Twenty One Pilots Poster Art Contest

The website creativeallies.com, an online community of artists, designers, and creative people in general which connects artists to opportunities to design posters, t-shirts and other merchandise for people in the music industry and other big companies is holding a contest to design a poster for one of my favorite bands, Twenty One Pilots. You can get all the details on their website, so you can make your own entry.

Here are a couple of my designs for the contest:

Cage The Elephant - Hypno Matt

These pieces were inspired by a photo by Pooneh Ghana from the Cage The Elephant website of Matt Shultz standing in front of a grey wall wearing a black trench coat and X-Ray glasses. I decided to start with a black and white line drawing of Matt and experiment with different backgrounds and colors. The First drawing is my personal favorite, but I included all of them below.

Photo by Pooneh Ghana

Hypno Matt can see straight through you.

Cage The Elephant - Tell Me I'm Pretty Inspired Art

Both of these art pieces were inspired by Cage The Elephant's new album Tell Me I'm Pretty. The first is for the song Too Late Too Say Goodbye and the second is for Sweetie Little Jean.

Glass Animals Art

A piece inspired by the band Glass Animals, who will be playing with Portugal. The Man this summer at Red Rocks July 20th 2016.

G.Love & Special Sauce Art

A  piece inspired by G.Love & Special Sauce 

Cage the Elephant - Right Before My Eyes Art

This piece was inspired by the song Right Before My Eyes by Cage the Elephant and was made from a vinyl record and cut paper. The vinyl was put on a spinning wheel and painted on.

The Henry Millers Art

Both of these pieces are for the band The Henry Millers, an awesome band from Nashville, TN. Both are designs I thought would look good as album covers. 

Twenty One Pilots Art

I started a new concentration for my AP Art class and it revolves around songs by Twenty One Pilots. The first one was inspired by their new song Fairly Local and then the second is Guns For Hands. 

Matthew Shultz Minimalist Portrait

"My Name Is Baby Blue"

Not So Silent Night Art

Here is all the art I made for the bands performing at KTCL's Not So Silent Night. I got to give it to each of the bands in person along with a letter of appreciation for their music.

Vance Joy Art

I made this in honor of KTCL's Not So Silent Night that I will be going to on Friday for Vance Joy. Its a minimalist style album cover with Vance Joy's song lyrics in the background. I have sent out requests for interviews with the bands playing the show that night and so hopefully I will have a band interview up sometime in the near future. 

Fitz and the Tantrums Art

The original image I used for the art

The minimalist interpretation of the original picture

My final product

Fan Art Weekend

This whole week  I have been on Thanksgiving break which means no school and more time for making art. Here's what I made:

 I made this piece first in my sketchbook. I was trying different styles of typography and various word art with my favorite band names. When I showed it to Grouplove, one of them thought it looked like it was coming out of an elephant trunk. Which gave me another idea.

Then I took that idea and made this. Realizing I had this elephant, I knew I had to then make something for the band Cage The Elephant, because well... Elephants.

This became the final product. It's kind of my own version of CD album art for Cage The Elephant.