Movin’ on up…

So, I’ve redesigned my page and am going to be hosting it myself from now on. Come visit me there at daveberns.com if you want to see my latest works (& I know you do).

Are You Buff Enough!

Buff City Brawlers, Jamestown, ND Roller Derby Logo

Jamestown, North Dakota’s Buff City Brawlers will have their work cut out for them competing in their inaugural season in the WFTDA, next year. Insofar as branding goes, however, in my not-so humble opinion, their only competition will be from South Florida’s own Jupiter Jammers.

Break a leg, ladies… and please make it of those on the other teams!

Tatanka, Tatanka you, very much!

Illustrated in Adobe Photoshop, with a little help from Adobe Illustrator, on a Wacom Intuos4 tablet and a lovely 27 inch Apple iMac by me, Dave Berns. Ya heard?

I hope you like jammin’ too…

Jupiter Jammers Mascot/Logo for Roller Derby Team

While it remains to be seen if the Jupiter Jammers will be a competitive force in the WFTDA in their inaugural season, their logo most certainly will be!

If you’re a Derby fan, a resident of Jupiter, Florida (Grandpa Bob, I’m talking to you!), or just a fan of my work, I fully expect you to buy lots of swag from them featuring this piece and sport it proudly & loudly at their future events.

Illustrated in Adobe Photoshop, with a little help from Adobe Illustrator, on a Wacom Intuos4 tablet and a lovely 27 inch Apple iMac by me, Dave Berns. Dig it!

Notes to Bean…

I’ve begun creating a comic strip series of observation, advice and inspiration in celebration and contemplation of the little bun in my wife’s oven. I’m planning to have a few dozen of them by the time my Bean is born. Give a look, leave a note of your own to the little guy if you’d like, share it with any parents-to-be you might know of.

Public Angry!

BP also stands for Blood Pressure… coincidence? I think not!

When this image parodying the classic Public Enemy cover came to me, I had to create it.

Celebrating 25 Years of Success!

Celebrating 25 Years of Success - BW line art, digitally illustrated group caricature.

HOT DAMN!

Starting up a new project to strut my pin-up style works.

Coming Soon…

in appreciation of the female form…

Hot Damn! Arts

(page is just parked for now, bookmark for future reference)

Come from the land of Ice & Snow

I could not have been more stoked to get to draw this illustration for my buddy Åsa’s band… What’s not to love here? Barely dressed over-the-top viking babes coming ashore to plunder and tear asunder!
Illustrated in pen & ink, digitally painted gray-tones and splatter effects in Adobe Photoshop, logo designed in Adobe Illustrator.

Fishsticks

Finished the mermaid piece…
I think she looks damn hot and am starting on a few more of her girlfriends to make a set of them.
10″x20″ giclee prints for sale soon.

Please pass the ketchup!

I recently received a request from someone who’d found my previous termite illo, via a google search that landed her here, to license the image for their own needs.
Unfortunately it was created under a work-for-hire agreement, and I couldn’t just make a few bucks off of my previous efforts. Bummer. Back to the well I go… to revisit the concept with a new illustration, as I’m retaining ownership and just allowing limited usage for the new client, this time it’s mine, all mine!
So, if by chance, you’ve found this entry by a google search yourself, and want to use this piece for your business needs, too, give me a shout, maybe we can come to some sort of an agreement.
Thanks for visiting!

I’m with…

It’s an established fact that Conan O’Brien is a preferable talk show host to Jay Leno (one that apparently NBC execs are unaware of). After seeing literally hundreds of my fb friends sign up for the “I’m with COCO” club, it occurred to me that virtually ANY Coco would make a more compelling host than the whiny talking chin.
So, given that I have this moderately funny parody idea and nowhere to put it… I’m experimenting with a self-distribution model that also uses the whole grass-roots social media campaign. If it gives you a chuckle, link up to it, and pass it along to your friends. Maybe enough of them will order a print to make this experiment a success.
Peace!
-Dave
PS: I hardly watch TV, but FYI, Jimmy Kimmel trumps Conan, Leno, Letterman, Fallon & Ferguson. That said even Kimmell is no Byron Allen!

Peace & Chicken Grease!

Yes, I am a complete goon.
This is a pair of little watercolored line drawings I did for “Anything & Everything”.

I set up an etsy shop…

Offering up some random stuff for sale from the archives… a few WWN spot illustrations, some life drawings, sketches and the ink art to the Marilyn Zombie piece… Provided some of these move, I’ll be adding a lot more to this shop in the coming weeks & months. Favorite me there!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/daveberns

Follicles of Fury!

My cousin Paul Luther as a young Olympic wrestling hopeful in the age of the afro. Caricature drawn entirely in Adobe Photoshop.

 

In the X-Mas Spirit!

Colored Pens & Watercolor on Watercolor Paper.

Sketchbook

These are not finished pieces, nor are they for clients, but they are pretty freakin’ cool, if I do say so myself.

Slappy McHitsyerkid

Cigars on the roof in Key West

The Artist’s House from the artist’s perch

Building across the street from the best Eggs Benedict on planet earth

Room with a partial view

Couple having coffee

Old woman blowing her nose

Mother and son

My wife ignoring me while I sketch

Burlesque dancer with baby bottle nipples and fur-kini

The great Timb

N! holding the most uncomfortable pose ever

Torchy Taboo in elfin attire

Rockabilly girl and chopper

Rockabilly girl and artists

A couple of hosers!

Product concept art, Logo design and cartoon illustration for sports team colored garden product. Created in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Garden buds

Some fun character designs for a gardening company. Full color cartoon illustration created in photoshop.

Brains Meet Beauty

Brains meet Beauty… Zombie Marilyn

Pen & ink on watercolor paper, colored digitally with photoshop.

I’m toying with the notion of illustrating zombified or horror-themed portraits of some other iconic dead stars and releasing as a portfolio set or art book.

Hungry Buggers

Cartoon illustration of termites eating home for pest control company signage, vector art created in adobe illustrator.