When I get bored I get self referential

Another crazy trip to Wyoming with work. What this basically translates to is about 12 hours of doodling/contemplating the meaninglessness of existence while sitting in a 2 day meeting that has nothing to do with me.

During this time I:
drew small caricatures of almost everyone I know, complete with descriptions
drew a chick with antlers
wrote some jokes about failure, an area which I am an expert
wrote some jokes about Skymall, the Walmart of the noveau riche
drank about 50 cups of coffee
got embarrassingly wasted with some of my coworkers at the dinner afterwards and stole a pie and a bottle of jack

So yeah, pretty much the usual.


I've posted some of my better doodles for your scrutiny...or something.

Cheers!
christa

...And the shark was all 'I'm gonna bite your face off!' and I was all 'Not if humanity destroys your natural habitat first, BITCH!'

And then I punched the shark in the face. True story.*

This is a tattoo I designed for one of my friends a little while back. Where exactly it will end up, I'm not sure, but sharks are sweet so it really doesn't matter.

What else do I have going on? Well I've got 2 half inked comics, an illustration that hasn't been colored yet, 2 tattoos and a few random band things. Also Shameless Design now has a facebook page. That's right kids, my internet whoredom is complete. You should totally be my facebook fan. Seriously, I'm really insecure and am in constant need of validation...oh wait maybe I'm thinking of those girls that post half naked pics of themselves on various social networking sites. Yeah...them.



*20 years later, when the icecaps have melted and I am living on the top of the Hancock building in a fort, in a scenario not unlike Waterworld, said shark finds me, laughs because humanity destroyed its own habitat while expanding his, and proceeds to swallow me whole.**

**Thus concludes my lecture on why global warming is bad.

Use your cobra skulls

Once upon a time I drew a vampire chick...Then I drew one of her friends. Then I decided to draw a whole party. I haven't quite finished the whole thing yet, but I figured I'd post a sneak peak. The end result will be in color with a few other monsters aaaaand of course booze. If I was dead I'm pretty sure I'd want to be wasted every minute of it.


Note: Yes I'm aware that although the dude on the right has a skull face, he also happens to have tattoos, which means he has skin, which means I fucked up. Ooops. Sorry kids, just like in real life, these tats are permanent.

I hear skeletons make you appear tough and cool...as I am both of these, this drawing is rather redundant

I've got a bunch of random projects going on but nothing I can really post yet. I can garuntee you this though: more naked ladies.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Anyway, in the meantime I colored my skull thingy.

Enjoy!

Hey man, I don't make this shit up

Jesus christ finally! My shit for Far From Finished got printed! For the most part this stuff is only gonna be available on their European tour, or if you're really motivated to grab something of mine, their distributer online. I've got a couple more that have yet to be printed and I think they're using the tattoo gun thing I did as a sticker.

In case you were wondering, this is just another filler post as my life/money is being sucked away by my showing at the cafe in July. I should have my prints back soon and hopefully they will be awesome. (If they are not awesome, I shall weep the tears of a thousand souls, a thousand damned souls...Seriously, it'll be that bad)

Anyway, here's the link!
http://www.myspace.com/farfromfinished
(my t-shirts are on the 2nd slideshow)

https://shop.trashmark.com/index.php?lang=en
(go to search, type in Far From Finished)

Oh yeah also, a kickass show at Bull McCabe's in Somerville tomorrow with...
New Alibis
Scars
Burning Streets
Sprained Ankles

Xs for eyes

It's time for another edition of: Random crap I found in my sketchbook that I'm putting up in order to waste time.

The skeleton in this drawing based on (completely ripped off from) a gravestone in Granary Burial Ground. Now, I'm not a goth kid, but some of the art on those graves kicks some serious ass, plus I walk by it almost every day. I figured I'd snap a few pictures to get some inspiration for a tattoo I was designing.

As a site note, the people taking pictures that day were as follows:
- Harried looking tourist, trying to keep track of 2 screaming kids
- Mopey indie rock "real" photographer guy
- 400lb goth girl looking like everyone else around was invading her space
- me

Man, if those dudes back in the day knew all the ridiculous people who traipsed through that place, I'm pretty sure they would have just dumped everyone into the harbor. Heh.

I'm too tired to care and too busy to think (so sit back and laugh and watch the ship sink)

Gaah. I'm busy! Here's something that's been sitting in my sketchbook for awhile.

I originally designed this as a tattoo for myself until I realized that I don't really have the real estate to put it anywhere on my body(except for my lower back, and there ain't no way I'm getting a tramp stamp). I really like the design, but alas! It will go unused. I still might use the hourglass at some point, but I'm not sure where/how and there's the money issue, so yeah, no time soon.

Oh and in case you were wondering, it's a Lawrence Arms tattoo (the hourglass part, that is). They tell me band tattoos are a bad idea, but I've been into them for about 8 years, so I feel like they've earned it.

Question to my Boston people: I'm looking for a printer to do my prints for my cafe gallery showing thing that isn't Kinkos. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Oh yeah and a shout out to anyone coming over from BSC/the sock drawer. I know you're out there, since my hit count went way up when I started posting there. You guys are awesome, lets do lunch.*

*lunch is euphamism for your sexual innuendo of choice

I ain't got no status

I jumped on a bandwagon a little late with this one. I found out that the RxBandits were having an open call for t-shirt designs. Even though I figured it was too late to submit anything, I would hate myself forever if I didn't try.

Somewhere, in an alternate universe maybe, someone is wearing this t-shirt.

The truth is that I'm overrated

Another episode of the adventures of a neurotic self absorbed 25 year old...err An Excericse in Futility. Whatever. Same thing.

I am incapable of portraying happiness in any realistic way.

I sketched this awhile ago but I finally got around to coloring it. And yes, for those of you who know me, I have a dress just like that. When I'm drawing people I usually just draw them in something I already own/someone I know owns because it's easier then coming up with something myself.

Fun Fact #1: That's the dress I wear when I want free drinks.
Fun Fact #2: It works.

Heh.

Sacrifice the liver!

This post could also be entitled Christa has no self control or Self-medication is the key to happiness. The drawing was done partially in honor of my good friend beer but mostly because I didn't feel like doing any useful work and I like drawing naked girls.

C'est la Vie!
(I do not speak French)

Yes we can! (waste my time)

So these images have nothing to do with anything but I had to go to Washington for work and this is what I did when I wasn't running around the hotel or fixing people's powerpoints.

On another note chandeliers are really hard to draw.