Mythos
Space Corgi
Carpet
Longcat
Niles Wander
Reims
Dolph Bop
Hobo Code
Wine Merms
Negative Compilation
Good Little Monkeys
Chant Down Babylon
Monolith
Turandot - Un Giuramento Atroce mi Costringe
Turandot - La Luna è Sorta! Là, sui monti dell’est.
Commanding Heights
Oxpeckers
Opacities
Danaë
Save Your Work
Our Saints Who Come Before Us
All Holle's Er-Was-Eens (Witches' Walk)
"Because We Bless The Bad As Well As The Good"
El Topo
Presidents Day Snack Pack
Day Out Of The Woods
Wasserlöwen
Botland
Magi
Inkscreen Compilation
Opera Ambigrams
Das Rheingold - Ambigram Poster
Jenufa - Ambigram Poster
The Magic Flute - Ambigram Poster
Politically Correct Pinocchio - Book Cover
MythosY’all remember those Sanskrit legends, right? And the norse ones? Ever read “Discworld?”Inverted pen and marker with digital touchups
Space CorgiDigital and inverted pencil
CarpetWe just love Hollywood.Inverted watercolor on absorbent paper
LongcatIn Korean… closest I can come to translating “Longcat be Long.”Lady Rainicorn is (C) Cartoon Network, Longcat to whoever OP was. He be long.
Niles WanderA commission for Santhan Vutha. His rat character Niles and all related situations are (C) him, as he specified, “searching for his kidnapped family in a Blade Runner style city, but more neon.”
ReimsMonsters are so sympathetic sometimes. Inverted marker with touches of watercolor.
Dolph BopAn idea I had of dolphins with blowhole saxophones. A two man job.Inverted ink and marker, digital
Hobo CodeIIRC, the hobo code on the outside, a warning to other hobos wandering by, reads “Officer of the Law lives here; Rich, ill-tempered, dishonest, very gullible. Authorities are alert. House well guarded. Don’t bother.”Done as a political illustration for the cover of “Yung” Magazine just before it folded. We were gonna have the top be a parody of the Saturday Evening Post cover format.
Wine MermsI really regret that YUNG magazine took all their stuff down, I did so many cool things for them that never saw the light of day. And before this, the author wrote a really great history of the Bagel. Really fun stuff.
Negative CompilationA lot of little doodles with this technique that were too good to leave off. A lot of my stuff is designed for small scale.
Good Little MonkeysDone with photoshop, illustrator, and loop mobile.Remember the cartoon of these guys, and Satan tries to get them hooked on smoking?
Chant Down BabylonA speculative illustration for YUNG Magazine. I offered it, also, to Eikþyrnir as an album cover for any speculative Reggae sidegroups. They didn’t have a use for it. This illustration and its assets will definitely turn up around, I promise.
MonolithIsn't color fun? Digital.
Turandot - Un Giuramento Atroce mi CostringeConcept art for Puccini's "Turandot." The aged Emperor Altoum begs Timur not to undergo the three riddles.I sort of wanted to make his skull look like a pug. Watercolor on cardboard.
Turandot - La Luna è Sorta! Là, sui monti dell’est.Concept Art for "Turandot," by Puccini, in Act 1 as the temple boys lay out the lanterns and sing.
Commanding Heights
OxpeckersOpaque watercolor on colored (red) ground. I like to stay in shape with this technique, not many people ask for it.
Opacities Babadook, dook, dook, push pineapple, shake the treeBabadook, dook, dook, push pineapple, grind coffee.(Babadook (C) Warner Bros, the guys on the library and beach are (C) my friend Francis/Tytonidaeus, shared by his generous permission)Three opaque watercolors, two digital.
DanaëYou know what they say about gods arriving as golden showers.Greek mythology, everyone! I seem to draw a lot of myths.Inkscreen
Save Your WorkMe venting about my college’s deep freeze computers. A rare self-portrait!Inkscreen
Our Saints Who Come Before UsThe Russian, my friends assure me, is an orthodox Lenten prayer calling upon the saints of the past. I imagine the first dogs to return safely back thought the same. All very good girls.Belka, Strelka, and Laika, for the record. “Squirrel,” “Little Arrow,” and “Barker.”
