GRUSS VOM KRAMPUS!

Sorry for the delay on this one. We had a power outtage in my neighborhood and I lost several hours of drawing time. Probably Uranus getting ready to go Direct on the 10th.  We also have an Eclipse / Full Moon on the 10th, so expect a bit of Chaos. All this during a Mercury retrograde (Nov. 24th - Dec. 14th). I guess Krampus is in full effect this year!

Regardless, Happy Krampusnacht! I hope you've all been good this year!  I hope that your 2012 is much better!

{Created in the Adobe Creative Suite}

Krampus is on his way!

I'm not sure why I feel the need to jump on the Krampus bandwagon this year.  I found out about him two years ago and haven't really had the opportunity to work on any pieces involving him until now.  This year has been such a roller coaster through crap I figure it might be nice to believe a little in some cosmic force of justice.

Of course the assumption there is that Krampus won't be coming for me.  If he were coming for me, that might not be all bad though.  Cover your ears kids!  A hairy horny devil with a ridiculously long tongue kidnaps me and drags me away to do with me as he pleases.  All because I've been bad.  Hmmm...I say let the punishment fit the crime, eh!

I guess in the end, I just like the idea of Krampus.  He's a little taste of punishment to help us appreciate the good in life.  I wonder perhaps if he is some seed idea left over from Saturnalia?  Perhaps he is the last Lord of Misrule from the lost tradition of the Feast of Fools.  Perhaps not completely lost, Halloween / Samhain has taken on many of the qualities of Saturnalia and the Feast of Fools. Considering how much our calendars have changed since those times, Halloween may be closer to the correct timeframe.

I am intrigued that these kinds of festivals seems to emerge from the human psyche regardless of repression or taboo or dogma or fiat.  Close one door and the urge will find its way out through a window.  This is the cord that Krampus strikes with me. Aha! there's the reason: The repressed urge given its day in the sun.

I think we need more of that...at least here in the United States we certainly do.  Too many natural urges are repressed and criminalized.  We need to find healthy outlets instead of shoving it all in a box...or a prison.  I feel Krampus is part of that.  A little comedic S & M for the whole family!  Be good kids for goodness sake!  Only one more day until Krampusnacht!

{Image created in Adobe Illustrator}

Only two more days...

Another fun filled Krampus portrait to celebrate the imminent arrival of that precious Christmas Devil!  Be good for goodness sake kids, Krampus is coming!

{Images created in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop}

UPDATE 091014:  This piece is now available on a tshirt design or other cool paraphernalia at my Neatoshop!  Drop by and check it out!

Krampus is Coming!

Here is a Krampus Card to celebrate the season!  If you would like to steal and print this, feel free.  All you naughty children better be good for goodness sake!  Krampus is Coming!  Only three more days!

{Image created using the Adobe Creative Suite}

When in Deep Water...

When I began working on this, it was going to be a more detailed interpretation of the sketch I did for The BlackSun, but as I continued, it became something more.

{Created in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign.}

UPDATE 091014:  A permutation of this piece is now available on a tshirt design or other cool paraphernalia at my Neatoshop!  Drop by and check it out!

Josh's 24 HR Moviethon 2010

I don't know how this slipped past!  Well I do know since January, but better late than never...  Logo for my friend Josh's Birthday Moviethon!  For 2009's Logo look here.

{Created in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.}

24 HOUR MOVIETHON!

It has been quite awhile since my last posts.
Here some of the stuff that has been happening in that time.

This was a logo I create for my friend Josh.  Each year he hosts a Moviethon for his birthday.  Did I mention its 24 hours long?  Yeah.  I know.  I can over after work and actually made it to the end.  I was surprised myself.  The logo was created completely in Adobe Illustrator.  later it was added to the poster Josh created with covers of all the movies we watched.

Pop Sigil Desktop

I created this on around the idea of

taking a magical theorem and embodying it visually.

This one is "Use what works"

Make it your desktop for ab it and stare at it.

The space within the circle becomes active and magnetic

then It pops like a firecracker.

Fun stuff.

{creates in Adobe Illustrator}

OUT OF BOUNDS

OUT OF BOUNDS
This is an ad I did for my Local Pride store.
I've got a blog set up for them HERE
Please check it out.
Sadly, OUT OF BOUNDS is the ONLY pride store in South Carolina at this point.
If you live in Greenville, SC, drop in and buy something.
they need all the support they can get.