Happy 420! Here’s the finished Cannabis – Psychedelic exploration image I did for my personal portfolio. Remember that you are one of your most important clients! Make time for your own exploration. Really happy with how this artwork came together – I made a couple signed prints of it – link to my shop in bio. I inked the piece on the iPad Pro 12.9, and then colored it in Clip Studio Paint with my new best friend, the Wacom Cintiq Pro (review coming soon). #420art #420artist #mangastudio #ipadproart #clipstudiopaint #wacompro #skullart #psychedelicart #hire
Colors added to this experimental psychedelic design I’m working for my personal portfolio. If you’re unsure on when a piece is complete, just keep adding eyeballs until there are at least 6. Releasing tomorrow! #420art #420artist #mangastudio #clipstudiopaint #wacompro #skullart #psychedelicart #hire
Grab the signed art print if you dig this – link in the bio. I’m making an effort to put more time into my own personal artwork and development between freelance gigs – here’s one of the first results this year. Super pumped about some of the ideas I’ve got on the backburner. #aztecart #marijuanaart #cannabisart #skateboardart #artprint #tikiart
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Demonic monster illustration with many eyes and horns grins as a city burns behind him.
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Inking a #tribute #illustration to one of my favorite animated films as a kid, The #GreatMouseDetective. Watching this again now with a new perspective it’s easy to see every scene as a work of art.Illustrated by Brian Allen, https://www.flylanddesigns.com/#tshirt #mangastudio #photoshop #illustration #art #instaart #instaartist
Digital #ink illustration of our favorite crime family from the #Goonies. I’m experimenting with a new quicker, rougher style in Manga Studio using my wash brushes and textured ink pens. I really like the result, any feedback?Illustrated by Brian Allen, https://www.flylanddesigns.com/#Fratellis #mangastudio #photoshop #illustration #art #instaart #instaartist
#SonsofAnarchy tribute illustration I created – one of our all-time favorite shows. I thought it would be fun to have the #grimreaper on the back of Jax’s jacket coming to life.Illustrated by Brian Allen, https://www.flylanddesigns.com/#SOA #mangastudio #photoshop #illustration #art #instaart #instaartist
#DontTreadOnMe #eagle and #snake I illustrated for a client’s line of #patriotic vinyl #decals. This is my favorite one to date – available for licensing if anyone is interested.Illustrated by Brian Allen, https://www.flylanddesigns.com/#decal #viynl #patriotic #mangastudio #photoshop #illustration #art #instaart #instaartist
Custom #vector #mascot #Rhino I created for #RedEyeRhino, the competition dart brand for use marketing their products and apparel.The client approached me with an outdated Rhino mascot that they wanted pumped up – so we came up with this guy, wearing one of their signature jerseys and clutching a handful of darts. Angry mascots are kind of my thing.Illustrated by Brian Allen, https://www.flylanddesigns.com/#character #mangastudio #photoshop #illustration #art #instaart #instaartist
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American Oil Apparel
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Illustration of a couple of hard-working roughneck skeletons pumping oil in the Bakken oil fields. The client wanted a huge grinning demon in the clouds, reminiscent of some of the Iron Maiden album covers I’ve always been a fan of.
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Plates of Fire
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There’s a cooking-face-off show called Plates on Fire that I recently got to design the logo for. They really liked a previous fire-fighter leprechaun I had designed, and we based their character off of that. I set up the design for silk-screening for their upcoming marketing campaign.
Happy #monk and #lotus flower I illustrated in this – I’m really enjoying a new approach to my artwork which involves fewer, bold outlines, and then a painterly rendering under the lines using the blending brushes in Manga Studio.Illustrated by Brian Allen, https://www.flylanddesigns.com/#psychedelic #monk #mangastudio #photoshop #illustration #art #instaart #instaartist
Can you guys help me decide which logo type is best here? I’m going to try to build my own brand of clothing targeting the patriotic/military/police/firefighter market, and I’m trying to design a bold logotype I can use as a watermark over the artwork.If you think this name is lame, then you can GiiiiiiiiT OUUUUT!!!
