Fantastic Swords! As a child of the 80's I often have felt the need to draw on that rich childhood both figuratively and literally. I thought it would be really cool to assemble some of my favorite 80's heroes all together on a fake comic book cover. It just so happened that the 80's was rife with sword bearing heroes! ...
T een Wolf! I got approached by Fright Rags to do an exclusive and officially licensed Teen Wolf design for them. I jumped at that chance! I loved Teen Wolf and watched it often as a kid. My mom also loved the film and so that VHS was frequently played at my home. Good ol' Scott was a fun project ...
L ove is a Battlefield. The Baroness. I think every little boy had a bit of a crush on Cobra's the Baroness. She was the bad girl. She had an accent and cool weapons. I thought I had to try and capture some of that coolness and imagine her being played by the 80's own Cindy Crawford. I still need ...
Donatello does machines. Donnie! I really liked Donnie's personality and depiction in the 2012 Nickelodeon cartoon. All the turtles are such great characters. You could always count on Don to create some deus ex machina invention. Nickelodeon contacted me after they had run across my 80's style Shredder piece online. They loved it! They asked me to do a portrait ...
Raphael is cool but rude. Oh Raph. For the longest time since I was a kid, I disliked Raph because he was always throwing shade at my fav Leo. Raph wouldn't fall in line and listen and he was often depicted as beating Leo in fights. That bugged me, haha. In recent years I've come to love Raph and accept ...
Michelangelo is a party dude! Mikey was always the fun one. Searching out pizza and party over all else. Nickelodeon contacted me after they had run across my 80's style Shredder piece online. They loved it! They asked me to do a portrait of each of the turtles in that same style. I was of course very eager to comply! ...
Leonardo leads. Leo has always been my favorite turtle. The cool headed leader, making the hard decisions and training extra hard. I wanted to be Leo. Nickelodeon contacted me after they had run across my 80's style Shredder piece online. They loved it! They asked me to do a portrait of each of the turtles in that same style. I ...
T he Dreams in Which I'm Dying are the best I've ever had. Mad world. That song just seems to fit the Joker's personality so well. I think this was the third piece I did in the crazy 80's series. I was still learning so much and having so much fun at the same time. Combining characters and illustration and ...
A nd I'm Hungry Like the Wolf! I wanted to try and do an anime figure in my crazy 80's style. I also wanted to do a girl. So of course, the first thing that came to mind was Princess Mononoke. It was fun to do. The song seemed to fit perfectly and it's always fun to draw crazy creatures ...
I Want to Know What Love Is. This is one of my very first 80's album homage pieces. I did it before I was really pairing up punny song titles to the characters. As such, I just thought this would be a funny song to think of along with the Shredder. I imagined him after a hard day of being ...
