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Personal
Description:
The dark demonic face of a demon monster and his many eyes and horns in front of flaming skulls and a burning city.
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Client:
Tim Bauer
Description:
Zombie soldiers facing off in this logo design I did for a major paintball tournament in Europe.
I love working on logos like this that are created primarily for the web and full-color printing, because I can just go nuts with shading and colors.
Client:
Personal
Description:
A cyborg robot zombie head with red laser eyes flies through the air in this frisbee design.
This artwork is available for licensing:
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The Jokers
Description:
Album cover illustration I created for the UK-based rock band The Jokers for their newest album “Voodoo,” illustrating an evil witchdoctor holding voodoo doll likenesses of each member of the band.
Always enjoy working with these guys – they don’t take themselves too seriously, and it’s exactly the kind of music I grew up with. It’s often very tricky to get so much of the scene into such a tiny space, but I’m happy with the composition we came up with. I love the crow chewing up the Union Jack.
Client:
Personal
Description:
Trippy, psychedelic illustration of a green natural skull with mushrooms and pot plants coming out of it.
This artwork is available for licensing:
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Spiral Direct
Description:
Apparel design I illustrated for the Gothic apparel brand Spiral Direct with plenty of skulls, roses, and a sweet heavy metal axe guitar.
The design was set up for full-color printing, front and back, and will be available in their catalogs soon.
Client:
Personal
Description:
A marijuana pot leaf, but each branch of the leaf is made up of a different entity, such as a skull, tentacles and wings.
This artwork is available for licensing:
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Personal
Description:
Trippy, psychedelic illustration of a purple natural skull with mushrooms.
This artwork is available for licensing:
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Nome Elementary School
Description:
Elementary school mascot redesign I was commissioned to create of a polar bear for this school in Alaska.
We produced a series of sketches in different styles and positions, and then had the students of the school vote and pick the best direction. Really fun group to work with, and they were thrilled with the result. The graphic was set up as a vector to be easily printable in all sorts of situations.
Client:
Personal
Description:
A psychedelic marijuana pot leaf with each leaf a different entity, the main ones being a mischievous skull, flames, and bones.
This artwork is available for licensing:
Client:
Kris Roestenburg
Description:
My Australian friends at Vape Nation hired me to illustrate this t-shirt design with the Kiwi bird mascot we created for their logo previously.
It’s pretty challenging making a Kiwi bird look tough, but I tried my best. This t-shirt design was set up for limited color silk-screen.
Client:
Personal
Description:
Large patriotic bald eagle with outspread wings holding banner that says “Liberty or Death”. A pristine blue sky with white clouds make up the background.
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High Times
Description:
Custom Eagle logo I created for a cannabis brand overseas called High Times.
Because of the regulations in their country, we had to find a way to connect the logo with the marijuana industry subtly, which we tried to accomplish with the colors, and the “happy” expression on the eagle’s face.
Client:
Great Lakes
Description:
Stylized angry mutant Mahi-Mahi fish I created for an apparel graphics company leaping from the water.
This was the first time I explored drawing fish in a more crazy creepy style, rather than realistic, and I love it.
This artwork is available for licensing:
Client:
Discraft
Description:
Another fun design I created for the leaders of disc golf equipment, Discraft, of a crazed zombie cyborg, because cyborg’s are zombies, too!
We designed a full-color version, as well as a single color foil option. The discs have become collectors editions, and I’m always thrilled when Discraft sends me a box of the discs with my artwork on them. Really cool to see the art come to life!
Client:
Crimshaw Band
Description:
The heavy metal band Crimshaw commissioned me to illustrate each member of the band as classic movie monsters based on their personalities for their new album.
It’s always such a fun challenge to draw the likenesses of people I’ve never met, just based on a few photographs. Luckily, turning them into savage creatures masks any errors.
Client:
Pandora’s Unboxing
Description:
I created this custom YouTube banner of the mythical Pandora’s box for a political channel out of the UK, discussing potential economic and political disasters (fun!).
The client wanted something really dark and mysterious, and hand-illustrated, to differentiate himself from similar channels.
Client:
Dart Addicts
Description:
Logo design I created for a Dart sporting supplier for competitions and jerseys, of a crazed dartboard coming to life and chomping on darts.
