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drew some weird stuff last night
I put up an enormous art book on Gumroad. About 100 pages; practically every piece of Overside-related promotional art and illustration I’ve made over the past eight years. EIGHT YEARS! There is also a pretty lengthy section of commentary on every piece in the book, from the perspective of bitter, wizened 2014 Evan.
It was strange and weirdly emotional pulling this stuff out of the last three computers I’ve used. Overside and what I’ve been trying to get out of it haven’t been extremely internally consistent, but I don’t think many people get to have such a clear throughline for so many years through practically everything they do creatively. Not done yet, either.
It would be lovely if you’d help me spread the word on this thing, and let me know what you think of it if you decide to get it! Thank you!
Super loose preliminary work on an illustration I’m doing for Beyond, an anthology of queer genre fiction. There’s a Kickstarter running right now for the book and it’s going really well!
There’s a lot of good work going into this book and it’s the sort of thing that’s been a long time coming and I’m glad to be a part of it. More process on this image sooooon….
Here’s a series of development drawings for a character in Island Book!
The first illustration is a sort of first-presentable-pass on the character. From there, I did a lot of drawing to develop his look and the look of the setting to which he pertains, focused particularly on simple shapes and clear repeating motifs– I’ve tried to keep a lot of the design work in Island Book simple and ‘crystallized’ in this way, and it builds an overall visual texture that I like. The last drawing is what he looks like to me ideally, before I go into drawing him in the comic itself– But inevitably the process of applying this design to the narrative itself (having it act and occupy space with the other characters, etc) will apply further pressures to it and change it a little more. So I generally go back and do some reworking for consistency before I ink a sequence of the book.
maybe that is interesting!! this project is making me look at my process in different ways.
An idle illustration of Sola from 2015 that was eventually developed into the cover for Island Book.
A preview of my illustration in the Object Head Zine!
Art for a coaster for my new favorite Brooklyn bar.
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