bartenational

MOVING!!!

2009-08-31T10:43:00.001-05:00

to whom it may concern

I am moving my blog to word press

it has new features and stufff

http://bartenational.wordpress.com/

shiny cans

2009-08-26T09:56:00.002-05:00

nothing better than the sheen on a nice set of cans. The light defines the shape and makes it look more dimensional. yes nothing this old boy like more than see a beautiful can or two..

make it worth getting up in the morning....

new work poster and hobo life

2009-08-18T10:46:00.004-05:00

i was happy with how this guys face turned out,

I basically took his low res photo, and traced it with the pen and pencil tool in illustrator, then picked colors to go with it....

I usually never work on black....

I want to quit my job and become a hobo. ridin the rails with my guitar and a dog....

leave it all behind... like the song on my myspace page profile http://www.myspace.com/bartlaube

Once I was walking with my kids in Columbus ohio, my wife was at a lunch lady convention and we had time to kill. so we were walking around downtown, near the santa maria replica boat. we were going to go on it but when we got down there it was closed... so we walked under the bridge... it was starting to rain and we didn't want to get wet. for some reason we were talking about hobos. and my son said something about mastering the hobo arts. and made up a character named hobo jobo master of the hobo arts...

so we are laughing and walking anda talking about hobo's really loud... we turn the corner and there is a shirtless dirty looking guy standing by the river.... looking at us....

we were dumb struck (the opposite of star struck) and instantly stopped talking, we walked slowly by... I was fearfull of the hobo... if he was to attack I had to protect the kids... I always fell weak when I am with my kids... I couldn't fight with abandon because I would always want to protect the kids.... anyway we walked quietly past the hobo, him looking at us, us looking back... like a deer in a field... I said a quiet "hey, how's it going?"

it is always good to face hobo's because they are people like you and me, and if you show fear, they will get pissed off at you... like "why are you afraid?" "I am normal"

but we all know they aren't

adrift...

2009-08-10T08:21:00.002-05:00

the day began like so many others, people milling about, chatting about various things. Some things about work, some things about play... the same old things, day after day. nothing specific was going on... somethings were do in the distant future, somethings had past, life was adrift this monday morning.

THe usual thoughts creep into a persons mind, what am I doin here? why am I doing this?

but the day starts rolling and blanks out those random thought. but until that kicks in the clock ticks the seconds off, 5 seconds at a time, time stands still.

A person wonders if they are groggy because of the medication they are on.... the blood pressure is too high, you must reduce it. take these pills, then feel like a weight is put on you everyday to keep you from floating away. We all want to float away, there is something in human nature that makes it impossible to stay in one place all the time, unchallenged. That is why jail is such a problem, it is tourture to stay in one spot for too long. Your eyes constantly take in information, and search for new sites, your memory is built to capture and hold important information every day... your body is made to travel long distances... it can repair itself... automatically.. if only it had a reason to...

starting to feel squirmish one looks at the clock only to realize it has been a half an hour....

gasp...

mr. tinmouse thinks he broke the internets

2009-08-02T19:45:00.003-05:00

"oh dear, I hope the internets doesn't find out about this!"

"although I shouldn't have been looking at sexy scrap metal web site again"

"the internets are indeed a source of evil, for the lonely robot"

hyde park pizzeria saga

2009-07-29T08:08:00.003-05:00

once I designed a banner for my church,

they liked that so I designed some signs for their pizza place,

they liked that, but the other people sued them

so they changed their name

to Italiannati's

but that was too close

so they changed it to Hyde Park pizzeria

and I think it is done

whew!

card for sandi...

2009-07-23T13:19:00.004-05:00

I worked at NCE like ten yrs ago, and people would come to the art department and request big cards, for everyone to sign. so we would make a 11 x 17 inch card and pass it around the company. I knew Sandi and said hi to her everyday, then she got sick, so I was tasked with making this card, So I wrote up this little poem, and drew these flowers. She ended up having brain cancer, and eventually lost the battle. at the funeral, her husband thanked me profusely, saying sandi loved the card and kept it with her until she past.

I always felt like I did something good with that card,

return to guache....

2009-07-15T15:39:00.003-05:00

Once upon a time, graphic design was done using designers guaches... guaches are water based paints, that can be ran through an airbrush, painted thick like water colors, thinned out and used as water colors, they can go down super smooth or blotchy. you can wash them off of your board and reapply them... they were the standard for the graphics industry before the computer came along. if you wanted a color rendering, you used guache.... then maybe something else if they didn't do what you wanted... now guaches have a dull finish when they are layed down, they dont get thick like an oil painting, and the color isnt as rich. but they reproduce and photograph really well, they dry fast and you can blend the paint by using slight pressure and a moist brush, to achieve a really smooth gradient. they were used for quick layouts and color mock ups, type treatments, architactural reanderings, lettering, just a ton of stuff,

minutia about painting... sorry casey you are probably bored by this stuff...!

