Shameless Self-Promotion

 Shameless Self-Promotion

Well, this was something unexpected: A while back, I received an e-mail from Ross with the Death Metal Band, "Vominaut" (good thing I'm not emetophobic).  He found one of my pictures floating around the Internet, wanting to use it for their band's T-Shirt, and was kind enough to do a reverse-image search and find me.  Ross was kind enough to give me one of the T-Shirts to put in my gallery of my art in places I never expected.

I'm pretty omnivorous when it comes to music (I semi-jokingly say I listen to everything from ABBA to Zappa).  I gave their latest album, "Anthro Apologist", a listen and it was a different take, being a more instrumental (or should I say instra-METAL, am I right, folks?  Hello?  Is this thing on?) Death Metal.  It has an underlying, instrumental rhythm, almost like a heavy metal version of King Crimson or other Progressive Rock band sensibilities with a low, sonic growl in the background.  Almost a Death Metal to relax by vibe which I appreciated.

Here's a link to their Bandcamp Page if you're interested to give them a listen or buying their album (which I did):
VOMINAUT | https://vominaut.bandcamp.com/releases

They label themselves as Environ-METAL Death Riffers... I suggested perhaps they should go with "Death Nettle" or even "Death Petal".  I'm sure they are still thinking it through, rather than pretending I didn't make such horrible, horrible puns.

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Here's the original piece, both the line art version and the colorized version, which were part of the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Redux" for an alien race, the Siris.  Hey, wait-a-minute, I think there are still some of those open which I could be working on.  Perhaps I shall revisit those in the near future.

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Shameless Self-Promotion

I want to give a shout out to Rafael, who is currently stationed in Afghanistan, for having my art grace another T-Shirt overseas.  To pass the time at their base and provide some entertainment, they have created T-Shirts for various days of the week and landed on the idea of a Face-Hugger Friday and asked if they could use my drawing.  Absolutely!

He was kind enough to send me a few T-Shirts, a flag which was from the base, along with a citation for me.  It **ALMOST** makes it worth surely being on some sort of NSA Watch List now that I have received a package from Afghanistan.  :-D

FRONT:  I did not draw the Chest-Burster on the front of the shirt, but it is cool nonetheless!  And, hey, it's a CHEST-BURSTER, so it HAS to be on the Front of the shirt.

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BACK:  My Face-Hugger drawing is on another T-Shirt!  WEIRD!  It is part of my growing pile of swag, and my art finds itself on another shirt overseas.  (See HERE for the tale of the Face-Hugger drawing being used by Buried, a Dutch Death Metal Band.)

Rafael, when you get back stateside, contact me again.  At very least I owe you some sort of original drawing/sketch.  This stuff is COOL!  :-)

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Shameless Self-Promotion / Cross-Promotion

Please forgive a shameless bit of self-promotion/cross-promotion.  This is still hard for me to get my head around... I was contacted by Joel from the band BURIED, a Dutch death metal band hoping to use my drawing of the Facehugger for their T-Shirts.  That sounded super-cool, so of course I said "YES"!

I'm in Minnesota--about the middest of the Mid-West--so it's weird for me to think about a band from the Netherlands finding my art (part one of the impossible), and then liking it enough to want to put it on their t-shirts (part two of the impossible), and contacting me for permission and putting up a link to my site on their Facebook Page and sending me a few shirts and CD's to boot (part three of the impossible).   The fact there will be people in the Netherlands walking around, wearing shirts with my art on them, is just so weird for me to think about and try to wrap my head around.

So, my secret dream to be on a metal band's t-shirt is something I can cross of my bucket-list.  I would say I can't wait to do more t-shirt art for metal bands, but I don't even know how it happened this time, let alone do it again...  ;-)

Here is one of the band members wearing the shirt (my box of swag is in the mail and should be arriving any day).

You can visit Buried's Facebook page HERE!  If you happen to be at a venue at which they are playing, feel free to purchase one--or more!--of their shirts and CD's!  :-D

Here's the original Facehugger drawing from my series of "Unwanted Valentines".

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