10 New Prints!!!

While I've Been pretty quiet on the blog lately, I've been busy this last month preparing artwork for digital prints. Each image was selected from my various series of illustrations over the past few years, carefully scanned at hi-rez and color corrected to match the original artwork as closely as possible. Then printed on 140lb French MuscleTone Paper using an archival ink Epson R2880 printer. I'm very excited to offer these prints in my etsy shop http://www.diskgrunt.etsy.com  as of today!!!

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?

Holiday Card Pre-Sale Ends Today!

Just a reminder, my Holiday Card Pre-Sale ends today! Order now from my Etys.com shop and save up to 50% on the Penguin Happy Holidays card, or the Monster Merry Christmas card!

Monsters V. Robots

I mentioned these prints in a previous post but have finally gotten them up into my etsy shop. Each one is hand silkscreened and chronicles the start of the Monster V. Robot wars that are sure to occur once they've finished wiping us out. Each illustration was printed only 10 times, creating 10 sets of the 4 prints, each signed and numbered on the back. You can buy them all together for $120 or pick and choose at $40 per panel.They come with an easy to affix wall hanger and each panel was treated with a light poly coat to protect the image. The plywood is FSC and the inks are non toxic and water based. Everything was hand made by me. You can order them from here.

New in the Shop

My Tweet & Qwack greeting cards are now available in my Etsy shop. Each card was hand silk screened using water based inks on Mohawks 100% recycled Via Vellum Kraft paper. They're the perfect way to say just about anything.

Pimple Puss and T Shirt Sale

Sorry for the lack of postings lately, I've got two comics in the works and some exciting news about my press coming soon... I hope to have more updates in the next few days. Please enjoy the pimple puss doodle above till then.

Oh... I also want to let you know that my Penguin and Polar Bear T Shirts are now on sale for $18 solo or the pair for $30 in my Etsy Shop. Get'em while supplies last!

Beep & Boop Valentine's Special

There are moments in every robots life were the p-ram is blasted out, the preferences dumped and unfamiliar commands are issued as if some crazy love struck admin is sudo’ing thier heart out in a bash shell.This is one of those moments. Beep and Boop bot are meeting for the first time, and the binary floating around them is a flurry of terminal commands ushering in this new love…

Just in time for valentines day, the Beep and Boop Bot shirts are available now in my Etsy shop, singles for $20 or buy them both for $35. Each shirt is hand silkscreened with waterbased inks. And yes, the binary does translate to things like

Boopbot:~ Boopbot$ mkdir ~Library/Application Support/Heart

Your welcome to decode and descramble it all…

Robot Stationary Roundup

Looks like my "Beep & Boop" pocket notebooks were included in this great round up of Etsy Robot Themed stationary goods by We've Got Paper.

There's some great cards and items included in their list, check it out!

Robo Binary Cards Make Etsy Front Page

My 2009 edition Robo Binary Cards popped up on Ety's front page today! A treasury created by NiuTaller featured my cards along with some great bits of geekery like these wooden test tube racks and this pen made from a real circuit board. Check it out!

Ummm... Scuse Me...

These adorable "Umm... scuse me..." cards are now available in my shop, 1 for $5 or 4 for $16. They're the perfect way to say " i like you!" or even " i sawry."

Drifting Penguin and Polar Bear T-Shirts

Released during our Black Friday event, my Drifting Penguin and Polar Bear T-Shirts are now available via my Shop and ready to float around your waistlines. Hand silkscreened in black and white water based ink on American Apparel Light Blue Sheer Jersey Cotton T-Shirts with a very distressed feel and soft hand.

Free shipping and available for $20 a shirt through December. Currently only available in Classic Girl S/M/L and UniSex S/M/L.

Herding Your Thoughts Pocket Notebook

These adorable Herding Your Thoughts Pocket Notebooks are now available in my Etsy shop. They make great stocking stuffers and are shipping everywhere for free. Get them while they last!

Upstate Fancy Holiday Gift Guide 2009

Turns out my Penguin & Polar Bear Scarfs have been selected for the Upstate Fancy 2009 Holiday Gift Guide! There's a ton of good choices in there for shopping handmade this holiday season. I really like these:

Pocket Yetti's by Loveandasandwich

Mister Bear Pocket Notebook by Nowvember.
Journey Notebook by CrackedDesigns

Check out the guide and the artist, and also enter to win gifts from several crafters while you're there.

Holiday Cards - Available Now on Etsy

Some of you may remember these from last year, and a rarer few may actually have received one! Well the remaining 40ty cards are now available via my Etsy site in packs of 10 for $35.50.

Each card was hand silk screened with water based inks. The 3 color print features a playful brown & white Reindeer that's filled with a subtle pearl white snow flake pattern!

Check'em out over at Etsy!

New Shirts in Etsy Shop

Now available for $15 and $18 respectively! Checkout my Etsy shop for ordering!

The Perfect T-Shirt Gift Guide

I just found out that my Inspired? Squeegee shirt is featured in "The Perfect T-Shirt" an Etsy gift guide!!! I love the site CraftCult that makes finding this stuff out on Etsy so easy... Definitely check out the gift guide as it's full of some great designs!

Treasury Link for Binary Thank You Cards

My Binary Robo "Beep You" thank you cards have made it into a new treasury by Stockannette

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=73024

Check'em out and all the other great items in the "Peas and Thankyous" treasury! 

Binary Thankyou Cards Make Etsy Front Page!

So I log on Etsy this morning to inform a couple buyers that I'll be shipping their goods when I notice my page views have spiked... I take a quick peek at CraftCult and find out that my "Beep You" binary robot thankyou cards were featured on the frontpage.... Ok so it was at 2am... still makes me smile... Here's the treasury from CraftCults Treasury Archive ( I tried using their embed code but it wouldn't actually render here =(...)

Comic is now available via Etsy

"Cautionary Tales of Modern Failure Volume #1" is now available over at my Etsy shop. Each comic is 16 full color pages ( not including the cover) and the first 30ty copies feature a handmade screen printed cover ( by yours truly). The Cautionary Tales of Modern Failure comics are meant to give light to the stories and narratives behind many of my paintings and other seemingly one off works. This issues story is simply called Origins: A Creation Myth and is intended to provide a framework and feel for the rest of the series. Check'em out over at my shop!