Obscuritones poster

A poster for a female fronted rockabilly band, inspired partly by my love of vinyl, and partly by this picture of one of my guitar heroines, queen of trash rock n roll, Poison Ivy Rorschach:

Although the Ivy looks way more badass than my girl, I like to think my girl's sweet on the surface and savage underneath. For the background texture, I used the endpaper from my copy of 'Kon Tiki and I' by Erik Hesselburg, a sketchbook from the Kon Tiki expedition. I layered this up with print-textured colourblocks, and used negative space type to ring the changes. The colours used in the central illustration are complemented by the black line drawing detail in the heart.

MFC Chicken in sickly neon.

A bright one this time! MFC Chicken are named in honour of a fried chicken shop, and this was my take on fast food neon signs. Using a found image of a sexy lady devouring a bucket of chicken, overlaid with a pair of green dancing cocks (thats cockerals, you smutbags out there!) penned by me. I used translucent layers and a print style moire on the background to create a screen printed look.

I found the image for the background by googling 'sexy chicken'. I never want to do that again.

Crazy Japanese R&R poster

This poster was for a gig by the Minnesota Voodoo Men, who, logically, are from Japan. One of the crop of wild wild Japanese garage rock n roll bands that are well worth checking out. The gig was a collaboration with the nice folks who run the very excellent FratHouse club night in Bristol. I wanted the poster to be a tip of the hat to the Screamin' Jay Hawkins-esque brand of American Voodoo in the way that the Minnesota Voodoo Mens' sound is a tribute to trashy 60s American R&R. I included potions, a monkey paw, chickens head, voodoo doll and other paraphernalia of any self respecting 60s american witchdoctor.  I kept the colours muted so the black and white pic of the band didn't look out of place.