Death Valley Girls Poster San Francisco 2022

Death Valley Girls poster San Francisco 2022

Technology frees me to get weird with it

This Death Valley Girls poster San Francisco 2022 was created for their July 15 show at The Chapel in San Francisco. I built almost all of it on an iPad Pro using Procreate, which lets me work faster and lean into the weird in the best way. Because the tools are so fluid, I can capture ideas the moment they appear instead of wrestling with mechanics. Where past posters meant hours spent wrestling with a Bézier pen to nail every angle, drawing directly with the digital pen removes the speed bumps and opens up experimentation. As a result, I can focus more on instinct and less on perfection. A project like this helps too. Death Valley Girls have exactly the sound and vibe that invite my love of Alejandro Jodorowsky–inspired, desert-centric surrealism. You can spot a nod to The Holy Mountain on the back of the horseman’s jacket, along with other saturated, psychedelic cues that feel right at home with their music. Meanwhile, support from Pure Hex and Fauxes reinforced the theme for a truly trippy night. I drew about 98.9% of this on a road trip to Los Angeles, with real desert landscapes rolling by the window for inspiration. For that reason, this piece feels especially rooted in the terrain that inspired it. It ended up being one of several recent posters I’ve designed entirely in Procreate on a 12-inch iPad Pro.