Personal — Ongoing
Artwork & Illustration
Digital drawings and paintings made in Procreate and Adobe Illustrator. Dense, psychedelic maximalism and the occasional diagrammatic self-portrait. Plus selected print and poster work.
Digital Drawings & Paintings
2018 — Procreate
The Secret Tea of Experience
Drawn and colored on an iPad Pro using the Apple Pencil and Procreate app.
Process video — Procreate timelapse ↗
2019 — Adobe Illustrator
Self-Portrait
A maximalist attempt to render my life story so far in diagrammatic form. Made in Adobe Illustrator.
2017 — Procreate
Sing to Modify The Scarcity of New Landscapes
Drawn and colored on an iPad Pro using the Apple Pencil and Procreate app.
Misc. Digital Illustrations
Various pieces from across the years, 2009–2023.
Print & Posters
2020 — Print Design
"Hard Metal Cantüs"
Album design for American composer and electric guitar soloist D.J. Sparr. D.J.'s music has been performed and commissioned by numerous ensembles, including the Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, eighth blackbird, & the Dayton Philharmonic.
"This album is about places, real and imagined. The trajectory of a melody lost among church towers. The cardinal points that orient human activity. The multiple dimensions of superstring theory and a melody from a nearby universe. The idea of a place – the afterlife – and a piece of music written as a gesture to help my old dog Lloyd navigate the bardo. And then our internal place, our world within our own mind, which if you learn to control yourself, you become irresistible…"
— D.J. Sparr
2012 — Poster Design
"Graceland" Movie Poster
Promotional poster for Ron Morales' film "Graceland", runner-up for the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award.
2015 — Poster Design
SF Acid Test Posters
Posters made for a series of house music events in San Francisco produced by the great Tyrel Williams.
2019 — Print Design
The Book of Salt
A fun little personal project — "The Book of Salt" is a page from a fictional holy book that I gave as a gift to visitors to our old Burning Man camp. The text was produced by training karpathy's "char-rnn" neural net on passages from ancient holy books that featured the desert or visionary prophetic experiences. After a lot of hand-editing to the output I ended up with some strange verses that felt ominously resonant with the event…
Print Design
Train Through the Video Game — Monty Campbell Jr.
Cover to a chapbook by Cayuga poet Monty Campbell Jr.
