A Kratos painting done with Procreate on my iPad.A painting inspired by the advancements in gene editing and the possible exploitation we may see someday. I wanted to take something scary and exaggerate it in a silly, relatable way.
A logo for an esports league.
This piece is about the fear of inheriting mental illness. The faces are abstracted and dehumanized to represent the illness more than the individual.This illustration is about the monster that lives within each of our brains. One slip of the scalpel and all inhibition and control can be lost. Inspired by a true story of a normal man’s dramatic change after a minor brain story that landed him in prison for deviant behavior.Authorization. The men in smoke filled rooms. Dr. Strangelove. The military industrial complex. This piece represents the powers that be, the men who decide who dies. Inspired by a journalist piece on the AUMF, “Authorization for Use of Military Force,” this piece really was intended to represent military lawyers making the final calls regarding the use of military force based on the 60 words of the AUMF. However, I think this image can be interpreted in so many other ways that I like to leave it open to multiple meanings.
A series of “Long-faced” portraits.
A series I started based on Arnold Schwarzenegger characters. (Commando, Conan, Pumping Iron, Predator, Stay Hungry, Terminator 1)Morii: “the desire to capture a fleeting moment. It’s a time in which you least expected. A time in which that moment spontaneously confronts you, but there is nothing that you can do to preserve it.”Scabulous: adj. “proud of a scar on your body, an autograph signed to you by a world grateful for your continued willingness to play with her, even when you don’t feel like it.” If a troll is touched by sunlight, they will turn to stone. This troll has had a number of close calls with the sun and it looks like this will be has last mistake. He is cursed with a love for the bright and colorful, the products of sunlight. His love and curiosity is his downfall.Onism: n. “the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die—and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here.”
Altschmerz: (n.) “Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties you’ve been gnawing on for years, which leaves them soggy and tasteless and inert, with nothing interesting left to think about, nothing left to do but spit them out and wander off to the backyard, ready to dig up some fresher pain you might have buried long ago.”
Paro: n. “the feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong—that any attempt to make your way comfortably through the world will only end up crossing some invisible taboo—as if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody else can see but you, each of them leaning back in their chair and calling out helpfully, colder, colder, colder.”
Here are some paintings from when I was first learning to paint in photoshop!
A painting of my niece and nephew out on an adventure for a kids book concept.
CthulhuProcreate doodle of myself.
Early photoshop painting experimentation.
A time-lapse from an iPad drawing for “Snot Rocket.”
