Triac 24:7

I was so glad when my friend Sonny Simpson contacted me about making a surprise parody t-shirt for Baltimore grind band Triac. If you don't get the joke, you obviously aren't up on your 80's Christian hair metal bands.

Logos A Go-Go

Kent State's first shirt. Our name is on it twelve times and you will still have a hard time telling what band it is for. By the way, hey, I like drawing metal logos.

Kent State Tapes on Art4Punks

So after sending Kent State's three split tapes off to be pressed in in October, they finally rolled in the door at the end of March. Wish the process would have gone a little smoother, but they were worth the wait!

My friend Paul D'Elia runs an awesome blog by the name of Art4punks. He did a nice write-up about the tape artwork, and took some great pictures of them (which I will now lift directly from his blog and place onto mine!)

Along with the blog, Paul also plays guitar in Kent State (among several other bands), is a talented graphic designer, and makes rad artwork too!  Check out his daily drawing tumblr and get bummed that you don't do enough with your life.

Go to the Kent State bandcamp to purchase a set of three tapes for $12, individual tapes for $5, or to download any of our music for free. T-shirts coming soon.

Radmonkey

Mystery/Train Sketch

Today I found a little sketchbook from a class I took at MICA called Visual Journalism. It was a great class, taught by one of my favorite professors, Warren Linn.  I'm not sure why I decided to buy a 9"x13" sketchbook to take with me on the five+ hour field trips we took every class.  I was always envious of the kids with smaller sketchbooks,  as mine was comparatively enormous.

So when our final project was to compile several of our best spreads in our books, I made a (much) smaller version of the original: 4"x6." Here are a couple spreads from it:

            

  

I haven't done any portrait studies in pencil lately, and I really enjoyed drawing the sleepy people on the train and on the light rail. So, today I went on a bit of a tangent and watched a good portion of Mystery Train and drew my favorite character, Jun.

Trash Metal, on its way.

My new years' resolution was to delve into a new medium, and hopefully make it into a mini-business.  I have always loved making my own jewelry, though I had never considered making enough to sell.

I have been working with pewter, trying my hand at metal casting. I've also been plucking bones out of owl pellets, which is a tedious but fascinating task.

Coming together, slowly but surely. Many more Trash Metal posts to come in the future.  I add little snapshots like the ones above to my instagram (http://statigr.am/maatleycrue) on a regular basis, so check that out if you're able.

HEY!

Go check this out!

 Kent State splits with Airlooms, Doleful Lions, and At The Heart Of The World up now to order/ download!

I did the artwork, sang some things, and played some things, but Nick did most of the work. For fans of Guided by Voices, serial killers, pizza, and psychedelic death-pop.

Kent State do the splits

Lately I've been putting together the artwork and layouts for the next three Kent State releases. Can't wait to see them all pressed and put together!

Ten Paces, Heavy Metal Edition

So this week on Ten Paces and Draw, the topic was heavy metal. So glad that guest curator Niv Bavarsky gave me a rad sketch by Nick Iluzada to work from! It's of Shredder from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles playing in a metal band with some rat mutants. Check out the post on the blog here.

Please click to look at it larger, it gets proportionately cooler.

Also, look at what Julianna Brion did to my sketch! She took it to another level. I love her as always.

Pizza Party

I made this gif infinitely more obnoxious, I hope you enjoy it.