XENOCBLOOD ART

BLACK ART

2012-01-17T12:21:00.008Z

Kind of sort of maybe a self portrait...

Click to enlarge!

GOLAN XMAS: THE MALL MASSACRE

2012-01-06T11:06:00.006Z

Illustrations for the latest Golan The Insatiable article on Something Awful.

Claiming the throne of Santa Claus at the mall

Forgetting the frailty of human anatomy

Incident in the Build-A-Bear shop

Read the article here

BLACK METAL LINEAGE REVERSIBLE POSTER PRINT

2011-12-08T13:22:00.007Z

This poster is printed on good quality white card and is reversible. One side shows the lineage of black metal in a “family tree” diagram and the other shows my ‘Fastened To The Five Points’ image of a woman being sacrificed.

Each is signed and hand-numbered from a limited run of 50 prints. Get it here!

CONSVME

2011-12-05T15:19:00.003Z

More work from a collaboration with Anthony Wallace. More info to follow soon!

BATHROOM RITUALS

2011-12-03T20:30:00.004Z

From a collaboration with Anthony Wallace. More info to follow soon!

HELL BIRTH

2011-11-09T19:39:00.002Z

TUMBLR

2011-11-04T17:17:00.005Z

I gave my Tumblr page a bit of a make-over this week, cleaned things up a bit and generally made it all a bit sexier. Check it out if you're a Tumblr user or even just a cool person.

TATTOO WORK IN PROGRESS

2011-11-04T16:45:00.004Z

Nearly finished this snake spine tattoo... Just waiting for the ink to dry on the final design

WEEPING GOLGOTHALOID

2011-11-04T16:39:00.004Z

MORE BADGE ACTION

2011-10-10T11:30:00.007+01:00

Now that I seem to have a steady internet connection again, I can actually show you the fancy new packaging I made for my genocide badges.

Pledge your allegiance to total annihilation by buying one here!

BLACK METAL BADGES II

2011-10-07T17:30:00.010+01:00

My second lot of black metal badges are now on sale. These pin-back buttons are from a limited run of 30 and come attached to a printed card. Each set includes one 'KVLT' badge and one skullroboros badge. Get the set here!

GOLAN WANTS FEMALES!

2011-10-07T15:45:00.009+01:00

My illustrations for Golan Wants Females!, the latest Golan The Insataible article on SomethingAwful.com. Read the article here. You always know an something's going to be fun to illustrate when you scan over it and see references to mid-coital decapitation and taloned phalluses.

Golan reading Maxim magazine

A buxom specimen

Acolytes performing demeaning services

BLACK METAL STAIN T-SHIRT

2011-09-28T14:11:00.014+01:00

The Black Metal Stain t-shirts are now on sale! The design on the front of the shirt is the front cover of my Black Metal Stain book and the text on the back reads "Heavy Black Rain, Black Metal Stain!". Available in sizes Small, Medium and Large. Buy it here.

PHOTOS BY CATRIONA MUNRO

2011-09-28T13:23:00.011+01:00

Well, this is a bit different! I while ago I helped out my good friend Catriona Munro (aka Babette Corvette) with a spot of "modelling" for her photography portfolio and here are some of the results. There'll be more coming soon, but I thought I should stick these up for now anyway. I don't think I've got what it takes for the "gothic model" lifestyle - too much time sitting under hot lamps while people prod you and I am PROPER not tattooed enough, but it was definitely fun getting all dressed up, listening to Elvis and posing around while a beeeautiful lady took piccies of my wee odd face.

See Catriona's blog about her photography and film work here or add her on facebook

SET FIRE TO YOUR CHILDREN'S FACES WITH THE SERPENT

2011-09-05T17:00:00.007+01:00

I love pencils. Got a sweet little self-contained sharpener so I can bung it in my bag for pencilling on the go. I'm dreading the day when it opens in my bag and fills it with sharpenings, but you can't go through life worrying about these things, you know.

