GODS AND MONSTERS

In October 2017 I had the opportunity to visit the “It’s Alive” exhibit at the Peabody Essex museum in Salem Massachusetts. The exhibit consisted of movie posters, props and costumes from old horror movies that had been collected by guitarist Kirk Hammett, of the heavy metal band Metallica. These beautiful old posters initially inspired me to create some posters of my own based on some of the Universal Studio monsters. I later decided to design my own interpretations of these creatures and instead of posters I would make six different vignettes. Each drawing would be made with different types of media (marker, paint, cut paper etc.) and each with a different illustration style.

The Bride of Frankenstein. Gouache paint.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Cut paper and colored pencil.

The Mummy. Sepia ink wash.

 

The Wolfman. Pen and colored pencil.

 

Dracula. Prismacolor markers.

 

Frankenstein's monster. Colored pencil.      

The Bombay Royale

      Back in 2014 was when I first heard about the Australian cult band The Bombay Royale. Several of their hit songs were featured in a video game called Far Cry 4. From there I wanted to learn more about this mysterious band and check out some of their other songs. I then found this video of The Bombay Royale preforming live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkQewE-tFuA). To my pleasant surprise I thoroughly enjoyed all of the songs (a blend of funk, disco and Bollywood). I was also intrigued by their code names and costumes (everyone wears domino masks).  
       Fast-forward a few years and during some free time I decided to create a fan-art album cover. I initially wanted to emulate the art styles of old Bollywood movie posters. Some items I wanted to feature in the art were all 11 members of the band, a starry sky (inspired by the bands’ most recent album cover), the colors of the Tibetan Prayer Flags (inspired by Far Cry 4), and the city of Melbourne (where the band was formed).

 

 

The Bombay Royale is easily one of the most unique and exciting bands creating music today. I hope this fan-art has inspired you to check out their music.

 

5th LRS Military Patch

At the beginning of June a friend of mine, who is in the US Air Force, contacted me and asked if I could design a patch for the 5^th Logistics Readiness Squadron. His only request was for the design to include a knight on a horse and have it be a frontal or profile view. Immediately an idea for this patch came to mind.

I chose to base some of the design elements and colors off of a tapestry by artist Alexander Kishchenko, specifically his piece entitled ‘Chernobyl’ a tapestry currently hanging at the United Nations in New York. It should also be noted that I decided to go with a smoother style of shading (not as geometrically ridged as you can see in Mr. Kishchenko’s tapestry).

           When it came to picking colors I didn’t want to stray too far from the original 5^th LRS logo (blue and black) and I also wanted to include the reds, yellows and grays from the Chernobyl tapestry. In the end I am very satisfied with how this project turned out.