Creative Kill The Man

2009-07-10T08:02:00.004-05:00

when I was in 7th grade the favorite game for boys was called "kill the man".

basically someone would throw a football up in the air and who ever caught it, got tackled.

This was a real alpha male proving ground. because if no one could catch you, or tackle you, you were the biggest baddest kid. So if you thought you were a bad ass, this was a chance for other kids to smash you down to size. If you underestimated yourself, this was were things became clear where you stood. Some kids who were timid found out they were just as tough as that other kid who pushed them around, because they felt intimidated. So nerds became cool, and cool kids became, not so cool. I remember being in 7th grade and some 8th graders thought they were bad asses, so they gave me the ball and were going to tackle me, so one grabbed me, then another, then anouther, it felt like I was carrying the whole class on my back, and I still wasn't going down, I was unstoppable. That was 7th and 8th grade before high school, so most of the kids hadn't had a growth spurt yet. but for the rest of the year I feared no one. If some guys were picking on a nerd, I was like "cut it out!" and they would. What were they going to do? they couldn't take me down.... for a brief moment in time I was the alpha male

I never played that game later in life, but to have a way to measure people's ability and brain power in a real way, would help organize our society, so the best people suited for a job, would be the person who got that job... things work out that way naturally for the most part, but sometimes I wonder....

football and sports are all about stats and measurement, if you hit a home run, you get credit, your team benefits but doesn' t get extra point on their stat cards...

this flight of the conchords logo was for a poster competition, I never finished it, becuase contests of art are sooo subjective, there is no real way to know if you have a chance without puttin a ton of work into it.

Lifesaver head

2009-07-07T10:33:00.002-05:00

I am working on a color version of this but time has been of short supply lately... so I am putting this up in the meantime...

I had the flu or something on sat, my face hurt... so not much to blog about...

went camping for a day on thurs, up by lake erie...

nice spot to vacation, low cost, beach like atmosphere, only four hours away

most candy headed people tend to dress in business casual... that sort of wrinkled suit look that says, I am serious about looking sloppy... I spend lots of money on clothes then refuse to iron them because I am a rebel... take that garment industry! see if I care!

now a little about branding...

2009-06-24T10:44:00.002-05:00

Brands have equities... equities are anything you can relate to as "the brand"... touch, taste, sound, see, or hear. The touch of Harley Davidson is the rubber grips and the leather jacket. Taste doesn't apply to this brand soo much.. Sound is the distinctive rumble of the harley as it roars down the street. You can say they "own" that sound, so every time you hear that rumble you think "here comes a harley"....

so all the advertising and graphic design firms came up with this way to describe designs and why the coke can needs to be red, and have a script on it. Other wise people will make bad decisions about packaging and tv commercials and product, i.e. New Coke...

these equities are usually assembled into a molecule graph, a chart of some sort, or a pyramid... the above illustration show the next step. The equity pyramid cake.

orson wells sort of guy

2009-06-23T12:03:00.001-05:00

why does cottage cheese feel soo cold in your mouth?

pecha cucha poster idea

2009-06-21T23:14:00.004-05:00

this was a sketch for a pecha cucha poster. we had a series of presentations, for work. some people wanted to make presentations. this idea revolved around a robot with a speaker for a head standing at the edge of a cliff preparing to speak. it 12:20 on a sunday night. I usually go to sleep before this but I am waiting up for my wife, she is working at the church festival finishing up stuff. they rent out these giant tents and booths for all the activities. they spend all week building a tent city to house all the things to do. the big new thing was the dunking booth. All the old timers from the neighborhood were there. People that grew up there and have since moved on. some really old people who went to school there 70 years ago. The old neighborhood has changed since those days, the big old families all turn out. with their children and grand children. It is hard to break into a neighborhood like this. you are hanging with people who all grew up together... but even though I have lived here 16 years I am not one of them... that is o.k. with me.. I am not tied to the place, but my wife and I got involved to make sure the school was open for my kids to go to... I am sure some other people will come along after we leave to maintain the place. they all want a safe place for their kids to go to school. unless the city of cincinnati somehow gets its shit together and makes a school worth attending ... ha ha.. no way... anyway people grow up and want to move on from their parents.. so the places their parents built up end up being neglected and abandon. in Europe real estate is not like america. here we just move up the road and build a whole new city, because we have plenty of space.... it is odd to see places occupied for 50 years like an old school or church, built with the sweat and tears and sacrifice by hard working people trying to make a mark on this world... worn from years of use then left behind to rot... Bowling allys with nobody bowling on them, bars with cobwebs were no one will drink, overgrown baseball diamonds... People expect these places to be preserved by someone, but the truth is there is no one left... kathy and I have inherited a lot of control of things in these parishes, we are strangers here but no one else will pick up the torch... it is somewhat sad... but america has a funny way of buying new vs quality...

