Okay, okay… It’s not much, but it is new so it counts. Lately I’ve been looking at Sam Hiti, Steve Rude and David Rubin and really digging their inkwork. I did a sharpie doodle one day a few weeks ago, and I just redrew and inked it in the computer. Building off the earlier post of using custom brushes, the libraries in AI CS3 are really extensive and I was able to find some great textured brushes. I especially like the undo feature; had I done this traditionally I would have had to do it several times. I’ll probably tweak it over the next few days, but that’s the beauty of vector.

One of my newer pieces, I believe this was from 2005 also. I made some giclee prints out of this which are for sale at Alcove Gallery in Atlanta.

More finds from the past. I guess this is a mature gentleman mastering his Demon Attack skills on the 2600 (maybe me in 10 years?), and a project I did for an Atlanta talent resource company called Creative Know Who. I designed the characters and web animation for their site. CKW’s tagline is “We Know Jack and pretty much everyone else.” Here Jack is our proverbial Kevin Bacon… The exclamation point in the middle is CKW’s logo. This was a great project, I had total creative freedom for which I’m eternally grateful.

So I guess I’m digging in the vaults in an effort to postpone the inevitability that I’ll have to actually do some NEW work. But it’s been fun looking through old work and unearthing things I had forgotten about. This one was dated 2005, so it’s a bit more recent. I was playing around with stylizing the characters and making them semi-dimensional. I’m really happy with the Camp Lazlo bugler.

Some of you may have seen this already, but I felt it was worth showing since it was a trade piece and not everyone gets to see trade materials. This was a promotional poster for a stunt we did in May where 5 shows came together for 1 big story arc. I concepted and art directed the illustration, and gave some render-love to the logo that was originally designed by Duke Aber. The talented Stephanie Gladden-Miller, Darren Hunt and photoshop wizard Brian McGee illustrated the final. This was part of a whole kit that our PR department sent out to promote the event.

Some friends of mine who have a production company in NY needed a logo, so we set out to give them a nice edgy brand. They do alot of work for MTV: Punched in the Head Productions. My friend Joe built out the site and we worked together on the end credit animation. It was a lot of fun… If I can figure out how to post video, I’ll put it up.

I just looked back through the logo concepts, there were some good choices there… I love the brain getting pummeled…The Ralph Steadman-esque one wasn’t bad either. This is just a selection of the many I presented. I really appreciate the opportunity to work on the project. Thanks Craig, Amelia and Joe!

When I definitely had more time on my hands! I was experimenting with custom brushes in Illustrator trying to replicate the Warhol/Fotheringham linework in vector. This was somewhere in the Illustrator 9/Illustrator 10 Era before all those artistic brushes were really common libraries. It was fun nonetheless.

The whole brain/trees thing has been a running theme for a few years now. I guess I didn’t realize the true distance between my pieces. These paintings were from a show in 2005. The Rooster piece was a test from 2002 I’m guessing when Adobe Illustrator started integrating the Gradient Mesh tool, or when I decided I needed to fool with it. Can’t believe it’s been that long… man.

So it’s official, this first post will bring up to date some of my most recent works. Hopefully this will kickstart a trend and get me off my fat rear and into doing more regular art. Enjoy!

We start with a digital hand-drawn piece for a Tiki show at Alcove Gallery in Atlanta, a hand screen printed piece for Alcove, and paintings in the Cartoon Madness 2 show at Alcove.

Bear with me as I figure out the internets.