Jennifer's Body cover

This is a comic book adaptation of a movie that Megan Fox was in called Jennifer's body. Frank Cho and I both got the covers to this book.
His will appear in Comic stores and mine will be in book stores. I'm very excited and honored to share the cover with such an amazing artist.

The Unknown #5

this is the issues #1 for the second part of the series.
This was a lot of fun to do, Boom studios just let me run free with the concept.
It's been a lot of fun doing covers for them, I can't wait to post the next 2 covers I recently finished.

THE UNKNOWN cover #4

The 4th cover to The Unknown.

THE UNKNOWN cover #3

This is the 3rd issue for the comic from BOOM studios caleed The Unknown.

COMICS AND CARDS

Yes!!!! a new post
sorry for the lack of post, I've actually been doing a bunch of comic covers recently. But unfortunately I cant show them until they are published
So in the mean time here are some of the covers that I've done. I know these are older images but I just got around to shooting the actual printed covers....get off my back

Also I finally got around to creating a new card (which I'm actually really proud of)
the last few cards have been ultra simple on the backside(name, email). I do really like simple design but I just felt like I needed to say more. I thought this was an attractive solution.
I really don't know dick about design but for those of you who are starting out in this business make sure you leave the backside of the card in a matte finish.
this will let potential clients mark the card and write notes on how awesome you are
I was inspired by a number of business cards I found in a book called The Best Of Business Card Design 8

In used Times New Roman for the font. I felt this was appropriate for the illustration. It has this vintage feel to it but still strongly personifies class with the wright kerning.
Again, I'm not a graphic designer and don't pretend to be. So all of you illustrators out there, do what I say and not what I do, Ask a graphic designer for help when your designing your card/site/identity, because unless you're Sean Chapman, you probably suck......

Eve

Ok, I finally got it scanned in and up
It's 24''x36''
done with watercolor first then colored pencil for the skin and snake, copic marker and acrylic for the hair and lines, water based oil for the background and shirt....its a mouthful but it was fun

I'll have prints of it in about 2 weeks.
go to: [link]

I think thats all I got
enjoy!

Doll

June show at Redletter in Ybor

This should be a really good show, even if you hate me you should go because this dude Aaron Nagel is pretty rad. Go see his stuff here http://www.aaronnagel.com/
its going to be all about the the ladies (no shit Erik) and new work baby

so mark this show date down on your crappy iPhone or your awesome blackberry, hahahahahahaha, sorry Cady

the Unknown Cover #2

Writer(s): Mark Waid
Artist(s): Minck Oosterveer
Cover : Erik Jones
"She has solved every mystery known to man. But there is one mystery that remains... UNKNOWN! Revered as the smartest person alive, Catherine Allingham is the world's most famous private investigator. Follow her adventures as she sets out to solve the one mystery she's never been able to crack! A new original mini-series from Mark (KINGDOM COME) Waid in the vein of RUSE with international superstar Minck Oosterveer."

this is the second cover for The Unknown, I actually just finished the 3rd but I cant post it yet.
you can go here to pick them up or just check out what its about:
http://www.boom-studios.net/the-unknown-1-cover-a.html

hope you like it

Sis

another piece i did for those October shows I did

colored pencil
acrylic
water based oils
copic marker
paper mounted on board

New Wave Requiem

get a print here: www.theirison.com/store

well, I'm on a roll with submitting art here so here is one more
It's the cover for a new WhiteWolf r.p.g
it's called New Wave Requiem
it's about vampires in the 80's
how freakn cool is that

and yes, this piece is digital :(
I know, I know, but I only had a few days to finish it
and my traditional process does not like to be rushed.
and to make it worst, I think it came out even better then most of my traditional pieces....that bums me out but at least I gave the client something they loved
I promise the next one will be painted

and for all you digital artist out there.....now I know why you do it, its pretty freakn fun!!

Ghost and the Geisha

GET PRINTS HERE... theirison.com/store

this was a piece I did for my shows in October
not much more to say about it

Prints available here http://www.theirison.com/store/

this is a cover I did for Boom Studios
Its called The Unknown
they did two cover versions for issue #1
I did this one and apparently Paul Pope is doing the other one
(I can't wait to see it!!)

Not sure when they plan on releasing it
but I'll keep you all posted.....maybe,ha

digital Dity

I have another show coming up and because traditional work is not selling at all, Im going to try some large digital prints mounted on wood

Voyage

I finally got my work back from the October shows, now I'm in the process of scanning all the images. This part sucks because I have a tiny scanner and work way to large.
oh well, here is the first image I've scanned
it's 20"x31", done on Stonehenge printmaking paper mounted to masonite
I used watercolors for a base coat then rendered the skin with prismacolor pencils
after that I busted out the house paint (Behr) for the sea and sky
then I moved on to the hair with marker and a bit if acrylic
I finished it up with washes of water based oil

hope you like it

Blue

This was a little piece I did in Store 101, it was a live painting.
just thought i would share

Caitlin Fairchild PHOTO

ok.... where are all my J.Scott Campbell fans at?!?!?!

