Entries by Brian Allen

Invision Artworks Undead Gunslinger

Detailed digital painting I created of a zombie cowboy for Invision Artworks.  This dude will most likely be uses on dirtbikes and quads.  I’m really excited to have my artwork added to their already impressive lineup of cool graphics.  This was created mainly in Manga Studio, but I had some help from Photoshop as well.  […]

Straying From Madness CD Cover

The guys from Straying From Madness contacted me to create an illustration for their new album, Shadowlands.  They wanted a colorful representation of themseleves battling a horde of zombies during the apocalypse.  The illustration was designed for the album cover, and a poster for promotion as well.

Monsters In The Ring

SmartPak Equine hired me to create these two spreads for their Fall product catalog.  To help sell their calming supplements for horses, the client asked me to create a fun illustration showing the world through a horse’s eyes. To show how horses can get spooked by the simplest things, we turned ordinarly training equipment into […]

Royal Zone Records Album Cover

This is a series of promotional materials I created for an upcomming hip-hop album called “The Order of the Owl” presented by Nightlyfe and Royal Zone Records.  I was asked to create a logo, banner design, album cover, and disc image for the project.  The artwork is filled with symoblism that was important to the […]

T-Shirt Designs For Hunters

Medusa Buck An illustration I created for a T-Shirt brand.  It’s one of three in a series depicting a buck in a different monstrous and evil variations.  This one was inspired by the most infamous Gorgon of them all:  Medusa.  Three colors on black.   Detail view

Vapor Safari Identity Design

Logo design I created for a distributer in Florida that deals in electronic cigarettes.  The owner is a real nice dude who goes on Safaris in his spare time.  He hired me to create a logo and mascot character combining the two themes.  We had a lot of fun with this one!

Lethal Threat Designs

I recently had the pleasure of working with Lethal Threat, a huge name in the graphic decal business.  I came up with this concept of a zombie enjoying a “hearty” snack.  Originally designed as a graphic decal for a bike’s tank.  I probably don’t need to say this, but I had a lot of fun […]

Killing For Christ Album Cover

This album cover for the hardcore metal band, Killing For Christ, was a fun challenge.  The client wanted to illustrate what it might look like if all the world’s religions duked it out.  We were careful to keep the illustration dark, but still humorous, so it’s obvous that this is a tongue-in-cheek rendition of the […]

Logo design for El Gun Legro

Logo design I created for the Nerd-core hip-hop artist, El Gun Legro.  This guy has a ton of personality, and we set out to create an icon and typeface that would capture that.  It was also import to retain a comic book feel, since comic conventions are a huge part of his set list.  We […]

Revco T-Shirts

Illustration for Revco BSX, featuring a welder emerging from a fiery vault.  Revco specializes in apparel for welders.  This design was created for a direct-to-garment printing process.

Apocalips brand hot sauce illustration.

    Product label illustration for Bonfatto’s Apocalips brand hot sauce.  Special thanks to Mark Dello of Loaded Creative (and of course, Bonfatto’s) for making all this happen.   I designed and illustrated the dragon character for the label, as well as the font-style.

New Jersey FunPlex Maps

These are two maps I created for the two FunPlex parks in New Jersey. It was a fun challenge to create a useable map for a place I had never been before. The maps are printed as tri-folds and distributed at the park, and are also mounted in several areas around the park, I believe.

Our Pop-Up Book has SOLD OUT!!

In July 2012, my brother and grandmother (also artists) created a Pop-Up Book about Rehoboth Beach Delaware. Well, I’m pleased to announce that we sold out of all 2000 copies of the book in just two months! We are in the process of placing a bigger order – 5000.  They will be available in many stores […]

3 Tools Every Freelancer should use

Here are 3 extremely useful pieces of software I use every day. 1.  GoodSync This is without a doubt the best software for syncing two hard drives. I use it to sync my portable hard drive with my computer. You can set it to sync as soon as you open the program. It’s so fast: […]

Wacom Cintiq 12WX Review

  I purchased the Cintiq 12WX in July 2011, and thought I should share my review.  I beat my head against a wall for months trying to decide if the $1000 price tag was really worth it or not.  The verdict:  Oh yeah. WHAT I USE IT FOR:  Digital painting, comic book “inking,” sketching, graphic […]