played. Walter Farmer was a Monument Man. One of 350 US solders tasked with taking care of art both stolen and legitimately owned by Germany after WW II.

In 1996 (he died in 1997 of cancer) he was awarded Germany’s highest civilian honor. He had initiated the so-called “Wiesbaden Manifesto” in 1945, protesting against the transport of 202 paintings to the United States of America eventually resulting in their return to Germany.

At the Wiesbaden Collecting Point in July of 1945 Sgt. Lindsay found his new boss, Capt. Walter I. Farmer, an interior decorator from Cincinnati, bustling around the former Landesmuseum building, a 300-room structure that had served as a state museum before the war and as a Luftwaffe headquarters during the conflict. It had miraculously survived repeated bombings, which had nonetheless shattered or cracked its every window. The heating system had died, a U.S. Army depot had sprouted in the museum’s former art galleries, and displaced German citizens had taken over remaining nooks and crannies of the old building. Farmer, Lindsay and a complement of 150 German workers had just under two months to depose the squatters, fire up the furnace, root out the bombs, fence off the perimeter and prepare the museum for a shipment of art scheduled to arrive from wartime repositories.

“It was a nightmare,” recalls Lindsay, now living in Binghamton, New York, where he was chairman of the art history department of the State University of New York. “We had to get the old building going. Well, fine, but where do you find 2,000 pieces of glass in a bombed-over city?”

Farmer took matters into his own hands, deploying a crew to steal the glass from a nearby Air Force site. “They came back with 25 tons of glass, just like that!” says Lindsay. “Farmer had larceny in his veins, God bless him!”

Had a good time inking this pieces, once I found some working pens. Don’t know what it is, I had three pens go dry at the same time. What do ya think?

Christmas is around the corner and even Santa can’t cure the flu.

This is the sketch for next Monday’s editorial cartoon. I’ll post the inks and the finished drawing to give you a look at the process.

Finished these inks last night. I hate to admit it was all done with microns and a Rotring art pen. I really should have also used a brush as well. To be fair though my girlfriend was VERY sick so I did the entire thing while nursing her back to health. That’s right I’m awesome!

For the record I know that turkeys can fly (sort of) but I thought the knotted bed sheets were fun.

Just finished up this flyer for this concert in the Northern Virginia / Washington DC on December 6 at Jaxx. I’m a big fan of all three bands, Nitzer Ebb, Ego Likeness and Anders Manga. Matter of fact Nitzer, who I’ve been a fan of for 19 odd years is the only band I haven’t worked one on one with, so it should be a great show.

From the design point of view I referenced Nitzer Ebb’s album Showtime for the layout and That Total Age for the color scheme. If you can’t catch Nitzer on this tour, they’ll be opening for Depeche Mode next spring, just like they did on Violator!

Was asked to make a flyer for an upcoming Halloween event here in Washington DC. Voltaire is a well know Goth/Folk singer with a dark sense of humor. So while it’s a “dark” even I really wanted it to be fun and playful

I really felt like I was trying to fit fifteen pounds in a ten pound bag with the text. But I cut a little, and the promoter cut some more, so I think it works pretty well now.

Electronic Arts has stirred up one tempest of a tweet-storm over their Acts of Lust contest. The tag thread at #lust was quickly over run with disgusted women and men, trolls and dissapointed fan boys. EA’s apology/explanation seems to have not calmed things down. In fact it’s spawned #EAfail. Funny how a company can so COMPLETELY miss the point of consumers vitriol.

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess not a lot of women work at EA.

EA’s poorly conceived contest promotion

Comic colorist Mark Sweeney made up his take on the contest

Was just checking out Daniel Simon’s futuristic concept cars. What beauties! He’s got a blog at cosmic-motors.blogspot.com, he also has designed his own UNIVERSE. Very cool stuff.