Hardcore Musky Shredding

I've been busy working on a short story for the last couple weeks, so my illustrations have been on the back burner.  But a couple days ago my buddy Josh Caroon asked me to do a Tshirt design for his new website Red River Fly The idea was to incorporate Rock and Roll with Musky fishing.  I took inspiration from some of the awesome photos of Elvis doing his thing on stage, then realized I had no idea what a Musky looked like.  Google helped me out with that one.  Add the two together and pass it through my fingertips and this is what you get:  Click to see it full sized.

I'm happy with the results.  For the actual Tshirt, I changed the text to say "Team 50" which refers to a fly fisherman who has caught a 50" musky.  I also removed the blood from the pick, as conservationists wouldn't like that.  I told Josh to just tell them that it wasn't the fish bleeding, the dude was just rocking so hard that the pick itself started to bleed.  Anyway, let me know what you think, this will be up on my website as well at www.nickbruhn.com 

New Stuff To Look At!

It's been quite a while since I got behind the tablet and freed an illustration from my head.  This idea has been swirling around for a while.  I think it's original, but you never know nowadays.  I wanted to challenge myself to draw a woman.  Women are really tough to draw, they've got angles and curves that I can never hope to fully understand.

That was meant to sound endearing.  No?

Anyway, my interest lay in trying to successfully draw a woman, everything after that was just fun and games.  I had plans to draw a DJ spinning records a long time ago, but scrapped the illustration early on.  The idea was reintegrated into this new piece.  Click the image to see it full sized.

Additionally, many of you know that I am currently out of work.  The firm I was working for hit hard times and went into survival mode, laying everyone off except the top brass.  In an effort to help organize my portfolio and house my resume, Amanda has helped me in creating a website.

http://www.nickbruhn.com/

For now, I'm going to continue to post new artwork on this blog, as well as in the 'artwork' section of my new site.  Eventually my website will co-opt this blog entirely.  Please check out my website and let me know what you think.

Also, if you know of any solid Architecture/Design/Illustration work in the Austin area, let me know.  Thanks, pass this along if you like it.