T-shirts!

After the earthquake last year in Haiti my mom and brother went down there with a group from their church to help rebuild an orphanage that was destroyed. While they were there they spent all their down time playing games and flying kites with the kids. In that time my mom fell in love with three amazing kids; Michelove her brother Moise, and their 3 year old sister Sophonie. My mom's talked about adopting for years now, so it was no surprise to me that that's exactly what she and my dad had in mind.
After getting a chance to go to Haiti and meet the kids last summer, I wanted to do something to help out my parents with the adoption. So my family and I came up with a plan to design and sell t shirts to raise money. Here they are:






















You can buy them directly from the side bar on the right. They're $18 a piece, and all the proceeds go towards the adoption.

Funny Button Art Shows

I live in Washington now. I don't know if I mentioned that yet. Anyway, here in Washington there's a house venue called The Funny Button, and at every show there's an impromptu, collaborative art exhibition that gets made and put up about an hour before everything starts. Each art show has a theme that usually gets decided on a few days prior, but you aren't allowed to make anything until the day of the event. Now that that's explained, here are a few of the things I've made for the past couple shows.

The theme of the show for the first three was "Having a Good Time."




















































These next two were for the theme "Golden Oldies"





































These little art shows are a ton of fun, so you'll probably see more of these in the future.

Math the DVD

As promised, here's some more Math the Band art:

















This is the cover for Math the Band's archival DVD, "The Blunder Years" that should be coming out pretty soon. It's gonna be a gift for their fans who donated to help them raise money to record their next album. They're going all out on this next one, it's gonna be awesome.

There are a few things on the horizon, so check back in the coming months. Some of those things may be t-shirts, some may be art shows... We'll just have to see.

$2 Drawings Around the World

Here are a few more $2 drawings. All three of these drawings are gonna end up in countries I've never been to.

















David asked, "Can you please draw for me Miss Marple as a cat?"
So I did.













Fahd asked me to send these portraits of him and his friend to both of their houses. They live on separate continents! How could I say no to such a magical friendship?

The .gif of the Magi

After my last .gif post, I decided that posting them all at once like that might have been a little much, so I'll take it slow from now on starting with this:


























This came from a conversation my friend Alex and I had while walking home late one night. For some reason we started talking about The Beatles, and that got us talking about Paul McCartney's second band, Wings. We then started wondering: What if Sir Paul McCartney was knighted not for his work with The Beatles, but specifically for his work with Wings? That lead the conversation in a strange direction that ultimately ended up with that image up there. I completely understand if you wanna leave.

$2 Drawings and Things To Come

I've got a lot on my plate all of the sudden, so it's time to get down to work. Last week Edgar Wright (director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World) saw my Scott Pilgrim Criterion mock-up and honored me by posting a link to this very blog:








Thanks to him, I've gotten some more $2 Drawing requests. As of now, they're all (3) finished and on their way to their new homes. Here's the first of the new batch:


















Hayden asked for a picture of He-Man. I just assumed he meant "He-Man fantasizing about the junk food that he'll never be able to eat if he wants to keep that ridiculous physique."

I'll post the other 2 in a couple days. I want them to get to the people who paid for them before I put them up here.

There's some new and exciting Math the Band projects going on, so expect to see some artwork for that and a few other things in the future.

Scott Pilgrim vs. World Criterion Collection

Every year that I attend art school is punctuated with a Christmas full of hand-made gifts. As much as I'd like to say that I think they're just more personal; the real reason for the hand-made gifts is that I'm broke. It's just that simple. This Christmas I gave all my like minded friends some (faux) Criterion Collection blu-ray box art for one of my (and their) favorite movies: "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World."

(click to enlarge)












Here's the cover image without the Criterion Collection markings:




















Feel free to download and print the image. You have my blessing. Merry Christmas?