- WOLF BLACKOAK REMIX -

my friends the Phantods, let me do a remix of one of their songs, "Wolf". i dig how it turned out, so if you get a chance to give it a listen, please do. also, look out for a future collaboration between gretchen and myself. i think it will be sweet.
LINK TO WOLF REMIX
LINK TO PHANTODS

- "bf, its whats for dinner" -

so, brundlefly is gonna get to print a shirt soon.
we have enough money to get one design.
but new ideas keep popping up....

- theres a bird on my hand -

ive been listening to our rough recordings a lot.
getting pumped for the final versions.
so many ideas...

- you sunk my battleship! -

ok, now, imagine two people sitting on a stage.
one has a red laptop and a red keyboard.
the other, a blue laptop and blue keyboard.
they are sitting at opposite ends of a table, facing one another.
and then the music starts.
it is electronic, bumpin, and danceable.
the band is called battleship!

one day, i will be one half of this band.
and it will be sweet.

- ...and even more shirts -

not sure which color scheme i like better...
im leaning towards the light gray, i think...

also.
a letter to the trees and skulls in my designs.

dear trees and skulls,

lots of nice looking designs have come from our collaborations.
and you've been working hard for me for the past little while.
so take a vacation, boys.

i'll see you in a couple of months.

-shawn

- joshua's robot -

a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, josh rea drew a robot holding flowers. i dont really remember why, but i did a painting of that robot and his flowers. and while searching for something else, i came across it, so i thought i would share and perhaps escape from posting some other random shirt design. i would really like to paint/draw some more. get away from a computer for a little while. so look out for some of that stuff coming soon. anyways, here is the robot and his flowers.

- there is a brundlefly on your shirt -

...i think its just because i need some t-shirts that i have been doing all these shirt designs recently. but yea, this one is for brundlefly.

- shirt, shirt -

i felt inspired to do some t-shirt designs.
not really for anything specific though.
just trying some stuff out.

- TBTL shirt design -

i quickly sketched this idea out at a shoot i was on a few weeks ago and thought i would try it out as a shirt design. i like how it turned out so i thought id share.

- phantods "revival" -

my friends in, Phantods, are releasing an EP of four songs and they asked me to do the artwork for it. sort of a childrens book, with just a pinch of creepyness. i think it has turned out pretty sweet and im excited for people to get to see, let alone here their EP. oh, and they said that i could do a remix of one of their songs, so look out for that in the near future as well!

- there is an abbey in the oaks -

progress! 6 of the rough versions of the tracks for the album are complete. i continue to get more and more excited with every listen, and i cant wait to share this music with people. but i want it to be perfect, so it will be a little while still. in the mean time, i share my excitement for the project with posters and other inspired art. and although i cant really say that it encapsulates my full enjoyment of where these songs are headed, i made a fun little poster today during my repeated listens of the new recordings...

- wallpaper -

i just made a new background for my computer at work.
kind of reminds me of the movie, "aliens"...

- black market pit printed! -

well, i finally printed out the black market pit cards. i even got a special paper cutter to round off the corners and make them a bit more like real playing cards. they look awesome, and i cant wait to play an actual game with them!

- they bury the living -

jack and i have talked about starting a little design thing together. i think it would be a lot of fun, and we could produce a lot of cool stuff. so we needed a name and i threw out the idea, "they bury the living" which is borrowed from a 1958 horror film called, "i bury the living" but seeing as how we are more than one, i thought it worked better. and due to our tastes and whatnot, i thought it would also be a good fit. im not sure when we'll start moving with this project, but i was excited and made some posters, messing around with the name and everything. the first is just a nice textural piece that i really enjoyed the way the font and distressing turned out. and the second, is a borrowed image from "evil dead" with a classic horror style title. obviously we wouldnt be able to use the evil dead picture, but these posters were just exercises to see some different options and just have fun. so yea, here they be...

- abbey in the oaks -

well, its been about a year and some so far, writing this album. we get to do the final recordings of everything over the next little bit here, and i couldnt be more excited! i had a dream about it actually. and so, due to my excitement, i made this poster today. i feel it fits the feel of the album pretty well. the allusions to life and death and all that. enjoy.

- new poster ideas -

these posters werent really made for anything in particular. i started working with some images, and these just kinda came about.

i keep hearing about wolves. predators. men that prey on women. i dont understand those men. i cant really imagine those situations. and i dont really want to. i just dont want that stuff to exist. i think the poster on the right came about because of that. and the other... well nature should be pissed. i play disc golf up at hoover dam quite often. i love it. being outside in the fresh air, throwing a disc. surrounded by trees and grass and water and birds. its amazing. but there is so much trash everywhere on the ground. i cant stand it anymore. i am playing a round with joel later today, and i am bringing a plastic bag with me, and i am picking up the trash that i come across.

i think it would be cool to make these into show posters, so someone could see them and somehow pick up on my messages and have some kind of positive reaction to them.

- phantods shirts -

phantods are sweet.

- hedera -

im currently working on a graphic novella where one of the main characters is a plant. a large body of vines to be exact. im prety excited about it, and i wish it could be done tomorrow so that i could share it with everyone. ill will be sure to post some of my progress as i continue on, but for now here is the current cover for it, which i think accurately expresses the mood of the piece...

- bloackoak -

i made a new poster for my solo music project the other day...

- wing & tusk: in progress -

my friends, wing & tusk, asked me to do the art for their upcoming album. its a concept album, telling an apocalyptic story that contains 3 main characters...well, 4 if you count the toadflaxx flower, which does play a pretty significant part. inanimate though, i suppose. anyways, i think the album art and the music itself is gonna be awesome when its all finished, so look out for it. in the mean time, heres where im at with the art right now...