All Holle's Er-Was-Eens (Witches' Walk)This file was so big, for the spread, it was the death of my Photoshop. "YUNG" folded before I could propose this to them as a spread with poetry along the bottom.("Er Was Eens," 'There was once,' is the Dutch equivalent to "Once upon a time." So "Halloween"=>"All Hallow's Eve"=>"All the fairy tales from hell." Fitting.)
"Because We Bless The Bad As Well As The Good"From a 13th century poem by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus about gender dysphoria from a contemporary Hebrew perspective. It gives you chills to read.Every piece of kabbalism or hebrew in this is a pun. “Plumb Bob.” “Meterus” and “Youterus.”Inkscreen
El TopoOne of my favorite films, we screened it at the library and I made posters. The original midnight movie.Inkscreen.
Presidents Day Snack PackFrom an illustration to a story by Dimi2 (“Dimidva,” Dimitri Dimitrovich) Zamenhof (obviously an alias) for Yung Magazine, one of the more political pieces they ever ran. I was honored to illustrate it. The font was tough.(For the record, the Ritz crackers are the Roosevelts. In America, “cracker” is a jocular/admonitory word for a white person, and “oreo” I think is worldwide. “Cheeto” is self-explanatory.)Inkscreen.
Day Out Of The WoodsMae and Bea (C) Infinite Fall
WasserlöwenA new species… a water lion. Fun color and inkscreen experiment.
BotlandStill trying to figure out a good name for this technique. “Fractured” is one of the best I’ve got so far.Inkscreen and digital
MagiLast year’s christmas card! Most of my family and extended family are Christian, and it depicts a famous scene from Christian mythology where wise men/kings/magi traveled to Jesus’ birthplace, following a star, to present him with symbolic gifts.Tell me you don’t remember the schoolyard carol about how they’re smoking on a rubber cigar.Inkscreen.
Inkscreen CompilationA little bit of everything. Not one, but SIX different writing systems in evidence.*An American astronaut’s plea for the earth, translated into Russian by myself*German (Sütterlin), a parody of Lady Bird’s campaign poster from the movie using a 1920s German blackletter cursive*Korean, a parody of a North Korean pop song, Hyon Song-Wol’s “Magnificent Horse-like Lady,” which my friends and I joke looks like a My Little Pony song mixed with a Microsoft office training video, where she sings about how diligently she works at the textile mill and her comrades admire her spirit. North Korean posters are so fun to parody.*Sanskrit, a mandala of yogi.*No words, a fractured inkscreen illustration of a watcher of the skies, watcher of all.*In Shavian English, “These [an antifa world] are your brothers. These [nazis] are not.” Done for a T-shirt and a series of protest posters.All inkscreen.
Opera AmbigramsA proposal to Opera Grand Rapids for an identity and a series of silkscreen posters, based on calligraphic ambigrams. Room left for dates and such.If you flip it upside down, it reads the same.I did a pile of these in inkscreen, just to prove that I’m not just doing the ones I could already tell how to do… I could do a whole series as needed. Variants for “Siegfried” and “Faust!”
Das Rheingold - Ambigram PosterDone as a proposal for Opera Grand Rapids.Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” the opening scene where Alberich steals the titular gold.Fractured inkscreen and digital.
Jenufa - Ambigram PosterLeos Janacek’s “Jenufa,” which this font doesn’t have the right diacritics for Czech.The end of scene 2, where Kostelnicka drowns the baby. Always a gay old time at the opera, isn’t it?Fractured inkscreen, ambigram.
The Magic Flute - Ambigram PosterThe final proposal for Opera Grand Rapids. As a silkscreen, we can use flourescent colors that most printers can’t work with. Few more psychedelic operas than this one about masonry. Felt like a safe bet, my great-uncle Hendrik Ottens has been their go-to Sarastro for like forty years, he’s got an incredible set of pipes.Papageno’s introduction, bragging about killing a monster he’d never seen before. He earns a lock on his mouth for this.Fractured inkscreen.
Politically Correct Pinocchio - Book CoverCover art for the latest entry in the #1 NYT Bestselling book series “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories.”
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