Here’s a poster I just finished for my friend Mike’s band, The Flyboys, playing at Mitsi’s Sister on Saturday December 27th. It took me a while to get the birds to look alright… They started from a sketch I scanned into Photoshop. I then used the pen tool in Illustrator to create smoother outlines and fills. The background textures were done in Photoshop.

I would like to give credit for the bird missing a head to my friend Joren who originally came up with the idea in a sketch a few weeks ago. I re-appropriated it because it was such a cool image, thanks Joren!

Here is the original sketch I made, painted in photoshop. I’m pretty new to painting on the computer, so it’s a little sloppy. Now that I’m at home in Barrie for the holidays, I don’t have my large monitor and I forgot my tablet in Toronto. I’m back to working on my macbook’s tiny 13 inch screen… It’s hard to believe that I worked like this for years!