AVD’s Illustrations and Comics!

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Punk Posters

Punk , y2k, and collage style posters, flyers, posts, and graphics!

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Custom designed denim Jackets and Vests!

AVD’s style:
Punk and metal inspired battle jackets with handpainted band and album art!

Velvet Ero’s style:
Art Nouveau and classical inspired hand painted Denim and Leather jackets!

A&A Jackets, a brand by artists Velvet Eros and AVD_Designs

With A&A Jackets have the jacket of your dreams!
Whatever you want, we can make it happen.
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Featured Jackets: Completed commissions!

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My Vest!

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Upcoming Shows Calendar

The Upcoming Shows and Events calendar!

The upcoming shows calendar is a Website, Graphics, and Google Calendar subscription designed in collaboration with Iridescent Pools. The calendar helps you keep track of local punk shows, art markets, and all events across NYC, Jersey and beyond!

Calendar Website

Preview Calendar

Upcoming Shows and Events Calendar!

Calendar Home Page

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She Shreds Fest Poster and Website Designs

She Shreds is a local, indepandant music and skate festival hosted by the NYC band Iridescent Pools. I designed a series of custom posters and a website to cover the event!

These punk and y2k inspired collage style posters area really fun to make. This eye catching style is one ive had a lot of fun expirementing with. I scan wrappers, labels, door numbers, and everything of the sort. If
I see a cool font or design out on the street I love grabbing it for a cool design.

She Shreds Site

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Found Sketchbook

The found sketchbook project is where I had to experiment with sketching in a a discarded book already filled with text and pictures. The smooth pages were not meant or illustrations and paint, and this challenge helped me break through my usual conventions and really have some fun. Each page was filled with different mediums, subject matters, and everything in between. Across the book I used Microns, Paint Pens, Alcohol Markers, Ink, ballpoint pens, and White out.

Highlights!

Here are some of my favorite pages from the Sketchbook!

I've got this multi-media poster of Alejandra Villarreal , the bass player from the band ‘The Warning’. This is illustrated in blue color pencil on drawing paper, cut out and glued into the found sketchbook. The red and black background was acrylic paint rolled out onto the sketchbook pages with an roller!

The next page featured and ink sketch of my walk to work when I worked at the Pratt Library, done in Ink brush colored in with colored pencil and blue water color! The following page is an Alien in an MTA jersey with a Mtn Dew bottle wrapper pasted in behind him. These collage experiments really influenced where I would take my poster and design work the following summer!

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Take Back St. George

Take Back St George is a coalition of Staten Island residents, organizations, and artists advocating for an #empireoutletsforall. The ‘Empire Outlets‘ is a luxary outlet mall built on the north shore of Staten Island by the ferry that has not severed the community it is located in, and we are here to fix that! I joined this local coalition to help them with flyers, graphics, marketing, and spreading the word ! Below are the posters and graphichs I have designed for their campaign thus far!

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Cars Burn

Editorial Illustration and Spot

“The automobile has changed our cities in fundamental ways, colonizing ever more of the spaces that were once devoted to human interaction and transforming them into systems of parking lots connected by highways.”
- David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule The World

This editorial-style illustration was created to accompany B The Change’s article “How the Automobile Killed the Urban Space,” an excerpt from David C. Korten’s book referenced above. The issue is one I have been passionate about for years, shaped by my experience growing up in the suburban sprawl of Staten Island.

Through both personal experience and research, I became increasingly interested in how the rise of the automobile—along with the power of the auto industry and its lobbying influence over Congress—has reshaped American cities at the expense of community-centered spaces. This piece was my attempt to visually communicate those consequences.

Visually, the illustration is inspired by the iconic posters depicting bulls with smoke billowing from their nostrils. I chose a truck positioned in front of the U.S. Capitol to evoke the metaphor of a “bull in a china shop,” symbolizing the destructive force of car culture on American cities. The image reflects how the demand for wider roads, expansive parking lots, and highways has consumed enormous amounts of urban space, displacing homes and dismantling communities across the country.

Process

I started by sketching out concepts and ideas that I wanted to tackle in this editorial piece. I had a few different ideas for what problems I wanted to cover, and after narrowing down my idea, I began develop the Illustration through multiple variations!

This was illustrated digitally in Procreate, and besides the main illustration I developed a smaller spot piece focusing on the more striking imagery of a gas hose hanging in front of the capital. This was then animated into a short loop I could turn into a GIF.

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