So I finally got around to doing a real pass on the card designs. I was always unhappy with the old design. I wanted something a bit more hand-drawn, messy, more '80's, and a touch punk-rock. Like this new card:
And here's the card back design. I was aiming for "80's radiation symbol", since the genesis of this myopic game was the nuclear crisis of the '80's and my perpetual insomnia that resulted. Made with spattered and blown ink!
Also here are a few older cards with the new design:
I did a painting of some monster heads for my dad as a belated Christmas Gift. They are just random little monster heads, but if I had to name them, it would be: Bone Tongue, Scalesy Flipperton, The FEZ, Ocular Wingford, Horny McHornton, Googly El-Vez.
Gouache on print making paper.
I'm not sure if this card's text reveals some inner self-criticism about my unpleasant aura or something. But here it is.
I wanted to post something before the year's end, but I didn't finish the painting I'm working on yet. So instead I'm posting an old random sketch from 2005! It's a mecha-ape with four fingers and candy-red nipples. Not sure where I was going with this one.
Another Pettyland creature: A door face! I can't claim that it is particularly '80's, but it is quite nasty if you encounter one.
I warned you that more tasteless Pettyland cards were coming. Here's one of many.
I recently painted a little piece for a gallery show based on the Rankin & Bass movie Mad Monster Party. You can check out the other pieces at Van Eaton Galleries website here: http://www.vegalleries.com/
Below I posted the final piece, a small gouache painting (8"x10") on printmaking paper as well as a few process shots and a bunch of little doodles and sketches I did to warm up, since I had never drawn any of these characters before.
What game would be complete without random tentacles?
There's a lot of radiation in this game! Over the years, I've drawn many cows, but never a healthy looking one. I'm not sure what I have against them. Perhaps my distorted view of these majestic creatures is because I was allergic to all dairy products as a child.
I did this commission for a Stacking fan a little while ago. He asked for a vegetarian butcher. To emphasize the PURE TERROR caused by the butcher, I included a little cowering broccoli doll with a vegan afro.I also snuck in some celery eyebrows and a carrot nose for the butcher.
