I started listening to this most excellent political podcast/radio show Citizen Radio. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for and has really motivated me to get more involved. They recently went independent so they could stay free of corporate sponsors they didn’t support, so now they rely on listener donations and memberships to continue the show. Membership isn’t something I can afford at the moment, but I wanted to do what I could for them so I offered my artistic abilities and sent an unsolicited interpretation of their logo:

They were super awesome and really receptive, so I’ll be doing illustrations, cartoons, flyers, etc for them in my off time. Often I’ll think about, or worse, commit to, projects for my free time that never happen, but this is something I believe in and have had nothing but fun doing.

Even though I think it stands on its own to some extent, the second image I’ve done is a bit of an inside joke so you should really just go listen to the show to get it:

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Hopefully someone can tell that the guy is Tony “I’d love my life back” Hayward.

Here’s a t-shirt graphic I designed for birthdayshoes.com. I had a lot of fun doing it and I’m a big supporter of the site and barefoot running.

You can buy the shirts here.

My girlfriend sent me this picture while she was road tripping with her friend. I couldn’t resist.

We have to do are doing Next Gen for Hallowe’en.

My great aunt’s dogs. Most adorable thing I’ve ever painted? Perhaps.

Is today! So I did a little update to the earlier painting.

In response to the continued death threats and victimhood complex from radical (and increasingly ‘moderate’) Muslims towards cartoonists and animators for depicting Muhammad, May 20th has been designated by the internetz as Everybody Draw Muhammad Day.

Freedom of speech and belief are linchpin virtues that civilized society and discourse are dependent upon. You have every right to believe that Muhammad was a prophet and that he instructed not to be depicted, and you even have the right to be offended when people don’t follow that. You do not have the right to demand that people who don’t share those beliefs adhere to them and you remove yourself from serious discussions of respect when you threaten censorship and violence upon other people for exercising their freedoms.

So here he is, in all his tribalistic, superstitious, 9-year-old-wife-raping glory.

This started out as a painting that was crap (Meg’s now having a go with it and it’s looking pretty cool) so I decided to redeem myself digitally. Might make a cool t-shirt.

Recently been breaking out the old acrylics.  I hated painting. In my mind it meant way too much forethought than I was willing to put in to get the kind of results I’m accustomed to with my digital art. So in an effort to give myself a more relaxing artistic outlet, I thought I’d just abandon what I “know” about painting and just go. So far it’s been a lot of fun.

But mostly, it gives me something to do when my girlfriend is painting… hahaha

Just a sketch that I ended up spending a little time on this morning. Still getting the hang of digital inks.

I really like the results I’m getting from this process. I can be loose where I want to be and tight spots aren’t intimidating because I can undo and erase. It might be a while ’til the next time I break out the real stuff again.