Warriors, Come Out & Play!

A detailed recreation of the gang patch from the cult movie "The Warriors". This is not a scan or a screen capture, but an entirely new drawing based upon a screen worn costume. The original drawing was very simple, I've added quite a bit of detail. This is an homage, not a direct copy.

Rockford Detective Agency

As a kid, I was a big fan of the Rockford Files. The show featured a running gag about Jim Rockford’s yellow pages ad. I went looking for the ad of a t-shirt, and could only find low quality screen captures. I did find the photograph that the original as was based on. So, I drew this homage to the original. Like the original, this phonebook ad doesn’t include a phone number…

Jungle Bird

This illustration was mainly an excuse to play with dappled "jungle"  light.

Tiki, The Aloha Cat

I made this illustration our cat for my wife on our 24th wedding anniversary.

Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room

This is a drawing of Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room birds and one of the little tiki's that drop from the tree in the waiting area behind the Dole Whip stand.

Moon Moai

This illustration is a blend of tiki culture and retro sci-fi. The drink, the Lunar Ambrosia, is blended and features glowing ice cubes for effect.

I've always been a fan of the villainous space queens in 50's sci-fi. They're constantly ordering people to their deaths while lamenting the resourcefulness of the story's hero. A hero that they secretly love...

King Tut's Doom

This illustration was inspired by a tiki mug from House of Tabu and published in their magazine Exotica Moderne. I began to imagine how the cracks and crevices a traditional wooden tiki might blend into the gnarled wrinkles of a mummy. That got me thinking about how trees in the high desert seem to grow out of rocks with tough, finger like, roots.

Anyway, this drawing is named for the drink I came up with to fill the mug I bought. Ancient Egypt was known for beer. I decided to concoct a tiki-beer-coctail. I think that it worked pretty well. 

The Zombie

This illustration is based on my version of Don the Beachcomber's original recipe. The tiki is based upon petroglyphs I photographed on the Big Island, Vintage masks and the voodoo version of zombies.

The Castaway

This illustration is based on my version of Jeff "Beachbum" Berry's recipe. The tiki is based on a petroglyph I photographed on the Big Island and vintage mask designs.

The Missionary's Downfall

This is a classic blended drink from Don The Beachcomber. It's usually a reasonably mild drink (by tiki drink standards). Mine gets a significant kick from the very strong homemade liqueur I make.

Buy the t-shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/2449697-missionarys-downfall?store_id=147864

The Aquadisiac

A new series of illustrations inspired by some of my favorite tiki drinks. The recipe is basically from Beach Bum Berry's book. The tiki figure is based on a petroglyph I photographed on the Big Island.

Buy the t-shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/2435813-the-aquadisiac

Space Mutiny

The cast of Rifftrax getting a pep talk from Big McLarge-Huge. 

Battle of Crait

I was always a fan of the way Al Williamson would draw Star Wars spaceships for Marvel comics. All shadows and negative shapes.

Boggy Creek 2

I ordered the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Boggy Creek 2" from Rifftrax. This episode didn't come with poster art, so I made my own.

Then Arthur Fought

Recently I was given the opportunity to illustrate a book cover for an upcoming historical novel about King Arthur. The book combines legends with historical facts and people to create a very interesting look at Arthur. For the cover, I tried to create a "real person": Older, strong, dresses in the appropriate clothing for the era. The border area represents a dream he has in the book. The dragon was particularly fun to design and draw. It's a naturalistic representation of a 5th century monster. I based it on the same animals storytellers of the period did: crocodiles, whales, bats and constrictor snakes. I did dozens of sketches until I arrived at a dragon that the author and I felt struck the right balance.

Try Not To Fall

I made this piece for a friend's band. I took the photo during a visit to my home town in Ohio. Sadly, it's a fairly representative photo.

Atom Bomb

I made this for a friend's band. It's based on some found footage from Archive.org. I also made a video for the same song. I directed, edited and did all of the effects for the video. A friend of mine shot everything 4k.

RiffTrax Posters

In 2014 I made a bunch of posters for some of RiffTrax's releases. These were mostly just fan art and me working out how to blend hand drawing with adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Obviously, I'm a huge fan of these guys (have been since MST3K.

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36” x 24” poster

Anyway, these were a lot of fun to do. I've set the publication date to roughly the time that I drew these.

The Dark Knight

Buy a t-shirt, phone case, sticker & etc. of this design!

I'm a big fan of Tim Burton's original Batman movie.

Asguard

This is my homage to the artwork of Jack Kirby. I tried to capture some of his spirt, without copying any of his amazing line work.