"Well, it's time to celebrate your birthday, it happens every year. We'll eat a lot of broccoli and drink a lot of beer"

In honor of Weird Al's birthday today, I thought I'd post this.

 

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I drew this caricature in 1996 as an illustration for an article I wrote in The Buffalo News as part of their "neXt" feature (a weekly supplement featuring news stories written by and aimed towards teens) This is probably my first "major" published work. For the article, I was given a press pass and got to meet Al backstage after a show when he came through Buffalo. This is actually a duplicate drawing I had done to replicate the original. I gave Al the original and he posted it on his website. All of his fan art is posted in chronological order. There are over 400 pieces to date, and mine is #11! http://www.weirdal.com/fanart11.htm

Keep Tip Top With Titan!

Illustration for September's Cartoon Dump. This month it's a “very special” season-finale cliffhanger episode! Will Compost Brite reject Moodsy The Clinically Depressed Owl for her new love, Mighty Mister Titan? Come to The Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood this Monday to find out! 

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The Mephisto Twins!

Here's an illustration I made for 1313 "The Phantom Monster Show" DVD Vol 1 due out this October from Swamp Ape Studios!

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Any Witch Way!

Just a random doodle I scribbled out before bed a few weeks ago

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Sketchy

Just some pages out of the ol' sketchbook

 

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All aboard!!

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Drew this last night on a cereal box while listening to Stuck Lucky and Raymond Scott.

What do you want on your Tombstone?

I draw'd on an old pizza box yesterday.

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I like the way this turned out. I've started saving old food boxes for drawing lately. The brown color and tooth of the cardboard just seem to add an extra level to the art. I can't claim this as my own idea though. I saw some drawings done on chipboard in the "Drink and Draw Social Club" book that Image put out a few years ago. The pencil, marker, and white charcoal on chipboard just seemed to have a really cool look.  Later I some of the character concept art for "Corpse Bride" by Carlos Grangel. Apparently his preferred medium is the insides of cereal boxes.

I think I'll keep drawing on these for a while, and I'll definitely revisit these characters. Right now I'm just warming up with Halloween themes and I'm getting ideas together for a new line of screen prints I hope to launch in the next few months. More on that later.

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