Flyers

prompt: queer hedonism in the darkness, light pouring in, different levels (hosted in a 3-story warehouse with a plan to dramatically tune the amount of light coming through the blocked-off skylights to the music) used a monument valley layer as the scaffolding, redrew everything in illustrator, had fun (though spent quite a lot of time) illustrating tiny figures all interacting in the scene. gradient map cost some detail but overall okay with it. ...

i wanted to go with a lighter theme than i usually do for my first daytime event flyer. we picked the name to reference an electrolyte drink product remembered fondly from one of the collective member’s childhoods. the background is full of electrolytes in lithium ion batteries (since this event tested the function of a custom battery build, which was successful! the entire soundsystem ran for several hours off of a custom setup of hacked tesla batteries, engineered brilliantly by L. (we did have generators ready as a backup, but didn’t need them)). ...

For a leatherdyke night series (never ended up being thrown) at the White Horse. I looked at a lot of 80s-90s leatherdyke flyers/personals/events/errata, then asked my 2 favorite leatherdykes <3 to pose for a photo I subsequently used as a reference for the illustration.

continuation of the story from last year – the bunnygirl’s scar is healed up, she’s surrounded by blue flax flowers (native californian plant recommendation by members of the collective), the lines of past lovers are outlined on the floor, the tree shadows dapple the ground, there’s the insinuation of pregnancy. hand-drew the type inspired by several orthodox russian typefaces (but made it more legible). initially had a cross out of the blue flax which i quite liked but it gave the bunnygirl a decidedly too christ-like cast. ...

First event done as Envelope Soundsystem. Did a lot of brainstorming about the concept as a shuttle or capsule reentry into the atmosphere (and did set design and visuals at this event that reflected that, including first experiments in mylar sculpture).

after several quiescent-from-illustration years, i spent days on a flyer for t4t4infinity and produced what is probably the best original illustration i’ve ever done. how do you birth your new self as it rends your old self apart? with love. i had cautiously produced only one flyer ever previously, for t4t4infinity’s samhain renegade, and F. asked if i would do one for the next planned renegade. because i given a prompt by one of the collective members i had months to develop a really strong concept. ...

my first flyer <3 didn’t have much to go on for this one. f. volunteered me. r. suggested using a kabbalah for organizing the names, i researched this a bit but other than that i had #faited as a small succubus and a portal (à la dark portal into azeroth).