Random drawings

Been doing a bunch of random drawing lately too - some of these may end up on t-shirts at some point, or pins, or who knows...

Demon Seed

I did another skate deck graphic for Demon Seed, my favorite one yet! I have one left for sale, in the SHOP.

More new junk

I did a bunch of buttons recently - all available in the SHOP.

More updates

More! I've been doing a ton of stuff for the hood rats at SLUMGOLD recently. Here's some.

UPDATES!

Been a while - gonna try and keep up on this better. I'm going to post a bunch of recent work, not necessarily in chronological order. Here goes! And by the way, I deactivated my facebook artist page to concentrate more on this blog and my Instagram (@1000styles) - too many places to update. Here's my Ol' Dirty Bart character - available on t-shirts and stickers, check my shop for details:

Strong Hearts Cafe T-shirt Graphic

I got the opportunity to do this t-shirt graphic for Strong Hearts Cafe here in Syracuse, I think it turned out pretty sweet. Rumor has it it will be available at the cafe soon, and they may even have some limited prints made too. This was a ton of fun. Thanks Joel!

Interview up at Sticker Robot!

Been a while since I've updated, I know. I'll add some new art soon. In the meantime, check out this interview I just got over at Sticker Robot's blog: Ten Questions with 1000STYLES! You can even score one of my Malted Mickey stickers, FREE - details in the interview. Don't forget, my Instagram (@1000styles) and artist page on Facebook are the best way to stay up to date on my art (do people even visit normal websites anymore?).

Teenage Time Killers

Been a while since I've updated this blog! If you're interested in my work, follow me on Instagram (@1000STYLES) or on Facebook (facebook.com/thousandstyles) for more frequent updates, I tend to post there before anywhere else. I'll get this site/blog up to date soon, I hope, but in the meantime, here's a recent project. I got to do this t-shirt graphic for the Teenage Time Killers, who are some kind of crazy million-member supergroup including members of like 30 different bands like Lamb of God, Corrosion of Conformity, Slipknot, Foo Fighters, etc. It's a pretty big project. They have an album coming out July 31, can't wait to hear it. This was a fun graphic to do, I'd definitely like to do more like this!

Minion Stickers are Available!

Finally made the jump to vinyl die-cut stickers. Got some done of the little minion I did - thanks to Bryan at Rockin' Stickers for hooking it up just right. They're available in my webstore for only two bucks. Go check 'em out and pick up a couple!

SHANK OR DIE

Got a chance today to shoot some photos of this piece I did recently for the Deck the Halls all-skate-deck art show at the SALTQuarters Gallery here in Syracuse. This piece is now sold and it's gonna be hard to let go of it, but I guess that's just all the more reason to get into the next one! I decided against trying to scan it because of the curvature of the board, so I tried to get some good photos instead. Here's the shot of the whole thing followed by some closeups. Lighting isn't optimal, even though I was outside (in single-digit temperatures, no less) when I shot it, but you get the idea. It does look better in person, but what are you gonna do. I'll take what I can get, I'm no pro photographer. Hope you dig it.

Retro Rewind

Looks like I forgot to post this image a few weeks back when I was cleared to release it - too many social media outlets to update and forgot my own damn site! Ah well, it's cool, the event is thiscoming weekend so no better time to post it than now. This is a graphic I got to do for the big RETRO REWIND traditional hot rod and motorcycle show happening this weekend in Dubuque, Iowa. This is being produced on flyers, t-shirts, stickers, and whatever else. Best I can tell, it's one of two major images the show organizer commissioned to promote the show with, the other done by the amazing Doug P'Gosh! I'm in some great company on this one, super honored to have done it! Thanks again John!

Holiday Sale!

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are always a lot of fun for me, seeing family and friends and enjoying time away from the usual grind. But the ever-worsening relentless approach of the corporations trying to steal your valuable dollars in the name of the holidays and the 'holiday creep' as it's become known, really annoys me. However, I do enjoy giving gifts to those on my list, so dealing with the american capitalist machine is a necessary evil. I just try to keep it as limited as possible, and buy from small businesses and local craftsmen as much as I can. I assume most of you reading this also have plans to buy a few gifts for your loved ones - so if your list includes someone who would enjoy my art, I am offering an incentive to visit my shop - a free poster or two! To get to my webstore, you can click the image at right, or this link. Read on for details...

