Plum Smugglers Flag

An awesome weekly pub trivia team needs an awesome flag to represent it.

Unfortunately, we're a team of drunken idiots, and I'm a shitty designer.

New AFO logo

Flame-broiled

I forgot how awesome this pic was. Just had to reload it.

Notice the ambient lighting coming off of the flames. NOTICE IT!

Yoga pic

I had my co-worker Jay write "yoga rulz" on my fingers, and my co-worker Jeff take a pic, then I 'shopped it up to make it look cooler.

This is what I do when I'm bored at work.

Totally Random

For some reason, I wanted to do a pic of Derek Jeter in a bath-tub full of kittens for my Ford commercial concept.

New look/Branding

I'm updating my entire branding look, starting off with a new logo/crest.

Dr Dre Chronic/Tonic Album

My friends started calling me "Tonic," so I thought up this little gem.

Photog: Alfred Martinez

Regis Lax flyer

My friend Dave needed a flyer asking for internships for his Regis lacrosse team.

Art Show Promo Poster

Mark had two great ideas for the art show title: "The Art of the Flame" and "The Thrill of the Grill". I thought they were both kick-ass titles and couldn't decide betwixt the two. So I came up with the idea of doing a vintage boxing poster concept to promote our art show in the Spring. I still have to make some changes, but here it is so far.

Sexual Harassment Test

So our company had to take this ridiculous online harassment training test, so to have SOME fun with it, I took a screen-grab and doctored it up in Photoshop, and put in a photo of a co-worker. The name and image has been changed to protect- actually, fuck it, no it hasn't. Sorry, Mike.

DONE!

Skatedeck 3

Chicken art

It's getting there. Few more tweaks a textured paper background, and Mark and I will have these ready for print.

More Ford Stuff! St. Louis Blues Calendar

A couple of comps for the St Louis Blues/Ford collaboration.

Chicken rendering

Finally, the last animal for Mark and I's advertising project. I should have everything rendered out this weekend if all goes well. I just have to add in a textured background, color-correct everything, make sure all my lines are good, and adjust the layout for the text.

Lax Regis flyer

AFO Skate deck 2

I think my next one has to have a deck of cards and some sort of fighter pilot lingo.

AFO Skatedeck

I'm designing a skate-deck for charity where each deck is bid on by people (thanks Jeff!) using my own AFO brand. Not that I'm a huge fan of this design, but I really want to bid on my deck so I've got my own AFO skate deck. I love WW2 and nose art that you see on planes, so that's my influence. I wanted to put a cute girl on there like airplane nose art usually have, but I don't have time to put that on. I'll let everyone know how much the deck goes for.

Cow + Flame background

Ft Collins Hike

It ain't artwork, but I just wanted to upload some photos of me and some friends of mine on a hike up in Ft. Collins.

Well, they're photos, so yeah, it's technically art.

Same art, different backgrounds

Art Gallery Sneak Preview

Here's a sneak preview (lucky you!) of Mark and I's upcoming art gallery show. This will be the potential layout with the "big 3" of grilling's most popular meats: beef, pork, and chicken.

It features a southern cow, a school-girl pig, and burlesque chicken.

Pig render, final

Here is the version that's 90% complete.

I'm deciding if I want the apple to be realistic to draw attention to it, or if I should leave it vector like the rest.

The apple, which intended to be a ball-gag, turns into a symbolic forbidden fruit with the innocentness of the pig. Also, note the a nice juxtaposition between the warm, organic pig and the cold steel of the grill. Note it!

Pig render, pt3

Here is the pig now with cel-shading applied to it. I wanted it to really look like a vector cartoon. It's really coming along together here as I apply different "shading" techniques to the pig.

With colors, I've probably put 10 hours into it so far.

The arrow is merely my reminder of where a potential light source is coming from.

Pig render, pt2

Here is the sketch with applied base colors, experimenting with the pink of the skin, combined with the innocent shade of blue in the ribbon and her fingernails.

Mark and I's secret project...shh...

So my friend Mark and I are working on a major art project that could get us our own art gallery showing. The purpose is basically combining advertising and illustration into fine art, with the premise being sexy cartoon animals (that can be barbecued) selling grills. Mark's quite the chef and grilling is his passion. So Mark approached me with his idea, and I jumped. His idea for a double entendre headline is, "Grilling. It's how MEAT wants to get DONE."

We went back and forth on all kinds of edible animals, and sexy ways they can be shown posing with the grill. A roasted pig was an obvious choice, but what kind of sexy fetish could we apply to it?

My first thought was to have a pig in S&M bondage. It would be tied, or trussed up, with an apple as a ball-gag in its mouth. I went back and forth with Mark on sketches, trying to make the pig look a) sexy, and b) like it wanted to be involved in S&M. I couldn't.

So I came up with a compromise to Mark: could I take the innocent lamb/school girl outfit idea and apply it to the pig? Mark was okay with it, and we decided on this sketch.

More Ford stuff. Yeah, I know.

2011 Mariners

Seattle Mariners art for 2011.