Beau L. Ringeling... A.k.a: Capnbeaux… A.k.a: Crack Sparrow, is an illustrator and musician based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Which explains why he’s always broke, yet rarely bored. He survived a conservatory education, a few too-close for comfort encounters with his own mortality, and years of drawing at night on too little sleep.

His work pulls from the Japanese woodblock tradition, Dore and Durer-esque illustrations he calls renaissance flash, and the American traditional tattoo culture with an obsession of nature and anatomy. Confident lines, dense hatching and a touch of red where it hurts. No fairy tales. Just honest work from someone who’s still here