Latest Happenings

I officially got into the Society of illustrators Student Competition Show along with 6 of my other peers among the other 130 people that will have things at the show.

Link to our pieces: http://www.soicompetitions.org/?section=gallery&competition_id=22&method=inst&institution_id=85

Here is the piece that got in.....

Yesterday, I did a demo on digital illustration that I am also doing to create a series of portraits that show the personality of the person portrayed. I am doing all female artist, because they have I think better stories, and more colorful personalities than that of many other people. Plus females are fun to draw, and hits me up at my love of Alphnose Mucha illustration of women.

"I remember back in my home town, how nature started over take the industrialism that was had happend....."

"If you give me a Key and a box with a key hole I will be amused for hours just playing with that...."

- Ali Crow

Also, when everyone gets a chance, check out http://www.personalviewpoint.com atleast once a week on Thursdays. Not only will you see my work, but work of my peers.

I am working on not only a couple school assignments but a few assignments that I got from bands. This is going to be fun!

Keep it real!

Benefit Show

After I talk to the booker.... Not only will all the Proceeds from the door go to the benefit, but all the money I get for the Flyer will as well.

Come to the show, have some fun in support of the benefit.

Originals for sale and Canceled show flyer

One Thing people may or may not know about my work is that it is all done by hand. I don't like working on Adobe Illustrator. I think it is a waste of my time doing all the line work and it makes me frustrated and I stop what I am doing. I dont have patience for that program. So I do it all by hand.

These drawings are for sale!

These drawings are done on American Masters Archival paper with Archival india ink and acrylic inks, with touch ups done with liquitex acrylic titanium white paint.

These Drawings were done with the This Is Hell show flyer (Previous post)

Do you want it/them? Email Me at Fisheld@aol.com

$100 postage paid, with or without matt.

This Show got canceled because Lebanon cancelled their US tour. They are a really good ambient rock band so if you are into Pelican they are a good band to look into.

That is it. I got alot of work to do....

Lots of cool stuff going on

So I created a flyer for Championship out in leymone, PA. It will be screen printed in 4 colors.

I love doing flyers because it lets me try out differnt ways to use images, and concepts. Even thought I am alittle limited by its flat nature and to the amount of colors based on how much money I have at the time, I still enjoy doing it.

This flyer, kinda goes with this whole adam and eve thing. She has a tree on her shirt which is representing the tree of knowledge, and she is shooting these laser beams at Adam who you can now see all of his bones which represents the passage "....and they relized they were naked, and covered each other up with leaves they made gurdles with..." or how ever the passage goes. Its sorta the same thing but in a X-Ray fashion, and contemporary.

Process of how I built it is below. (If you click on the empty blue box it will put you to a new page and animate)

I am back in school so updating this will be alittle slow. Keep checking my myspace for anything cool going on.

www.myspace.com/xfishxart

-FISH

Just started this thing

So I decieded that I might as well start a blog to talk about any art stuff I am up too.

Some Updates.....

- I am working on a T-shirt Design for Philadelphia based Pop Punk infused Hardcore band The Wonder Years. (No Sleep Records) That will be done by the 23rd.

- I am working on a personal piece, another portrait. I am trying to get the hang on using straight hue, and no black in my pieces. We will see in the coming weeks if i can do that.

- I will be screen printing The Ergs flyer next week for the January 26th date at Siren Records. Again I am cutting it close to deadline, due to me being on vacation in Carlisle, PA and my stuff being in the City of Brotherly Love.

- I am working on thumbnails for a t-shirt design for Phildelphia's own Beercore/hardcore band, Barricade (creep/black out!), and a t-shirt design pitch to this amazing philly hardcore band, Braindead (Double or Nothing records)

- Once I get this new t-shirt stuff done, I will be launching a offical website. It going to be sick.

I am listing my process that I went through for the Ergs Flyer.



-xFISHx