Heavy Hand Illustration

Illustration & Other Visual Sundries by Mark W. Richards

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Inking for 2 projects, one of which needs color and the other for a sweet band playing Maryland Deathfest. Finals of both coming soon!

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Another design for Agoraphobic Nosebleed, available at this year's Maryland Deathfest! Lots of "easter eggs" in this one.

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Longsleeve (and hoodie, maybe?) design for legendary drum machine-driven grind band Agoraphobic Nosebleed, playing this year's Maryland Deathfest! This shirt should be available at the Relapse merch tent.

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T-shirt design for Floridian grind maniacs Maruta

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Album cover, t-shirt design and tour poster for Temple Of Dagon's new EP Revelations of the Spirit

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T-shirt design/EP cover for NY's Nightcrawler

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Time to update this blog and dump a bunch of work from the past couple months. Here's a t-shirt and label design for Viking Oils, a beard oil company out of CT.

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I haven't been keeping up with Tumblr recently, whoops. Here's the newest complete piece for my buds in Revocation!

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Brand spankin' new long sleeve design for Pig Destroyer! Top image is the back design, bottom image is sleeve/pocket/sleeve.

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3 colorways for San Francisco's All Out Foul, a small apparel line sold out of Heff's Barbershop.

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Here's another scanned/finalized piece that was done a while ago but never posted. Cover for The Panoptic Press' upcoming zine Panoptic Presents! If you like avant-garde and weird horror, comics, etc., I suggest looking into it at www.thepanopticpress.com

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Forgot to post the scanned and finalized album cover for Throw The Goat's upcoming album "Blood, Sweat & Beers." You can preorder the album at throwthegoat.bandcamp.com!

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Album cover for "Life Is A Struggle, Give Up," an upcoming release from UK's Oblivionized!

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Poster for Deceased's 30th anniversary party at Ralph's Diner in Worcester!

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Another poster in the books.

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Completed cover art for "Plump Up The Volume," the first full length album from my band Composted, as well as one of a handful of works-in-progress.

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Various shots of projects from the last week or so. Finals of each coming soon!