SOME LITTLE ENVELOPES

2011-09-05T16:52:00.005+01:00

I decided to make some little envelopes for my 'KVTE' pocket mirrors. Only five are left, but you can still get one here.

BLACK METAL STAIN ZINE

2011-08-21T22:17:00.010+01:00

Black Metal Stain, The follow up to my Black Metal Rituals zine is finally available to buy. It's a 36 page handbound book of black metal filth and you can get it here! The book contains a small introduction and at least 20 illustrations.

BLACK METAL STAIN

2011-08-16T21:05:00.003+01:00

Cover art for my new book coming out soon!

APOLLO SHRINE

2011-08-16T20:59:00.004+01:00

Something went wrong on the mission...

PINK SKULL

2011-07-09T21:01:00.006+01:00

My wonderful wee pal Ruth Laila had a stall at the CCA today selling her awesome war themed earrings and decapitated Barbie necklaces. It's her birthday in a few days so I brought along my present for her: this little guy. It's about one and a half times the size of my other brooches. And pink of course. Also, Ruth's the only person I know to wear pink eyeshadow on one eye and turquoise on the other so I had to include that! Hehe.

ASK GOLAN THE INSATIABLE!

2011-07-07T15:53:00.012+01:00

Illustrations for Ask Golan The Insatiable!, a new article by Worm Miller up on SomethingAwful as part of the Golan The Insatiable series.

Golan now also has his very own facebook page where you can keep track of his antics, if you so wish!

AFTERNOON TEAS POSTER

2011-07-07T15:29:00.003+01:00

New poster work for Biggars Cafe

LEG DEMON

2011-07-01T20:44:00.004+01:00

BIGGARS CAFE BUSINESS CARD

2011-07-01T13:28:00.011+01:00

Biggars Cafe's new business card. Using the same "Mrs. Biggars" waitress/cook character with a few alterations. The back of the business card was to include a deal for getting every ninth coffee free. The customer would get a stamp on their card every time they ordered a coffee. Don't know about you, but I'm a sucker for deals like that every time! Free coffees?? Yes please!

front

back

BIGGARS ADVERT FOR FOODIES MAGAZINE

2011-07-01T13:11:00.010+01:00

This is the advert I did for Biggars Cafe to go in Foodies Magazine. They wanted a waitress character that represented the friendly, relaxed atmosphere of the cafe. The ad was to be in keeping with the 'Biggars' colours of dark green, brown and burnt orange.

A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION

2011-06-30T22:46:00.002+01:00

GLUT FOR BLOOD

2011-06-28T01:56:00.011+01:00

Self injury and blood lust

THE HIDDEN LANE FESTIVAL

2011-06-26T22:15:00.018+01:00

... I told you it was a busy weekend. This Saturday, Glasgow Badges were selling some of my designs on shirts at their stall at The Hidden Lane Festival. It was absolutely soaking there. As in, rain-water-running-down-the-awnings-of-the-stalls-and-down-your-neck soaking. I don't know how they managed to have an outdoor fashion show with that weather, but we got there too late to see it anyway. The water was running down my sleeves and down my hands, making my rings loose, but we just laughed and tried on jewellery then we checked out The Shop of Interest across the road.

Here's the Glasgow Badges stall.

Witch Candle was one, along with the Storm Watchers drawing

I must admit, I kind of want a copy of this one for myself...

Me, crying with laughter at something I don't remember in the cafe afterwards

And I got my first ever patch for my jacket. I'm not planning on covering the whole thing or anything, but I might get a couple more. Not a bad one to start with though!

POLKA DOT PUNKS' 'MUSIC TO MY EARS' EXHIBITION

2011-06-26T20:40:00.015+01:00

Well, it's been a busy weekend. First of all, this Friday and Saturday I had my work at an event called 'Music To My Ears' that was organised by Polka Dot Punks. It was there along with work from a whole lot of great artists including Karen Suzuki aka. Nameless Wonders and my great pal and awesome jeweller Ruth Laila Steffensen. We got there super early at ten on Friday to set up then spent the day running around town getting the finishing touches for the exhibition together before dressing up for the opening at six. Of course, I don't live anywhere near the centre of town so I had to shuffle around in a corset and bullet belt all day, but nothing new there! I least I have comfy boots. I didn't make it to the events on Saturday though, but you'll find out why in the next post...

