Testing, one two

I love gifs. Here is one I made this weekend, I'm going to add color to it soon.

Big Jesus

For a t-shirt. Big Jesus.

...lol

California Schemin'

So this has been a hectic month. Somewhere toward the beginning of it, I decided I was going to drive to California, with my boy and our cat. We're planning on never coming back.

See you in Los Angeles!

Hairy Baltimore

For the Baltimore Book Festival this year, illustrator Alex Fine curated a little book called Hairy Baltimore. It compiled drawings from over 20 differentlocal Baltimoreans with famous hair.  I drew this dude Adam Meister, a Political Examiner, and his tousled pomp. Drawing sooo many pomps lately.

Ten Paces and Draw

I was so excited when I was asked to participate in this week's Ten Paces theme... Greasers!

Check out the full post here, where you can see a beautiful original sketch by the talented Lindsay Nohl.  Her sketch was certainly a little different than my final... but I tweaked it into a wolfie boyfriend for my batgirl blog header!

Also make sure to check the post in which my original sketch of greaser slugs was taken to final by the perpetually amazing Julianna Brion!

Just a few sketches

in collage form.

the last three quick photo-assemblages will likely be used for the next three Kent State EPs.

listen up!

Paranoid Futures

A new look for Paranoid Futures, the blog home for all of Nick Vance's musical projects.

... Pizzyramid.

Baltimore Artscape

This is Baltimore's 30th Artscape. This year the theme is 1982, the year the first festival was held.  I contributed the images from the Words of Wisdom greeting cards I made a few months ago. The one image in particular of Randy Savage was used in promotions for the event (undoubtedly due to his untimely passing, RIP Macho Man) and the Baltimore Sun even ran a story about Artscape on their website and featured my image!

Yesterday I went and took pictures of the 8-foot tall vinyl banners they made for the event. They were on the outside of the karaoke tent, which was a pretty busy area... the easiest the way to get people out of my way to take pictures was to pose like dorks in front of them.

I think they turned out super clean, especially considering the 4"x6" size of the original image! Nice of them to put my name on there, too.  And to my surprise, Randy was incorporated into the huge 40-foot signage tower at the entrance.

Artscape continues today and Sunday, so go eat some funnel cake (for $$) and watch some live acts for free!

Ten Paces and Draw

I was very happy to be given the opportunity to take part in Alyssa Nassner's ongoing project called Ten Paces and Draw. Illustrators are given a theme, asked to create a sketch based on it. Then, the sketches are exchanged, and each artist takes another persons sketch to the final stage, with about a three day turnaround.

This week's theme was "Dream Date."

My sketch was of a girl on an interstellar motorcycle ride with Glenn Danzig. In an interesting turn of events, Danzig was morphed into Robert Pattinson in Rachel Dougherty's final version!

The final I worked on was about a nerdy scientist time-travel dino date!

Check out the post on TPaD to see Michele Rosenthal's original sketch!

Ruptures

I've been working on lots of different projects lately.  Here is one that I completed recently, artwork for the crusty hardcore band Ruptures from Los Angeles.

Click the images for a better look. I had lots of fun drawing this.