Summer Gig Posters

To start off the master post of things I made from April to October, I wanted to share this fun little thing: I was featured in our local paper beside the likes of some serious poster artists. I'm practically nothing but a newbie compared to some of these folks. Take a look at the silly pose I ended up making:

Here's one of my first ideas for making a quick gif out of a poster design. I wanted to do something really simple as a first test - the lineup itself was already pretty sick:

Next I made this for my new FAVORITE band Museum Mouth. A chunk of references to their new album - Popcorn Fish Guinea Pig - and their song Incubus Tattoo. I actually originally messed up and assumed guinea pigs had tails... thankfully someone on Tumblr corrected me.

They liked the animation so much that I ended up being asked to animate one of their tee designs. My brain at the time probably looked a lot like this happy little flappy brain:

My friend Brian asked me to help out and make a flier for one of the shows he was booking, too. Ended up getting the idea of a surfing Ice Cream Cone from my friend Varun in Indigo Wild:

Next was a set of calendars I made for BravoArtist in Columbus and Cleveland. We smacked em up around town and started a little trend of artists making these for a few months. We're still working out some kinks in the idea, but I can't wait to keep working on a little something similar for next year.

Anyways I loved the idea of drawing the personification of Black Cat fireworks... especially leading up to a stressful election season.

Next is for a band I dig a bunches and couldn't believe I had the chance to make a poster for. Though I promised a friend I would resist drawing a dog... I totally drew a dog. I tried to draw a seal pup on their album's couch... but I got distracted by how silly this article was (and loving to draw dogs).

Okay here was a show I was also ultra excited about WITH an already awesome tour admat by Elliot Bech. I animated some eyeballs loopin around the head he designed:

Next I was commissioned by someone in an internet friends's band, Sly Moth! To make a poster/gif combo for a show in BROOKLYN! How tight! The only requirement was to involve things the headliner, Autowreck, love such as motorcycles:

Next is a super fun GIF that I made based off of my art crush Evan Wolff's poster design (he's mentioned in the article above... and has made tons of posters all around town for the past handful of years). He is also in Pretty Pretty and he gave me one of those on stage shout outs for making this little thing. 😳

Here's a quick one for my close buddies's FIRST show!

They looked just like Three's Company, so honestly I essentially traced Three's Company and turned them into a couple hip alien roommates.

Speaking of photos I ripped off, I needed to make a flier for Mal Blum. I had seen them a year ago (dressed as Harry Potter!) and vowed to make something for whatever show happened next. Audrey there in the middle commented how the prior event photo was perfect... so I spun straight off of that.

The Mal Blum show & hangs = PERFECT/so fun. These all were. Seeya again soon for more! :)

Gig Poster Explosion

I've had the pleasure of working on a handful of concert poster art for my friends at BravoArist this year, including the beast that was Spring Fling 3. As I finish up what looks like my last one for the year, I wanted to post a recap of the ones that I've made since my last poster-post back in April! Stay tuned for rants and sloppy sketches of ideas:

Two really quick ones. Cayetana: Cory says, "do a poster with Linda".

Blue hair because the singer of Cayetana has blue hair!

Dogs on Acid: I needed to draw this after I had a dream where I wanted to draw it.

Jukebox Breakdown: my friend Alex asked me to make an illustration of sad jukeboxes.

I designed a quick logo to match. It's been fun heading upstate to these every now and then to join in on the madness (as well as the long island specials).

Christmas in Hawaii Party: Quick one again, and the first one I made on a Surface Pro!

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Masked Intruder: this one was huge for me, and the second I have done of Masked Intruder. I absolutely love all the bands on the bill - some of Columbus's finest punkers. Skashank Redemption is a ultimate favorite of mine who I've been following for a few years now. All their shows are a blast, and I have been found skanking my ass off at a handful of them. When Cory told me he finally found a bill perfect to book them on, I flipped out. I gave the guys stolen ska instruments and had them running with some zombie dogs as a homage to Skashank and Cadaver Dogs.

I left the patches on their jackets empty, waiting to do them last in case I thought of anything special. The day I sat down to finish the piece, news went up about how the drummer from one of my favorite bands in the same vein, Teenage Bottlerocket, lost their drummer. Bands, friends, and fans were posting condolences - including a very sweet one from these guys. A variation of the TBR logo felt right to draw on the patches as a tribute to Brandon:

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Man Overboard: words cannot express how sad it was to hear that this tour was canceled. Man Overboard is literally the guiltiest pleasure band I listen to consistently. I love them! I love them so much I had to rip on their "DEFEND POP PUNK" branding hard with my favorite childhood weaponry, a Super Soaker XP 105!

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The Fall of Troy: Here's a band with incredible musicians. I admittedly found them during high school through my Guitar Hero obsession (the closest I ever got to being a cool band girl besides being in marching band)(I was really good enough to beat the Dragonforce track)(with a rubber band around the first button). I know they're better than lots of the bands I usually make posters for - mainly because I had more than 3 musician friends in Columbus drive all the way up to Cleveland with me to see this one (thanks for the ride, Dorian)!

The tour ad-mat was Adventure-Time themed to match the tour's title - Adventour Time - and since the show was such a huge one for my friends, I wanted to help give the Ohio date more attention. I visually mocked the album art they were celebrating, used the adventure time versions of themselves from the already existing art, and thew in Guitar Hero controllers because I am a nerd.

(I ended up getting a few sketches during the show, too)

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Tigers Jaw: This was an incredible lineup for a show. We needed to do something quick, and I wanted to do something super obvious. It looked like a sister design for a similar demographic show that was coming up after it - we got to print small handouts with the two designs back to back. This essentially is just a photoshop trace of a photo of a tiger's jaw. The simplicity worked well, because this is really the only thing I wanted to make:

ISMFOF: Words are not able to describe feelings for this guilty pleasure band of mine. I was obsessed with their album art (I even made my boyfriend a valentine last year that mocked it). I figured making the poster such a close representation of it would help attract the old fans and keep the energy that attracted fans like me in the first place. Fire plus a caterpillar being impaled sealed the deal - someone pointed out to me that it's a little more NSFW than I intended, considering the new album title being "Caterpillar Sex". Sorry mom!

 

Though it felt odd mocking their old artwork, my coworker pointed out that their album art actually looks incredibly similar to one from a grindcore album that dropped 4 years before by Combat Wounded Veteran. Can't go wrong with guts and pink/orange/white/black color schemes.

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Rock n' Rescue: My friend Stephanie was super excited about throwing this show for her local doggie organization, so I tried taking a stab at the idea of a cheesy community flier you might see on a church or coffee shop pin board. This poster was made totally in Flash! I wanted to give it a shot and take a break from being in Photoshop so often. I love animating in flash because of vector shapes and clean control of points - I'll happily be drawing there more in the future.

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Microwave: I had the most fun time making this one, and likewise the absolute best time seeing everyone's reaction to the poster leading up to the night of the show itself. Microwave is a band I fell very hard for, and I knew I couldn't do a half-assed job if I was going to be poking fun at their name. I also knew all of the locals pretty well and wanted to make them something memorable.

This particular Kid Cuisine that I basically traced was my favorite from my pre-vegetarian childhood diet. I made sure to slap some Kroger Manager's Special discount stickers on there, and add some easter eggs in the bottom left corner. I was flattered that people were asking for "screen prints" of it - considering all of the gradients and pixelated chicken nugget texture taken straight from the original image...!

All done! If you really read all this - thanks for your time! Come out to a show and say hi.