Sketch Collection Booklet

I've gotten some pretty good response on some of my recent pencil drawings, so I decided to put a bunch of them together in a booklet format to make available in my webstore. Since they're just drawings and not really finished pieces, it made more sense to me to do it this way to to try and make prints of them or sell the originals (which would have to be literally ripped from the book and I don't want to do that). So I scanned them at high resolution and created this booklet - it's 32 pages of gory, dripping, violent, disturbing characters that make people think I'm a sadistic torture-killer just waiting for the right moment to murder a bus full of tourists or something. But chances are, since you're already here on my site, you're into this kind of thing and you likely won't be offended. Most of these drawings have already been published on this site or on my various social media, but in low resolution, small size, and sometimes just photos, not scans - so this booklet collects them all in one convenient place in high quality print. I thought it was a cool way to make them accessible and affordable to those who might be interested. You could potentially take the booklet apart and create like little 30 prints to hang up if you wanted. Anyway, here's a preview - and it's available in the webstore here. I'll sign each copy, and it comes with a bunch of stickers too. Word up!

51 Tire and Transmission

Just finished this art for 51 Tire & Transmission's shop tees. Did two versions - one for dark shirts, one for light shirts, since they'll be printing both. Love drawing stuff in this style. All pen and ink except the lettering. Thanks Tony!

Hot Dog Chainsaw!

Just a maniacal weekend sketch...I'd love to ink up one of these and make a band t-shirt graphic out of it...

Louder Than Life

I was asked to create some t-shirt art for the Louder Than Life music festival that's happening in Louisville, Kentucky this weekend (Oct. 4/5). There are some really great bands playing and I guess it's also a celebration of fine whiskey and food as well as the music, wish I could've gone! They specifically wanted some hot rod/ed roth type art, so I came up with this. I'm posting two versions - I did the color-limited version first, and I still like it a bit better, but they wanted more color, so the second version is what was printed. I still dig it a ton, I just tend to gravitate towards limited color stuff myself. I'm sure the colorful version will sell more shirts though. Regardless, it was a great project, and they were actually kind enough to send me a couple sample shirts too - one of which I'm keeping, the other is for sale in my webstore. The print came out really nice - definitely proud of this one!

PYRITHION \m/

Did this t-shirt graphic recently for death metal band Pyrithion but it's unfortunately never going to see the light of day. Super bummed about that because I really like how this turned out, but that's the way it goes sometimes. Thought I'd at least put it up and get a little self-promo out of it. It's hand-drawn pen & ink, scanned and then colored digitally. Enjoy!

Codependency

Just a wacked-out sketch I came up with while watching ghetto birds hover overhead and gunshots and sirens blaring in the near distance at the last Toxic Lakers drink and draw session in downtown Syracuse....enjoy the effects....

Mike Tyson's PUNCH-OUT!!

I'm so bad with self-promotion. I should've posted this like a month ago when I finished it. It's a piece I created as part of the "8-Bit and Beyond" show at Bottleneck Gallery in Brooklyn. The opening was August 9th. The show is actually over now, but my piece, as well as others, are still available for sale on their site at this link. Over 70 artists all contributed their take on a classic video game...I chose Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. Here's my piece...

"You must have big rats if you need Hattori Hanzo steel...."

This one was a lot of fun. Gotta do more like this. A private commission - pen and ink with watercolor, 8x10". Working small like this was cool, much easier to get into it than my usual larger finished size.

MORE FRIGGIN POSTAL SLAPS

I've done over a hundred of these stickers now (in this style, I mean - who knows how many I've done over the course of the last 20 years - thousands??). I'm not gonna post all of them because that shit would be tiring. So instead, here's a few of my recent favorites. By the way, you can buy some of these in my webstore, linked here and also to the right of this post (where it says SHOP). You can buy individual stickers or a mystery pack of 6 for the price of 5. I try to keep the prices low, but keep in mind these take me about a half hour each to do, so I can't sell them for pennies. Go check them out!

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Can't believe I never posted this. Finished inks for my old friend Dan's leg tattoo. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - the composition is weird because it's a lower leg sleeve, so I tried to shape it to wrap around correctly. I just added the color to make a pop a little more on a screen, final product was black on white only. This was done in pen and ink.