I’m reposting this because it’s timely, I added a new thumbnail image, a couple of new sound fx, a watermark, and some other little details you might not notice. You’re welcome and a Happy Sales Event Season to you all!!!
Here is another animated interpretation of Eleanor’s book covers. This time it’s for “Magick In Theory & Practice” by Aleister Crowley. Hopefully, I’ve brought a little bit of magical feeling to the original art.
I love cycling and July is a special month for cyclists because it means that it’s time for the Tour de France. Both men’s and women’s races take place during the month, although with staggered starting dates and for different durations. The racing looks beautiful with the backdrop of different French regions and mountain ranges. There’s also the human drama with stories of champions, underdogs, legends, and legends in the making. If you’re curious to learn more and experience some of the thrills there is a wonderful documentary series available on Netflix called “Tour de France: Unchained” (crudely translated from the French title “Tour de France: Au Coeur du Peloton” or In the Heart of the Peloton).
My wife and I had the privilege of taking a self-guided bicycle tour of France several years ago. The luxurious fabled time before children. Unfortunately, it was not during July so seeing le Tour first hand wasn’t possible. However, we did get to ride some of the classic terrain that the race visits often. Afterwards we came home and collaborated on a series of art prints based on what we saw and experienced. I made some translations of these pieces as looping animations. Here’s one of those pieces inspired by riding through fields of lavender. I can still remember how it smells.
I became “Mr. Dalkner” for a ’25 Spring semester afterschool club at my children’s school. The club was called Comicbook Clubhouse and included nearly 40 kiddos from grades 2nd through 6th (half of which were 2nd graders). That’s a lot of energy to try and manage! The focus was to read, create, and share comic books. There was a small library of used comics and graphic novels to read and plenty of supplies to create with. Each session started with a prompted drawing. “Fill a page with…” you in the future, or bugs but big, or what you’ll do on your summer vacation, etc. Then I would present a small slide show preparing them for the project of the day. During the semester we tackled projects like making comic strips, jam comics, comic lettering, designing characters, making covers and splash pages, directed drawings, and finally constructing a ‘zine style comic book. I wound up creating a whole series of lesson plans and this became more of a serious thing than I probably should have. I’m quite proud of the kids and what they accomplished and I’m very fortunate to have other parents as volunteer helpers. Without their help things would have very easily gone off the rails. I’m planning on running the club for the ’25/’26 school year. Wish me luck!
The school’s mascot is a hawk so I drew a little character for the club promos.
Short animation that was used on the school’s Instagram account announcing the start of the club.
A reminder animation used on the school’s Instagram.
I added a couple of new illustrations to my portfolio.
Sometimes you lie awake at night thinking about the state of the world and try to imagine the best possible outcome.
I was recently inspired when watching a Quicksand concert on Youtube. The singer/guitarist, Walter Schreifels, was wearing a cryptic t-shirt with a bunch of crudely drawn aliens on it. After doing a little bit of snooping online for “alien art” I found the source of the drawings. They come from a book called “A Visual Guide to Alien Beings” by David W. Chace, 1996. From what I can tell the author/illustrator interpreted a bunch of accounts from people that claim to have had first encounters. It made me think of every bit of alien lore from shows like Unsolved Mysteries and tabloid covers.
So where am I going with all of this? I thought the aesthetic was cool, creepy, and goofy at the same time. I designed and illustrated a shirt for my local bike polo club based on all of this occult-ish silliness. Aliens and bike polo gear with some metalhead drip font for good measure. Making things the appropriate amount of cryptic and curious.
The “Alien Sport” shirt design comes in three different colors; black, gold, and grey. The gold and grey shirts have and slightly offset magenta and cyan color way, the black shirt has reversed white. You can order yours here today!
