Always A Winner

Everybody loves a chicken dinner. It's quick, easy and hard to mess up. That's why my pal Bekah and I cook it so much, it's kind of become the thing to do. We decided we should make a design reflecting our joy of chicken dinner, a celebration ... an ode, if you will to this master of meats, this ... poultry prince this ... dinner of desire.

So, below is my layout for this scrumptious shirt, Bek's is coming soon, and I'll also post it here.

In the meantime, I can guess what you're cooking tonight.

¡El día del toro!

This is a piece I was invited to do by alreadytv.com for their weekly artist series. The only stipulation was that I pick a topic relating to sports and come up with my own commentary. This was all hand-drawn in Adobe Illustrator with the exception of the background, which was a manipulation of a photo I took of some grungy paper.

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Here is the blurb on the Web site:

Bullfighting has been in practice for over two millennia. During the 2010 Festival of Saint Isidro at the Plaza de Toros las Ventas bullring a matador, Julio Aparicio, was gored through his throat only to have the six inch tip of the bull's horn erupt through his mouth like a hellish piston.

This cruel sport exists today only because of tradition. A game devised to taunt, humiliate, and murder the animal, bringing to light the most barbaric and primordial urges of humankind. Luckily, Aparicio survived this encounter, but unfortunately the bull was quickly disposed of. Regardless, that day was a day of justice for the bulls and May 21, 2010 should forever be known as: ¡El día del toro!

Billy Joel Oughtta Know

If you're driving west on I-44 outside of St. Louis towards/near Washington, MO, you might see this billboard along the highway. I didn't have too much control over the design of this one, the stock photography was pre-chosen, I just had the task of inserting the copy and laying it out.

This was the last rush job at the end of a crazy day at the end of a crazy week. For some reason as I was designing this billboard, Billy Joel's Movin' Out song popped into my head. The image below is the culmination of all the craziness, just for fun. I would've loved to have seen this along side I-44.