Client Testimonial:
Thanks for the great logo!! Pleasure working with you!
-Chris Weatherly
Owner, Dart Addicts
Brian Allen, 2015
Client:
Darius Walker
Description:
Fantasy children’s book I illustrated for author Darius Walker about a family that rides a magical pirate ship bed into a strange world.
This was probably my favorite children’s book to date, because it’s strange and surreal tone really lended itself perfectly to my quirky illustration style. It’s not often that I can illustrate monsters, robots, and pirates in the same book!
Client:
Blue Chip Athletics
Description:
Blue Chip Athletics hired me to create this customize-able wrestling singlet apparel template they could offer to their different teams. I set up the design so that the team colors were easily modifiable and could be printed in limited color silk-screen to save cost. They were really thrilled with the result.
Client:
Personal
Description:
A trio of tiki faces ready and willing to grace the underside of a skateboard.
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Client: Chick-Fil-A
Description:
The Award-Winning marketing agency McCann of New York hired me to reinterpret the iconic Auburn and Georgia mascots in my own style for graphics that wrapped a massive Chick-fil-A pop-up restaurant on the Georgia/Alabama state line.
My artwork was featured in a nationally televised television commercial created by Chick-fil-A to showcase the #RivalRestaurant marketing event. Chic-fil-A was so happy with the artwork I created, they printed the artwork on signage, apparel, and giant wooden cut-outs at the event
Check out the Nationally Televised commercial here featuring the artwork:
Description:
Demonic monster illustration with many eyes and horns grins as a city burns behind him.
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
Vinyl wrapped zombie helmet I illustrated for Blaze Artworks’ new line of monster themed motorcycle helmets.
It was a fun challenge to try to figure out how to illustrate something in two dimensions that would ultimately wrap around a spherical 3D object. The client was kind enough to send me a helmet that I was able to physically trace and photograph to create a template, using some tricks I learned at my first professional art job at XGX Racing more than a decade ago. Thrilled with how this turned out!
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
Fun Tiki head logo design I created for a really cool company specializing in hand-carved solid wood jewelry displays.
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
T-shirt illustration I created for Great Lakes Graphics featuring a dive bar home to shady looking sharks, slutty mermaids, and deep-sea diving gorillas.
The design is black and white on the shirt until the wearer goes out into the sun, and the colors are revealed!
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
Packaging design I created for the board game “Colliery Dominoes” featuring a fun cartoon miner I designed outside a cartoon mine.
© Brian Allen 2017
© Brian Allen 2017
Insane lab rat mascot I created for the cool people at Premium eJuice USA, LLC for their new rebranding campaign.
The design is inspired a bit by the classic Rat Fink character, only this time with science. Drawn in manga studio 5.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
I had fun doing this illustration of parody Norwegian Cartoon. The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Client:
American Food Avenue
Description:
Here’s a t-shirt I illustrated for a grocery store chain in Switzerland that specializes in American food, featuring whimsical animal characters coming out of the store loaded with great American trashy foods.
The great Steve Nazar (T&C Surf) had designed their characters previously, so it was a lot of fun to pick up where he left off and create some new characters inspired by that style.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Client:
Commemorative Air Force
Description:
I was hired to create the new mascot and logo for the Commemorative Airforce, a charity organization that restores and preserves military aircraft, in an outreach attempt to a younger audience.
I created this vector graphic of a young female pilot in pilot gear for use on all of their marketing materials for the new program.
Illustration of a possessed looking witch dr. was created for a Russ group. I used darker colors for the Witch Dr to give him a more menacing look and used brighter color for the fire behind him and the tiki heads
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
A fun parody illustration of the toy story characters as tough guys I did for a Russ group.
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Illustration of Spielberg’s famous movies including Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park. In the center of the Logo is Stephen Spielberg himself.
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Illustration of Jax Teller on his bike lighting up a cigarette while his jacket comes alive.
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
A Parody Illustration of the Sesame Street characters as a street gang. I did this parody Illustration of a Russ Group.
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Illustration of two steel robots fighting in a boxing ring.
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
A Illustration of The Great Mouse Detective I did for a Russ group. The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
A Illustration of The Great Mouse Detective I did for a Russ group.
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
An illustration of a gagster rapper that I did for a Russ Group.
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
A Parody Illustration of the German-American Poet Bukowski drinking and having a cigar at his typewriter..
