sketchin shit

These things always start out as obsessions.

re-decorating/designing my board

Bunny buns

clever title

FRIDAY Sketches

Porkchop head.

now even more veiny and 

grotesque.

Mad Monk

Animating my sketches.
Breathing and blinking.

I think I can tween out the breathing 

chest to get it a little smoother.

Pages from my Sketchbook dumped

Here's a look at some more of my sketchbooks.

I like using large books to spread / spill out over the pages.

I like this little guy. 

he gives me some hope.

lizards, dragons and creatures:

micky's nipples are 

pretty gnarls.

FRESHPACK

Yoda crabs

calligraphy collage 

point

summer madness

My sketchbook during my time in Hawaii.

Amazing & beautiful fish / found artifacts.

My GF's nephew had this way of

saying my name while sounding like my arch-nemesis.

a high-pitched emphasis on the "...iel " 

I'll post more photos from the garden isle in Hawaii.

ID2012

Independence day 2012 

Oakland. Lake Merritt.

behind fairyland.

The perks of knowing so many people willing 

to throw down in the kitchen.

handmade grill-pizza. 

...and off to see some mid-air explosions:

View from the hills

Also, this would be baddass.

Get it Together!

I designed record labels in 2011/12 for the Lugknuckles vinyl.
http://rafaeltapiaiii.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-grind.html

I really enjoy the end results

I am now putting together some poster designs to show off the records 
and labels and maybe have a few runs to silk-screen. Here is some of my process as I'm working through these designs.. 

The one on the left is ever so minty-fresh with the colors.
And a classic half-tone pattern and B&W.

On these below I was incorporating a hand-drawn element
to the mark I designed.

Here is the record being played.
Pretty sweet!

Here is some more info on this funky-ass music:
http://www.facebook.com/lugnutbrandrecords

you can pick up some vinyl:
http://www.facebook.com/lugnutbrandrecords?sk=app_205521576149308

Town Tees

A baseball tee design I've been working on

using some of my photography.

Representing where I choose to rest my hat.

*& hang my head.