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Diabolically Delightful Design & Illustration

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Weird stuff you find online: Fleshlights™

I’ve drawn some pretty bizarre things during my 15 year graphic design career. Most of these revolve around some weird sex thing. I’ve done dozens of YouTube thumbnails for a popular swinger’s web site. This involved me watching each video until I could pause and catch a single frame of the happy couple smiling lovingly at each other (lol) I made a logo for a spider-themed S&M dungeon, paid for…

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The Absolute Worst Facebook Marketing Practice (Stop Doing This NOW)

Facebook is largely a dying platform in Western countries, but ol’ Zuck and his web site are still is a necessity if you have a product, business, service or band to promote. There’s a ton of ways to go about promotion on Facebook, most of which involves paying Facebook a ton of money for negligible results. If you’re looking for good ways to promote on Facebook go elsewhere because today I’m…

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10 Things I Wish Would Have Done When I Was Younger - Advice From A Middle Aged Man To Young Guys

10 Things I Wish Would Have Done When I Was Younger – Advice From A Middle Aged Man To Young Guys

Recently one of my social media friends asked an interesting question. “What is something you’ve done that improved your life so much, you wish you had done it sooner?” Most of the replies were pretty mundane normie stuff. “I got a better job.” “I took time to work on myself.” “I went to therapy” (lol). There’s nothing new under the sun and this article has been written a thousand times before by…

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Zoolander's Ultimate Guide To Morning Wood

Zoolander’s Ultimate Guide To Morning Wood

Image research is an activity that’s constantly required as an artist. If you’re making a logo, you need to find what others have done, both for inspiration and to make sure you’re not ripping anybody off. If you’re illustrating something, reference pictures really help to make your art more realistic and proportional. I’m often engaged in some really questionable image searches. For example, I…

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DB Cyanide Custom Cyber/Tech Logotype

DB Cyanide Custom Cyber/Tech Logotype

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Thot Purge "Boomerdeath" Single Cover and Lyric Video

Thot Purge “Boomerdeath” Single Cover and Lyric Video

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Get "The Chronicles Of Bronan The Barbarian" by Matt Lawrence

Get “The Chronicles Of Bronan The Barbarian” by Matt Lawrence

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Rally The Fray - Prometheus Album Cover/Artwork

Rally The Fray – Prometheus Album Cover/Artwork

Hardcore is a great genre of music. High-energy, crazy and super fun to play. Back in the early/mid 2000s I was fairly plugged into the Fort Collins/Denver Colorado hardcore thanks to my involvement in my old hardcore/metalcore/punk crossover band Rally The Fray.

Jumping into the world of posterity, I took a bit of time to refresh Rally The Fray’s album art for our final EP Prometheus. I created…

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The Best Metal Albums of 2019 2019 was a banner year in heavy metal, with an absurd amount of incredible releases. I can't remember another year that had so many excellent releases in tech death, old school death, melodic and slam.

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Aborted Earth/Excruciating Euphoria - Funny Suits & Shiny Boots Album Cover

Aborted Earth/Excruciating Euphoria – Funny Suits & Shiny Boots Album Cover

I’ve been playing session bass for Aborted Earth for their last several EPs, and I’m stoked to present our latest effort Funny Suits & Shiny Boots, as split album with Maryland one-man project Excruciating Euphoria.

Our new EP cover art is a combined effort from Shannon Bowman (Xeropulse Audio Engineering/Aborted Earth guitarist), Jack Greenman (Simply Brutal Co./Excruciating Euphoria…

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Walmart Technical Death Metal Logo Redesign

Walmart Technical Death Metal Logo Redesign

What’s more brutal than a trip to Walmart?  Hordes of zombies, Black Friday murders and worst of all… mobility scooters. I’m part of Community of Metal Designers, a metal design Facebook group featuring some of the sickest designers in the game. We recently held a fun contest to redesign the Walmart logo and the results were fantastic.

Walmart themselves even gave a little love to Nephilim Artwhi…

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Dwarven Anvil Dungeons and Dragons Party Logo

Dwarven Anvil Dungeons and Dragons Party Logo

Time for a new Dungeons and Dragons party logo! I’ve been creating  some sweet logos for D&D parties lately, so I’m proud to show off my latest logo for D&D warriors Dwarven Anvil.

I started off this logo with a sweet hammer illustration, spending tons of time with stipplingtechniques to create shading. Stippling is a unique technique in vector art and looks great. I’ve done a lot of art with…

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Metallica - Master of Puppets Bass Cover/Playthrough

Metallica – Master of Puppets Bass Cover/Playthrough

Every guitarist on YouTube’s already done a Metallica cover, so why not choose Master of Puppets – Metallica’s most overplayed song? Treading well worn territory and falling asleep while doing so, here’s my Master of Puppets bass cover:

Nobody seems to agree on how this song is rightfully played, so I took some parts from various…

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Brutal Death Metal Pokemon Logo

Brutal Death Metal Pokemon Logo

Pokémon is hands down the most brutal video game ever made. You go into the wilderness, enslave a monster, then FORCE IT TO FIGHT FOR YOUR PERSONAL GLORY. I’ve never actually played it, but at least I think that’s how it works. I wanted to do some death metal logo practice, so I made this brutal Pokémon death metal logo:

I shot for readability on this logo, as well as classic metal symmetry. The…

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AFI - "Halloween" Bass Cover/Playthrough

AFI – “Halloween” Bass Cover/Playthrough

Halloween is of course the greatest holiday of the year. It’s nothing but costumes, hot skanks in costumes, candy, skanks and more candy. What’s not to like? Instead of celebrating Halloween by transforming into a drunken mess in a half-assed costume, check out my bass cover/playthrough of AFI’s classic cover of The Misfits’ “Halloween”:

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Jonestown Crunk Brutal Slam/Deathcore Logo

Jonestown Crunk Brutal Slam/Deathcore Logo

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Iron Maiden "Killers" Bass Cover/Playthrough

Iron Maiden “Killers” Bass Cover/Playthrough

Every self-respecting metalhead has been an Iron Maiden fan at some point, and I’m no exception. I discovered Maiden around age 16 and I’m a geezer now so I can say “I’ve been listening to Iron Maiden since you were in diapers” and actually be correct. Get off my lawn, you damn kids, and watch my Iron Maiden “Killers” bass guitar cover/playthrough:

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