anyway I added three new songs I wrote on my myspace page www.myspace.com/bartlaube

somtimes people need a catsuit

2009-06-17T07:07:00.002-05:00

inside people is a second person...

that is the person they think they are...

sometimes they don't like that person...

so they want to be someone else....

sometimes that inner person wants to wear a cat outfit....

what if instead of wearing the same clothes everyone buys at target...

people wore a costume of some sort...

a cat outfit...

current fashion is very severe and angry looking

black and sharp, nothing to do with nature...

what if nature inspired the latest fads...

an owl look could be very popular....

or maybe it is more friendly like peoples pets...

the pet look...

you can dress like a cat or a dog...

then people would know what kind of person you are

and behave accordingly....

who's your daddy?

2009-06-15T14:30:00.003-05:00

another one in the coffee series ...

listening to This american life #289 Go ask Your Father radio show. It is about a guy who knew his father, but after his father died, another guy tells him he was his actual father. Then he goes on a search and the dna finally proves that the man who he knew to be his father was not his father.

I am pretty sure my dad was my dad. people commented at his funeral that I looked a lot like my dad... but there are many things people do in life that they never share with anyone... especially with their children... life is long... people find themselves in various situations not of there choosing... or battle demons they can't always control...

I will never know what if any demons my dad or mom had. they both passed on to another place... they lived full lives and traveled before they were married. it would be hard to believe that some things never happened, but it is always a possibility... this only re-enforces my belief in God.. if people knew everything that it takes to create mankind or the whole universe... it would suddenly be shit.. because shit is basically the primordial ooze life was created by in the world of science.. If this is the whole of our existence... then why bother with the whole thing...

the facts that make a person who they are should not be the limit for who that person can be...

also if you know that much about your self you are probably pretty self centered and your world revolves around the minutia that makes up the forgotten and useless...

the world doesn't care what sperm you were made of you are still just as viable a person as everyone else....

I wrote that top part earlier in the day... and the more I think about it the more, I wonder... abortion eliminates unwanted babies... but there are many famous people in history who were illegitimate births... or were born to non traditional families ... I wonder who has been lost to abortion that could have been great?

A list of famous bastards pulled from the internet are

1. Confucius (ca. 551–479 BCE)

2. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

3. Thomas Paine (1737–1809) and 4. Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804)

5. Lawrence of Arabia (1888–1935)

6. Eva Perón (1919–1952)

I know Dave Thomas founder of Wendy's was adopted

Obama was from a broken home.. does this count?

are illigitimate babies driven to greatness to achieve ligitimacy?

is there anyone studying this stuff?

just something to think about

angry pig whore

2009-06-10T09:23:00.002-05:00

we were in a meeting talking about something

and angry pig whore came up somehow?..?

when you sit in little rooms discussing

bathroom tissue for hours at a time

you can get a little stir crazy.

it goes down like this, someone says something

"hey quit being so angry"

"I am not angry you just were eating all the jelly beans you pig"

"oh shove it, you whore"

"well your a whore as well"

"at least I am not an angry pig whore"

"my good fellow that is quite the humorous insult!"

"ha ha ha"

"ha ha"

"ha"

" we are quite the jolly fellows"

"that is true my friend, very true"

"now lets deduct this time from our time sheets because it is not work focused"

"but of course. how dare you imply otherwise"

"whore"

"pig"

"I am so turned on right now"

etc...

so anyway

we all thought it was funny so I drew a picture of one

Bo Diddley - Road Runner

2009-06-10T08:24:00.001-05:00

bo diddley invents the pick drag on this song in 1957, as revived by Eddie van Halen in "cradle will rock" etc.

black blood

2009-06-09T11:31:00.002-05:00

coffee is like blood in my system,

the hot blood runs quick through my viens

making me feel alive and quick witted

my brain works better

my legs run faster

my eyes dart back and forth

they move so fast they vibrate

I can feel ants walking on the surface of my brain

they are wearing pointy spikes on thier shoes

golf shoes

N S E W

2009-06-08T15:51:00.002-05:00

the world is bigger than me, but smaller then you

everywhere and here, spacious times two

smaller than a bread box, when under my shoe

round like a basket ball, and solid straight through

yes this is our world, the one, the true

you cannot pretend that it is not here

you cannot deny it's impossible to steer

there is no rudder or planes or wheel

to make it go your way no matter how you feel

new sketchbook highlights

2009-06-05T10:24:00.002-05:00

sometimes the best way to get rid of your troubles is to focus on someone elses... by helping someone you can forget about what is bothering you at this very moment and focus on what is bothering someone else.... this is a win - win situation. they get much needed help and you get to forget about what was bothering you... this culture has many t.v. show of navel gazing, self obsessed, troglodites as the main characture... to be a star you have to want to be the center of the solar system... with planets revolving around you.. so by its very nature you can get sucked into your own head and if you measure your head it is only 6 inches across. A very small place. That can be very confining.

