Last night I went to The Cave in Chapel Hill, NC to see my brother play with Frankie Goodrich and Matt Bowen in the Band Cool Kid Collective (CKC ROCKS MY FACE…you need to check them out). It’s Chapel Hill, so I never know really what’s in store for me, but this bar was an awesome little hole in the wall, and it really felt like you were in a cave (I was almost a little claustrophobic). All around, it was just a very quaint bar where you couldn’t help but feel comfortable.

One of the guys’ friends, Hogan, whose main form of art is architecture (very geometric, balanced and structured) but also does a lot of graffiti/tag art for the band, was out last night as well. We talked once about collaborating on some designs, but just never really got a chance to go forward with any of it. But last night the collaborative efforts merged when the bartender handed Hogan a Sharpie and said, “sure you can draw anywhere but the bar top”.  What…..what was that????????? When i bartender hands you a Sharpie and says go at it…you don’t take that for granted….EVER!  :)

So Hogan started it off…with what look like a phallic symbol (you can only guess)…and from there we took turns adding elements, talking and seeing where we wanted the final drawing to end up once we got the initial pieces. All in all since we were at the CKC show it ended up that we did a skull version of the band, Frankie, J.D., and Matt with all their instruments and the CKC tagged logo (i made sure my brother was the skull with the biggest head haha he was a big headed child what can i say).

But all in all I think this starts off my design study for CKC. I wish I had a better image of the final, but the place was next to dark and the flash blew the entire image out. But it’s possibly something to build a style off for the band and I can retrace in illustrator and continue with the drawing. I also acquired knowledge of their tag line “CKC ROCKS MY FACE” (from Amy’s lovely tag on the table) which I LOVE and will definitely make sure to put in the designs.

Hogan/Rachelle Collaborative Sketch on the table at The Cave (Chapel Hill, NC)

THANKS FOR DRAWING WITH ME, HOGAN!!! I look forward to more doodle sessions!