Dark Illustrations

Dark and creepy illustrations for T-Shirts, Album Covers, Posters, and Lunatics

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Comic book style illustration of an evil clown. To see more of my work, or hire me for freelance projects, please visit my website: www.flylanddesigns.com

Digital painting of a decapitated zombie head for a dirtbike graphic.

Grunge Bob Sponge Bob Parody

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This is part of a series of mascot character designs I created for Great Dane Graphics. We had a lot of working finding different ways to portray zombies as believeable sports mascots.

Cheech and Chong Zombies weed 420

Custom illustration I created for a new book by Des Parker called Lord of the Zombies. The illustration features all the main characters fighting a horde of zombies.

Album cover I illustrated for a new promotional album for Listenable Records. My client came up with the idea of having a moshpit of metal zombies rocking out. I thought it would be funny to put a frightened goth chick crowd-surfing to her doom.

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T-Shirt design I illustrated of a skeleton with dual airbrushes for the awesome airbrush shop Explicit Airbrush. The client and owner of the shop is an artist himself, so I had a lot of fun as our collective minds grew this illustration. This design is set

T-Shirt illustration I created as a tribute to one of the greatest films ever made: Dumb and Dumber. The piece is called "Dead and Deader," and features Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carey) as decaying zombie corpses.

T-Shirt illustration I created for Spiral Direct of dragon made of fire. I digitally painted this illustration in Adobe Photoshop and Manga Studio 5. Available from Spiral Direct.

Mad scientist character

I created this fun t-shirt design for Commando Racing Gear – a hardcore skeleton! We went through a couple different [and equally exciting] designs but eventually settled on this one. I had a lot of fun with this!

Angry skull with cigar in his mo

Album cover design I created of the Grim Reaper emerging from smoke to connect with a woman emerging from a portal to hell.

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Undead Gunslinger

T-Shirt design I create for Bar Rags, featuring a drunk zombie lounging inside a giant beer mug in a graveyard, titled “Night of the Walking Drunk.” I had a lot of fun with this design, playing with a creepy, but light-hearted style. We created this ju

Illustration of an evil skull with wings and barbaric weapons I created for the dark apparel company Spiral Direct. This was inspired by a similar design I had done in the past, but taken in a more realistic rendering direction. It was a lot of fun explor

The band Hang The Jester hired me to create this detailed illustration of an evil jester made of a skull and horns for their latest album cover

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Crazy shark riding a bike in the

Tommy Justice hired me to create this limited color skull and roses t-shirt design for his special-lady fans.

He’s got a great retro 80s hair-metal vibe that I tried to inject a little into the design.

I got to test my zombie crafting skills on this parody of the Notorious BIG for a hip-hop apparel line.

Always a fun challenge to try to capture someone’s likeness – before ripping their face away in decay! We set up the design for limited color silk

Crowd of zombies I illustrated coming out of the legendary CBGB club for Mooch Clothing.

Had a great time creating the different punk characters. Would a mohawk really stay intact on the undead? I like to think so. Illustrated in Manga Studio 5, and sep

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Godzilla Weight Lifter

Evil werewolf in the oval office

I was hired to create a series o

Photo of backglass pinball illus

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 fo

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.

Two zombie soldiers face off on

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The legendary grim reaper with b

colorful psychedelic tiki creature trippy mushrooms eyes

Military Zombies in the midst of a massive war. Flying through the sky in their helicopter shooting down enemy forces.

T-shirt design and poster I was hired to create for the popular band, the Moonshine Bandits, where I was asked to draw the band members as skeletons driving their iconic off-road limo.

Woman holding gun and knife, sur

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The band New Hong Kong hired me to illustrate their album cover for The King Makes The Rules, showing a bunch of evil monsters sparring with a young vampire hunter. The band wanted it to be creepy but still fun, so I kept the gore to a minimum and the colo

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Check out this evil skull emerging from the galaxy to devour the earth, for the band called Ammannait! This is one of my favorite album covers I designed ever! I sketched a bunch of concepts that I thought the band would like ever listening to their music.

Album cover illustration of a sk

metal band John Wayne (named after John Wayne Gacy - not the other guy). It was a great pleasure working on this with the band, as they gave me a lot of freedom, and I set upon the design without much planning, and tried to let it flow. This album cover

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Evil Dead 2 Necronomicon T-Shirt

Game of Thrones Bam Box Illustra

Gangster Zombie LoudMouth Gloves

Spawn Tribute Illustration for 2

The New York band, The Unbroken hired me to create this insanely detailed illustration of crusaders clashing with a horde of demon soldiers, parting in the middle to show our Unbroken hero in the middle of the fray.

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The fantastic jam band Umphrey’s McGee commissioned me to create this super fun silk-screened gig poster for their Philadelphia, Bethlehem Pa tour!

