Evil Monito Ill’s

Evil Monito was an original. An online magazine that deconstructed pop culture with an academic pen and an artistic eye. Now it’s back again. Rickey asked me about contributing pencil drawings of featured interviews. The aim was to create a classic portrait with out the extreme polish. For me, this meant to just do a portrait the way I do it. Below are some of the drawings:

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I Feel Good

Had a nice night at Feel Good Fusion the other Friday. Gotta say it wasn’t as packed as the last two, but i thought it had just the right amount of people (that means I didn’t have to wait an hour to get a drink). This time around I decided to step up the “interactive” level of the performance and actually draw as many heads at the event as possible. So I spent several minutes getting to know some of the attendees and taking their head shots. Then it was back to my station where I would do the drawings of the actual people attending.

1. That’s right son, people are actually taking pictures of my work. 2. You know you made it when people are forging your artwork.

1. Dj Revolution doing his thing. 2. This is where I last left off…

Unfortunately I arrived at the event late (sorry Denkym!) so I didn’t come close to finishing the piece. If you want to see the finished piece as well as the finished Feb. piece, come to the next one! Really though, come on out. I gotta say, Feel Good Fusion is always a good time. The vibe is amazing, I can’t think of another event where so many different types of people gather to truly enjoy the arts and get down.

Till next time BITCHES!!!

The Love Movement

Tatum Jones asked me to design their new EP album work. I couldn’t figure out what direction to approach this until they finalized on the album name, “The Love Movement”. This instantly brought a somewhat abstract piece to mind, focusing on colors. I wanted to create a gradient going from cold to warm colors to subtly convey a “love movement”. When I got down to sketching it, I realized it would have to be more literal for audiences, Tatum Jones also requested that their logo be the center of attention (they didn’t want any photographs).

So here were the first initial sketches I sent to the fellas:

We went back and forth for a bit (no pun intended) and decisions were made… I also added a drawing of a piano hammer to connect “The Love Movement” to a musical context.

Here’s one version of the cover:

Along with the disc:

In the end the fellas decided to keep the focus on a 3 dimensional version of their logo:

It was great working with the guys of Tatum Jones, and yes, the music is good - check it out when you can by clicking on the link I have at the beginning of this post.

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Last Friday’s of every month! I won’t be participating in this one but I did design the flyer. Hopefully I’ll be able to finish up a live series at future Feel Good Fusion events.

For more go to: going.com/feelgoodfusion

Drawings of naked / semi-naked people

So I teach figure drawing a couple hours a week. It’s definitely been a blessing in disguise. I’ve been approached to teach before but I’ve always held off. Now that I’m doing it, I’m finding that working with kids is rewarding, but it also helps my drawings a lot. Once you gotta teach somebody how to do it, you start to analyze it yourself, and in the end, you’re able to break things down better.