Reorganizing things a bit lately,
I tripped over all of you people and this while searching the 8 Bit Collective, an open chiptune music fileshare, for new music by Kashioboy, UnicornDreamAttack, Lameboy, and of course my new favorite Disasterpeace (check his Virb profile- just picked up an amazing 20-track CD LP for $9 and some change, he even put kit drum tracks on this). I'd had an inkling to change the look and layout of the old MySpace profile I'd recently set up (strictly to manage sharing illustration projects with my patrons/collaborators and attract new ones), but this makes so much more sense because I can actually maintain a blog here as well and still hear myself think. Plus, the layout is almost exactly what I had been failing to do with my old profile.

In any case, I should have the Works in Progress album off the old profile and into my new one here shortly. To be contained therein:

The Kalki tattoo I'm designing for my good friend Alan- of the Chicago-based 2 piece (thus far) band Arete (from the greek, and the french I guess) is nearing completion from a sudden enterprise and unity of design, though I don't doubt there'll be more revisions as the final drawing gets shrunk to fit the space it's being designed for. I still work better with hand tools than vectors, I'm finding, as my last quick project- it really was a rush job- seemed to prove.
Now, normally I'd have time for formal concerns like, say, perspective, consistency, or line variation. But my Optimus Prime made up mostly of instruments to be emblazoned on new t-shirts for my brother's high school marching band is still SO HARD in a saturday morning cartoon kind of way. Will be even sweeter if the screenprinters can throw a thicker line weight around the silhouette in Corel- if whoever is handling that end of it manages to give them the DISK with the the EPS and not just the quick print.
But I swear, that kid manages to get more odd little pieces out of me than anyone I know (Jon, I want one of those shirts for myself).
A rhinoceros-man for example.
Wearing a baseball uniform.
It's fine, I need to pad out my portfolio a bit anyhow. To show I can compromise (read: take any job offered). The work will all be up later today and things will begin to make sense.