True Sci-fi Black Metal : Esus (ver.1A)

This is the first sketch towards a body of work I am creating based on druidic ritual sacrifices and bog bodies. This image depicts Esus, a Druidic god who is often equated with the major deity of the Scandinavian Vikings / pagan Anglo-Saxons, Odin. In most cases the intended god meant to receive the ritual sacrifice can be deduced by the wounds inflicted on the victim - and in the most exciting cases, these wound types are evidence of sacrifice to multiple gods. My frame of study is centered around these multiple wound-type sacrifices and the three gods to which they are intended: Esus, Taranis, and Teutates.
In the case of Esus/Odin, the victims were often ceremoniously garroted (which is a fancy word for fancy rope used to strangle someone) or hung from a sacred tree and had their throats slashed. The operative words here being hung/choked and neck slashing - Esus/Odin loves trees, strangulation and blood. I felt that the combination of Darth Vader and Mickey Mouse in our current state of corporate-political-military-world-domination-eco-terrorism-meltdown seemed an aptly modern symbol for such a blood thirsty god.


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I would like to point out that my primary source right now is "The Life and Death of a Druid Prince" by Anne Ross and Don Robins. This book, a gift from my girlfriend, has changed my life and opened a whole new world of things to obsess over.

Recent experiments with collision graphics (v.1)

These are some recent experiments with color and shapes and eyeballs. This first one here kinda looks like a weird monkey face on acid...

Odin's Eye Shirts Have Arrived!

Hot out the box...Shipments to begin asap...

The secret back print revealed:

Odin's Eye Limited Edition Graphic Tee

This is the newest offering from Bird Ov Prey...a Limited Edition run of what is essentially a depiction of the eye that Odin sacrificed to Mimir in exchange for a drink from the Well of Wisdom. More info at birdovprey.com or just click on the image...

HULL Album Artwork

Artwork for HULL of Brooklyn.
Poster Design:

T-shirt:

Disc:

Kinda funny...

More Grub Face

These were a ton of fun to make, especially the teeth. I love making teeth.

Grub Face

Hot Topic exclusive t-shirt graphic for Mindless Self Indulgence from fall 07.

Super Pony

This pony graphic was originally made as a detail in for the Mindless Self Indulgence "Our Pain Your Gain" live dvd booklet, but then they had me expand upon it for merch usage as well.

Terribly Sad Tape

Hot Topic exclusive t-shirt graphic for Mindless Self Indulgence from fall 07.

3 x Alien

T-Shirt graphic for Mindless Self Indulgence from fall 07.

Life Still

This is an attempt to combine all the things I love into one piece...and work on my drawing / painting chops.

New Bird Ov Prey Site & Offerings

This is the official invite I sent out regarding the new Bird Ov Prey website I created to showcase the new Base Metal Batwing and Ribcage Totem t-shirts.

Temple of Bones

A new promo piece for Bird Ov Prey. I have been drawing alot of inspiration from Druidic Ritual Sacrifices discovered in the bogs of Britain. These sacrifices were supremely detailed, consisting of a multitude of layered symbolic stages.

Fur Fetish

The continuing stuggle of the Squid Vs. Bunny. This is one of the reworked sketches I did for Mindless Self Indulgence's "Another Mindless Rip Off" EP. All the final artwork was vectorized versions of these sketches, so I thought it would be fun to see what happened when I added some color by hand and let the original loose pencil sketch show through.

The Rabbit Has Lost His Head

This started as a quick sketch that I just felt the need to add some color to. I am going to blame watching Terry Gilliam's "Tideland" on this one.

Head Study

This is just a quick drawing / graphic study.

Batman Skull

This was just a painting exercise I gave myself. I might be obsessed with Batman, but its the Joker's color pallet that I really love.

Bombs Over Batman

I am a bit obsessed with Batman right now. The whole "Doctor Scientist" thing was something I thought up in the middle of the night and wrote it at the top of the page. Then the next week I heard it being used on SNL. So scrap that idea. But anyway. I have always loved comics and drew my own when I was much younger. One of them is over 80 pages. But I have not thought of doing anything of that sort again until recently. Paul Pope's Year 100 really got me excited about Batman again in a huge way.