end of the line

It has been over a year since my last update!
I haven't updated since my place got flooded in 2013.

I've been working on a ton of exciting stuff since then, and think I've really grown as an artist as well. Album artwork for CJSW's 2013 Fund Drive, all the illustrations for the Calgary Underground Film Festival this year, a new Mother Mother video, the Sled Island poster show, more FFWD covers, a 7" cover for Scion Sessions, a poster for the Polaris Prize, to name a few of the highlights.

But this post is to let you know that if you're interested in keeping up to date with my illustrations/projects/other life stuff then head over to my instagram, as that's the spot that's being kept up to date. Add me @deepcuts on your phone or take a look on your computer here: http://instagram.com/deepcuts

and of course I'm constantly updating my site jaretts.com

Thanks!

elder abuse gig poster

Gig poster for upcoming show from Winnipeg's Elder Abuse, who will be playing an all ages show at Broken City on the 20th. Listen to Elder Abuse below:

what can i do vinyl

Last year I directed/animated a music video for Swedish Paper Bag Records' artist @SallyShapiro . Now the vinyl is out for single What Can I Do, and the cover is a still from the video which is pretty cool. The clear vinyl looks dope!

Watch the video below:

swerve

I've been featured in Swerve Magazine before in the past. This week there was an editorial about floral patterns that I appear in, read it here, and click through the photos section.

Your song of the day:

notorious b.i.g bday

Yesterday was Notorious B.I.G's birthday, it would have been his 41st.
I drew up this portrait of Biggie with his Jesus piece. Crazy and tragic to think he was only 24 when he passed, younger than myself.

still here 16

It's been a little while.
Still Here 16. Click to enlarge.

You can read the rest of the series here.

shirts

Silk screened some shirts last month, some white and black ones, above is the black.

heads will roll

I had this idea for a typography project, and then after I finished I thought to myself  "why don't I animate it too?".

Below is the song I was listening to when I came up with the idea (not the Yeah Yeah Yeahs one might think).

red cabaret

 

Here's an event poster I made for The Red Cabaret.
From the Facebook event page:

The RED Cabaret will feature performances by a variety of emerging artists in a cabaret format. It will also serve as a season launch/announcement for Red Phone Theatre's 2013/2014 season.

Featuring performances by:

Half Her Age
The Tighty Whities
Ian McFarlane
2150 Creative
Joe Rino
Genevieve Pare
Allison Zwozdesky, Alicia Ward and Shelby Jansen

The evening will conclude with a set by local folk-rock trio, The Left Behinds!

Tickets are $15 dollars CASH ONLY at the door. There will be a cash bar serving drinks and other refreshments as well.

The show will take place at the beautiful National Music Centre, located on 11 Ave SE. Doors will open at 7:30pm and the show starts at 8:00pm.

Come check it out, sure to be a fun night!

Here's an early process shot, and the illustration without the info:

Here's a song called Red by Phoria I've been digging lately:

may sex column

Here's my illustration for this month's sex column. Read the article here.

comic expo

Had a rad time at the comic expo this year! Always awesome to see people digging the work, and everyone had the nicest things to say about my drawings. See a picture of Sam and I slanging our work above, me signing a dude's nipple below, and a fantastic four comic someone commissioned me to draw Batman and Robin on (do I attract the oddballs?). Thanks so much to everyone who came out and showed support for this thing I love to do and continue to work at!

batman

Here's a Batman piece I made, depicting the father/son relationship of law enforcing Bruce Wayne and the not yet legally able to drink Robin.

Your post related song of the day is Dynamic Duo by Vast Aire ft. Geechi Suede, check out the comic related raps below:

ocarina triforce music

Here's a Zelda themed piece I made for this year's comic expo!

Your song of the day:

march and april sex column

Neglected to post last month's sex column illustration I did for Beatroute, here are the last two.

Read the respective articles here, one on "size", one on polyamorous and open relationships.

Your post related song of the day is "Centaur" by Buck 65

fairy tale friday installment 12: the griffin

This is the last installment of fairy tale Friday, it's the Grimm fairy tale The Griffin.
Go grab a copy of FFWD around town to see it in print!

Big thanks to FFWD for letting me to this, and basically make whatever I wanted for it!
See all of the fairy tale illustrations here.

Here's your song of the day:

zeroh- coves and caves music video

I had the chance to work with incredible L.A. based music video director David M. Helman, as well as one of the best music video animators, Bristol based RUFF MERCY, plus cinematographer Trevor Wineman.

David and Ruff have been killing it for a while now with video's like last year's There He Go from Schoolboy Q and their Blu x Flying Lotus video DOINNOTHIN' FT. UGOD.

The music video I worked on is for LA rapper Zeroh's new single Coves and Caves. I created some animations which flicker on to the screen. It premiered yesterday on FRSH SLCTS. Give it a watch and listen below.

jenny merch

photo via Monty

fairy tale friday installment #11: the girl without hands

We have almost come to the end of the Fairy Tale series I have been making for FFWD, only one more after this!

This week's is The Girl Without Hands, a Grimm Brothers Fairy Tale I wasn't familiar with until someone suggested I read it. It's one of the craziest fairy tales, definitely give it a read. In the fairy tale this miller chops off his daughters hands in hopes of protecting her from the devil (which he owes him).

In my illustration I have portrayed the devil as a shadow puppet being cast by the dismembered hands, the devil is looking down upon the mill. The tattoos on the hands symbolize elements from the story, like the king and angel. This is one of my favorite fairy tales I've done during this series I think, it turned out well in print too, so pick up a copy of  FFWD this week.

Your song of the day is Two Small Deaths just because:

inmarket promo/info commercial

Here's some illustration work I did for an InMarket promo/info piece last month with talented motion graphics animator/direct/etc, Kyle Ritchsfeld.

Check out the graphics in motion on the InMarket site here.

jenny t-shirt!

Calgary band Jenny has been tearing it up for a minute now, so I was stoked when Sean Hamilton contacted me about doing a shirt for them.

Take a look at the awesome Malissa Dunphy modeling one of the freshly printed shirts above, as well as Sean himself sporting the new merch below. Make sure you come down to the Palimino this Friday to be a part of Jenny's album release from Sudden Death Records! It's going to be fun!
More info on the album release here.