work life

2009-06-01T08:14:00.003-05:00

the things I draw for work are varied and diverse. I am never quite sure what will be needed. somtimes it is a pull from a magazine with the orders "draw this... like this..." or it is we just need some decent line art of this product. they tryed to ship out the line art to india because it was cheaper but they ended up spending so much time directing the art to get it right it ended up costing more than just paying a professional to do it ... like me... thats were the saying "a penny wise but a pound foolish" comes in to play... every company is trying to save money these days so they want to cut costs, but I don't make that much... so just pay it already....

I provide a quality product for a low cost, a bargain really... once the word gets out.. it becomes like an avalanch of demand... so I stay pretty busy.... anyway .... life goes on... the world rotates and a few hours of my life pass me by...

George Orwell 1984 P1

2009-05-15T08:08:00.002-05:00

hey watch this movie if you never have... then compare it to society today... discuss

also on an unrelated subject. I was driving to work yesterday, It was rainy out... and an on coming truck swerved into my lane. I looked to see what he swerved away from. it was a squirrel that had been hit by a car. It was still alive. shaking and squirming. blood was coming out of its mouth. car were wizzing by at 40 mph. with cars lined up behind me I couldn't hit my brakes and slow down. as I looked in my rear view mirror. I could see other cars swerving around the squirrel. I looked at my bowie knife. left in my car from a camping trip... and make shift weapon. would a squirrel rather be stabbed? or stomped? after being hit by a car. what could I do to help this squirrel? by then I was in front of my building. and decided to just let it go and go to work.

later I saw his little flattened carcus on the side of the road. out of his misery...

there are millions of squirrels in the city, billions on the planet... what does the life of one squirrel represent? what is my responsibility to said squirrel?

accidentally in love, counting crows

2009-05-14T12:59:00.002-05:00

this is a nice version of this song... I likede it so much I downloaded the mp3 and added it to my itunes check it out.

Julia Nunes is the artist. she has some good vocals and (often neglected) harmonies.

rant - rolling stone magazine has jumped the shark

2009-04-29T08:51:00.003-05:00

Today I am taking a break from my usual sunny (sarcastic tone) web posts for some commentary.

When I was an impressionable young teen my hip older sister had a collection of Rolling Stone magazines from the late 70's in our basement. It had cool stories about these new artists like Elvis Costello, and old stories about 50's rock legends Carl Perkins. A range of stuff. Today I am looking at a newer one with Metallica on the cover. Metallica has become known as a "we are doing this, and we expect to be rich" band. In the 70's that was seen as crass commercialism. Bands like Kiss were looked down on as a publicity stunt and not really producing any good music. Now the tables have completely flip flopped. Rolling Stone is a magazine dominated by commercial ventures to the absence of everything else. Like most journalism today it has turned completely yellow. I guess Sony owns it and uses it to promote its million dollar acts. It pretty much reflects our culture right now. Mostly whorish. and if it isn't whoreish it is pimpish. either you are exploiting everyone around you, or you are being exploited. Maybe I am just older and jaded but at least in the 70's people pretended to care. Now caring is seen as weekness, morals and purity are a ticket to obscurity. I am sickend by Rolling Stone Magazine.

A once proud and indepth source of information reduced to a crass t.v. commercial. At least the Slap Chop is not trying to pull anything.

It is time for Rolling Stone Magazine to retire.

here are some olives I just did

2009-04-20T10:36:00.003-05:00

they were done in illustrator so they could be separated into spot colors for printing reasons.

the wireframes are also included to show how they are made with a computer. I shot the reference on a sunny day so you can almost see my house reflected in the highlights..

pat said they brought a tear to his eye... pat cracks me up....

did i already post this?

2009-04-10T08:58:00.000-05:00

if anyone knows let me know

the "dog office"

2009-03-31T09:29:00.003-05:00

this one was drawn on post it notes!

work humor

2009-03-30T08:03:00.002-05:00

this is a cartoon about the new guy at work. I am not sure what I was thinking at the time... ???

he is stiff like a fish? he is a fish out of water? I can't quite remember....

