Here is the final inked art- done in one week- and Andrew’s final poster/promo art with Actor Sam Eidson in it. The trailer and website for this movie are in my links section. If it gets made, I get a credit in a film, so look out Hollywood. This job turned out great, and has been a personal and professional catalyst for me as an artist- Thanks Andrew and Katie, I’ll never forget that you gave me a chance and believed in me!
So- I was struggling to do this, and then a wall broke down, and “pow” these pencils came out, and I loved them- the work speaks for itself!
Now at this point, I was still fired up- but, a samurai without direction is nothing but a masterless “Ronin”. So in May 2011, I got an email from Indie GOGO about a fundraiser for the movie about the greatest Dungeon Master of all Time- this made me laugh and I wrote Andrew Matthews & Katie Graham (directors/producers/creators) of this film , Zero Charisma, a note asking If I could help. And Lo and Behold he wrote back and said they very much needed some help with some pen and ink fantasy work for a fundraising packet and poster- and I would have one week to produce a poster based on a sketch idea he had. A real client and a deadline, right up my alley, so I just had to produce- And your humble narrator did produce- so Thanks Andrew and Katie for believing in me and turning me loose. When your film gets financed, I look forward to blowing your mind again. Save me a seat at the premiere.
Here is the concept from Andrew-
My Sister in Law, Rebecca, asked me to make a logo for my niece’s 8 and under soccer team “The Luna Chicks”- because they are crazy girls who are 8- but you get it. Anyway, Rebecca told me I was a great artist and the kids would love it- well I made this and it was too intense for the kids- and they didnt use it. But it was nice to have people asking for work again, and I thought it was a cool logo- even for 8 year old girls.
Ken Brown and I made a website called www.bonethefish.com in 2009 to make up for the now gone www.jumptheshark.com website- this was the logo, and one of my first attempts to get back into making up creative unique illustrations- a solid logo, and you can even buy it on a tie, shirt, placemat etc. via the website merchandise section on BTF- check it out! Ken colored this and showered me with praise for getting back into the game- thanks for the encouragement and nice coloring Kenny!
The last item I really got into before my Hiatus- this was a sharp and clean logo for the fratenity’s 20th anniversary in 2002. We used it all over the place- and it is a great logo to this day in my humble opinion.
Another nice Tee Shirt logo from before my hiatus- classic and sharp.
I did this logo in 1998 as a combination of the banned Shippensburg Mascot – the Red Raider Indian Chief- and our Lambda Chi Alpha Song- “Magic Carpet Ride” by Steppenwolf. While we never used this, I loved the basic concept, and redid it in 2011 as my own personal logo. It makes me laugh to see our banned mascot and banned fraternity live on as this politically incorrect logo!
When drinking you need a cool tee shirt, and thus a cool logo- and this was born from that- hello keg parties circa 1995 at the fraternity house!
