The BOSS!

I illustrated this for Baltimore Magazine's Charm City Chatter column. I used my buddy Frank Hamilton's photo as a reference, so there's some authenticity to this one.

CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCK

A piece I did for Thursday night's 2nd Annual Lighting of the Chicken ceremony's corresponding exhibition 'Chicken in a Biscuit'.
Artwork had to be chicken themed.

Work in Progress

This is a commissioned piece that I am working on. A portrait. This is the background art, the portrait still has to be worked on. More to come later...

Self Portrait...

I have a bunch of stuff to post soon, but because of secrets and/or publication dates I have to wait a little bit. In the meantime, here is a self portrait I did last night/this morning between baby duties.

Bmag update

These are the latest illustrations that I did for Baltimore Magazine. The Otakon piece was online only because of editorial issues that caused the column to get pulled.The piece on the left depicts Cardin's paparazzi filled town-hall meeting last month.

Social Networking spot illustrations for Style

These illustrations were done for STYLE magazine to accompany their social networking feature. While I am very happy with the final, I had a different idea for the Craigslist piece that was rejected, that I may revisit just because I was really in love with it.

UPDATE: Below are scans of the layout. Love it. STYLE magazine prints color so beautifully.

New Amerykah Type Poster

New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh

This is my piece to commemorate Badu's follow up album to New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War. I plan on giving her a print when I see her at Merriweather this Saturday.

STYLE magazine "Summer Waves"

This was for STYLE magazine. The feature was on summer hair trends and the art director wanted something "retro feeling". I think it turned out quite nice.

Okayplayer T-shirt Contest...

So, I have been a big fan of okayplayer.com for some time now. Online home of the Roots and fansite for okayplayer branded artists such as Amy Winehouse, Meshell Ndegeocello, Erykah Badu, Common, Talib Kweli, Jazzyfatnastees, SA-RA, J Dilla–the list goes on and I consider myself to be an okayplayer.

Anyway, they recently posted a contest to design a t-shirt to commemorate the year 2002 in honor of their 10 year anniversary. I chose to do a design for Meshell Ndegeocello's "Cookie-The Anthropological Mixtape" because I'm a big fan of Meshell's and other artists that released material in 2002 were already represented in one of the other designs. I came up with four designs. Here they are. Stay tuned to see if I win.

OZ...

This is a piece that I did for City Paper. It's for a book review of the book "The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West". I love the Wizard of Oz (story and the film) and wanted to do a piece that spoke more about Oz than the characters, and more about the fact that this book is a collection of Oz-based theories and not about any particular instance or character. I am pretty satisfied with the end result.

Life's Circle

This is my Christmas gift to my family for 2009.

Georgia Anne Muldrow

This is a cover and illustration I did for the online magazine Scheme. The piece is of the beautiful Georgia Anne Muldrow whom I first heard this past February after purchasing New Amerykah Pt.2. Georgia makes some of the most atmospheric, thought-provoking, unconventional music this side of planet earth that I've heard in years. Enjoy the new piece.

Kinetic Sculpture Race...

LIVE at the Renaissance

I did this flyer for an event promoted by Scheme magazine (Check previous posts). If you are in the DC/Metro/Baltimore area attend this "semi networking event where people can enjoy great music from the 80's through the 90's with a mix of the current Little Brother, Cool Kids, Lupe Fiasco, Cromeo, etc." And guess what, it's FREE.

Digging too deep

Digestible to Hipsters

This is a piece I did for the City Paper in Baltimore. The article was written about three bands whose current new releases have become a bit more digestible than their past efforts.

D is for Digits...

C is for Chest & Collar (Part 2, the Good One)

This is my second attempt at drawing my chest. I redid it because I wasn't happy with the previous version. This one I'm much happier with.

C is for Chest, or Collarbone