I have a lot of comics in a drawer at home... in my spare time a few years ago I worked out some characters and strip ideas and put paper to pen everyday to see if I could sustain a comic. I came to the conclusion that I could but it seemed like work. and since I currently have a job I wasn't sure what the net gain would be? Fame might occur but from everything I have read that doesn't nessesarily lead to happyness. Jack cole the inventor of plastic man and creater of countless playboy one panel funnies eventually commited suicide... Curt cobain... various teen heart throbs... the current crop of drug addicted teen starlets... fame is a job as much as putting on muffles in a muffler shop. so I am just going to keep working on what ever needs to be done..... time will tell if it amounts to any thing more than a paycheck

melt candy

2009-03-20T10:18:00.003-05:00

is drawing with a computer still drawing? some purists would say no. other people say it is just a tool and you should use the tools you are used to... ultimately I would say the end result is what people will remember.... nobody knows or cares what kind of brush the mona lisa was painted with...

here is and illustration I did in illustrator for altoids... the project never got off the ground but people liked this illustration.... the right is the wireframe showing the construction of the file.....

this is what I do mostly every day but I don't post because it is mundane everyday stuff....

water color blueberry 02

2009-03-10T12:21:00.002-05:00

the thing with watercolors is they can't be done on a computer. i know there are some simulation software out there, but really what is the point.

watercolor blueberry

2009-03-09T09:27:00.001-05:00

watercolors have a drippy quality to them.... that is what makes them interesting

my brain

2009-02-19T10:27:00.003-05:00

My brain is like a mack truck,

slow to put in gear but able to move a mountain....

it was quicker when I was 24, almost too quick to capture

thoughts in any rational way
or maybe it was the caffiene

Tappy

2009-02-18T11:05:00.003-05:00

here is a portrait I did for a friend and finally colored it in using illustrator, so it is all vector, except the background texture

dreams

2009-02-17T10:53:00.002-05:00

I had a dream last night....

it was the t.v. show Happy Days, and we were going to a wedding... the show was based in a lake and there was a water show on the lake with synchonized swimmers. they were bathing beauties all wearing white swim suits and white swim caps... one of the swimmers complained of stomach pains and swam to the side of the lake to a beach area... there was someone helping her she appeared to be wearing a fake skin body suit to cover up the fact that she was pregnant... the person helped her get the skin suit off and she started to deliver the baby, I was shocked you could see the devilery on t.v. the view was looking up at the mom, so you could see the thing emerge. it turned out to be a bug of some sort, a giant bug, like a raoch sort of thing but maybe a beetle... then when it came out a giant moth or "mothera" started to battle it. I thought to myself "why don't they have plot twists like this in television?" "it just might be interesting"....

I hit a wall here...

2009-02-12T09:28:00.002-05:00

people walk around the office and say "really" sarcastically and it started to get on my nerves... In the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter but it was being used SO much it became a noticeable cliche... words can be annoying after a while... that is why I prefer not to speak... ever... O.K. maybe sometimes but it is under protest!!

blem

2009-02-06T10:52:00.001-05:00

remove blemishes with blem...

somethimes my mind won't let me see what's inside

2009-02-05T10:02:00.002-05:00

for some reason I wanted to draw a file folder... the reason escapes me right now... sometimes I am suprised by what I can draw with out sketching of tracing or looking at the object... I remember not being able to do that... and some days I can't so it at all... it must be what posession is like... so this mindless drawing ultimately has a deeper meaning

futurmobile 500

2009-01-30T11:37:00.002-05:00

in the future our cars will have glass bubbles for roofs... they will be insanely hot because there is no shade... so your head will be sunburned until the fad passes ....

mr. tinmouse finds out he is adopted

2009-01-26T16:36:00.003-05:00

being raised by a suburban washer and dryer set mr. tinmouse finds out his real parents were a soup can and an old tube radio...

mr. tinmouse sees a giant ...

2009-01-21T08:48:00.002-05:00

"holy cow, there seems to be a giant in my midst!"

"what ever shall I do"

robots dress strange, most robots buy clothes from thrift stores or rummage sales...

because if you take emotion out of the issue you are left with price being a driving factor...

pockets are useful and therefore cherished by the robot community.

Mr. Tinmouse is wearing some jordache cargo pants and a standard long sleeve shirt. the pants are turqoiuse and the shirt is watermelon. totally 80's

color version

2009-01-12T21:53:00.001-05:00

here is a version I printed on an old telephone directory and added some color with vegetable dyes or photoshop I can't remember

Mr. tinmouses grandad in his club shirt

2009-01-09T09:10:00.002-05:00

the styles were paramilitary at the time... people would dance at a club wearing one glove, and shirts had shoulder pads on them... to make people look menacing.. the menacing look had evolved today into the modern pirate look... which really got it hold from a combination of the movie mad max and an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry received a puffy shirt... it is exemplified by wearing lots of black and tatoos on the skin... rockabilly and hot rods are also part of this look but I digress.

mr tinmouse's grandad

2009-01-08T09:17:00.002-05:00

i have a character I created called mr. tinmouse. he is a robot. that evolved from a tin mouse. the mouse evolved into a soup can. this is a portrait of that guy. Mr. tinmouse has some comic panels in my drawer at home but hasn't made it on a printing press or anything like that so anyway this is some background on that guy....

