The Crossroads

I've always had a fascination with the history of blues music and even more so, the tale of Robert Johnson going to the crossroads (highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, MS) and selling his soul to the devil in order to be a great blues musician. There's just something about Satan and music that go very well together.

Fake Bands: Part 1

 I've been collecting a list of band names over time and I've started to illustrate them recently. I'm slowly working on them in my spare time so they'll trickle in when I get the chance. I hope no one comes across these and is actually in a band with one of these names. It's been kind of fun making up fake back stories and imagining what they might sound like.

I liked Blood Wave, but I did a second version because I felt like it looked too much like the thing these guys have going and I don't want to step on their toes since I love what they do.

 Below is the second version, which I ended up liking even more than the first. It all works out.

 Junkie leaves.

And I did this little drawing of Harvey Keitel. Older face attached to a movie reference from his younger days.

Creature from the Blog

Started with this sketch. 

Then started making my way through something bigger.

Then ended up here. One of my favorite movies as a kid. I still need to get the trilogy. When I was looking up reference photos I was psyched to see the insane amount of fan art of the creature. I feel like he was always overshadowed by the other Universal Monsters, or maybe that's just me, but either way it's nice to see a devoted following for this movie.