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Client:
Russ Logo
Description:
Russ logo design I created of the Bugs bunny and the Looney Tunes gang standing in front of the Looney Tunes University.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Client:
Tooldog’s House of Trades
Description:
Fun steampunk inspired logo I worked on for a masonry school called ToolDog’s House of Trades.
The crew decided on a steampunk theme, and we came up with this tough looking dog holding a giant putty knife. I designed both the character and the logo type and provided both for their materials.
Click here to see more of my Logo Designs
Gecko cartoon character I created dressed as elvis for a hospitality company.
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Personal Artwork
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I created this series of four halloween illustrations of classic movie monsters vacationing at the beach for a Halloween festival I attended. I drew a witch surfing a wave on her broomstick, a kid building a sandcastle on top of a buried zombie, a vampire getting a moon-tan, and a mummy being unravelled by a seagull exposing a little mummy butt. I tried to keep the theme and layout from piece to piece consistent, while using a Fall Halloween color scheme.
You can purchase signed prints of the artwork here:
<a href=”https://www.flylanddesigns.com/shop/”>https://www.flylanddesigns.com/shop/</a>
These images are available for licensing at <a href=”https://www.flylanddesigns.com/licensing/”>https://www.flylanddesigns.com/licensing/</a>
A Parody of the Jackass Characters I did for a Russ Bus Group. The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
Copyright © 2016 by Brian Allen
A parody Illustration of Rapper Travis Scott in front of Six Flags Astroworld.
The design was for apparel and a vehicle wrap for the russefeiring tradition. If you haven’t heard of it, basically russefeiring involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. I’ve done a bunch of these now, and really enjoy it.
© Brian Allen 2016
© Brian Allen 2016
Client:
Dominic Boshell – 2BC Sports
Description:
Hockey fight of ghouls and zombies for a halloween themed website background I illustrated for 2BC Sports’ website. I was recently hired to modify a previous illustration I had made for the website’s background – changing all the characters from normal human hockey players to zombies, to celebrate the halloween season. The client wanted a detailed illustration of a huge hockey fight in an arena. The illustration was set up so that the different hockey players and refs in the brawl could move along with the content of the site, independently of the background. I created the artwork in Manga Studio, and colored it in Adobe Photoshop.
Client Testimonial:
Thank you for an awesome job once again!
-Dominic Boshell
Owner, 2BC Sports
You can view the website here:
http://2bcsports.com/
Client:
Adrenaline Vapors
Description:
Mascot and logo design of a big angry face for packaging design I created for the vaping eJuice brand, Adrenaline Vapors. My client contacted me with only the name of their business established, , and wanted an identifiable mascot and logo that could be printed on packaging. I provided a series of rough sketches, moving forward with this concept of an angry face with smoke coming from his head. After several color iterations, the client chose this color scheme which they thought showed up really nicely on the packaging.
Client Testimonial:
People love the artwork you did for me! Thank you again. I couldn’t be happier!
-Adrenaline Vapors
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Client:
Arian Assadi
Description:
Character design of Ivan The Terrible I created for a Russ Bus logo for apparel and a vehicle wrap. If you haven’t heard of Russefeiring, basically it involves an entire class of Norwegian students renting a bus (a Russebuss), painting every inch of it with really cool street art, and then partying in it night and day for an entire month during graduation. The different classes wear their designs ever where they go as they clash with rival classes. It’s cool to be a part of it, in the best way I know how!
Client:
Bar Rags
Description:
T-Shirt design I create for Bar Rags, featuring a drunk zombie lounging inside a giant beer mug in a graveyard, titled “Night of the Walking Drunk.” I had a lot of fun with this design, playing with a creepy, but light-hearted style. We created this just in time for their halloween catalog.
This design is available for licensing (for uses other than apparel):
Client:
Bogardpress
Description:
I created these concept illustrations of a steampunk family of adventurers for an educational publisher called Bogardpress. The character designs will be used to illustrate their educational materials and lessons. Each year the team uses a different theme and concept to tie their lessons together. I really enjoyed the whole process, from developing the characters in sketches, to coloring and rendering the final versions. I tried to add a bit of style into the characters to keep them from becoming generic. I especially enjoyed creating the robot character.