UNDERNEATH GLASGOW ON SALE AT AYE-AYE BOOKS

2011-06-15T00:54:00.006+01:00

My lastest book 'Underneath Glasgow' is now on sale at Aye-Aye Books! Aye-Aye books is located at the CCA, Glasgow. 'Underneath Glasgow' is a 26 page illustrated horror story centred around the pigeons and homeless people of Glasgow. See more pictures from the book here and here.

FELT DEMON SKULL BROOCH

2011-06-12T21:00:00.013+01:00

Well, did you guess what the box was for? Yep! It was for the felt demon skull brooches I've been busy putting together lately. Each of these guys is hand-stitched so they might vary in stitching, but only very slightly, and each comes in a black triangle-shaped gift box. They are 45mmx45mm (not including horns)and ~90mmx45mm (including horns). Available to buy here.

SNEAKY PEEK

2011-06-12T14:45:00.007+01:00

Making the packaging for something new about to go on sale very soon!

MARTYR

2011-06-06T21:32:00.003+01:00

A LITTLE NIBBLER

2011-06-06T20:55:00.003+01:00

STEALING SOULS

2011-06-06T17:51:00.004+01:00

UNDERNEATH GLASGOW

2011-05-24T22:02:00.028+01:00

Underneath Glasgow is now on sale! It's a 26 page illustrated horror story centred around the pigeons and homeless people of Glasgow (of course you don't need to be from Glasgow to enjoy a good pigeon-based horror story though).

This book is 13x13cm and handbound with with thread. Get it here at my etsy shop.

PIGEON ILLUSTRATIONS

2011-04-18T20:54:00.014+01:00

Some illustrations from my new book. It's a short horror story. Set in Glasgow. With pigeons.

Now available here!

SLOPPY KISS

2011-04-08T23:18:00.005+01:00

FISH SUPPER

2011-04-08T23:16:00.007+01:00

SUPPORT TOTAL GENOCIDE BADGE

2011-04-05T21:00:00.013+01:00

Pledge your allegiance to the genocide of the entire human race with this limited edition 25mm pinback button. Get it here on my etsy. Support the total annihilation and eradication of mankind!

KVTE POCKET MIRROR

2011-04-05T20:45:00.012+01:00

My new 'KVTE' pocket mirrors are now on sale! These mirrors are 57mm perfect for when you need to reapply your corpsepaint. Get here on my etsy.

CHALICE RITUAL

2011-04-05T20:41:00.004+01:00

STORM WATCHERS

2011-03-18T20:19:00.003Z

GIRLS "KVTE" T-SHIRT

2011-03-17T19:50:00.012Z

Don't be cute, be kvte! Yay, my new t-shirts are finally up for sale and this time it's exclusively for the girls! (or the more shapely boys among you).

The design is screen-printed in white on high quality black 'girlie' t-shirts and comes in size Small, Medium or Large.

Available to buy here

WRATH

2011-03-01T01:40:00.006Z

I'd like to dedicate this drawing to all the nice chaps on Reddit who said that my art sucks, that I'm a boring person and that people only fawn over my work because I'm a girl.

Suck a fat one, nerds.

CALVES

2011-03-01T01:38:00.009Z

More pages from the little book of hate.

EXPULSIONS

2011-02-28T13:55:00.008Z

I've started keeping a little book of drawings... It's not a very nice little book. Have you ever had that feeling where you just want to void your body of everything inside it in one massive firework display of excreting functions? Me neither. But it's fun to draw. What's also fun is that I'm listening to Patriarch's Temny Mir Lyudey at the moment and it's pretty cool!

VOTE GOLAN FOR COMPTROLLER!

2011-02-17T15:33:00.009Z

Illustrations for the next installment of the Golan The Insatiable series on SomethingAwful.com. See the article here!

