ZOMBIE CAGE FIGHTER: TROPHY

Another shirt design commissioned by UFC Fighter Nate "Rock" Quarry for his ZOMBIE CAGE FIGHTER brand. When Nate originally contacted me, he wanted a design similar to by GORILLA GLOVES illustration (which depicts a pair of laceup boxing gloves made out of gorilla hands hanging from a nail). I didn't want to lead off with a design riffing off of one of my own designs, so I steered him in another direction. He held on to this idea, tenaciously, however, so I eventually gave in and gave the poor guy what he wanted! ;)
The shirt is now available for sale at his shop here.

ZOMBIE CAGE FIGHTER: ROUND 13

Here's another design I finished up for UFC fighter Nate "Rock" Quarry. He originally just wanted a new zombie head to drop into an already-existing design, but I insisted on redoing the entire design from scratch. I thought it would look awkward and inconsistent to have a BeastPop-style zombie head shoehorned into a design that did not match it stylistically. Anyway, I pitched a tantrum until Nate gave in and decided to trust my vision, and this is the result. I believe he's using it on shirts and stickers as of now. I gave the design two different color treatments: the first reflects the color scheme used in the horror movie poster shirt design I did for him, and the other utilizes the simple two-color bright red and green of the original design.

SHIRT MOCKUP


DESIGN INKS


ROUGH COLOR CONCEPTS


THIRD COLOR OPTION THAT WAS REJECTED

ZOMBIE CAGE FIGHTER: THE MOVIE!

Recently got commissioned by UFC Fighter extraordinaire Nathan "Rock" Quarry to spice up his already existing ZOMBIE CAGE FIGHTER brand with a couple of designs. This is the first of those. After kicking around a few ideas, we decided to go with an old horror movie poster type design complete with the fighter hero, the beautiful woman and the monstrous menace. I had a lot of fun illustrating the figures and playing around with the halftones and weathering effects on this one -- scuffing up the image and giving it some torn, ragged borders and such (to try and reduce the "big ol' rectangle" feel as much as possible).
Anyway, the design was premiered at the San Diego Comic Con this past weekend, along with a second, simpler design, which I'll post here soon.