I was in the middle of a shoot and I noticed that my model looked kinda like Caitlin Fairchild from Gen 13
I stopped the shoot and immediately ran to Walmart to find some sort of a costume that looked like Caitlins

with a bit of manipulation to the outfit, I created a Campbell girl!!!!
I'm pretty sure this was one of my life goals, haha

anyway, I can't really use it for anything.
I just thought it was awesome and wanted to share

GUNS n CUNTS

New She Kills design
it should be ready for the X-mas season
so go to www.shekills.com
if it's not up yet, keep checking back
it should be up in the next few weeks

why does every girl hate that word, haha
its like kryptonite to every female
you guys make it to easy..... haha, sorry

Ill call it "GUNS n @#$*s

there, are you happy??

Tata Gala 2nd poster

this piece was hard to do
I recently met Heather (the model for this piece)
and have become really good friends
She recently found out she has cancer
Its going to be a tough and long battle

I am honored to paint such a beautiful and strong pesron

this show (Tata Gala) goes out to anyone that has been some how affected by any kind of cancer

Tata Gala

Be there!!!

Hack Slash #20

cover to a comic called Hack Slash should be coming out in a few months

just one more peek before the show

I really like how this one is coming out ,so I took a picture of me finishing up the line work
when I work like this, a lot of times I'll do the line and then paint around it
it takes a little more time but it turns out really nice

I'm about to go out side and shoot it so I sould have the final up soon...... maybe, ha

a little sneak peek

a drawing I just finished for one of the paintings for my shows in October

yep

2008 TATA GALA call for entries

Ok people, it's time for this years Tata Gala.
All the info is on the flyer so if you're interested in submitting this year, please do
Last years show was great and lets make this one even better

if you have any questions you can email me at erik@theirison.com

thanks, now lets see some boo-beez

Red Tide Wear new design

ooooo i like this one,it goes from shoulder to shoulder, should be pretty cool looking when it goes to print

October shows, lflyer

Doing a small florida tour with all new work, I'll have a ton of prints and shirts as well
Im working on the poster image right now
so check back soon

Lydia

A piece for some upcoming shows I have, my scanner broke, so this is photos pieced together. It looks funny to me, scans just look so much better. Man, I miss my scanner

MY NEW SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AWESOME, I just got my new site up
I really dig all the new fetures including
a detail button, so you can see my work up close

the shop section is coming REAL soon

hope you guys like it

www.theirison.com

Boy of Hell

this is a piece i did is super short notice, like 2 hours kinda notice
it was for a hell boy show at uberbot in orlando fl.
it was a pretty good show with a lot of big names in the comic biz

by the.. awesome freakn movie, go see it if you have yet to

house paint and markers

SKY

well its done, this took a long time, but it came out pretty good
I wish you could see the gold in person, the scan just doesnt do it justice
hope ya like it

look whats on my table

that green is just the ground, im going to try gold..... this is all i have to say right now

Justice

How patriotic of me, i know

this is a commission for a dude I met at the new york con a few months back
he wanted me to illustrate a girl he know from a site called burning angel.
It was kinda hard because the pictures were like an inch and i really couldnt see the tattoos, oh well, it turned out ok

I will say I'm getting sick of the "Erik, draw me a girl with tattoos"
I really want to expand... like.. girl without tattoos, theres a fresh concept, haha
besides tattoos are for wimps, and i got a knuckle sandwich waiting to be tasted by some wimp..... Sean, that means you buckaroo... yeah i said it

Blossom

Bear house paint and copic markers on paper

another one

i thought this was going to turn out alot better but it looks way to cartoony for me.
Oh well, im just going to keep cranking them out untill i get it

Just having fun

I really was in the mood to do somrthing fun, big, and loose, ive used this face before but i thought id give it a try again, Im really working in try to build my confidence with large stokes, it easy on small work but its a whole different thing on large scale peices.
there will be more like this to come, hopefully that better

The Rogues

This is a piece I did for a show coming up soon. The show is about the movie The Worriors
I added a photograph of the character because ive found that alot of people have yet to see this movie

anyway should be a cool show

oh yeah< i have a bunch of pieces at Uberbot.... go buy one

MAD-DUCE

Klye Cross the owner of Store 101 in Gainseville Florida commissioned me to do a
t-shirt design for the store.
They wanted the same image but with different colors, able to print on black and white shirts
mens (black)
girls (white)
Ive been in this retro kick so i wanted to do some far out colors, i freakn dig it, can you dig it??

