Smoke After Thanksgiving Dinner

Ad from the 30s.

Soviet Illustrations Part 2

Designed for the UCSB Russian club. It features a stylized likeness of one of the Russian language professors, in Stalin-like garb. The whole thing was done using the free image editor GIMP.
Another design for the UCSB Russian club in 2006. It was based on this classic poster from the civil war era. It was done by hand using a two-sided marker. A part of the picture has been cropped out in the scan, and the full text was not yet complete in this digital version. The full text read, "You, have (you) joined yet".


Like the images from the previous set, this one was made in the vector drawing program Inkscape. This is from a detail a Soviet poster. To get the right proportions I removed Engels from selection.

Soviet Ilustrations Part I

This is a set of Soviet themed designs, I made using the original copies cleaned up and modified in Inkscape. The first two were made using a tiny design found in the background of a Soviet postage stamp.

V-Poot Endorses Hip-Hop

Street rap a unique "Russian charm", like Fords and Capitalism. He also includes, that break dancing cannot be combined with drugs and alcohol.

Alien Invasion Bonus

This was the very first Alien Invasion drawing I did, more then 5 years ago now. It's roughly sketched in ball point pen. The "Y" logos are prominent. One of the fighters is using a tripod mounted PKM machine gun.

Beer is Good for You

Another ad from the early 60s.

E.T. Phone Rome

Vatican Seeks Signs of Alien Life -- AP

Here is another Catholicism themed story. Ruling out the existence of aliens would be putting limits on God's creativity they say. Are there alien Adams and Eves?

" 'The questions of life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration,' said the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory.

Last year Funes said believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God because aliens would be God's creatures and ruling them out as a possibility would be akin to putting limits on God's creative freedom. "

" 'Just as there is a multitude of creatures on Earth, there could be other beings, even intelligent ones, created by God. This does not contradict our faith, because we cannot put limits on God's creative freedom.'

Funes maintained that if intelligent beings were discovered, they would also be considered 'part of creation.'

The Roman Catholic Church's relationship with science has come a long way since Galileo was tried as a heretic in 1633 and forced to recant his finding that the Earth revolves around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe."

Church of England "Irrelevant" ?

Bestselling children's author GP Taylor attacks Church of England as "irrelevant" as he defects to Catholicism -- Telegraph

There seem to be a lot of problems in the Church of England lately and "defections" to Catholicism by well known people. Tony Blair converted in 2007. It is also interesting because he accuses the Church of preaching climate change.

" He attacked the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury and accused the church of sinking 'into a liberal pit that was no earthly use and offered no hope, no love and no grace'."

" He attacked bishops for spending 'more time preaching about climate change' than teaching the gospel and claimed weak leaders were 'emptying churches'. "

Did You Ever See a Fat Chinese?

Ran into this old ad from 1967 by the Rice Council of America.

Alien Invasion Part II

In this last batch of drawings, I continued to experiment with The Walking Dead style, of only using black, white and gray, in high contrast. There are slight variations in the way I used the technique.

Alien Invasion Part I

These are a series of alien invasion drawing a made a few months ago. I used the cliched "Grey" alien, but depicted them in a serious way. The background story behind the drawings is that aliens invade earth in flying saucers and wipe out the world's armies, a ragtag group of survivors then forms a resistance group and fights back. The aliens are much less successful in dealing with the low tech guerrillas, and they find themselves physically puny next to humans. This adds an interesting twist to the typical man vs. alien story.
The earliest drawings are very rough, in some of the more polished ones, I was inspired by the art style in the comic, The Walking Dead. Only using black, white and grays, to achieve a black-and-white movie look. I found that style also fit with the 50s era type of setting I was going for.



The resistance wear "arm" bands (worn on the fighters thigh) labeled with the letter "Y". The idea behind this is that it was their response to the unisex aliens, the "Y" chromosone differentiating between men and women.