Atoms, Motion & the Void: "The Exponent of Westbrook, Part 3"

I find myself wanting to do a different style on each of these. After the quietness of the first few in the series, I felt like doing something more melodramatic and comic booky. It seemed appropriate for the episode, which contained some good old-fashioned radio-drama suspense and chills down the spine.

Eva Longoria

John Boehner

Waiting for Godtoad

More Sleeves love: My rough visualization of Frog & Toad if they were Beckett characters.

Barry Bonds

Lara Croft

Images via Film Drunk: "Oh Boy, More Tomb Raider Movies"

Sketching the ads on the train

Atoms, Motion & the Void: "The Numbers Station"

This was a fun one to work on. I was seriously creeped out to research the real-life phenomenon of "numbers stations", mysterious hidden shortwave stations that transmit cryptic codes, presumably for the benefit of spies. ("Lost" drew inspiration from them too, apparently.) There's a lot of youtube clips of recordings of the transmissions--it makes for creepy listening late at night!

Charlie Sheen

Undertaker T-shirt

I usually don't post freelance stuff here, because the whole point of the blog is to force myself to do extracurricular work, but I happen to be overly proud of this piece I did for WWE.

I don't usually get hired to do finished illustrations, so it was terribly exciting to really open up and see what I could do. As much of a milestone as this was for me, I had to sit on the art for six months when the Undertaker was temporarily out of action. The shirt very nearly got shelved altogether, and it was well within the realm of the non-disclosure I signed. (Something about sitting in an HR office under a poster of a screaming, blood-soaked Cena makes you sign those standard legal documents with a little more solemnity.)

Anyway, The Undertaker made his heavily-hyped return to Monday Night Raw this week, and lo and behold there's the shirt for sale on WWE's website. I might have to order one for every day of the week.