Logorama III: The Metal is Black

Recently I've been making black metal logos. One was just because and the other was a small commission. Black metal logos are cool because readability is not all that important. The most important aspect of those kinds of logos is the overall composition and pattern. These logos are very mathematical and complicated. No matter what the word is, the logo should generally have perfect or near perfect symmetry. That being said, I don't believe that what I've done is nearly as good as what it could be... but it's definitely a step in the right direction.

One more thing... not every black metal band has a logo in this style. Like everything, there's always exceptions to the rule.

WHAT DO THEY SAY??? Who knows? That's the fun!

Mama said PUNK you out!

This is a character of mine that I have been developing for a story that draws a lot of its visual influence from punk rock album covers, artwork, and fashion.

This is a drawing was something that I did on a whim at a friend's house a couple weeks back. I guess I was on that day because it came out pretty good despite the fact that I never laid it out in pencil first. I let my friend keep the original, but I snapped a picture of it with my phone.

When I was putting this together, Photoshop and Illustrator decided that they were going to fight me every step of the way. Thanks, guys!

Tales from the Sketchatorium

At the moment I have a boring 'ol shipping and receiving job which leaves much to be desire in the creative department. However, I have since achieved an ACTUAL creative job which will begin next week. (Hooray!) Because of this, I have begun to clean out my desk at work and I found a bunch of drawings I've done over the last couple months on breaks or if I got into a fit of "I need to draw something RIGHT NOW if I expect not to go crazy".

So here are 5 drawings, 4 of which are done in nothing but gel pen (because that was all that was available to me.) so please forgive any "anatomical errors" that might've happened.