Leavings Show at the Panic Room

The other day my friend Nick's band The Leavings played a loud, fearsome show of mindsplitting metal mayhem at the Panic Room.  He and his bandmate Keegan didn't have any merch ready for sale yet, so Nick asked me to set up a table at the show to draw and sell illustrations inspired by their songs.

Most of these were whipped out fast with a Sharpie and sold for 3-5 bucks (beer money) .

"Be sure to go buy some of Bruce Morrison's drawings of monsters and cocks" announced Nick in between beating hell out of the drums.

Sorry bout the non-archival quality of some of these photographs.  The light sources found during metal shows at dive bars are somewhat diffuse and indistinct.

Wizards are a theme I've been enjoying lately:

"This song is called 'Monkeyfist' " intoned Nick:

"This song's called 'Sisyphus.'  You're all familiar with Sisyphus, right?"

I sure was enjoying drawing some skulls.  Ever since I took "Anatomy for the Artist" for my college science credit and got to handle a bunch of real human skulls (presumably looted from some South American jungle gravesite by my kindly anthropologist professors) they've been one of my favorite things to draw.  Me and ol' James Ensor can't get enough of 'em.

Here's a cute little dude being devoured by a serpent.  It went to an appreciative and discerning owner:

Nick and Keegan might use this one for album art or something, sez them:

A good time was had by all.  The mosh pit came close to crashing into my table but swerved away just in time.  I drank five or six refreshingTecate tallboys.  I also drew a helmeted barbarian in polka-dot underwear stabbing a huge serpent-beast.  The dude who bought that one says he's gonna put it on a shirt for his sister. Somehow I neglected to get a picture of it, but I'll rework that theme for a bigger drawing some other day.

Remember to go get your ears destroyed by The Leavings, and that I will draw for beer and music.