Birthday pub crawl map final look

Based on the map as seen in The World's End, here's the final version of the map sketched and colored in Sketchbook Pro.



The perspective is way off on some of the buildings as I was messing with the perspective tool and trying to keep it all relative to the way the street is angled.

Birthday pub crawl map sketches

My good friend had his birthday earlier this year and wanted a pub crawl themed party. Since I just recently saw The World's End, we decided to do our own "Golden Mile" in East Atlanta Village where he lives. Unfortunately, it came out to be about a half mile and the crawl made more of a Y path rather than an interesting winding path. Below are the pub sign sketches I created for each stop. 


First stop, Argosy:

The name of this pub is based on a merchant ship and even has a painting of one inside.

Second stop, The Elder Tree:

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This is an actual British styled pub so the sign wasn't too difficult to design.

Third stop, The Earl:

Thought it would be fun to take the acronym of the EARL (East Atlanta Restaurant and Lounge) and make it regal considering it's a straight up dive bar. Based the design on a painting of John Fleming, VI Earl of Wigton. 

Fourth stop, Flatiron:

Not sure how this place was named but I made the sign based on an actual flat iron.

Fifth stop, The Midway Pub:

I intentionally made the half-way stop this pub. The sign is obviously a half finished pint.

Sixth stop, The 529 Bar:

This one was a bit easy as they have a coat of arms as their logo and I based the sign on that.

Seventh stop, Mary's:

Cleverly named gay bar in EAV. So, I used the Victorian styled pub sign for this one.

Eighth stop, The Glenwood:

Named after the road it sits on, the design of this sign is based on what Glenwood literally means: a wooded glen (valley). 

Ninth and final stop, The Graveyard Tavern:

Much like the Midway Pub, I intentionally made this the last stop because of the name. I has several ideas but I eventually went with  the winged skull motif from late 17th Century to early 18th Century gravestones.

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This page is still active!

I'll be getting up some new stuff when I get the time. This blog is still active! :-)

Digital sketch

I was messing around while watching Parks and Rec and came up with this.

Old self portratit

Hotlinked from Deviant Art because I can't find the hi-res photo. Created in 2005.




This is a self portrait of myself that was for my life drawing 2 class. It's been a while since I did this so I don't remember what I used for it. I think it may have been charcoal pencils. Anyway, the project was called something like "I and I." The idea was to represent two aspects of yourself. I've always wanted to do a portrait in my armor so I did. The idea was to kind of play upon the clone aspect and as well as maybe the idea of seeing that MIGHT happen. This portrait was kind of rushed and it was a final project for the class. So, no background in it and I also felt one might have detracted from the subject.