luvataciousskull

I'm really proud of this one. I rarely draw how I feel and over the last 3 days I worked on this. It's an expression of my anxiety, stress, and even periodic depression from it all.

But I feel really happy to have done this! I did a ton of brush work, some minor pen with, and experimented with new ways of doing and showing things.

It's a old-school cartoon style Krampus.

I started drawing this a year ago but wasn't happy with it, and this year I decided to ink and finish it. I think the biggest issue I had with it was that I wanted to do a really evil version at the same time but I decided to just go with something simple and silly.

I've been on a kick for doing black metal logos, so I did one that I had in my mind for a few years.

Shortly after I did my Philadelphia Black Metal logo, I came up with the idea of doing a few more for cities I had been to and NYC was on top of that list. I instantly thought of a long, skinny design to show the skyscrapers but I was never happy with it. Today it all kinda clicked and I decided to focus on a super-clean design inspired by the first At the Gates logo. The main thing is that while its super-super clean at the start, the lower it gets the grimier it gets. I wanted to show the history of the city in the logo while still highlighting the future.

I was inspired to come up with this after talking to a few people. Everyone seems to think "The Government" is this weird thing that doesn't really consist of people, but some shapeless blob that controls everything, sees everything, and hears everything. So I wanted to show that.

Will post logo separately.

I may give this an update, but I'm posting it as-is since I don't want to overwork it.

I drew Trump as an angry egg and all the type (save the copyright line) was done by hand. I just had a ton of fun.