Draw Me Pitchers

Looks like I haven’t updated in a while. Oh well.

Remember the Axe Man and the Tentacle Barfing Chick? Well, they were actually some movie concept art that a dude commissioned from me a while back.

I recently received this email from him.

“Ok I’m going to get all this out before I pass out from exhaustion.

We made about 200 posters with the attached image. Advertised on as many websites as we could for two auditions, one in Edmonton and one in Drayton Valley. So I hit the streets over a couple days and completely cover Whyte Avenue and Jasper Avenue with your art. I started to worry because after a few days I only had two emails booking a time to audition. That weekend I went down to Whyte to meet a makeupfx girl and we started noticing that the posters weren’t where I left them. We all walked up and down the ave and NOT ONE, NOT FUCKING ONE POSTER out of almost a hundred is up. (we had an axeman version too) I couldn’t understand because I took care not to cover any upcoming events or anything like that but nonetheless they are all gone. We noticed they weren’t covered or anything, just taken down. Some Whyte ave. regular told me there were two possibilities: a)some band hates us b)people just thought they were ‘cool’ and took them down.

So anyway I’m getting paranoid because I actually do know a couple people that would sabotage me like this but then I go check out Jasper and SAME THING. They are all gone. It was really discouraging because there were still only two e-mails and we had ten roles to fill!

Anyway I covered both streets AGAIN with the last of the posters and some of them seem to have stayed up this time. SOME

Fast forward a week and e-mails start flooding in. We ended up having two full days of auditions that were lined up almost constantly. There were some astoundingly beautiful women showing up too. We have like 9 hours of footage of auditions and a giant stack of headshots and resumes.

I realized that for most people, all they had seen was that image, if they didn’t see our ads on the internet they only had that image and the e-mail address to go by and that got them interested. We still have to meet some more beautiful women later this week!

Anyway I just wanted to say thank you for the awesome art and don’t be surprised if one day you are at someone’s house in Edmonton and you see your tentacle puker on the wall with staple marks on the edges!”

So that’s neat.