the Jesus, from the Big Lebowski

this was pretty fun to do, it was for a show I through at Digal 3 gallery
i have had the idea for a while now but never got a chance to do it until that show

New York comic con!!

i had the time of my life!!!!
th con was cool to

Wonder Woman

this was a commision for my agent. Ill be in New York in a few hours for the Comic Con. If anyone is going to be there stop by the Cadence Comic art booth and say Hi.... or better yet, buy something im broke

Cary

a personal commision. Ive had this drawing for a little bit now but couldn't think of the right colors for it. I wanted somthing that wasn't as bright as my other work

really starting to understand colored pencils now, and i think I found a pretty good techneque mixing inks, acrylics, markers and colored pencils
this took a little over 7 hours, thats about 10 hours faster than my normal pieces
and that sooooooo good because i had to send it this morning

i dont know why im still typing, no one reads these things any way..... i hate you

2008 Society of Illustrators scholarship award

very happy to be apart of this event again this year, and i actually might be able to make it to the show in New York this time. congrats to all others who got in

Red Tide Wear

these are a few shirt designs i did for a company called Red Tide Wear. I did a total of 8 designs, you will be able to get them at Ron John surf shop when they come out

Death Fallows Her

this is just a bad photograph of it, when it comes down from the gallery ill scan it it and repost it

commision done at megacon

death fallows her, coming soon

this is for a show called pale horse. its pretty big and i have to finish it in two days, hahaha. no sleep for erik

detail of EVE, coming soon

Sara

fin

LOOSEY GOOSIE

Ive been casually sketching out faces for a bit now and decided to turn some into painting, they are the first paintings Ive done on canvas....... i hate it. canvas suck, it moves and its got a texture that wants to show up in the worst places. i like loosing up though, colored pencils can get a little boring at times

HORNS

a seek peek to the first shirt for my new clothing line called SHE KILLS
this is the first girl shirt,not sure what brand im going to use for the shirt yet, but im leaning towards Alternative Appare, the burnout shirt http://www.alternativeapparel.com/Collections/Men/
i think im going to have around 6-8 desings to start. in the process of building a website as well. ill let you know more soon

OMG

its 6 in the morning and i can't sleep, if i give you my address will someone come here and knock me out!!!

im super busy with a whole bunch of work. I have like 7 gallery shows coming up and i dont like to post gallery work before i show it. So keep an eye out.

ill try to post some she kills stuff soon, the clothing should be made in about3-6 months, is that how you spell months, it seems like there should be a 'u' in it, ya know... munths... no that doesnt look right either....

STORE 101, poster art

SHE shirts with model

one more to come, the yellow one below. I have my own line coming out as well, so keep an eye out. My line will be called SHE KILLS.

FX con...

One more bizzzoch

the is the third T i did with Gorilla Riot..... go buy it
https://gorillariot.com/shop.html

CUPCAKE

CUPCAKE detail, work in progress

i have nothing to say yet

SHE

this along with the image below are the first designs i did for an apparel company called Gorilla riot. you can buy the shirts on https://gorillariot.com/shop.html

SHE

this is one of the tshirt designs that i well have with me at the conventions im going to in 2008

TATA GALA

thank you so much to everyone that participated and came to the show, it was a blast for boobs. We raised over $3000 for breast cancer and over 300 people attended.
It did so well we are going to make tis an anual event. So until next year... TATA

I Promise

Smile Lou

this piece was for a friend for her birthaday, didnt have much time to work on it but I think its nice for what it is

Stella

this is one of the pieces done for the Tata Gala show.

TATA GALA poster

the final shirt

Political Angel

This was a one day commission from a gentile man in California that was getting a tattoo the very next day so I had to work fast

He wanted: an angel with the wings extended with several bullet wounds, her hands and for arms covered in blood and she needed to have black hear. The line drawing was the important part so I just did simple spot coloring.

it was supposed to represent the hypocrisy of religion in war... or something like that

anyway... just thought id share some of the stiff Ive been doing

ZOMBIEEE

I was at scream fest and was wearing a Norma Jean tshirt and a guy walked up to me and said " hey, I designed that shirt". We started up a conversation, he bought a couple of prints and before you know it I'm workn with him.

