MP Flyer

My band is playing our first show in over a year and a half, and to "celebrate," I made a flyer, which I haven't done in quite awhile. The show is going to be very low key, in fact, I don't know if I should have even made a flyer because I'm expecting everything to go wrong technically. Anyways, the show is on Halloween, and I scrapped all original ideas of doing a Halloween themed flyer because I figured I'd use this more for a portfolio piece than as an actual promotional piece. Also, I plan on getting to work on some silkscreens soon, just need to get back in the groove.

Anyways, my first flyer in forever, here ya go...
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I'll be working on Woodcuts over the next few weeks which I plan to push a few aesthetic concepts as well as many regurgitated ones from my Drawing course last year. Should be interesting, they will be very playful, and less focused on concrete imagery and narratives and more on pattern play/overlap, color and layout. We'll see how that goes.

Some more sketches

St. Vincent Editorial

For an upcoming project, I'm doing an Illustration of the lovely Annie Clark of St. Vincent. Death & Taxes Magazine recently did a feature article with the sub-headline "Annie Clark Takes Center Stage," which focused primarily on Annie Clark's history as a supplementary musician in other bands before finally having the opportunity to step out into her own. Therefore, I depicted her pulling duct tape off her mouth. Yes.

Now, I rendered the originals in 2 parts on Arches paper, something like 24x36", so it took a composite scan of 3 parts to actually get a full, completed image. I used graphite for the line-work and decided to color the illustration digitally after a horrid attempt to "paint" traditionally on a form of Mylar. Anyways, here's what I've got so far, there will likely be minor changes to come, and I still have to incorporate text and place the Illustration in context, within the 2-page spread.