Crest of Ignatius

This is an unused design for my medical school. They took a different design that was more marketable a wider age range.

It's a re-interpretation of their logo, the crest of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. He was a 15th century Spanish knight-turned-priest who founded the Jesuits. He was known for his prosperity and generosity, including sharing his food with wild animals after his family and workers were fed.

Iniquity

Once upon a time, there was a perfectly happy heart who lived in blissful autonomy outside of any body. Then one day, a mystical dagger from outer space pierced the heart with a mortal wound, cutting it from left atria to right ventricle. The commotion summoned a serpent who violently protested by displaying it's over-sized fangs. Luckily, I was there to witness the entire event so I could draw it later.

Imago Dei, Universitas Improbitas

I fused a few ideas I had bouncing a round in my head for a while and came up with this. I tried to use objects and symbols that can be interpreted as both divine and depraved in an attempted to juxtapose the being made in God's image and being inherently flawed.

Rise of the Unholy Trinity

I was inspired by Albrecht Durer and my eschatology class to draw an interpretation of Revelation 12-13. I felt particulary challenged to draw it when my professor said that no one interprets Revelation completely literally. I decided to give it a go, and came to the conclusion that the Bible has some of the best metal imagery around. I've been trying to get some bands to bite, but nothing so far so it's for sale.


Here's an animation of the design process.

Bloody Heart

I'm experimenting with designs with simpler color schemes. It's been fun. Here's the first one, and hopefully more will come soon. I also had some amazing die cut stickers made of this design.

Heart Battack

No where else can you see a heart-infused zombie bat like this one. The real question is whether cardiovascular layout is beneficial for this creature or not. On one hand, a massive heart means that it could have a huge energy potential and therefore a huge amount of destructive ability, but a completely exposed and inverted heart may leave a flying mammal quite vulnerable. I experimented with a simple two-color design this time. I'm pretty happy with how the fog/glow turned out. The text is just for placement. If anyone else would like to buy it, I would change the text for them.

Lizard Bones

This is an older design that I started as an experiment a while ago but only recently decided that I was done with it. That's the unruly nature of experiments; it's hard to know when to call it complete. As a result, this has sat untouched on my hard drive since last spring in hopes that I would get inspired to "finish" it. Then I just decided that it was finished! It probably still needs more to be a full design, but if anyone's interested, I'd keep working on it.

Opthomanus Ingestor

The Opthomanus ingestor is a very intriguing creature. It was created in the margins of my biology notebook a few weeks ago. It moves by pulling forward with its hand-like head and follows by inch worming its back claws. When it attacks its prey, it snatches it up with its hand, quickly whips its mouth tail around, and vigorously shoves the prey into the vortex of teeth.

Wisdom Rooted in Love

When most people look at a tree, they only see the branches. However, the foundation is in the roots. In the same way, if we think of our visible actions and the invisible thoughts and motives that accompany them as the tree, what are the roots? It is my hope that my roots are in love and that this love motivates first my thoughts and then my actions.

For the Love of All Things Creepy and Crawly

This design is inspired by Damien Hirst's "For the Love of God," but instead of spending millions of dollars to plate it with diamonds, I used assorted reptiles, amphibians, and arthropods. I think it would look sick if it was printed with glow-in-the-dark ink.

For the Love of All Things Creepy and Crawly

So this picture technically isn't a "reptile" skull since it includes amphibians and a few arthropods as well as reptiles, but that would result in a rather long name. I took about 80 or so images of these awesome creatures and traced them. Then I scanned them moved them around in Photoshop until I got the shapes I wanted. Keep coming back here for more posts of my artwork!