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Club Red
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Series of illustrations I created for a submission to Cabella’s – the snake and guns design was picked and will be available in the stores soon. It’s always a challenge for me to draw something realistic like this snake while only using a few colors (for silk-screening). Happy with how it turned out.
Bass fishing illustrations I created for Take A Break clothing. We wanted to take a sort of harder, more stylized and graphic edge to these designs, in contrast to the hyper-realistic renderings out there. These were separated for silk-screen by the client – I took care to use only a limited number of colors in the design to make that easier. I have a couple in my closet – they turned out great.
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Hulk Hogan
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Super humbling to be able to work for one of my childhood heroes, Hulk Hogan. They hired me to create a series of tribute illustrations to the late Andre the Giant commemorating their famous face-off. Very easy guy to work with, and tons of fun, BROTHER!
Custom #logo design I created for the rock music website #HardRockDaddy of a mohawk doting #skull with wings.The client wanted something iconic and with a lot of character, so that we could later create a storyline with the mascot in different situations for t-shirts and other promotional items. The mohawk is a signature trait of the owner of the brand – we made it a vibrant blue, which will be carried out through all of the website’s branding. We cycled through several different compositions and angles until we got it just right.Illustrated by Brian Allen, https://www.flylanddesigns.com/#mangastudio #photoshop #illustration #art #instaart #instaartist
Client wanted me to change the 3/4 view skull to a front-facing skull for their #logo – when the worst part of your day is having to draw another #skull, it’s hard to complain!Illustrated by Brian Allen, https://www.flylanddesigns.com/#vector #mangastudio #photoshop #illustration #art #instaart #instaartist
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Nightmare On Chicago Street
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Very pleased to have worked on this gig poster for the Nightmare on Chicago Street 2017 concert! So happy with how this turned out – it was extremely challenging for me. Four blocks of the town are shut down and filled with zombies, macabre props, and four stages for bands. It is so much fun. They even invited me to the event to sell my artwork, which I gladly accepted!
Thanks for all the positive feedback on my new Adobe Photoshop brushes – based on my popular brushes created for Clip Studio Paint. Here’s a video showing some of the 100+ brushes here that I use everyday as a professional illustrator. Let me know what you think if you pick them up! (Sorry about the terrible license-free music!)#ClipStudioPaint #adobephotoshop #custombrushes #illustration #digitalpainting #digitalinking #mangastudio5 #presets #arttools
Hip hop gangster rappers as children who are tattooed and ready to party. The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it. To see more of my work, or hire me for freelance projects, please visit my website: www.flylanddesigns.com!
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FDNY
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I’ve been asked to design a fair number of logos for fire departments, but this is by far my favorite. I drew this intense devil holding a hose and tools coming out of a Maltese cross for a fire station in NY.
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Discraft
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One of my favorite recent projects involved creating a series of labels for these disc golf frisbees by Discraft for their Halloween catalog. We took their famous Bee mascot, and drew him in the likeness of famous movie monsters, like Leatherface and Jason from Friday the 13th. We also created a one-color foil version too.
Broke out the #ink #brush and #pen to draw this tribute to the legendary #Jackass crew, who taught us all right from very wrong. $75 plus shipping if anyone wants this in their life.Illustrated by Brian Allen, https://www.flylanddesigns.com/#cartoon #mangastudio #photoshop #illustration #art #instaart #instaartist
Happy to share that my latest set of vinyl stickers produced by Vinyl Disorder are now available in my shop. Just $5 for this set of 3! Volume 8 – the Zombie series! Thanks to all that have picked up the previous sets.#art #vinylart #vinylcollector #stickerslap #stickerart #diecutsticker #zombieart #freelance #hire
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The Lost Arcade
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Fun text design I created for The Lost Arcade, a website specializing in retro arcade games. We wanted something that looked hand-drawn, and looked like it could be printed on the cabinet of an old game.