study in black and white

2009-01-07T09:19:00.002-05:00

i have an old mad magazine paperback with alfred e neuman rendered in this style. it is a challenge to create an image of a face with simple abstract shapes. by itself the shapes don't mean much but place them in a certain arrangement and you have a picture. for production reasons producing gray tones can be cost prohibitive. So the artist is forced to create a work with as simple of shapes as possible. you would think creating something in full color would take more skill but to me making a believable picture with simple lines is harder. Those lines have to be just right because you can't just blend that edge together it has to be either black or white.

society is having alt of trouble lately making things black or white. we want everything mixed together and smoothed out. so we end up with blurry logic that takes a while to break down creating confusion and mundane homoginized boring life. somewhere we have to take a stand and say that is enough.

I read in the paper last weekend about the 300 people killed in cincinnati last year by gang violence. This is not on the news nationwide or in a pamplet at the docters office. Movies stars don't do telethons to stop thug violence. Nations don't have summits to eliminate this threat. but it exists in alot of rust belt cities across america. it is probably safer in Bagdad than alot of places in America. At least the marines have guns and are prepared to die. People get killed in cincinnati just walking down the street in broad daylight.

The drug trade is part of the problem, apathy is part of the problem, unwed mothers are part of the problem, break down of family are part of the problem, lack of basic morality is part of the problem. The Catholics and the right wing take a lot of flack for trying to be moral being called nazi's and made fun of relentlessly by saturday night live and other people in the media, but those people don't live the thug life or see the bodies stacked up over the last year, the weeping mothers. lack of morality makes it ok to kill and fathers to leave behind thier kids and mother to be hooked on crack.

somebody needs to do something, everybody needs to do something. people make up these problems so people need to solve them... and it will take all of us... or it will not change

back from break

2009-01-05T08:42:00.004-05:00

don't have a scan from my sketchbook at hand so here is an older drawing of santa working in his shop... I t started as a sketch for a catalog cover but was rejected for some reason I can't recall...

A place I like to go

2008-12-22T09:19:00.002-05:00

There is a cozy cottage on a hill.... on the edge of nothing... old stone fortress made a thousand years ago from the rocks of the hill, never shaken, never moving, thick and built hard. Stronger than the wind and rain...

Another type study

2008-12-18T09:11:00.003-05:00

sometimes when I run out of things to draw I render typefaces. this is a bodoni based font.. I go to F then lost interest.

lately I have been looking for interesting podcasts... I find moments in the day where I am not supposed to do something and fill in those blank spots with audio. I am tired of listening to music and want something to make me feel like I am growing so educational podcasts are wht I want. I found one on baseball coaching which is something I do every summer...

lettering

2008-12-16T09:39:00.001-05:00

another poster concept

2008-12-15T09:32:00.004-05:00

here is an attractive young lass out for a stroll and precariously balancing a guiness in her hand... drinking and driving never mix but drinking and competitive cycling can be very exciting!!

my pin up

2008-12-12T15:38:00.002-05:00

I love old posters made before marketing became a science. back then they just made something and said hey do you guys like this? hey put your girlfriend on there...

like she just went swimming and is drinking beer... I mean who doesn't want to hang out swimming with a girl who drinks beer?

vitaphone hot

2008-12-11T09:45:00.002-05:00

there is hot and then there is vitaphone hot...

she possessed a look that was not over processed and more natural....

something that has become lost in this modern age when women under go a knife cutting into there skin in an effort to become beautiful. it is sad day when the world can no longer tolerate what nature has given us and appreciate it as the true beauty it is. men can no longer be covered with hair. shaving themselves like some sort of poodle, women hating themselves for no apparent reason, we all get old and die that is what is supposed to happen.... so why make ourselves miserable? I am often guilty of making up reasons to be miserable. I have to force myself to stop and take a deep breath. and reset back to the beginning when I was a nieve child sitting in a high chair not worrying about everything. just smelling the air and eating peas... long live peas!!!!

skull head

2008-12-10T09:32:00.002-05:00

combining the macabre and the every day... this is the times we live in... one baby born to one set of parents to live a happy life, one baby we kill before we can begin to care... separated by a thin piece of paper with green ink on one side... meanwhile we spend millions on football criminals...

lost at sea

2008-12-05T09:09:00.002-05:00

adrift at sea... forever waiting... starvation results in hallucinations... hallucinations of people waving... so he sits waving until his body gives out.... then birds come a pick the skin away clean... the sinue holding the bones together rots away, only the will to see those people waving remains... but the people aren't there... nobody ever sees the boat, it is too far out to sea in a small area nobody cares about... while we watch T.V.

pumpkin face

2008-12-04T09:25:00.001-05:00

this was a kid who lived on my street.

his mom,

a super hot babe,

his dad,

a form of squash....

my mug... rendered in pencil

2008-12-02T09:03:00.001-05:00

every day Scot sees me at the coffee machine and says "nice mug" (space) " and your coffee cup is nice also"

ha ha ha

since that last one was just a cover...

