As I work in gay media, I don’t often get to celebrate Halloween.  This year was no different, so I shopped myself a costume this year and added a few for some friends.

This image is a combination of my good friend Julian Vankim‘s amazing photography, some face-paint I managed to stumble through myself, and a bit of Photoshopping.

The two below were heavily stylized with thick straps of leather and sever shadows.  I just added some color, some background and a few extra textures here and there (and some wings / horns, of course).

I also did some actual work this week, including the design for Fuego’s Halloween Party.

My Workoleen started at the High Heel Race, as Dylan Comstock, Randy Shulman and I caught the race from various cameras and locations:

As we were waiting for the race to start, Ebone Bell and I canvased the crowd for a special Halloween edition of Outspoken:

And here is a leather and face-paint themed piece I am working on with local photo genius Julian Vankim:

Made this for Spirit Day, a time set aside to recognize kids driven to suicide by anti-LGBT bullying.  And yes, there is a glaring error that was pointed out to my by Chris Geidner, but it was too perfect to correct it.