Hello and welcome to my web site. My name is Christopher Griffin and I am an illustrator and cartoonist mainly working in pen and ink. I also work in color, in a wide variety of traditional media. I am an "old school" artist, familiar with gouache, oil paint, airbrush, acrylic and so on, however I enjoy digital tools very much and I find myself utilizing them more and more every day. Please feel free to contact me if you're looking for that perfect image and I'll be happy to rough out some thumbnails and exchange a few emails to give you a free opportunity to see if my skills fit your needs. -Chris
Images copyright 2020 Christopher Wayne Griffin / That Darn Head Studio
Thank you for dropping by and check back soon because I will be uploading more over the next few months.
A little more about me:
I have been published in the San Diego coffeehouse newspapers North Park News and The Espresso, The Casco Bay Weekly in Portland, Maine and in Mortimer Megapress of Tacoma Washington and have designed and illustrated ads which ran in Seattle's free weekly The Stranger.
I designed the logo for The Neptune Music Company in Seattle’s University District and have created spot illustrations as well as covers for band CDs and posters for live music shows and other events. In the 1990s I was employed at Distributel, a silk screen studio located in the Kearny Mesa suburb of San Diego, designing custom logos for promotional products and sportswear and at Wherehouse Records as an airbrush and 3D artist, creating oversized promotional displays promoting new record company releases. I have also worked as a custom picture framer, freelance comic book inker and sign painter.
A little more about me:
I have been published in the San Diego coffeehouse newspapers North Park News and The Espresso, The Casco Bay Weekly in Portland, Maine and in Mortimer Megapress of Tacoma Washington and have designed and illustrated ads which ran in Seattle's free weekly The Stranger.
I designed the logo for The Neptune Music Company in Seattle’s University District and have created spot illustrations as well as covers for band CDs and posters for live music shows and other events. In the 1990s I was employed at Distributel, a silk screen studio located in the Kearny Mesa suburb of San Diego, designing custom logos for promotional products and sportswear and at Wherehouse Records as an airbrush and 3D artist, creating oversized promotional displays promoting new record company releases. I have also worked as a custom picture framer, freelance comic book inker and sign painter.