Yor The Mighty campaigning for Mrs. Budnick

Goaln stands trial

Pillaging the surrounding townships

WHAT YOU SEE

2011-02-08T16:09:00.005Z

Let me see what you see...

INFINITY SERPENT

2011-02-08T14:51:00.007Z

WITCH CANDLE

2011-01-31T16:58:00.008Z

BLACK RAIN

2011-01-31T16:58:00.007Z

TAPPING OUROBOROS

2011-01-31T16:56:00.004Z

HEADLESS GOD

2011-01-24T16:10:00.005Z

Decapitated martyr poised on a throne of skulls

TRAMPLED BY THE SUCCESSOR

2011-01-23T14:37:00.003Z

GO, PABLO, GO!

2011-01-12T18:59:00.005Z

This print was a Christmas present for the couple I worked for a while ago

TAKEAWAY POSTER

2011-01-12T18:40:00.008Z

Another poster for Biggars Cafe. I love painting smoke.

ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE

2011-01-12T18:38:00.004Z

I've been watching too much One Foot In The Grave over the new year. What am I saying? You can never watch too much One Foot In The Grave!

WOODEN STATUE

2010-12-15T19:02:00.003Z

FINE DINING

2010-12-15T18:47:00.004Z

WALTER SULLIVAN'S CORPSE

2010-11-23T20:24:00.005Z

Just finished playing Silent Hill 4: The Room

BIGGARS COFFEE SHOP POSTERS

2010-11-20T21:56:00.009Z

I just finished these posters for the lovely Biggars Cafe in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. The brief was to incorporate the colours of the cafe decor (dark green and burnt orange) in the posters so they would fit in with the place itself.

FEAR ME, YOR THE SO-CALLED MIGHTY!

2010-11-09T17:14:00.010Z

Illustrations for the next installment of the Golan The Insatiable series on SomethingAwful.com. See the article here.

BLACK METAL RITVALS ZINE

2010-11-05T16:47:00.018Z

A less expensive 'zine' version of my limited edition Black Metal Ritvuals book is now available to buy for $12. The zine is 14 pages of black metal and debauchery, printed in black and white and handbound with thread.

$12

NOT MY BABY

2010-11-05T14:06:00.004Z

He's not mine! He doesn't look anything like me!

ENTWINED

2010-11-04T15:22:00.003Z

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU FISH FOR

2010-11-04T15:19:00.008Z

VELOCITRON LOGO

2010-08-31T17:30:00.004+01:00

Final logo design for Velocitron, the company name of toy maker Ricky Wilson. See his stuff here!

ROCK STARS

2010-08-31T13:42:00.008+01:00

Illustrations I did for a garbage day article on SomethingAwful.com, looking at the lifestyles of rock stars and what we expect of them. See the article here!

Kings of Leon after a heavy night

Deathcab For Cutie partying down

Gene Simmons' tongue

GAY VAMPIRES

2010-08-31T13:21:00.005+01:00

New article up on SomethingAwful.com with my illustrations. It's about "gay vampires".

WOMEN IN ROCK

2010-08-07T18:18:00.008+01:00

Illustrations I did for an article on SomethingAwful.com about women in rock. Not my usual type of thing, but it was fun to do.

BLACK METAL RITUALS SHIRTS FOR SALE

2010-07-18T15:40:00.015+01:00

You can now buy your own Black Metal Rituals shirt to show your friends how kvlt you really are. This limited edition design is screen-printed in white on heavyweight high quality black fabric and is available in medium or large. You can buy it as a regular men's t-shirt or a sleeveless, corsetted women's shirt. The women's shirt has a v-neck and the sides are laced up corset-style for a fitted, more feminine look.

