Worry Wart

Things I think way to much about...

Not dead yet...

I'm still kicking around out here, making some changes, working on new pieces and finding the right path to organize and complete up the explorer concept. Stay tuned...

The Explorer

I've been cranking away at sketches for a new concept, "The Explorer." I don't quite have the story worked out, or if it will even be a standard narrative, but I'm fascinated with the concept right now. I'm also not sure how I'll actually make the finished work, but for now I'm sketching with pencil, pen, ink and coloring with copic markers. Which I'm really enjoying working my ideas out with. 

In case my scrawl is to messy, the text box under the title "The Explorer" says " I was searching for something, but I don't remember what... Did I already find it? Should I keep going?" As I continue to sort out the imagery and story, i'll update more.

As always, thanks for looking around.

Bumming Bird Feeder

A sketch based on a drunken conversation, whilst on a friends back porch. For those that don't know, the bumming bird lives mostly in the pacific nw, as we all commonly have wine based feeders in our back yards.

Portland's 15 Minutes - 52 LTD and Designspeaks

I was approached by 52 LTD to create an illustrated and screen printed poster for their upcoming event, Portland's 15 Minutes - Where is Portland in its 15 Minutes of Fame. We had a super short turn around, but with some help from Melissa Lang, I was able to get the design and printing completed j.i.t. for their event!

Each of these posters features a 2 color hand screen printed original illustration by yours truly. If you'd like one of the 100 posters, they are giving them away to the first 100 people who show!

Resting Place - 2013 Chair Affair Poster

This will mark my 3rd year participating in the Community Warehouse's Chair Affair Event. Last year I created a poster called "Pieces of Home," that quickly sold out during the silent auction, and the year before a night stand called "Night Yeti." 

This year I decided to create another series of posters called "Resting Place." I hand screen printed each of the 20 12" x 18" posters, that feature my original illustration/design, using water based inks, on 140lb French Construction paper. If you'd like to get your hands on one, you'll have to attend the Chair Affair event on March 21, 2013. You can get tickets here.

If you want to learn more about the Community Warehouse and why they are great organization to support, check out this awesome video!

Turtle in the forest sketch

Quick scan from the pocket sketchbook of something I'm hashing out... More soon.

Boar Eat Toes

Chair Affair 2012 Poster Art - Pieces of Home

It's almost time for the Community Warehouse's 2012 Chair Affair. Last year I created a piece I called the Night Yeti. This year I decided to do a limited run of 12 screen printed posters, called "Pieces of Home". Each hand pulled print features several of my illustrations of various items that the Community Warehouse collects from donators, and redistributes to families and persons in need. Each poster was printed using water based non-toxic inks on 12" x 18" French 140lb Construction paper. There is a 1/2" boarder for easy framing and they are signed and numbered on the back. You'll can purchase one of these poster during the Chair Affair Event on March 15, 2012!


Be sure to check out their website for ticket details, and to see see all the great work other artist have contributed to their worthy cause.

Love Birds

Love Birds is a new Gliclée print available in my shop. What can I say, some times love is kind of gross. If birds gave candy to their sweeties for valentines day, I'd imagine this would be how. 


I created this image a bit differently then I normally do. It started from a small doodle, as most of my work does, that I then drew a larger version and scanned. Since I do so much screen printing, normally at this point I would painstakingly convert my line work to vector art using the pen tool in illustrator. I know, I know, Live Trace Dude... Maybe I just don't know enough about that tool, but I never feel like it stays true to my actual line work. In this case, I used the following youtube tutorial to quickly and cleanly remove the white from my drawing, leaving only my line. Then I used Photoshop to paint the drawing in. What I really enjoy here, given that my lines are never perfect and clean, it really does look and feel like my hand draw sketches and images. Something that's hard to truly achieve in Illustrator.


Prints are made using my Epson Stylus Photo R2880, with archival inks and on acid free Ultra Premium Presentation Matte Paper. If you like it, you can order up a signed copy up from my shop!

New Pocket Notebooks, and price drop!

Yeti Books are the latest addition to my pocket notebook line. Initially created as my holiday gift, I'm now offering them for sale via my shop. Each book is hand screen printed on the front and back of a cute Yeti enjoying the snowy weather.  You can get them for only $4.75+s/h for singles or $12.50+s/h for 3 packs.


On top of that I've dropped the prices on all my pocket notebooks! Check'em out and stock up!


** Update - I got some feed back that my photo's where a bit to sterile, and my hand was a huge scary distraction, so I've updated my shots. Whatcha think?

Coming Soon...

A lil peek at something new coming to the shop this week... Stay tuned for this and more soon!

Don't Mess with the Ness...

This is one of my latest WonderTeam comics, if you haven't checked out the group, you should. All Portland Artist making weekly comics. Please forgive us if we miss a post here and there!

Happy Holidays!

Hoping you and yours are having a great holiday season! Mines been filled with friends, both new and old, and has me looking forward to what 2012 holds.

Sneak Peek - New monster print in the early stages

I've been working on a new print,featuring my furry monster dude, most likely for shirts and posters... I hope to have the illustration done this week and then get production rolling. Stay tuned!

Drink and Draw - Invade!

I had a pretty long day at the part time, afterwards I headed over to Moonshine to get a nip of whiskey and a burger. I also got a quick lil doodle in. I was hoping to do more, but being 1 AM, the whiskey, beer back and burger set me on straight course for bed.

Seasons Greetings Cards Now In The Shop!

I'm happy to announce that my typography project is complete! And I have these great new Seasons Greetings cards in my Etsy Shop! Not only did I design the font, but I also hand screen printed each card using water based inks at my printshop The Pull. You can get them now, just in time to send them out to your friends and family! Be sure to use the HOLIDAYSAVINGS coupon code to save 10% on your order for any items in my shop!

Holiday Card 2011 Type Project Update!

A few weeks back I posted about a type project I was working on. I've since finished the type and just got something new off press using it. I still have trimming, folding and photographing to do, but expect these guys in my shop in time for Cyber Monday. I'll also be announcing a 10% sale code and some special deals on monday via my email newsletter. You can sign up right over there to the right of this post!


Hope you all had a great holiday weekend! More soon, and stay tuned for a new poster/t-shirt design I'll be pre-releasing in the next week or so.

Spider Thief for Isaac K,

I've  been having a lot of fun with drink and draw and getting drawing prompts from friends via twitter, txt and facebook. This latest one, I decided to flesh out a bit more, and so I present, in response to Isaacs request for "...shady character stealing a jar of spiders", The Spider Thief.

Have a request? Tweet me up @diskgrunt and I'll send you a high res signed jpg scan of the results from my fancy new scanner!

Custom Type... aka Holiday Card project 2011

I've managed to mangle type in the past with my hand written txt, but for one of my offerings this winter I'm working on developing a crisp clean bit of txt of my own. I mentioned this on FB just before I released my halloween skulls, but that wasn't the custom type I've been toiling over. I'm by no means a skilled typographer, and I'm only building out the letter forms I need at this point, but so far I'm pretty happy with the results of my efforts so I thought I would share my current progress. My hope is, to have the typography for this project done in the next week or so, and then get my final design on press asap.

Some points I'm already working on, the ends of the S break the curve and I don't like the thinness of the E right now compared to the width of the A and S.