Dome / X.AI
Balcony / X.AI
Creature Nomads
War of the Worlds / Mad Duck Posters
MGMT Redrocks
Howlin Rain
Scorching Worlds / New Scientist
Two Suns / New Scientist
Nitehawk
Grateful Dead / Bottleneck Gallery
Arctic / Outer Battery Records
2001: A Space Odyssey - Progression
Terrace / X.AI
2001: A Space Odyssey - Alignment
Earth / Desert Daze Festival
Acid Mothers Temple / Austin Psych Festival
Lif and Lifthrasir / Mythos
Spelldrifter
Snowbeast / Mondo
Star Peaks
Torchbearer
Nattesferd / Kvelertak, Roadrunner Records
The Burn / The Verge
Astral Plane
Dopesmoker / Sleep, Southern Lord Records
Dragonscape
As the Crow Flies / Capitol Theater
Age Of Aries
The Burn / The Verge
Lightbringer / Mondo Gallery
Under the Wheels / Howlin Rain
Sound On Sound
Stilgar / Mondo Gallery
L & M
The Forge / Dimension
Waters of Forgetfulness
Dragon Age Inquisition
Dark Flight
Burial In Moss / The Hidden Dimension
Brotherhood NYC 2012
Baltimore 2013 / Sleep
Moon of Antares / Mondo Gallery
The Pond / The Hidden Dimension
Sorcerer 2
Orc Rover / The Hidden Dimension
Ghost Rider / Blunt Graffix
Batman Iron Age / DC Comics
Weedian Figure / Unbox Industries
The Black Crowes
The Burn / The Verge
Sorcerer 1
Temple of Phobos
Apparition
Berserker!
Colossus Of Destiny / Melvins
Focus
The Black Chord / Astra, Rise Above Records
Apparition / The Hidden Dimension
High Weirdness / Strange Attractor/MIT Press
Surreal Landscape
Aphelion / Escape Pod
Freud And The Female Orgasm / Apology Magazine
Thundercats Logo / Warner Bros. Animation
Villains Logo
Gatekeeper I
To Tame a Land / Iron Maiden, Acme Enterprises
The Hidden Ravine
Future City / X.AI
Goliathan / Weedeater
Denver 2014 / Sleep
Rise Above Records 25th Anniversary
Snake Pick / Sherd For Your Life
Eye Moth / Rich Robinson
Puffin Farm
Blue Gnosis / New Maps of the Abyss
Mushroom Magick / Abrams Books
When The Mind Is Open the Tower Will Appear / New Maps of the Abyss
Sucomimus / When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth
The Russian Wilds / Howlin Rain, American Records
Sea Turtle
Creature Skateboards - Ruins
The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull / Earth, Southern Lord Records
Portals Rural & Urban / Aetna
Season Of The Witch / Penguin Books
The Count / Mishka x Sesame Street
Arik Moonhawk Roper is a visionary illustrator from New York City. He graduated from The School of Visual Arts in New York in 1995 with a degree in cartooning, and an independent study in screen printing. Merging his love of music and art, he began his early career primarily working with bands creating album art for which he has built a significant following. He continues to be a renowned artist in the field of album cover art with more than 60 titles to his credit including some off the most iconic in the genres of heavy rock, psychedelic, and metal. Arik has also worked extensively in storyboard art, animation design, screen print design, book and magazine illustration, skateboard and snowboard graphics, film poster and prop design, visual design for music industry artists and music festivals, and as an Art Director for a card game company. Arik’s work encompasses diverse styles, ranging from black and white illustration, to lettering and logo design, to simple graphic imagery, to vibrantly detailed color illustrations. He works proficiently in traditional mediums such as watercolor, ink, and gouache, as well as digitally.
Arik mixes the light and the dark within his art to reveal imagery which is at once strangely unique, distantly familiar, and always soaked with an earnestly fantastic aesthetic. He considers his art to be glimpses of dreams and visions brought back like artifacts from the depths of imagination. He ventures to create gateways that may invite the viewer to imagine not only what is seen but what is beyond. He draws inspiration from a variety of sources such as Mythology, Consciousness, Psychology, Religion, Animated films, Science Fiction and Fantasy literature, Graphic Novel and Comic art, Golden Age Illustration, and Nature itself.