Old man and mushrooms illustration for Metallica

Metallica Pittsburgh 2022 Skulls Smoke

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Artwork by freelance illustrator

Album cover of illustration of a kid rolling dice with destruction going on behind him

Skull wearing a firefighters hat in front of an explosion and axes

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Mechanical Leopard with claws

Psychedelic purple skull surrounded by mushrooms

Three eyed Psychedelic Alien in space around plants

Psychedelic image of a mystic meditating with nature and planets

Colorful psychedelic tiki head

Horror villain Jason Blood with bloody axe

Fan art of the animatronics from the jump scare horror game five nights at freddys

Horror villain Freddy with metal claws

Horror villain Chucky with bloody knife

Tribute parody of several different cartoon characters

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Scary Skeleton Fish Monster Artwork by Artist Brian Allen of FlyLandDesigns.com

Psychedelic snake wrapped around skull

This illustration I designed depicts a metal skull with nuts, bolts, and screws.

Horror industrial evolution image

Skull surrounded by gold guns and roses

Skull with snake in its mouth surrounded by fire

skull with wings wearing a crown

Cowboy skeleton with guns

Skeleton Grim Reaper with a lantern in a graveyard durring a full moon with bats flying in the sky.

Poster designed for the Disco Biscuits featuring a wizard in space

artwork of a deceased astronaut floating through space with a bunch of flowers pouring out of the space suit

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An album cover that I designed for Psycho Sinner’s album, Eat the Flame. It's a ready Skeleton devil lit in blue flames

A bright green skull with eyeballs, pyramids, and mushrooms.

This is and Event poster that I designed for Nightmare on Chicago Street. The illustration is an invasion on Chicago Street overrun with zombies and aliens.

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A design that I created for Metallica featuring a broken skull with lightning and electricity coursing through it in different colors.

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A pinball topper that I created featuring skulls, snakes, guitars, and flames for Pinball Bazaar

I created this fun illustration

Brian Allen, 2015

Brian Allen, 2015

A Zombie Pinball themed t-shirt featuring the inner workings of the arcade machine with eyeballs for the pinball.

Brian Allen, 2015

An illustration for All-in the Moment's album cover is an apocalyptic scene with a guy walking though a ruined city.

An illustration for Mother of Exile album cover is a Zombie apocalyptic scene zombies in a ruined city.

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Official Artwork I designed for The Shadow Merchandise featuring the character with guns

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Cyborg Dragon fighting a knight on a distant planet for the Disco Biscuits

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Here’s an Illustration I drew for a Hong Kong guitarists’ solo Album called Troglojam. Had a great time with this one, creating a weird but fun monster creature. Coloring my artwork with in vibrant green and magenta is something I always seem to fall b

Dark Illustrations – T-Shirt & Album Cover Designs

By Brian Allen

Stunning collection of Illustrations in a dark and serious style.

Clients use flylanddesigns designs and illustrations like these for all types of projects, including captivating website banners, eye-catching album covers, fierce mascot designs for sports teams, or thought-provoking editorial illustrations for magazines.

Custom artwork for your project:

My dark illustrations have been used for many different applications, including:

Concept Art for Games and Movies
Zombies artwork
Skulls designs
Horror illustrations
Evil themes
…and many more!

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BEST OF

My best illustration and design work across all categories.

ALBUM COVER DESIGN

Album Cover designs for rock and heavy metal bands.

BEACH ARTWORK

Collection of beach and tiki-themed illustrations.

BOOK COVERS

Illustrations for book covers and other Print publications.

CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATIONS

Artwork for children and youth for books, packaging, and apparel.

CANNABIS AND PSYCHEDELIC ARTWORK

Cannabis and Psychedelic artwork for product labels, apparel, and posters.

SKATEBOARDS

Custom Skateboard and Snowboard designs.

DISC GOLF ARTWORK

Disc Golf artwork for brands, tournaments, and clubs.

GIG POSTERS

Posters for bands and events.

HUMOR, PARODY, AND FAN ART

Funny parodies and tributes of pop-culture icons

SKULLS, ZOMBIES, and HORROR

Dark Illustrations of zombies, skulls, and aliens.

LOGO / BRANDING

Custom Graphic Design for logos, branding, identity, and packaging.

MASCOT DESIGNS

Custom character design and mascot illustration for sports teams, websites, brands, and logos.

PACKAGING DESIGNS

Packaging design for toys, candy, cannabis, vaping, food, and other products.

PINBALL AND ARCADE ARTWORK

Artwork designed for Pinball and Arcade machines.

T-SHIRT DESIGN

Custom Illustration for T-Shirt and Apparel designs.

WEB AND APP DESIGN

Custom Illustrations and Graphic Design for websites and mobile apps.

VEHICLE GRAPHICS

Vinyl wrap artwork for busses, trucks, food trucks, and more.

Product Reviews

Wacom Cintiq Pro 24″ ReviewSeptember 1, 2023 - 12:30 pm
Professional Illustrator Brian Allen reviews the new Wacom Cintiq Pro 24″ (non-touch). I have been using the new Wacom Cintiq Pro 24″ extensively since early April 2018 and I love it! I upgraded from the Wacom Cintiq 24HD, which I used for over 6 years. I had high expectations for this digital drawing tablet and […]