9, 10, Never Sleep Again...

It's actually just coincidence that I'm posting this on the day that the Nightmare on Elm Street remake is being released, but it's a happy coincidence so I'll take it!

I don't really have any plans to see the new film, because even as someone who isn't a big horror movie buff I know that there is only one guy who should play Freddy, and trying to replace him is just silly (especially since they replaced a guy with a very prominent, villain-like chin with a guy who has absolutely no chin...and seems to think that Freddy should sound just like Rorschach, but I digress.)

This is one of the characters I had to draw for my second assignment for Front Magazine, but I liked the way he turned out so much that I singled him out and made a quick background. I'll post the rest of the artwork for the piece soon.

Johnny Boy on TV tonight

If you live in the Huntington, WV area turn your dials to channel 20 tonight (April 29) at 8 or 11 pm to see the feature film Johnny Boy. It's an action flick made by Brainwrap Productions, a group comprised of my friends and I. Seth wrote, directed and starred in this flick; the same Seth who is the star of our new project Seth Martin and Friends. (He's the best actor out of all of us.)

It's pretty darn cool to see it getting some air time on local TV. You can watch the trailer here.

New Prints For Sale!

First up is the 8-Bit Bikini print, 11x14 for $12.95. I have received numerous requests for this one so I'm very happy to offer it.


Spider-Man Print, 11.7x16.5 for $13.95


Cereal Monsters Print, 11x14 for $12.95


And finally the I Brain Zombies sticker for $1.50 All these things are available at Splitreason.com now, so click on the title of each item above to purchase.

Second Piece for Front Magazine

Here is a small preview of what I'm working on now, another two page spread illustration for Front Magazine. I particularly like this preview because it is very confusing out of context.

Facebook Fan Page

After quite a bit of wrestling and experimenting with the new "Like" button functionality that Facebook added this week, I finally made the leap to creating a Facebook fan page. If you are reading this via a link you followed from Facebook, chances are you've already joined up and I thank you! If you would like to follow me on Facebook please click the "Like" button in the bar to the right.

Also when viewing my blog you will notice that each post now has a Like button underneath it. Clicking these buttons will automatically publish a story to your Facebook account, for example "Bob Smith likes New Art on AlbinoRaven.com" I guess I'll see how useful this feature proves to be, though from my experiences so far I would say that Facebook has A LOT more testing to do.

I tried to import my blog posts directly into Facebook, which I also tried to do several years ago as well, and I remembered why I ultimately decided against it...it doesn't work. It will bring in about twenty or so of your old posts, which is nice, and then just never find any new ones. It says it should take three hours for new blog posts to show up on Facebook, and after 15 hours this one still isn't on there. Looks like I'll have to do it the old fashioned way! Not that copying and pasting a link is all that strenuous.

Count Shirt and Resident Evil Wallpaper

My Count shirt is up for sale on Splitreason and Front Magazine's website has just added a wallpaper version of my Resident Evil illustration from their gaming gore feature. You can buy the shirt here and download the wallpaper here!

And once again just remember that Front's website is a bit NSFW.

OctoRAWK

A new shirt design up for voting here. It features an Octorok, probably the most classic of baddies from the Legend of Zelda series, rocking out on some headphones. The pun in the name of the shirt is what gave me the idea, but I thought I could pull it off with a simple yet strong design. I'm particularly happy with how the headphones turned out because they look like I might have just traced a photo but I actually designed and drew them from scratch. Making an object look realistic using only large areas of a dark color is not something I'd list as one of my strong points, so it was good to go in a bit of a different direction.