With The Green Green Grass, Growin' Over My Feet

Fortunately due to my injury, I have had a lot of free time and therefore a lot of time to catch up on late projects. I was contacted by Type Records a few months ago about putting together the packaging for Helios' new album Caesura. I had worked with Helios before on his last album Eingya, and had gotten amazing response for the record cover. Though, looking back on it I was never particularly happy with the cover. I felt that it was severely lacking something, but what I could never figure out.

I was sent a demo copy of the new album and went to work coming up with ideas. I wrote out a ridiculously long explanation of why I went the direction that I did, which involved Phillip K Dick, Jonathan Lethem, The Boards of Canada, and All Summer In A Day…but instead of boring you with all of that, I will paraphrase it. The idea I wanted to push was the struggle between the interior and exterior, with the idea of isolation and memory woven throughout. Not exactly an easy thing to illustrate. After several rounds of sketches I finished some rough line work that everyone seemed to be happy with. And yes, I still hate doing perspective:

Unfortunately due to time restraints I was only able to finish the outside cover (though the inside cover will be finished shortly)

I have had some trouble for a while trying to figure out how to color in photoshop to create a depth of field, and I think I got pretty close to it on this. This is one of those times when I wish I could work photoshop entirely through telepathy…it would make my job a lot easier.

I am still waist deep in the “secret project”, with a handful of work left to go on it. Over the last month or so I did a few odd an end jobs that you guys might get a kick out of. The first for Glamour Magazine, the second for Bon Appetit, and the last for a bike race that I was unfortunately not able to compete in due to my leg.


I am healing away nicely…or well, I hope I am. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning to clean the wound and replace the wicks (as in, the pieces of fabric inside my leg that are sucking up all my life essence). The pain has subsided a lot, but my joints are still stiff and I am still having trouble walking (especially stairs). I cant exactly bend over, which has become incredibly annoying…my house is filthy, and all I want to do is clean it but I am incapable of doing so. Bathing has also become a bit of a problem….I have a huge claw foot tub, and getting in and out of it on one leg without getting the other wet is pretty death-defying.

I want to thank you all for your support from the last post on here. I have gotten a huge amount of response, and am just now starting to go through all the emails…so if you haven't heard back from me, don't worry…I'll get there. Some of the tattoo ideas you guys have come up with are amazing, and I have to admit I am pretty jealous of a good handful of them. I am really excited to start working on them.

And super secret; I may once again be doing a short comic for an anthology in the near future. It is not definite, and considering I swore death to comics a year ago, I am pretty tentative about the whole situation. We'll see though.