notes, thoughts and events

I don't get asked to do logos too often, and I really enjoy doing them when I get the chance. Here's a recent one that I got to do-- featuring an illustration modeled after a 1977 Ford pickup. -posted on the fly.

He made some shirts and saw that it was good. The Astronaut. Lemme know if you want one ($18 shipped). -posted on the fly.

On with the show!  This afternoon, I broke into my pile of drawings to ink, and I thought it would be fun to do a quick before, and after piece.  My setup is pretty simple.  I use plain ol' paper and ink with a Raphael 8404 #2 brush with india ink over 2H pencil lines. For those of you who are a little scared of inking with a brush, I'll say, "Don't be.  Just try it.  You'll screw up a little bit, but there's always whiteout and/or photoshop to correct your mistakes.  Brushes aren't nearly as fussy as pens.  Get into it, and have fun."  There you go.  No more excuses people.  Get inky if you're not already.

My wife's got super good ideas.  I was wondering what I would do next for this series, and she dished out like three ideas instantly.  If you don't like this one, then well, it wasn't my idea.  I think it's pretty sweet, though.

Hey everybody! Here's some stuff I've been working on recently.  I wanted to put the pieces together to see how they looked-- kind of like when you step back from a painting to see if you've got the proportions correct.   These are all shirt designs for a line of t-shirts that I'm going to be producing out of my shop.  I'm pretty excited about them.  I think I'm going to do some more with this series, but I'm not sure what to do next.

I was asked today if I ever sold any originals.  The funny thing is that I don't have any originals to sell for the most part.  Not anything that looks like the finished piece, anyway.  The only things that I do as original full color pieces are presents for my wife.  Everything else is just done on a sheet of copy paper small enough to fit onto my scanner bed.  I squirrel away the "original" for some reason.  I remember an older friend of mine several years ago said to me, eyes wide, "never throw away your originals!" Well after about 10 years as an illustrator, I've got boxes of originals.  I left an entire box of them at the house I moved out of a few years ago.  In the attic.  That's where I still keep the boxes of originals that I have now are-- in my attic.  Just so you know. My working illustration process just doesn't generate heirlooms right now.  Oh well, maybe someday. This particular piece was done for an ad pitch.  They asked for s

New shirt coming up.  Let me know what you think.