Client Testimonial:
Everyone was very happy with what you have done. Very impressed.
-Shawn Blase
Bogardpress
Client:
Bryce Anderson
Description:
Children’s Book illustrations about ant detectives solving a crime the I created for a new young adult story by Bryce Anderson, called Ant CSI. I had the pleasure of illustrating over 20 pages for this really cool book about a colony of ants battling against an army of devious fire ants. With the client’s help, I conceptualized and designed all the characters, and illustrated the pages in pen and ink, and then colored them in Manga Studio and Adobe Photoshop.
Client Testimonial:
Your illustrations are outstanding, and your choice of colors are fantastic. Many, many thanks again for working on this- I’m grateful for what you’ve done.
-Bryce Anderson
Ant CSI, Creator
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Commando Racing Gear
http://commandoracing.com/
Description:
T-Shirt illustration for a racing apparel brand called Commando Racing Gear. I designed the mascot and artwork for this brand, and we created a series of t-shirts showing the mascot skeleton in a bunch of funny situations.
Client Testimonial:
If you were closer, I’d hug you!!! We absolutely love it.
-Steve Kanner
Commando Racing Gear
Client:
eSmoke
Description:
This is a series of character designs of crooks and criminals I illustrated for a line of vaping labels for a series of eJuice sold by Crooks Vapors.
The client gave me complete freedom in choosing a different criminal caricature for each of the four label designs. I drew the characters in pen and ink, and colored them in Adobe Photoshop.
Client:
Coin Munchers Arcade
Description:
Logo design I created of an evil pac-man for an arcade’s logo design and branding. The client wanted something identifiable to the retro gaming crowd, while putting a hard and extreme edge on the style. I thought it would be fun to turn the lovable yellow disc into a rabid, coin-munching psychopath.
Client:
Great Lakes T-Shirt Company
Description:
I created this t-shirt illustration of a surfing cartoon shark for a children’s line of beach themed clothing. The shirt uses special inks that only appear in the sunlight – so when indoors, the shirt appears as just the lineart. Once you take the shirt outside, the colors magically appear. It’s a really cool effect.
Client Testimonial:
Looks great, Look forward to getting it printed!
-Matt Whelpton
Great Lakes T-Shirt Company
This design is available for licensing (but not for apparel)
Client:
Lawrence James
Description:
Illustration of a zombie police officer I created in Manga Studio and Adobe Photoshop for a motorcycle club of state troopers for their club seal and apparel. This was based on a similar design I created a couple years ago with a digitally painted zombie gunslinger. It was a lot of fun to revisit the same concept, but in a different style, and with my skills improved a little.
Client:
M.A.S. Productions
Description:
I illustrated this dark detailed illustration of an epic battle between Freddy, Leatherface, Nosferatu, The Excorsist, Frankenstein, Kirk Hammet, Ozzy, Alice Cooper, Corey Taylor, and more for a documentary on the history of Metal and Horror.
I was hired by Producer Mike Schiff of M.A.S. Productions to create an illustration of some of the most iconic figures in horror and heavy metal engaging in an epic battle. The image was used to promote a documentary they produced which explores the history of heavy metal music, horror films, and how the two genres have merged together over time.
The documentary features interviews with Alice Cooper, Kirk Hammett, Corey Taylor, plus a ton of other heavy metal stars, along with huge names in the horror industry. It was so great getting the chance to illustrate these iconic figures, including Freddy, Leatherface, Nosferatu, Ozzy, Alice Cooper, Kirk Hammet, and more. Pieces of the illustration were also used for an animation promoting the documentary.
Client Testimonial:
Incredible job on this. I knew you’d create something amazing , and holy crap is this good.
-Mike Schiff
Mas Productions
See clips from the documentary here:
http://www.metalhorror.com/
Support their Iniegogo campaign:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-history-of-metal-and-horror#/story
YouTube Video:
Purchase Die-Cut Stickers of the Design:
Client:
Tom Malzacher
Description:
T-Shirt illustration of an American Bald Eagle and a fire-fighter helmet I created for a brand of apparel for fire-fighters. I set up this design for full-color printing, and kept everything in separate layers so we could customize the design in the future for each troop of firemen who purchase the shirt. I chose to illustrate this in a more realistic style than I typically do, and we’re really happy with how it turned out.
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