t-shirt design

This is a design I have been working on for these guys starting up this artists collaboration. I'm sure they will be getting websites up and all that good stuff, so once this kicks off I will post something. Meanwhile, enjoy!

start of tattoo portfolio

Still working on these drawings but I thought I'd share them with you anyways.




This one was fun to draw, Japanese tattoo are one of my favorites



Working on these drawings as well, but it will be interesting looking back at these posts as I go along with posts of my tattoo portfolio



first attempt at drawing this

Damaged prints

I forgot to post these with the previous "damaged" post. So here it is!
Enjoy!
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I had a lot of fun with this piece. It took me a good amount of time but one of my favorites. Again, I illustrated the line work first, scanned it and worked in photoshop to put in the color.
I had some trouble printing it out because of the resolution so the line work might be fuzzy, it was bad when I printed it out big. Once I fix that problem I will post pics of the prints.

The text written in the tombstone i might take out, but here it is.

"Jane Doe"
In between those heavier of days
When the light she smothered with the hammer she swung
Lay claim to the before and after of what could've and should've been
My heart stopped and love passed over our heads
How could you not feel the weight of such subtlety?
You never gave it a second thought before that third word passed my lips
And I meant everything
I meant every word

Damaged

These prints were designed on photoshop with pieces of some old prints I made a couple years ago. I had a lot of fun with this one, it was different than a lot of the stuff I was making this year, but I was pumped on the way they came out.



This one I was just playing around with some ideas for patches or maybe album artwork. I didn't really have a purpose, but hey, art is all about trying things out.

The text written inside the obscured face was a poem I wrote thinking about this piece with the idea of it being called "damaged"

“Damaged”
Time test me with tattered souls of hermits, widows and widowers
Hung like willows weeping inconsolable loneliness for the bottom dwellers
For those out of step with the world
Pushed to my knees I’ll learn how to crawl through the squall
Homeless with homes, directionless, motionless
While I dreamt in a deep well, wishing
Stuck forever
Damaged

With Death Beds Below

Outline silkscreened, color printed out on the epson
There are five prints in this set with the same imagery, the only thing that changes are the poems written within them and the color within the cross.

“All Open”

My silence has no meaning

Ask and ask again

There is your answer

No long paragraph

Biography

Or essay

Just five coherent words

The figments I have become are ruthless beings

Don’t ask me to explain myself

My thoughts I can’t bring home

I’m a tongue-tied mouth

A fumbled explanation

So listen please

Wont you listen

Listen

Listen

“Erasing its way”

Questions rejected

Spit out

Dispersed

My stubborn head shielded by skin

All I ever seem to have are bad thoughts

A constant nagging glared vibrant

I woke to the sound of an animal dying

Attacking some imaginary demon

I’m perplexed by endless headaches

Yearning to face calm waves of rage

Gouged by a muted light

Cringing

Stepping into the sun, I vanished

“Bearings”

Unsettling unrest to reach the end

A systematic nature

A lifetime to conclude what upsets my stomach

I have come to dislike what I have found

An uneasy realization to awaken to

But its there

Teeth bearing and all

There will be room for error

There will be

So failure grit your teeth at hells mouth

And move forward

“Deathbeds”

Answered by silence, I repeated my question

Swept by calm, yet frustrated

I can’t feel my body

Can’t find registration, lost

Finally, after what it seemed like ages, time spoke

You’re dying

You can rest

“Thaw”

I thaw, in memory of every bitter winter

I drink my warmth of a last light

Yet what’s in that but regret?

I have been filling my glass half full with piss

How could I have misplaces me, myself?

I’d feel better off alone

I’d feel better by myself

So lets call it a day

In fields of sunshine, I thaw

I thaw

Fight off your Demons!!!

This is a design I drew up for an album cover for one of my buddies bands. I scanned in the drawings individually and then pieced them together and colored them in using illustrator. These are epson prints as well. The prints themselves have silkscreened detail in the clouds. I will post them once I am able to document them.

Check them out!
www.myspace.com/malcolmwhiteband