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This shirt for Black Vulture Gallery is based on a spell from the Grimoirium Verum. "Begin this operation on a Wednesday before the sun rises, being furnished with seven black beans. Take next the head of a dead man; place one of the beans in his mouth, two in his eyes and two in his ears. Then make upon this head the character of the figure which here follows. (Omitted in all the Grimoires.) This done, inter the head with the face towards heaven, and every day before sunrise, for the space of nine days, water it with excellent brandy. On the eighth day you will find the cited spirit, who will say unto you: What doest thou? You shall reply: I am watering my plant. He will then say: Give me that bottle; I will water it myself. You will answer by refusing, and he will again ask you, but you will persist in declining, until he shall stretch forth his hand and shew you the same figure which you have traced upon the head suspended from the tips of his fingers. In this case you may be assured that it is really the spirit of the head, because another might take you unawares, which would bring you evil, and further, your operation would be unfruitful. When you have given him your phial, he will water the head and depart. On the morrow, which is the ninth day, you shall return and will find your beans ripe. Take them, place one in your mouth, and then look at yourself in a glass. If you cannot see yourself, it is good. Do the same with the rest, or they may be tested in the mouth of a child. All those which do not answer must be interred with the head." So maybe this shirt will make you invisible.



Shirt design for the Philly based, vegan coffee shop, Grindcore House. Great coffee, people and awesome place to show art!



White Horse shirts!



Here's a larger version of the Adepticon shirts.



A new one for Pink Coffins!



ANOTHER shirt for the awesome Philly thrash band The Claw



Here's a new The Claw design. They requested a bunch of viking stuff and I think I delivered.



Tshirt design for the Detroit based band, Knife.



Shirt design for Toilet Water



Brand new Anime Fire shirt!



New Afends design!



One of three designs based on 70's/80's exploitation movies for an as-of-yet-unnamed UK based clothing company.



This is one of the best shirts I've ever done. For the now defunct Melbourne based Bright Star Alliance.



ZOMBIE PIRATE WITH SKATEBOARD!!! For an Oakland based band called Short Changed.



This is a hoodie design for Your Demise. The top part was to be printed on the hood itself. That's the four eyed wolf Garmr from Norse mythology. The other two are Hati and Skoll the sons of Fenrir that try to eat the sun and the moon.



A pile of cool stuff for the Australian band Anime Fire.



Another Afends gem. My friend Kettner posed for the reference on this so thanks to him for skating over those monsters.



I swear those Afends kids are on drugs.



Zombies eating records for the Portuguese band Broken Distance.



This is the second Afends shirt and one of the more absurd. Note the video game character tattoos.



Probably the most mind boggling of the Afends shirts. Two cartoon characters, one a rabbit, playing poker inside a shark's mouth. By the way the shark has god fronts with bling in them. HA!



I'm really happy with the way this one turned out. For the UK band Durai.



My friend Sylvan asked me to draw this for his label Abstraction and all he said was "maybe something with body parts." This is what happened. Too much Lovecraft.



This ridiculous design was done for the Nebraska based band, Hercules. They wanted Cthulhu and they got him. My favorite part is the little people he's tossing into his mouth like popcorn.



The first of two designs for the Australian clothing company Afends. It was their concept and turned out really sweet (after some helpful suggestions from them).



The second Afends design and my concept. Hopefully I'll be working with them more in the future.



One of three pieces I did for Team Bristlehead. They wanted to play off the M�torhead shirts but with a sun bear skull.



Newest Strength Approach design for their 10 year anniversary show.



Porcell from Bold and Youth Of Today fame is about to start a clothing company called True Till Death Clothing. This is one of four designs by different artists.



I think this is the best shirt design ive done in a long time. It fits with the whole theme of the Power Corrupts record.



This is my current favorite, for the British band The Legacy. This was half their idea half mine.



One of my better designs. I've finally learned, "the more black the better" as far as shirts go.



A shirt design to continue the hockey theme of the Donnybrook album.



Fighting Dogs let me go crazy on this as long as I got it done in a day. Most shirts only take a day or two anyway, but they needed this in a particular hurry. There you go.



A great Philadelphia band. One of the only bands that I did artwork for before talking to them. "Here this is, if you like it, use it".



Shirt for a benefit for the Philadelphia Franklin Paine Skate Park.



There's been about four Comeback Kid designs. This one is the best. I've never seen either of them printed so I don't know if they printed well.



I've done artwork for bands from all over Europe but Sardinia is probably the most absurd. There's also a full color version of this.



The first of many pieces for Strength Approach. There's a full color version of this that was on their website.



Keanu Reeves is really hard to draw. His emotionless face is almost without distinction. It took a while but I think i got his likeness for this Missouri based band with a ridiculous name.
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