I did this as a t-shirt design for a band whose music I really liked and whose bassist I liked even more! Aww... I had a li'l crushy-crush. They specifically requested a giant ant destroying buildings, so I gave them this. I drew the ant based on a Drew Struzan poster, I think. My friend Frank is breaking the picture plane illegally. You see, he's in the middle-ground and so shouldn't be able to overlap the frame as if he were ahead of Jerry Lewis there in the lefthand corner, but I did that deliberately as a visual joke.
The girl bent over laughing at the hilarity of it all is Hirosue Ryoko, a Japanese actress/singer/model I
also had a crush on at the time.
Despite not having the desired effect (of course the bassist didn't fall madly in love with me), there's a nice coda to this image. I sent it via email to
Hate artist Peter Bagge and he sent me back a nice compliment. Which is probably more than I deserved, but it definitely made my day.
Peter Bagge is awesome.
Oh yeah, I later did another shirt for this band, this time featuring a charging rhino crushing their name. That one sold like hotcakes, so I'm told. Do hotcakes really sell that well? Are people so into hotcakes that we had to create a simile to convey the wonders of hotcake consumption? I wish I had an image of that shirt, though. It was great.
Note... I just realized this is the second time I've published this in this blog. Blast! Well, it's good enough to show again I suppose.
A digital style I flirted with for a time. It started as a sketchbook page and I "inked" it laboriously, point-to-point in Adobe Illustrator. Then I colored it the same way. It's a competely vector drawing! During the coloring stage I also spent hours adjusting every little line to get a better likeness... looks like a paint-by-numbers kit gone horribly wrong! Wow... I will NEVER do this style again.
This is a sketchbook page featuring a J-Pop singer. I think that one little face in the area above her left shoulder is Hirosue Ryoko again. This drawing looks like the poor man's Steve Rude. The face is wonky and I'm not so sure about the body proportions, but I love the lightly-sketched image on the left. That one's so much more alive.
There it is, for all to see. It's a sort of Charles Burns/Mike Allred rip-off as well!
Secretly because her art is so vastly superior anything even remotely resembling something she would do is hidden underneath a layer of crapola.
