Art News! the UW Design Club’s first show “From Point A to Point A” opens this Friday, May 9th. at 7PM at the Red Gym Gallery on Langdon. It will feature poster designs from 14 members including myself, and will run to the 13th. See more of UW Design club at our website, uwdesignclub.com

The Mega Dude Squad blog is up and running! MDS is a comic strip I created this past year along with co-author Stephen Guzzetta. We had a year-long run in the Daily Cardinal, one of two daily student newspapers at the University of Wisconsin. I’m going to post one at a time, re-tooled and streamlined versions of each of our comics starting from the very beginning.

It’s going to be sort of like a Special Edition as I have gone back and streamlined a lot of the lettering which I’ve gotten much better at as the series went on. I’ve also changed some of the layouts and frames to make them much more cohesive and visually interesting as well as readable.

Mega Dude Squad is the story of a fledgling super hero squad of misfits as they gather their forces, hang out in their secret Antarctic base, attempt to pick up girls and (try to) save the world. The humor is intended for mature audiences so be forewarned as a lot of the comics are NSFW.

The illustrations began as a grab-bag of comic books from a used book store. We went through and frankenstiened different bits and pieces of the goofiest cliche heroes to create the characters. They were then scanned an traced in illustrator to create the final look of the comic. The fonts and balloons were downloaded free from BlamBot.

All in all, this has been a really fun project that I’m glad is finally going online. Hope you all join the Squad.

After about a week of messing around trying to decide where to go with the blog, I decided to make pages for permanent galleries of my portfolio and images used on the blog. So far I have a fairly extensive design portfolio up, and just a few illustrations. I hope to get a solid, cool looking group of illustrations up there as soon as I get my work scanned and formatted.  Also I’m thinking of adding some other gallery categories for Sketches and Life drawing. I think that might be something interesting to look at. I think once I get the bulk of my work up, I can concentrate on getting a good mix of my stuff and links to other people’s, so that it’s not only my vehicle to promote me, but also to show off some other stuff I think is worthwhile.

I just finished an actual header image for the blog. Nothing too crazy, just tried to get some simple text and a lot of custom texture. Going for old timey wild west, but still fresh. More stuff on the way soon as I get my images ready to upload, and get this show on the road.

Welcome to Gunslinger Illustration and Design. Right now I’m working on uploading my portfolio images of painting, drawing, and other design work I’ve done. I plan on posting artist’s statements and descriptions of my work as well as other fun stuff related to art, design, and illustration. Check back soon for more updates.