Another direct-to-garment #T-Shirt design I created for the #paintball brand Skel’s Ink of a paintball player standing on a pile of his vanquished foes.The client and I have been developing this Paintball Warrior character to represent his brand, and it’s been a lot of fun to draw this cool, imposing guy in a lot of different situations.Illustrated by Brian Allen, https://www.flylanddesigns.com/#paintball #tshirt #mangastudio #photoshop #illustration #art #instaart #instaartist
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Cryptivo Games
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One of my favorite projects from last year: a t-shirt illustration for Cryptivo Games’ hit The Universim, a really cool world building game. If you’ve ever played the game before, you’ll recognize these cute little spherical people that are the inhabitants of the world you build. It was challenging to give the characters emotion and energy without using mouths (not to mention feet!). The illustration was used for a t-shirt and poster for the Gamescom conference.
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The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
I recently converted many of my favorite Manga Studio 5 brushes over to Photoshop, (over 100 brushes!)and I’m really happy with the results – don’t be caught with too few Photoshop brushes – check them out! Grab them in my shop.#art #photoshopbrushes #clipstudiopaint #illustration #zombieart #freelance #hire https://www.flylanddesigns.com/shop/
Inking this cool cyborg leperchaun fire-fighter that I created for St. Patrick’s day t-shrt template for fire departments and t-shirt shops. Available for licensng if anyone’s interested.#fire-fighters # leperchaun # StPatricks day #art #mangastudio #clipstudiopaint #illustration #tshirtdesign #freelance #hire
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Ancient Future
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Here’s something fun I created for a client of mine for his new album called Ancient Future. He wanted the members drawn as caricatures in a trippy garden.
Really starting to enjoy inking on the iPad Pro in Clip Studio Paint – I got one of those cheap pencil grippers and put it on the Apple Pencil and it totally transforms it my opinion. So much easier to hold and control. Plus look how rad it looks. #ipadpro #applepencil #art #mangastudio #clipstudiopaint #illustration #tshirtdesign #freelance #hire #eagleart
Cyborg Leprechaun fire-fighter I created for a St. Patrick’s day t-shirt template I illustrated for fire departments and t-shirt shops to license to celebrate their Irish Pride! Available for licensng if anyone’s interested.I try to design one of these each year, and I had a lot of fun with this one, trying to approach it differently by making the Leprechaun into a cyborg. From the future? Only time will tell.#leprechaun #tshirtart #stpatricks #firefighterart #firefighter #art #mangastudio #clipstudiopaint #illustration #tshirtdesign #freelance #hire
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Cyborg Leprechaun fire-fighter I created for a St. Patrick’s day t-shirt template I illustrated for fire departments and t-shirt shops to license to celebrate their Irish Pride!
I try to design one of these each year, and I had a lot of fun with this one, trying to approach it differently by making the Leprechaun into a cyborg. From the future? Only time will tell.
This artwork is available for licensing:
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Chrome Candy
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Skull logo design I illustrated for this cool company called Chrome Candy that manufactures custom handles for pinball machines, and other cool arcade parts. We went through a couple sketches to get the right look at the beginning and ended up with this happy skull chomping after a piece fo pinball candy.
Hey guys – I finally got around to converting my favorite CLIP STUDIO PAINT brushes to Adobe Photoshop, and I’m selling them here https://www.flylanddesigns.com/shop/ – Even though Manga Studio 5 is my go-to drawing program, I use Photoshop quite often – so they set of brushes makes going back and forth a lot easier. I did my best to replicate the behavior of the brushes as closely as I could. If you pick them up, please let me know what you think! #custombrushes #mangastudio #clipstudiopaint #illustration #photoshopbrushes #freelance #hire