Phat Status VII

In case you didn't know, as well as being an illustrator, I'm also a huge cinephile, and occasionally do short films in my spare time. And that is the inspiration for this latest Phat Status.

A Christmas Post

I have to confess that I have yet to really grab ahold of the jolly holiday spirit, wrestle it to the ground, and eat it's brains (to gain its knowledge). Obviously my mind is still a little stuck back in Halloween mode. Sure, I've put the lights and Christmas tree up, done my Christmas shopping, and absorbed all the garish pageantry that has been loaded onto this holiday, but it just hasn't clicked for me yet. I'm going to do something about it here and now, though, or I'm afraid the whole season will pass me by. So I'm posting some Christmas images. Some are from a book I illustrated called "The Lonely Christmas Tree" that I meant to post on hear a year ago, but never got around to it. Next is an old cover I did for a book about the Advent, followed by a rejected set of characters about the first Christmas. The image of the caribou is a design that I made for a 4'x5' speed painting that two friends and I did at the company Christmas party this year. Here's hoping that, like the lonely Christmas tree, I find the holiday spirit before the season is over. Happy Christmas everyone!

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Phat Status V & VI

Since I forgot to post part five on it's own, I just decided to post these two together. Not much more to say about them at this point, as I think they speak for themselves. Enjoy!

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Phat Status IV

Here's the latest on my current Phat Status. Apparently not so phat.

Phat Status III

Okay, so now these web comics are just flowing out of me apparently. I've got ideas for about 3 more at this point, so maybe there's a bit of life in this idea after all. This was inspired by my time at an open art market a few months ago. While there was never actually an obnoxious cat-lover with back fat yelling at me, there was a woman at the table next to me with crocheted mammy doorstops who got a lot more foot traffic than me. And my cat poster did elicit more shock than I would have expected. More to come. Click for parts 1 and 2

Phat Status II

Okay, so I guess this is now officially a series. Here are the continuing adventures of a grown geek and his struggle against cool.

The Monster Mash

It's that time of year again, and I couldn't be more psyched. I've been on a steady diet of creature-features for the past few weeks in honor of the fast-approaching holiday while desperately trying to come up with an appropriate cartoon-character-based costume. This year marks the 5th annual costumed pumpkin carving party that my friends and I put on together, and as in previous years, I've developed some new artwork for the invitations. I was also suddenly inspired to do my own take on the vampire, abandoning the more romantic conventions that have cropped up in recent years. I'd like to see Bella's face if she sat down next to this hungry guy in biology class. No ivory skin, no perfectly coiffed, ridiculously impractical hair, no giving abrasively insecure teenage girls piggy-back rides through the woods, and absolutely no sparkles. Just an unholy bloodsucker out for a nightly stalk, doing what vampires are supposed to do; kill indiscriminately. Happy Halloween, everyone!

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Phat Status

Here's a simple web comic of something that happened to me this week. I'm considering turning this into a series, but with the amount of unfinished projects I'm constantly trying to get off the ground, it could easily fall by the wayside.

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Random Bits

My mind has been an unfocused blur for the past month or two, so it only follows that my postings would reflect that. I've been devoting time here and there to a new pulp poster, but it's taken almost a year for me to get it from concept to page, so who knows how long it will take for me to finally post here. My efforts at continuing the "Go With the Flow" and "Robot and the Reindeer" poster series have been stymied by summer creative doldrums and no real exciting personal projects have emerged lately. I have paid the price for my lack of vision. Here are a couple of random pieces I did this summer. The dragon was for a friend's birthday, the subway lady is from a book I did. Hopefully I'll get a creative boost this fall and be able to complete and post some more complex pieces.

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Dead to Me

Hey internet, what's the poop? I have been neglecting my blog for a couple of months. I'm as poor as a church mouse, so in March when I was blind-sided by a veritable hangar bay of extra paying projects I decided to take them all on, and they have eaten away at my personal art time. But I'm finally back, ready to bask in the collective glow of my adoring public. Or at the very least, spout self-aggrandizing guff into the vast, cold, digital abyss that is the web. A fellow zombie fan and illustrator friend of mine is moving away this month, so I decided to make this farewell painting of him to express my feelings the best way I know how. See ya when I see ya, Benton!

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Robot and the Reindeer

Here's a happy little image I just completed yesterday. I say "little" but it actually prints up at 24"x18" and was quite the behemoth (a fact I was reminded of every time I saved the file and had to wait 2-3 minutes for it to finish). It's the second in a series I began with the Go With the Flow poster several months ago. My first attempt had the deer standing in profile with the robot peaking from behind a tree and was among the most mind-numbingly boring compositions I've ever tried to convince myself was worth pursuing. Luckily, a friend of mine was honest enough to tell me the awful truth so I scrapped the whole idea and started over, this time having actually thought things through a little bit.

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Michael Phelps

So I was working on a character design today and once I'd finished the face, I realized it wasn't Cowboy Bill, as I was expecting, but rather a very distinct rendering of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. Once that realization was made, I had to finish out the sketch. A happy accident just for my blog.Greg White Illustration

Dog Abomination II

So this month I'm illustrating the sequel to a book I did a while back about a pug with one eye. In this book, the lonely pug befriends another dog who's missing a leg. So of course once again I had to do an alternate version of the character to exploit in graphic detail the gruesome possibilities. I give you Jojo, the second dog abomination.

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