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The best from the last eight years. They go from new to old. Hopefully when you get to the bottom you can see I've gotten a lot better!



This is one of the funnest projects I've gotten to work on in a really long time. When Drunk contacted me they explained that they wanted something similar in theme but not style to the gorgeous Ed Repka Mighty Max toy that they wanted me to use as inspiration for the mutant! Awesome! It also made me think of this Dinosaurs Attack!! card.



This is the front cover for a new Comeback Kid release. It was definitely a challenge and not what I usually draw. I really enjoyed making this work!



Here's the back cover for that Comeback Kid record. I think they're only going to use part of it but I almost like it more than the front.



I've been really into witches lately. This record cover has some of my favorites from Greek mythology, the Graeaes for the Houston based band, The Lion Of Wall Street.



Rampage inspired record cover for Here's the Story!



Us Against The World are a band from Mexico City who contacted me to do a cover for them a few months ago. I was given lyrics and the go ahead to do whatever I wanted from there. It took me a while to get to it but they were really excited with the way it turned out.



This Hellburnsaway record was fun! Demons vs angels, but I got to draw actual biblical demons (which are always a mash-up of multiple animals and people) so it didnt look like Immolation's Dawn Of Possession Dawn Of Possession album.



Crooked Ways wanted foxes coming out of a sewer. LOTS of foxes.



I'd done a shirt design for the UK based band Durai before, and this time I got to do a full color cover for them.



I swear this one wasn't my idea. I wish it was. "A crowned bear fighting nazis" was the best thing I'd heard all year. The band is an antifascist street punk band from Moscow called Razor Bois. Check them out, I like their brains.



Too much Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.





As if the 7" wasn't enough! These are the front and back illustrations (Black Sabbath influenced) for the Latest Will And Testament record on TKO Records.



HOLY SHIT!! Seriously, I love when bands let me draw whatever I want. A wizard, riding a squid, with a monkey apprentice, fighting robot sharks...IN SPACE! I don't know if it'll ever get more ridiculous then this...





Bedtime For Charlie is a pop punk band from the west coast of Italy that have been playing since 2001. This was for their upcoming LP. I was worried about how water would look in my style but I'm really happy with the way it all turned out.





Here's the latest record that I've done. Probably my favorites ever. The guys in 50 Lions from Australia had seen my work for Power Corrupts and told me they wanted something similar. It was a free pass to draw whatever I wanted. For some reason goat priests seemed to be the most appropriate thing.



Palehorse Secrets Within Secrets 12" on Stray Dog Records. I've been into drawing tongues lately.





Skulls. And nothing but. Cover for And Believe on Alliance Trax. Finally I've done artwork for a Japanese band.



Power Corrupts from the UK gave me free reign to do whatever I want. They were particularly happy when I sent them a sketch with deformed babies bearing corporate logos and a giant business suit monsters drinking oil from a barrel. It's one of my best pieces.



The Walk the Plank 12" will be released as four 7"s first and then all together later. Each 7" will have a cover by a different artist. Here's mine.



My current favorite, this Walk the Plank LP is the first of two records for the band. Probably my most detailed piece, it took me a full week to get this done. My love for sharks and deep sea creatures paid off in full on this one. You'll be able to spot a couple great whites, a tiger shark, a sand tiger shark, an oceanic white tip shark, a school of barricuda, two sets of octopus tentacles and a morey eel.



This was originally supposed to be the cover for a split with Strength Approach from Rome and another unnamed band from England. Strength Approach love zombies and apparently the other band used a lot of werewolf imagery. I was more then happy to combine the two. The English band eventually dropped out and now Strength Approach is using this as a cover for their solo release.



Hockey themed fist fight for LA based Donnybrook. This is probably a better example of changing line/color saturation in space.



The band Die My Demon asked me to do an illustration based on their name, and after many incarnations this is the cover. I'm happy with it but in the printed version the band logo covers the head of the human figure.



Coma is a brutal Swedish band and the first step to my better, current work. Lots of detail and I started fooling with desaturating colors further in space. The line work is still all one shade but that changes soon.



This is around the time i started experimenting with flat color/shading. I was also excited to do a piece that involved nothing but a building and the challenge of telling a story with no figures.



This is the most recognizable of my covers after the Shark Attack record. I was still rendering with gradients but the image and colors are striking. The start of a long working relationship with Comeback Kid.



Here's a compilation for Stab And Kill Records. I love the way the light works in this piece. Unfortunatly the interior panels weren't used for lyrics as i thought they would be and look pretty bare in comparison to the cover.





Dtakters was a band from Sweden and the first international band I ever worked for. This is one of my favorites from that time period. The title translates to "Nothing Can Stop Dtakters".





This was the first record I ever drew back in 1998. It took me about 2 nights to finish. I hate the thing technically but it's a strong image and the contrast is great.
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