2008-12-01T10:29:00.003-05:00

here is one with some drawings on it... the mug is my white castle mug and the skull it just a skull....

The evil looking art subject is pretty common and strong. There are leagions of artists who draw dragons and fairies and other pagan themes. I often wonder why this style is so popular among illustrator types. I have been to student shows and know illustrators and the bulk of them get into this type of art. Parallels can be drawn between the Guitarist and the artist...

The more a guitarist is into the craft of playing they tend to lean towards metal and mystical styles. Punk rock was not so much about technique but connecting with peoples everyday crappy life. Where as metal was about leaving this crappy world behind and traveling to a place that was way cooler. Pink Floyd takes us to a distopia where people love misery and strive to achieve freedom through anarchy (we are all just a brick in the wall). Led Zepplin "the battle of evermore" and Queen of light took her bow... Early Led Zep was very sexualized. Which leads to another form of graphic design the "Pin Up".

So basic themes are:

- Escapism

- Sexuality

- Distopia - the opposite of utopia - Blues etc.

- Melancholy is a sub catagory

Very little time is devoted to Happy Art...

I was hoping to make music of only happy fun songs without being corny but that might not be something people are interested in at this time, but maybe soon.....

ooops

2008-12-01T10:13:00.001-05:00

I took my other sketchbook home to organize my area better... I forgot I might need it for this blog... so here is another one I have sitting around my area.... more to come

movie idea

2008-11-17T16:18:00.003-05:00

here is a sarcastic look at current movie themes. Hollywood is harvesting every recognizable piece of pop culture to make a movie about it. It is sad that people aren't writing original works like they used to in the 50's when most of this stuff was made. If it doesn't come back then we are already past our golden years of american culture. Most pop culture today is hollow and vapid. There are a few bright spots but people don't read the classics or study latin like they used to. Myself included. I would like to think I belonged to a superior level of being who didn't appreciate hulk hogen but apparently I am not. I am also somewhat responsible for supporting these trends.

sept 8

2008-11-10T09:25:00.002-05:00

mini dachshound from memory.

in my back yard

aug 1 2005 trainspotting

2008-11-06T09:28:00.002-05:00

this movie is pretty good, it shows the rock bottom of drug dependancy... i got it from the library near my house. the library is awsome... free movies, books, music, the selection can be pretty thin but sometimes you hit paydirt thanks to a movie loving library employee... I have known a few library employees over the years they are a special breed, they spend alot of time reading and watching movies and listening to music. they are not aware of how much they read compared to most of the public and they unconciously form a seperate sub group of society. I know of one fellow who is generally happy who has worked at the library for his entire adult life... he walks everywhere because you don't get alot of money from the library, he also has an encyclopaedic knowlage of my family, he worked with my brother and sister who both passed through the library in thier working life. he also knows a couple other of my siblings, and remembers me. I can't remember his name, I am good at faces and shapes but not letters so names are often forgotten by me. this is extremely embaresing and a source of my social awkwardness, but that is another story. The happy state of this fellow is intreging. most people have alot of matierial things but never appear as happy as this guy. he has found his utopia and live there everyday. I could be missing something maybe he is sad at nights or on weekends, but for the times I talk to he he never seems agitated. I am agitatted around 50% of the time and always want to get that number up, but never seem to get there...

anyway, go to your local library and watch trainspotting, it is sad and also scary but you might feel like your life isn't so shitty after watching it... thanks for reading... cya!

somtimes my brain is on fire

2008-11-03T09:50:00.002-05:00

other times is is quenched...

i am not sure why I drew this?

I think

oh i don't know

cleaned up eye

2008-10-30T12:53:00.002-05:00

when drawing commercial art, there are very few times where a sketch is good enough, so you spend enough time taking previous drawings and cleaning them up. eliminating any extra lines, and smoothing out others. even when you see a sketch in an ad or on package it has been refined and any extra stuff removed. this act has a way of removing the reality of what you are depicting. that is why even the best most true documentary is biased, some more than others. because somewhere in the process a person had to throw out shots because they are to dark, or sounds or words becuse the aren't pleasing or the sound quality is bad. T.V. makes you think things are supposed to be overly clean and painted and the women are all skinny with b or c cup bras, the men all have washboard abs and thick hair and spend thier free time at a gym,

this creates an unhappy society but out on the edge of town in the country, are people without tvs and radios who never heard of paul mcartney and the beatles, or tina fey, they never question thier looks or figures, they spend thier free tiem being happy and walking in the woods....

