This shirt design was made for the grindcore band, Cattle Decapitation and is based off of their song, "A Body Farm". When (lead vocalist) Travis Ryan and I were trying to figure out what kind of design to do, he said that he had really been wanting to do an "A Body Farm" shirt for a long time, but the right person just hadn't come along yet. I saw that as a challenge so I sent him some preliminary sketches and he agreed to let me do it. I focused really hard on taking the lyrics and painting the scene as described...

"Forgive my humble abode
Rotting bodies clogging the commode
Please pardon the stench and the trunk of a man lying on the workbench

Out by the shed are buzzing hives made of human heads
The gestation of larvae tells us
the time of death..."

While the focus is obviously on the doctor and his bloated "research", the idea of the human heads and beehives was just so vivid and imaginative to me, so I had to incorporate them. Using them to frame the design seemed like a reasonable method to do so.