October Playlist 2016

Completed another year's October Playlist, this time doing it traditionally with ink! For the previous three years go here: 2013 / 2014 / 2015. Here's this year's completed playlist (images taken from my Instagram:

Left to right:

Possession - Noisia, Ivy Lab

Ghost Writer - Calyx & Teebee

Skyline - Karma Fields

Parallel - Technimatic, Zara Kershaw

Lighting Up The Dark - Klaypex, Brandon Paddock

Mediums - The Upbeats

Deep - TC, Jakes (also features reference from Mr. Robot b/c I love that show :P)

Ewaste - Hybris

Tentacles - Noisia

Schizoid - Feed Me, Speed

Mythos - InsideInfo, Mefjus

404 - Knife Party

Nerds on Mushrooms - Infected Mushroom, Pegboard Nerds

Emergence - Trifonic

Risingson - Massive Attack

Eclipse - Sub Focus

Ghost - Mystery Skulls

Shelter - Porter Robinson, Madeon

Neckbreaker - Dirtyphonics, FuntCase

Mouthbreather - Noisia, The Upbeats

Mr Happy - DJ Hazard, D-Minds

She - Eptic

Spitfire Riddim - Kill the Noise, Madsonik, twoton

Lasercat - Posij

Head Splitter - Getter

Antihero - Noisestorm (featuring Alex Mercer from Prototype)

Toys Riot - Teddy Killerz (references a game my brother is making ;P)

Seeds - Trei

[Weekend Recap] - various artists on Monstercat (this was a piece done for work)

Melody Circus - Savant

Spooky Dub - Ivy Lab

This year's October Playlist started pretty tame and then I went insane and took it into questionably far places :'D My mind's exhausted but I'm happy to have done the challenge and as always, some fun ideas came out of it. Big shoutouts to the artists these pieces are based off of and to the people who followed each piece as I was posting them throughout the month <3

Monstercat Art

One of the more regular projects I get working at Monstercat HQ is the illustrations posted on Monstercat's social media pages. Here are some selected works from the weekly weekend recaps and special postings:

Weekend Recaps:

  

 

Special Posts:

 

 

 

More Monstercat arts, including album covers and plushies, can be found on my portfolio site. :)

Knife Party & Tom Morello - Battle Sirens

Today is the official release date of Knife Party and Tom Morello's collab track "Battle Sirens"! It's also the first official feature of the KP characters on a Knife Party track!!

I also got to work on the video for this track, too:

I've been a fan of Tom Morello since middle school, frequently listening to Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. Fast forward to 2012, post-graduating from college I drew this character for the first time:

"Battle Sirens" is a track that combines my music tastes from growing up to the present and having the opportunity to work on the art for it is surreal. 

So many feels. 

I can't even.

Arts That I Haven't Posted On This Blog Yet

I need to stay up to date in posting new art on this blog. Here's some pieces done from May to July 2016:

Collab Series

(A quick series of collaborative tracks from certain artists I like ;) )

Anatomical Bird Study

(I had a hard time understanding how bird skeletons work so this was a stab at trying to comprehend their anatomy.)

(Various pen and marker drawings. Been doing more of these lately, they're usually featured on my Instagram or Twitter.)

Zucat Monsterbat v2.0

(Been playing Pokemon GO and my legs feel AMAZING. I've been sitting on my butt for nearly 4 years drawing all day and now suddenly this app gets me to walk two miles in rainy weather just to catch Pokemon on my way to work.)

Then I went on a splurge of drawing people because people are fun to draw and I don't do it often enough:

(Been watching various anime shows and these two characters have been favourites all throughout completing these shows. Top is Vincent Law from Ergo Proxy; bottom is Vash the Stampede from Trigun.)

(I did a series of Pokemon-Inspired Fashion Design and there were some characters I really liked and wanted to explore more of their backstories. Top two characters (left to right) are troublemakers Ekki and Kory (Ekans and Koffing); bottom two are skater friends Troy and Yana (Tropius and Yanmega).)

(Revamped some MOTH characters ;) )