Evan Hughes Art - are we not drawn onward to new era

Moose

In Ink Drawing, Sketchbook on 23 August 2010 with no comments

A little warm up drawing.

New Menzingers Shirt

In Hand Lettering, Ink Drawing, Shirt on 23 August 2010 with no comments

I did a new shirt for The Menzingers recently. They used this personal piece from my portfolio.

They wanted to see some samples with different lettering. I figured that hand lettering was more punk rock than just using a font so I busted out my pen nibs and came up with these.

I then took that lettering and did up a few samples.

Here is the one they picked.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher

In Quotes on 27 July 2010 with no comments

“Swim away from me, do ye?” murmured Ahab, gazing over into the water. There seemed but little in the words, but the tone conveyed more of deep helpless sadness than the insane old man had ever before evinced. But turning to the steersman, who thus far had been holding the ship in the wind to diminish her headway, he cried out in his old lion voice,- “Up helm! Keep her off round the world!”

Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us.

Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of the demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.

– Moby Dick, Chapter 52 – The Albatross

The Definition of Procrastination

In Portrait, drawing on 26 June 2010 with no comments

As I sit here diligently trying to meet my deadline for this children’s book, I somehow thought it was a good idea to take a break and do a self portrait. I guess I’m not doing so well in my fight against procrastination.