Get the men's t-shirt here and the girl's top here

DRESS UP DOLL

2010-06-18T16:09:00.017+01:00

It's been a bit of a wait but finally the black metal paper dress up doll is up for sale here. Just cut out the pieces with scissors or a craft knife and fold over the tabs to dress up your very own metaller! Includes:

- metaller (with black y-fronts to protect modesty)
- paper base to let your metaller stand on his own
- 3 different corpsepaint styles
- leather jacket with patches
- 2 sets of boots (ankle and knee-high)
- camo trousers + bullet belt
- jeans + bullet belt
- ripped leather trousers with spiked codpiece
- 2 spiked cuffs
- over-the-shoulder bullet belts
- "KVLT" and "VOMIT" print black tees
- 2 t-shirts with xenocblood art designs
- corpsepainted sock puppet

BADGES

2010-06-10T22:59:00.018+01:00

My first ever badges are now on sale here and come in a cvte grey/lilac paper packaging as pictured. The two styles available are "KVLT" and "goatman".

LAST CHANCE TO BUY BLACK METAL RITVALS BOOK

2010-06-10T21:14:00.039+01:00

Do you remember my Black Metal Ritvals book? Well, I've got 8 copies left and once they're gone, they're gone so order quickly if you want one!*

A cheaper, plain white paper zine-type version is available here! but only this original version comes with a Black Metal Lineage fold-out poster in an envelope at the back of the book.

*If you'd like to make a special bulk order for a shop or store, email me and I might be able to arrange something.

$28

T-SHIRT DESIGNS FOR BARNABY BLACK

2010-06-09T19:38:00.007+01:00

Self Sacrifice (front of shirt)

Carers (front of shirt)

Brightside Suicide (back of shirt)

T-shirt designs for New York clothing label Barnaby Black. I was really excited about working with BB on this as you can probably imagine. I'm working on something new for them as we speak which I'll post about nearer the time. I'll also try and keep you nice folk updated about when the shirts are available to buy.

WOLFMANGLER SKETCHES

2010-05-18T16:33:00.007+01:00

Sketches for the Wolfmangler pants.

WOLFMANGLER PANTS

2010-05-18T16:15:00.008+01:00

Little Red Riding Wolf design I did for promotionial pants to go with the Wolfmangler release 'They Call Us Naughty Wolves'.

METAL HELL LOGO

2010-03-26T11:12:00.005Z

Logo for Metal Hell, a new feature on the Something Awful website taking a look at awful metal music videos. See the article here!

SPACEMAN

2010-03-19T15:25:00.001Z

70,000 TONS OF METAL

2010-03-14T23:04:00.005Z

Some illustrations I did for an Awful Link of the Day article on the Something Awful website.

The "awful link" in question is the website for the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise: a five day-trip on a cruise liner from Miami to Cozumel, Mexico where rich metallers can enjoy such live bands as Amon Amarth and Sonata Arctica.

Ridiculous.

See the article here!

Passing time in being the live bands with a game of bingo

A very metal breakfast spread

DEMONPLOP

2010-02-19T21:54:00.002Z

Filled a sketchbook page with little demon fellas in town today over a coffee.

FIRST WORMLUST RELEASE WITH NEW LOGO

2010-02-19T20:35:00.015Z

Oblivio Appositus is the name of the new Wormlust / Haud Mundus split. A while ago I did the logo for Wormlust so I new I was getting a copy anyway, but it's so great when something you've done artwork for actually sounds amazing as well! Haha.

The CD is available to buy from Total Holocaust Records. Here's the logo I did:

THE MOST METAL THINGS EVER

2009-12-26T16:11:00.013Z

A series of illustrations for an article on the front page of the Something Awful website. See the article here. Words by the very talented Will Allen and Jeff Curran.

"The most metal thing is when you have to adhere to the dress code at your IT job but you wear your Darkthone T-shirt under your dress shirt and unbutton the shirt just enough so that the pentagram at the top of the logo is exposed for all to see......"

"The most metal thing is a pizza delivered by your local Domino's that says MASTER'S HAMMER BITCH spelled out in pepperoni.."

"The most metal thing is when you use a fine point Sharpie to mark one of your testicles "Varg" and the other "Euronymous" and then teabag your roommate who is sleeping comfortably in his Devil Wears Prada T-shirt."