This was the first project. A luchador zombie with his hands through the heads of his victims. It was pretty challenging because I have never really done zombies, but now I'm obsessed, so you'll probable see more dead people soon, haha.
the tshirt was going to be red, thats why the background is red. I could only use 5 colors, that was kinda hard as well, but I think it tuned out pretty well

South Virginia

really like the skin tone in this one..... thats all I got

Lady Death

did this for a company called Cadence Comic Art. Really had fun bringing Lady Death to life, also putting a little "ooh-la-la" in her outfit, or should i say, off her outfit..... god Im lame

SHEKILLS

just had some time to kill today and slapted this together, i want to get into some printmaking soon so ive been trying to think of some cool images to do, i really would like to try this one, if i dont make some sort of print out of it i might try to just do a flat painting, step out of my colored pecil world..... for a bit

DRAIN

I'm going to be in show in St.Petersburg on Holloween night and wanted to have some bloody work for it, also im going to be at Horror Fest. in Orlando, 19th-21st and I think this might do well there

Im not real crazy about this piece, i dig the rendering but..... I dont know, I dont hate it, but I dont love it, what ever, its done. I think im going through a funk or something, i just dont like anything Im doing, guess I just have to work through it

I think im going to focus on a few movie portraits and go back to some fasion illustration, some stuff my Mom can hang up in her house, haha

GearHead Pin-up

Sean, Jared, and I met a couple of guys at Heros Con, they did a comic book called GearHead
they asked me to do a pin-up style piece of the main chick for a book they were putting out. This is just a one day thing, I cranked it out pretty fast..... it is what it is

300

OH MY GOD, im done, it took forever, i just lost track of time and pretty much stopped thinkn about it, never the less, i finnished it

South Virginia

this is just a color studie for a new piece im workn on, its 23x23

HAIR (revisited)

Glory

Not realy crazy about this one, i just got some gold paint and wanted to have hun

revision of The Lynsday Tree

color study, new work coming soon

My Process

The digital part is what it looks like when I print the base colors out. I use Bristol vellum to print on, any dry media works really well on that. All the figures are colored pencil and nupastels, then ink washes, nupastel and acrylic for the background and line everything with colored pencils. This image is the before and after shot.

Senior Thesis

STILL NOT DONE

process

COMING SOON 300

still have to change a few things, like his legs but its coming along

revisiting an old piece, i like it more

MEDUSA

well...... here you go. colored pencil and acrylic on bristol vellum

in progress

its really big so you can see pretty much every line thats made. Ill post the finished piece as soon as I get it scanned in

one more peek

in progress, just a little part of the piece

Society of Illustrators....hell yah

these two pieces where chosen to be in the Society of Illustrators gallery show in New York, Congrats to everyone else who made it.

For Real

Ok.Ok, this is the last you'll see. The girls with the red hair are really rough, not sure about the color but these are just color studies anyway. Now comes the fun part, mount these suckers on board and go to town( you have a sick mind....pervert). I want to do about three more, but we'll see.......... I beat you to it Joe, fashion pin-up. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...ha

We Three Green

so I tried my hand at watercolor, Im not crazy about it, but it does the job( i got an A). I really like the samurai so you might see a piece with him in it later

The Lindsay Tree

A great friend of mine wanted me to do a cherry blossom tree...... so her you go Lindsay

ok, this is all your getting

these are some sketches and color studies for my senior project, the negative space will be engaged by pattern or speratic brush strokes, id love to show you more but not untill the show is over may 9th

color studie for my first senior project piece.... about time

dont ask, i was board and didnt feel like working on my senior project

GAME OVER

Im not sure if Im done, but Im sick of working on it so her it is

my studio

I always like seeing where people do their work, and now you can see where i spend all my days,
i need a maid

pencil sketch for a pin and ink piece. I have a lot of stuff to work out , but I think its going to be a nice piece. And look mom, no naked ladies

LUNCH

A self portrait, it started out as a pen and ink project but I couldnt stop. OH, what do you think of my new signature .......... I love it, is what your thinking.

HAIR

Just having fun, for some reason i've been in a portrait mood

Much To Much

i was just board, to much to drink I guess, i wish i could draw some thing that ment some thing for a change, oh well,

the first sketch of medusa for my senior project, these arent the colors it just reads better with color, im going to try to get really good reference for once, i plan on rendering the hell out of these, im not quite sure what shes going to be sitting on, i'd love to hear some suggestions

I was chosen by the illustration faculty to represent my department in a student show in student life..... i guess they like naked vampire chicks

Summers Tomorrow

This is still in progress, It was a commision to illustrate a poem. I had a lot a fun putn this together

twins

American Psycho

little diddy

A piece I did for a friend over the summer. Color pencil on watercolor board, 60'' by 75''

Boogie Nights Fuckn Idiot

60's Chick

This was commisioned by a pro fishing team.They wanted it to reoresent all their bad habits including smoking, drinking, wemon and ofcourse fishing. Because its a logo I didnt use any shading. Its all done in photoshop

Pink Monster

Pink Monster, we've all scene one. Which one's the monster? You tell me.

bat girl..... being a mortal sucks

Self portrait, colored pencil and acrylic on watercolor board

marker, colored pencil

Acrylic, colored pencil on water color board

IRIS ON

Look and see