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Friday Night Sessions

Tonight at the Cavern I will be spinning with my partner DJ eXb under my new moniker Camber Sands. Come out and join us on Lower Greenville for some top-notch dance music and stiff cocktails.

For those who care, all the elements of the flyer were created from scratch in Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign. Click on the image for a closer look.

RocknRolla

A little rock 'n roll courtesy of the Drink 'n Draw session last night.

Don't forget kids, DJ eXb and I will be spinning Friday night upstairs at the Cavern (click for map). The last two weeks have been tons of fun and it's only getting better!

'53 Caddy

Sketch of a '53 Cadillac I did the other night. Heading to the DFW Drink and Draw tonight at the Dancing Marlin (click for map) in Deep Ellum. Hope to see you all there!

New Tunes

My band, A Hasty Descision, finally has some quality recordings for your listening pleasure. You can find them on our Myspace page. Special thanks to our pal Justin for doing all the heavy lifting on the recording and mixing.

Next Sunday, we will be appearing on the Oracle Lounge net radio show. They will be showcasing one of our tracks and chatting with the band.

Friday Nights @ The Cavern

If you are in the Dallas area, come join us July 10th for the first of many Friday nights upstairs at the Cavern on Lower Greenville. Fun dance music, no cover and stiff drinks.

100% Kanye free. Guaranteed.

Flyer by yours truly.

Oliver Peck

A sketch of well-known tattoo artist and Dallas legend Oliver Peck of Elm Street Tattoo. You have to love that 'stache of his.

In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle...

Here is a drawing I did of Alicia Reid, bartender at Home Sweet Home in NYC, who kindly recommended her favorite types of tequila in this month's issue of Inked magazine. Normally, placing Patron in your top five would be grounds for all other ratings to be rendered null and void. But since magazine lists often tend to be rigged toward sponsors and, more importantly, because she is so darn photogenic, we will let it slide.

Dr. Sketchy's Dallas

Saturday I hustled home from a business trip just in time for creative R&R at Dr. Sketchy's! For those of you who don't know, Dr. Sketchy's is a life drawing class with cocktails and lovely ladies of burlesque as your models. It is a great time and I highly suggest it for anyone who likes to draw. Thanks to Johnny and Lisa for being our gracious hosts as always.

This week's model was the vibrant Black Mariah (seen in the sketches below) whose infectious energy made for a great drawing day.
Also worthy of note was last session's model, La Divina, who was just stunning and a joy to draw. Divina could hold her poses amazingly well and brought a lot of great costumes for the session. But for all her fine work, I don't feel like my sketches do her justice so we'll just leave them off the blog.

Finally, tomorrow night is another session of the DFW Drink & Draw at Lee Harvey's, so stop by starting at 7:30pm for a rowdy drawing session.

Drink and Draw Dallas

Last night was my second visit to the Dallas-Ft. Worth chapter of the Drink and Draw Social Club. It was a ton of fun and I suggest that anyone who likes to sketch and/or imbibe a beer or three, stop by Lee Harvey's every other Wednesday. Special thanks to Jose for organizing this fine event. DFW Drink and Draw has a Facebook group so join up there or you can visit the blog for updates.

Below are a few sketches from the evening (click on each image for a larger view)...

Hot rod fun ala Big Daddy Roth and such.

I feel that "Jason Goes Hawaiian" should have been the obvious precursor to "Jason in Space" in the Friday the 13th series.

I'm really not sure what this is actually. Perhaps it is a angry black ooze with the ability to change in to shapes and animals in order to penetrate your defenses and gnaw on your toes as you sleep.

Hasty Videos

Here are a couple of videos of the band I play in, A Hasty Decision. I designed the logos on each video, but really put them on there because we needed something. They definitely need some more work. Friend us up at myspace if you like the tunes!

A Little Goes the Wrong Way


Land of Adventure

Tara Dakides

A work-in-progress drawing of snowboard superstar, and all-around badass, Tara Dakides. It was nice to sit and just work straight ahead on a drawing. It has been a while...

(Click on the image for a larger view)

A Hasty Decision Dec. 18 @ Club Dada

Thursday, December 18 will be the first show for my band A Hasty Decision at Club Dada. Doors open at 8PM and we will be on first around 8:15PM or so. There are three other bands playing that evening, so make a night of it! Club Dada is located 2720 Elm St, Dallas, TX‎ (map here). You can visit AHD on myspace here. Flyer by guitarist Murphy.

Missy Suicide Sketch

Sketch of the striking SuicideGirls co-founder Missy Suicide. (Click on the image for a larger view)

Happy Halloween!

Palin Gets a Chops Jersey

I am a tad emotionally conflicted on this one, but it's too big not to post. Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential Candidate and Queen of Hockey Moms, was presented with an Iowa Chops Jersey on Saturday at a campaign rally in Des Moines.

It's not every day that you get to see one of the country's most loved and hated individuals showing off one your creations; which, you could say, similarly polarized hockey fans.

With too many easy Lipstick on a Pig jokes to be had, I really hope this makes it on the Daily Show.

This item did make the LA Times who said "The jerseys actually are cool, thanks to the logo of a rather angry pig on the front." Thank you to the LA Times for your fine taste in hockey gear.

Watch the video Below:

Chops Uniforms in Action

The Iowa Chops have now had a few games and are playing solid, smash-mouth hockey. These guys are really bringing it, and I can't help but think that it's because they have the confidence of looking so damn cool. (click on each image for a closer look)

Chops in EA Sports NHL 09

My Iowa Chops logo and uniforms are now featured in EA Sports' NHL 09 game for Xbox 360. Screen grabs courtesy of ign.com. (click on each image for a closer look)

Hockey News #15

Well The Hockey News ranked all 29 logos in the AHL. My Iowa Chops logo came in right in the middle at number 15. Not too shabby, but frankly I wasn't too impressed with the top 10. Honestly I would have ranked their number 1 choice somewhere around the middle. But that's really the point of these lists isn't it? So everyone can discuss how wrong or right the choices were.

Anyhoo, they did make a nice comment that the Chops logo "...works because it is simple and forceful", and since that's very much what I wanted the logo to convey, I would say that makes it a success.

(Link to the List)

Iowa Chops Uniforms

Here are the new uniforms I created for the Iowa Chops AHL Hockey team. Obviously they are patterned after their NHL affiliate Anaheim Ducks' uniforms, so I can't take all of the credit here.

The Chops name and logo is generating a lot of response throughout the intertubes, and it is exciting to see so many people take an interest in my work. Whether they love it or hate it, everyone seems to have an opinion.

To quote Oscar Wilde, "The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about."

Go Chops!

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