"I tried that but before I got in his room the Varg nut wrapped around the Euronymous nut (this is called a "testicular torsion," thanks Wikipedia), but that wasn't the most metal thing. The most metal thing was when I had to say "mom my balls hurt really bad" and then I had to show my mom my swollen nutsack."

"The most metal thing ever is when you spread the AIDS virus through anal blood on public toilets. Why is your ass bleeding and how did you contract AIDS in the first place? Bathroom at the Priest concert."

"The most metal thing ever is probably a raped nun or a watch with skeleton hands (it's blood o'clock)."

"The most metal thing is going into the wilderness to reconnect with nature + Satan but then you walk home to get pies that your mom cooked because that's what Thoreau would have done and also your friend from Kinko's texted you and told you the new Krallice leaked."

16 BLACK METALLERS

2009-12-08T18:39:00.003Z

HIS BLOOD

2009-11-23T21:08:00.018Z

Poster I did for my church.

The blood/wine pouring out to the objects is meant to represent the all the things we get from God through Christ:

dove - peace
eye - insight
book - knowledge
bed - comfort
food - spiritual sustenance

XENOC-BUTT

2009-11-08T21:25:00.018Z

A (cheeky) self portrait

DINNER DEMON

2009-11-02T14:00:00.006Z

SLOW RECOVERY

2009-10-15T22:21:00.003+01:00

RIBCAGE TATTOO

2009-10-03T21:35:00.010+01:00

A design for a ribcage tattoo

SHEMHAZAI TATTOO

2009-10-03T21:30:00.008+01:00

Here's another tattoo I designed. The drawing is actually the album art I did for the Norwegian band Nephilim's first demo CD and cassette entitled The Tome of Shemhazai. The drummer liked it so much he wanted a tattoo of it!

SPINE TATTOO

2009-10-03T21:25:00.007+01:00

Ant's spine tattoo design

FLASHING LIGHTS & FLASH DRIVES POSTER

2009-10-03T20:58:00.004+01:00

Poster for the Flashing Lights and Flash Drives radio show on Air3 Stirling. Have a peep at the show's blog here

XMRV LOGO

2009-08-25T16:29:00.005+01:00

Experimenting with the colourscheme for XMRV's logo. XMRV is a Scottish/Norwegian/Slovakian band whose name stands for Xenotropic MuL V-Related Virus.
Click here for their myspace!

BAND LOGOS

2009-08-25T16:11:00.007+01:00

Some logos I've done for black metal bands in the past. From top to bottom, they are: Obscurus Advocam (France), Dødsengel (Norway) and Wormlust (Ireland).

TRAMPLING HELL

2009-07-22T13:31:00.003+01:00

BLACK METAL RITVALS

2009-06-18T21:12:00.022+01:00

Finished copies of my book 'Black Metal Ritvals', an illustrated artists book affectionately poking fun at black metal culture.

The Black Metal Lineage poster fits into an envelope attached to to the inside sleeve

BLACK METAL LINEAGE

2009-06-18T20:15:00.006+01:00

One of my degree show pieces. A poster designed to inform black metal fans as well as those unacquainted with the black metal culture on the complexities and ideosyncracies of the genre. It should (hopefully) present a semi-accurate idea of the chronology of black metal although it's definately biased towards my own tastes. Hopefully that just adds charm though....

DEGREE SHOW

2009-06-18T15:19:00.005+01:00

I've sold three of my 'Black Metal Ritvals' books so far and all my business cards have disappeared so that's a good sign. The gradutation ceremony is tomorrow but I'll be sitting keeping an eye on the exhibition instead, thank goodness.

My Stations of the Tide etchings on the left.

My Flower Logo shirts hanging up in the exhibition. Left to right: daffodil, marigold, belles of Ireland and larkpsur.

Some selected illustrations from the 'Black Metal Ritvals' book on a wall in my exhibition space.

GIVING BIRTH TO HATRED

2009-06-12T08:57:00.005+01:00