The Prosthetics Shirt

They had a couple ideas. The other one was venus fly traps tearing people apart. I would have liked to draw them, but I couldn't make it work in my mind without looking like a gorey death metal album cover.

Ed Gein vinyl

I saw this on Ed Gein's myspace blog and I thought I'd share it.

"Judas Goats & Dieseleaters on VINYL!!!!

The vinyl for Judas Goats & Dieseleaters is FINALLY out!

After over a year of ridiculous artwork bullshit (the details of which I won't get into) we finally got someone awesome to do the artwork. That someone's name is Jeremy Forson. He did an amazing job with the artwork and layout for these puppies. They finally arrived yesterday and they look kick ass! We are totally stoked on them!

Head over to the Hex Records site at www.hanginghex.com to check them out and order one up!

Also go to www.jeremyforson.com and take a gander at his artwork because his shit rules!"

I love getting reactions like that from the bands I work for. It's good to know I hit the mark.

Born Anchors Tee

This band shares members with Heiress. They apparently like the work I did for them and wanted me to come up with a shirt. http://www.myspace.com/bornanchors. I think they're a really good band, and I had fun (trying) to do something more light hearted to suit their music. They sent me a preview of their idea for placement, and I think it looks really nice, I'm excited to see how the come out. I hadn't even thought of placing it there, but it looks like it was made for it. I'm happy that this was a successful endeavor after hearing that Tristan Tzara went with the original art, even though the label guy liked it.

Tristan Tzara 7"

This was for a DADA band from Germany that broke up a couple years ago. I was going for DADA assemblage meets hardcore. Successful? I suppose not. The band decided to use the art from the original release of the 7". So if you're in a band and need a 7" or CD cover fast, you can use this one I guess :(

Art crisis

I'm almost 2 years out of college, and I'm having a bit of a life crisis. Not the stressfull kind exactly, but I need to change something, because I don't like the way things are going. I think I'm at the point where I have a good job, and I'm looking down the metaphorical road of my future. A horribly long, terrifyingly straight road. In other words, I'm bored, and I feel like I'm getting into the rut of the 9 to 5 life. I've only been doing it for a couple months, but I'm scarred of where it's going. My remedy to this is that I HAVE to do more art when I get off work, in spite of being worn out. I'm working out ideas for a comic right now. It's something I can at least work on while taking the bart train to work. I've been slacking off way too much, and having too much social time. I feel my potential slipping.

Mature art

I'm sticken with sudden sadness over the realization that my art is much too teen to be truely respectable. It seems to be an over-rendered version of angsty math class doodles. This disturbs me greatly and I feel that I need to drive towards pulling away from the creepy school gutter. I've been trying to move in a different direction for a while, but I'm hung up on a couple problems: I've been doing creepy art for so long that I've gotten good at it and it's difficult for me to work in a new style, and my "clients" often demand or at least expect that style from me. I'm trying to figure out where to go with my art to make it more mature. Suggestions welcome.

Don't be mad....

I know, I haven't shown anything new in a while, I'm sorry. I think after that series of record covers I was feeling a little burned out. I've also started a new full time job as a flash developer/interactive artist at a major advertising agency. Lots of perks, free time not being one of them. Also, I have a substantial life these days outside of my house on account of my ongoing happyness and lack of depression, most would agree that it's good thing but it's killing my career.

News for now: I don't know how much I said about it, but I still haven't heard from Burton about the snowboards I was supposed to do, I think that got lost in the process. Pretty disappointing. If all goes well there will be a page of me in Juxtapoz around the end of the year, which I've very excited about.

The new Blues CD should come out soon, and it would appear that they were quite happy about the art I did for it: Blues on Myspace. If you emailed me recently about a job and I haven't gotten back to you, I'm sorry, things have been hectic. I'm not blowing you off, just send me an email again. I need a rep or something, fuck. I don't even remember who's paid me, yikes!