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.

Monster Pop - Diver's Nightmare

It's been a long time since I posted anything. However, school's almost over, and my mind is full of interesting ideas. Here's a shirt design that I finished last summer that just got printed for Monster Pop's spring line. I haven't done many full color designs like this recently, but I still like doing this style of linework. I have two other designs for for sale there too. Check them out if you're interested at http://monsterpop.storenvy.com.

Astrela - Dissection

Here's a shirt I did a couple months ago that Astrela picked up. They're a local post-hardcore/screamo band from Rhode Island. Check them out some rough samples here: http://www.myspace.com/astrelamusic. This is probably the goriest shirt I've done yet, but it was a lot of fun.

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.

Tri Beta - Crest

DISCLAIMER: I already know that I am an ultimate geek. There is no need to leave any comments or write any emails alerting me to this fact.

I am an officer for my university's chapter of Tri Beta, an honor society for biology majors. We are currently in the process of designing some apparel for other bio-geeks to purchase. We were thinking of putting the Tri Beta crest on a shirt, which definitely seemed like a good idea at the time. Then I looked at the crest, and I couldn't help thinking to myself. "Self, that crest is full of awesome imagery that you could illustrate way better than that original design. I mean, we're talking a knight's helmet and shield, a skull with a snake emerging, crazy weird leaf-vines, and rugged banners. You owe it to the world to make this more alive (...and slightly more brutal)." So with a newly inflated sense of self, I did. Just for the heck of it. And I had a lot of fun. I also included the old crest so that you can marvel at the vast improvement.

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.

Hummingbirds and Morning Glories

This design was fun because it was a chance to apply some of the detailed linework that I usually do to a tamer idea. I plan on screen printing this soon.

I Never Was Quite Normal Pictures

I realize that I haven't been doing very well at keeping this updated. The end of the semester has been very busy. I have also been busy working on a few t-shirt designs, so hopefully I will be able to post those once they are printed. In the meantime, here are some pictures from my art show way back in March.

Here is the title of the show:

My wall of artwork:

Me with my huge octopus print:

Chris Norton's wall and "POW" sculpture:

Justin Rees's wall:

Lindsey Sawtell's wall: