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Punch Designs skates to victory yet again.

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Pleased as “punch” am I to announce that I won another t-shirt design competition. This time it was for a kick-ass roller derby outfit called, the Durango Roller Girls that hails from up Colarado way.

As a former avid quad skater (got the fake tooth and the broken wrist to prove it!) and a fan of Austin’s roller derby scene I am pumped to be their choice illustrator for the new Durango Roller Girls merch shirt.

If’n I can find the time this summer I’m going to hop on my little motorcycle and road trip up to Durango to watch these ladies play.

Nick Frost likes my deer shirt design!

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

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A friend sent me this picture of Nick Frost, Simon Pegg and Greg Mottola who were on hand at SXSW for a screening of their new movie “Paul.”

I’m not sure how Nick got a hold of it, but I was delighted to see that he was sporting the “VolunDEER In The Headlights” t-shirt that I illustrated for the festival.

I’m going to consider this my first international celebrity endorsement!

49% Motherf**ker. 51% Son of a Bitch.

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

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I made this “warts and all” illustration of British heavy metal legend, Lemmy Kilmister in order to convince my friends at SXSWorld Magazine that they need to hire me to punctuate their article photos with an occasional drawing or two.

That is all. Rock on.

 

I ain’t gettin’ on no choppah, Dutch!

Monday, February 21st, 2011

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Mr. T vs The Predator

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Here’s another sample of my perennial attempts to use Adobe Illustrator drag Adobe Illustrator kicking and screaming to make a painterly style of illustration.

It’s not the first time Mr. T or the Predator have made their way into one of my drawings and probably not the last. I fear as I get older my childhood influences grow more profound. Years ago I thought would be funny to make a comic where B.A. Baracus gets separated from his platoon (Hanibal and the gang, I guess) while on patrol in the waining days of the Vietnam War and ends up having to confront a Predator alien while trying to help some refugee kids. Who knows? With the way Hollywood keeps recycling my 80′s child hood for big bucks it will probably end up a major motion picture directed by Micheal Bay and staring a C.G.I. puppet as young Mr. T.

I pity the fool who has to watch that movie.

Anyways, I also posted my preliminary pencil sketch morphing into vector line art so that the nice Russian girl that keeps spamming me can get an idea of how my graphite drawing gets translated into complicated vector art.

Sweep the legs, Pee Wee!

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

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I’ve been getting a fair bit of t-shirt illustration work as of late. As a result I’ve been working on improving my ability to drawing with limited colors that need to be isolated for screen printing.

This illustration was a fun little 4 color job for purple shirt that I did as an homage to the 80′s. I experimented with custom brushes I built in Adobe Illustrator to emulate a stipple effect.

The drawing features 80′s heavyweight icons: Pee Wee Herman, the Karate Kid (The original one – Sorry, Jaden), Cyndi Lauper, Teen Wolf, Arnold, Spudz McKenzie, Ghostbuster Peter Venkman, Alf, Max Headroom, Johnny 5, Lo Pan, the time traveling Delorian and Kitt. I think this brawl actually happened outside the Danceteria in 1986. Google it!

Punch Designs wins the SXSW volunteer t-shirt design contest!

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

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Every year I volunteer for the SXSW music, film and interactive conference so that I can participate without having to pay for it. I’m cheap like that. The 10 day festival has nearly 12,000 attendees with venues that span the entirety of downtown Austin, Texas. Aside from the conference staff, several thousand volunteers are needed for the whole operation to run smoothly. Those volunteers all wear identical shirts so that participants can easily identify them.

This year the SXSW staff decided to have a design contest for the volunteer shirt and I took a crack at it.

The contest rules stipulated that only three colors (not including the shirt) could be used and the design must somehow reflect the 25th anniversary of SXSW. After that anything goes.

My design, “VolunDEER In The Headlights” won!

 

I had a second submission, “SXSW 4 Life” which apparently resonated with the SXSW staff because they have decided to use that design for a SXSW employee shirt.

 

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I was honored that my design was chosen and I can’t wait to see it forcefully adorned by tons of people on the streets of my hometown.

Say Cheesecake!

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

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I haven’t posted a drawing in a while so I decided to put up this homage to Vargas style pin up art. She is an example of my continuing efforts to use Adobe Illustrator more like a painting tool.

Pin Up Girl

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Drawing on skateboards is not a crime.

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

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I made some Punch Design skateboard decks for an art show at my favorite local watering hole, The Parlor. The show invited artists to decorate blank boards and display them. Skate culture is always producing interesting graphics and there where a lot of really cool designs at the show.  I was short on time so I recycled existing illustrations, but when I get the opportunity I plan to make some skateboard specific illustrations that use the shape of the deck better.

I pity tha fool that ain’t a member of the Communist Party.

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

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I made this rather demonic portrait of everybody’s favorite 80′s icon, Mr. T. It was an experiment to help me with an upcoming poster design that I’ve been asked to do. The project that I will be doing  is suppose to be reminiscent of the Russian revolutionary propaganda posters from the 1930′s. I drew Mr. T to help me adapt my drawing style for that job. I used the bold stylistic coloring and the angular geometric forms that were often employed by Russian poster artists of that time. I like the end result and if I get time I think I will try to develop this style of illustration a bit more.

 

Catch of the Day

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

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I just finished this trashy promo poster of one of the super villians/love interests in my upcoming web comic. I thought I would post it. Let the Red Lobster jokes commence.

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