Villains and Rockers.

Last year Rich Ellis and I were tasked with illustrating some stories for Zakk Wylde's soon to be released book "Bringing Metal To The Children" and I didn't want to put these up until the book was announced. I saw a blurb in 'Guitar World' so here you go:

Zakk and Dimebag hang out after a particularly antics filled weekend
Black Label Society takes the stage while the lightning strikes!
Around the same time a bunch of us in the studio were approached to contribute work for Ben Thompson's "Badass" series of books. Here are two of my illustrations from that project:

This little Ragnarok is only measures about 6" by 4" but I like the way it turned out
This was a chapter break for the 'villains' section of the book; it's about 18.5" by 15.5"
Get yourself a copy of both and you'll never need anything else to boost your Radness/Metal quotient.

Well that is all for now. I'll be blogging more again but I had to get my new tumblr off the ground so August was a bit of a dry spell. I'm going to try and do a few more process related posts and add a few more pictures of my day to day for those of you who are interested.

Upcoming Villainy!

Here at Periscope we do a lot of different projects and, in the interest of avoiding spoilers, I try not to post anything for a while after I do it. In this case I had drawn a bunch of images for Ben Thompson's upcoming sequel to his book Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live. I will share a few detail shots from a larger double page spread of three villains.




I also did a picture of Ragnarok and Kali for the volume as well but if you want to see those drawings then you'll have o get the book. More art and tomfoolery on Thursday!

I happened to come across a cool blog today and I suggest you all check it out. It's called There Are Four Lights and I enjoyed the concepts she deals with because the same themes are dear to my heart.

I do not typically enjoy 'Manga' style drawing but that is not an absolute hard and fast rule. I'm open to good work done along those lines especially if it is in conjunction with compelling subject matter. I am appreciative of Miss Sara Mayhew's mind if not her preferred approach to drawing.