Demos and Bench-Sides

http://bit.ly/BenchSides
http://bit.ly/TwoOnABench

Today I am releasing "Demos and Bench-Sides," a collection of new songs and alternate versions of tracks from the recording sessions of my first album. Today also marks the one year anniversary of "Two on a Bench," making this release more than appropriate. Please take a listen, time went into this collection and if you haven't already, please check out the original album as well. Thank you!

Brigli

Working on a project with my friend Chris Bramante
about warrior squirrels and nefarious pigeons, stay tuned...

Sexy Elf Lady

Ventura Girl

Saw this really interesting looking girl at a pizza shop in Ventura County yesterday. I just loved her hat...

A Pile of Birds

Sexy Satyr

...what have you done?
You made a faun of everyone…

Intern's First Day

My contribution to a new publisher called Ristretto: https://www.facebook.com/ristrettocomics

Feeling Moody

A digital painting off a life drawing sketch from a couple weeks ago. Looking at it now, I feel like the pose is begging to go through The Hawkeye Initiative. So if anyone out there feels the urge, you have my blessing.

Offering to the Frog God

Clubbin'

Did this design based off a character that my roommate, Lucy drew. Thanks Lucy!

The Bull and the Moon

"The Bull and the Moon"

by Jessica Christine Maria and Dax Schaffer
(Written through a series of inebriated text messages
And semi-inspired by the song "El Toro y la Luna")

The bull fell in love with the moon
And hard for the beautiful moon it did swoon
Swinging on the verge of eternity & insanity
He eventually could no longer suffer the moon's vanity

Thus the mirrors of the kingdom were sought after and broken
Of the bull based moon union, it was no longer spoken
And the frogs were all croakin'
While the wind chimes were strokin'

In a windfall of ultimate chaos and laughter
The lone humans took it upon them to right this disaster
But he wrought his pain about her in alabaster
A solution to this chaos they might together master
"If you'd stop talking so much, I'd probably finish faster,"
She said right then there to that scurvy bastard

The scurvy bastard thought he could probably outlast her
But outlast her he did not, and the older they grew
The marriage did also grow nastier and nastier

More often than not, he hid in the crapper
A solitude from love, they were no longer a factor
In the eyes of the church, they undid their disaster
And request for divorce could not possibly come faster

But the church it did tarry and her anger slipped past her
She proclaimed she could settle but required a tractor
So he acquiesced and they kept their rings
But soon their small love grew great beastly wings
And flapped a new gale to blow away all things
Now the end of days their failing love brings
And a darkest of lands to be ruled by evil kings
The harsh demise of all love is a pain that still stings
This is the song which the apocalypse sings...

"Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count thy headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of leather
Thee had a busy day today"

...Sang the bull to the moon, so he could convey
The true feelings he had for the moon on that day
In which the end of eternity had come into play
For the moon, the bull knew, was an exceptionally good lay
Deep down, he really did want her to stay
And create a new future, oh come what may
So in closing this poem, I will try to portray
Apart from my appetite for crème brûlée
How this half drunken poetry slam was much fun to play
I hope that you also have felt the same way

Of a text to text battle on which I must call parlay
Though my vocabulary has a wide array
I think I am finally out of rhymes, oy vey...

...But for you my dear reader, these silly things we will say

RIP HR Giger

Farewell Sir, you changed the face of science fiction forever.
There will never be another artist like you.

Misty

There's been a lot of talk of Pokémon for the past few weeks, so I had to try my hand at some fan art. Misty, you will have always been the first tomboy to win this young boy's heart way back when I first received a copy of Blue Version and saw the show in '98 (at the time her character was older than me!). I also appreciated the fact that she was a swimmer, as it was my sport growing up. You'll always be the water Pokémon trainer in my book. You go girl, Lorelei's got nothing on you.

UCSB Film & Media Alumni Gathering Sketch at the Hollywood Arclight

Saw some fellow friends and old classmates last night at a UCSB alumni gathering.
As usual, I sat in a corner secretly scribbling in my sketchbook, hehe...

Griffith Observatory Panoramas

Got carried away using the panorama function on my phone at Griffith Observatory. Took some of the photos into Photoshop and manipulated the photomerge option as best I could. Then I just had fun drawing on top of it. There is one sketch in there, so technically I can put this here on my art blog :P Not my typical style of art, but I thought this was an interesting experiment in perspective. I particularly like how you see the same set of stairs from two different angles.

I also like how the image below came out, this one happened just using panorama on my phone :)

Lanie Jules

The incomparably adorable Lanie Jules was over the other day and asked if I would draw her. Here is the result :D

Lanie is a very talented singer, you should check her out: https://soundcloud.com/lanie-jules

Malocatherine

Wendy-go

Forgot to post this back during Halloween when I did an art challenge for my friends' 13 Days 13 Shorts collaboration. The theme for this particular entry was wendigo. I tried to go for what I thought a more female wendigo might look like. Enjoy!