Marc Johns

increasing my radness

Ink and watercolour on paper, 5x7 inches.

Original drawing is sold. Other available drawings can be found here.

I just want to run

I like how this fellow is not exactly aerodynamic, not exactly designed to run. But sometimes you just gotta take off, regardless of your limitations. Ink and watercolour on paper, 5x7 inches.

Original drawing is SOLD available in the shop. Other available drawings can be found here.

Rain cloud tattoo - Holly from Sydney

Wonderful. This is Holly from Sydney, with a tattoo based on my rain cloud drawing (see Holly's post on Tumblr about it). Thanks so much for sending this along, Holly! You are terrific.

See more tattoos. If you've been tattooed with one of my drawings, don't be shy, let me know! Email me at marcjohns [at] gmail [dot] com.

Here is the original artwork that the tattoo is based on:

From my original blog post about this drawing:

So why a rain cloud, you may ask? Tattoos often depict "bad" things, like skulls, daggers, snakes, and such. so I decided to do my own innocuous version of "bad" -- bad weather.

Check out other tattoos: ampersand (Luis), rabbit (Allie), kite (Chiara), bubble (Shi Ying), boom box (Mitch), scribble (Luciana), cubic zirconia with antlers (Sharon), rabbit (Maja), boom box (Anniken), three-in-one (Alex), boom box (Gozde).

boom box with cubic zirconia speakers

It was a combination I just had to explore. Ink and watercolour on paper, 5x7 inches.

Original drawing is sold. Other available drawings can be found here.

the food is crap, but the logo is nice

Ink and watercolour on paper, 5x7 inches.

Original drawing is sold. Other available drawings can be found here.

his beard ran away

ink and watercolour on paper, 5x7 inches.

Original drawing is SOLD available in the shop. Other drawings for sale can be found here.

Boom box tattoo - Gözde from Turkey

Fantastic. This is Gözde's leg from Turkey, with a tattoo of my "stop the bad music" boom box drawing. Thanks so much for sending this along, Gözde! You are awesome.

See more tattoos. If you've been tattooed with one of my drawings, don't be shy, let me know! Email me at marcjohns [at] gmail [dot] com.

Here is the original artwork that the tattoo is based on:

Check out other tattoos: rabbit (Allie), kite (Chiara), ampersand (Luis), bubble (Shi Ying), boom box (Mitch), scribble (Luciana), cubic zirconia with antlers (Sharon), rabbit (Maja), boom box (Anniken), three-in-one (Alex).

Interview in Sydney's Spit Press

Spit Press, Sydney's Creative Newspaper (that's Sydney, Australia) interviewed me a little while ago and the issue is out. If you're not fortunate enough to get your hands on this lovely free paper, you can read the whole thing online.

Here's a pic of the article:

And here's the cover of the paper:

Thanks Spit Press! It was an honour.

overwhelmed by radness

Pen, marker and watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches.

Original drawing is SOLD available in the shop. Other available drawings can be found here.

I choose envy

We live in a culture of envy. Pick up a magazine, and what happens after flipping through a few pages? 'Ooh, I wish I had those shoes. I wish I lived in that house.' I do it too. It's kind of fun sometimes. (And it's not just in magazines - it happens on those Covet-This-Stuff blogs we all read. You know which ones I'm talking about.) But I think it's important to acknowledge that we do it, and more importantly that we choose to do it, and that it can lead us astray. We end up making decisions based on envy, instead of making them based on who we'd like to become, and staying true to ourselves. So this is simply my attempt at distilling a big aspect of our culture down to three words.

Ink and watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches.

Original drawing is SOLD available in the shop. Other available drawings can be found here.