Oh my god. I’m so excited for this. I am putting together this gallery show and I haven’t been this jacked since my last quarter at SCAD. It has been an incredible time living in Savannah, putting together comedy shows, and promoting them on Facebook with these posters. There are posters from a handful of different venues in Savannah; a majority from the open mic show at the Sentient Bean. And the space is amazing and nice and bare. I’m way too excited. My curator is also my best friend Josh! He is helping me out in such a big way, putting together my prints, originals, comics, etc. Some of the comedians will be on hand, too, so you can match comedians with their illustration!

I will be selling a lot of great sketches from the past few years. I have never-before-seen sketches and paintings available. Also, I will be having my latest mini comic “Luke Holds Off” for sale as well. Stop on by!

May 26th, 10p.m. 625 Tattnall St. Savannah, GA 31401.

I colored a new poster and an old poster, both featuring Josh Wood in them. Above are the colors with tweaks and color correcting by Josh Wood. And below are my original colors you can totally compare them to. I like some of the changes he made, but you can decide which ones are better.

I knocked the colors for these in one night! I’m so pumped about digital coloring now, I hope you guys are enjoying the fruits of my labor. This week, my bestie Josh needed the old January comedy poster colored, and I filled his request! And I’m glad he made me. Now I’m undertaking a project where I will be adding color to all the old comedy posters, with the hope that in the end they will be collected in a full-color hardcover Stand-Up Comic Book Gig Posters book.

I love doing these because they are so open, and I could experiment with color and images. They’ve evolved to a point where I’ve set certain rules on myself. Here are some of those rules that have been added over the months (and broke countless time):

1. Draw a comedian who performs regularly.

2. Do everything by hand, including typography.

3. Base posters around the comedian’s joke.

4. Best posters are ones that show the comedians personality best.

5. Best posters are of jokes that have a great visual component to them.

Future posters will just keep getting better and better!

I started braindrawing what I thought Shane looked like, just based on what I know of him. It’s an exercise to test out my visual memory. It turned out horribly.

But they were coming out way too scary. I was exaggerating things way too early when I should have focused on getting likeness down. So I took a step back and did my research. Naturally, I Facebooked him.

I wanted to get the creepiest, nastiest photo of Shane, because that’s part of his onstage persona. It’s very Jim Norton, without the anger issues.

You can see which drawing I went with! I wanted to get that half-smile that Shane does. He also keeps his head down while he speaks, which shows a lot of the white of his eyes, making them appear bigger and more bugged out.

(Pretend there’s a picture here. It’s on my camera.)

Here’s some early inks. Sometimes I don’t even pencil out the entire image before finalizing the inks.

And here’s the final! As for the explanation of the title, well, you just might be able to catch that joke being said at the show. Here’s the Facebook event details.

I don’t do this often, but this post has a bonus illest-tration! I’ve just been making lots of work and you get to see both for the price of one visit! First, this Wednesday is another Coffee House event, with David Stine and Melissa Hagerty performing! I will probably be in attendance, so stop by and say hello to me.

Secondly, the “Sensual Sounds of an Arousing Evening” Comedy Show is THIS THURSDAY at the Sentient Bean, 8 to 10PM. It’s going to be a crazy fun show, because it is our Valentine’s Day-themed show. I will be covering topics revolving around dating relationship, and my specialty, SEX. It’s sure to be a fun, revealing event, and one that will make you cringe at how horrible some of the things in my life go. Bring a date, so that you can both share a moment of complete awkwardness and make love to afterwords.

BONUS: Here’s the thumbnail to this week’s coffeehouse poster. It was a poster I originally conceived for a gallery show I was putting on with my friends. Then it evolved into a poster that I can still use when that gallery show comes around. Note that the dates and information on the thumbnail aren’t real!