It's been a long time, been long time, been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time

Well as you can see it has been far too long since I've posted here, but it's not for a lack of work. I've been doing a lot of design work for Cantalouper, whom I've mentioned in my one previous post. Mostly posters for shows, t shirts, buttons, and a hand drawn font. All of which I'll get posted on here very soon! But today's post is one that I'm particularly fond of at the moment. It is a poster that I finished a few weeks ago for a show Cantalouper will be doing with a band called Unwed Sailor. If you've never heard of them, I suggest you check them out. They're an instrumental only band, musically centered around the bass guitar. Good stuff! Anyways, Cantalouper asked me to do this poster for the show in July and as an added bonus, the venue, Mojo's, would print the poster and use it in their club to promote the show! Needless to say I was pretty stoked about it.
It took me a few days to get the imagery that I wanted for this show. I listened to Unwed Sailor to get a feel for the type of music they made, wanting the poster to feel right for the band. I also wanted to stay away from the overtly stereotypical nautical images that one thinks of upon hearing the name Unwed Sailor. I think I found the balance I was looking for with the life preserver ring, stenciled with the bands and date of the show. I also like the wooden plank background which reminded me of an old tugboat making its way up the eastern seaboard and the cool blue waves along the bottom. The waves were a holdover thought from a previous sketch I had made for this poster. They reminded me of waves used on old Vaudeville sets. The ones that swayed from side to side while Vaudevillian pirates sang songs about mermaids. I thought they gave me a nice clear ground to add the rest of the venue info and really seemed to anchor (no pun intended) the whole poster.

Cantalouper Posters

Here are two posters I have done for the band Cantalouper, from Columbia, Missouri. They are really great and I encourage everyone to check them out at their Myspace page.

In the first poster I did for them, I wanted to revisit the old traveling revue style posters of the 1950s and 60s. Utilizing mainly text with only a few small photos, I wanted the poster to be eye-catching and straight forward.

The second poster was for a show Cantalouper played with Royal Pines. I wanted to somehow combine the imagery of a pine forest with the Cantalouper logo, which is a cantaloupe with "X" eyes and a mouth. I wanted the poster's image to be simple but easily translated. Because of the scale difference of a pine tree compared to a cantaloupe, I was struggling to find a way to incorporate the different images. So I eventually came up with a single tree branch with a pine cone and cantaloupe growing from it.

Here We Go!

Hello all!

First off, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to check out my blog. I will be posting projects that I am working on in their various states throughout the creative process. I may also post random thoughts and ramblings from time to time. Please feel free to comment on any and everything! The whole point of this blog is to share my art with anyone who is interested in seeing it.