eyes

2008-10-28T08:14:00.003-05:00

the gazing stare of the artist can see into your soul

the soul can be empty while the face smiles and beams

the artist is a voyeur at heart who sees too much

the regular germans who killed so many

are living in everyman and woman and child

the bloodlust is only held back by the thin thread of religion or law

observing man as an object the artist tries to recreate life as on object

with out trying his work reflects himself and his view of humanity

early cave paintings recreate a hunting scene immortalizing the great nameless hunter

of that day

time passes the hunter dies, his tribe dies, his country fades away and

all that is left is the message in a bottle known as a cave painting

if only to say I was alive like you once, I lived

and breathed, felt pain and died like you will

the end

Audio File Test Post

2008-10-23T23:58:00.004-05:00

I was talking to oliver today about a recording I did in my basement last night.
He said "it would be great if you could post those on your blog"
I thought yea that sucks I can't...
then I remembered I could post songs on my fuse server and post a link to them on my blog...

so here is the first one

Pen & Paper

this song was recorded on my cassette four track tape machine like 10 years ago
it has alot of noise!
it starts with a metronome, then the guitar kicks in, with vocals and banjo solo...
oh yea and drums played on a little keyboard by hand

I always liked this goofy song.. it turned out better than some other songs I have been working on lately... I seem to have gotten out of practice
and everything I do now sounds sloppy... but this track fels like everything is in its place...
no extra notes or messed up notes... plus it sounds like a japanese rock garden....

what ever that means

200 posts....

2008-10-23T08:18:00.002-05:00

200 posts on this blog....

old buildings have details on them,

for structural reasons they had to hand make things out of wood,

and finish the wood in a pleasing way.

so edges were dressed and smoothed,

windows had frames,

doors had panels,

walls joined into molding which ran around the room,

now function dictates we don't need those silly things anymore,

and you end up living in a grey cube with tinted windows,

as far from natural as you can get...

we are after all a product of nature...

walking down town

2008-10-17T08:16:00.002-05:00

walking downtown is a parade of people,

everyone has to go downtown but some love to go downtown

I saw this girl when I came out of the deli

she had these two tiger paw prints on her chest

what did they mean?

did they mean anything?

where they just a passing fancy or the sign of her gang?

her shirt was low enough to see them so they weren't hidden

I bet there is an interesting story there

late night sky

2008-10-16T08:41:00.001-05:00

looking out of my window

I see over the peaks of shingles

into the blue and black

a sky

what not to draw

2008-10-15T08:47:00.002-05:00

this was hard to not draw everything and keep the page clean without getting it all smudgy.

my cat likes to have me pet her everyday. sometimes I am not into petting a cat, so ti try to pet her while I do stuff... which is not a very satisfactory thing to the cat... she will stick her claws into me while I try to get dressed for work... we have two dogs also but they have black plain eyes, the brown dog is always staring at me like I might accidently drop a steak at any second, if he only watches long enough...

I feel guilty for not petting the cat more but the black dog will jump on me and rub her llittle face on my face, she is not about to be ignored!....

any way a cat eye has a lot of depth, they can see in the dark, the cat eye reflects a lot of light, just another amazing piece of engineering people take for granted everyday...

we can't make an eye. even though we have HD tv, space ships, and cell phones, nothing is close to a simple cat's eye...

this was in the parking lot also

2008-10-09T09:34:00.005-05:00

of my daughters ballet school.

dandelions are hard to kill, this one was growing in the middle of a gravel and black top parking lot.

I was emulating a Windsor McCay style on this one with lots of tiny details. and variable line weights. Also the scale makes it look like you could walk right under it and sit down for an after noon nap...

elf drawing

2008-10-06T08:23:00.002-05:00

"he was a good elf

... but he never much cared for the traditional elf hat."

max sleeping in the car

2008-10-03T09:14:00.003-05:00

I drew this while waiting for my daughter's ballet class to end.

max fell asleep in the car so I drew a picture of him.

he has some elf like qualities

here is chuck rekow from memory

2008-10-02T08:38:00.002-05:00

www.chuckrekow.com

chuck was organizing the cincinnati illustrators lunch at that time so I tried to draw him from memory... Chuck is an extremely talented illustrator. I like his style also. there are many talented illustrators out there who for some reason or another don't bring something to the table. at least for me. they lack originality or the art they make is just alittle flat...

it is hard to explain what that means but you know it when you see it. the difference between Pixar and any other 3d animation house... it is a combination of color, line and attitude that makes something really good as opposed to just good. there is alot of good art out there, every class in every school has a "good" artist but how do they take it to the next level... how are they adding to the global lexicon known as art? or is it just a replay of last years style...

I need to work on that from my end

people kept telling me I looked like Sparty the mascot for michigan state. so I did a type study of the word "spartie" I didn't realize it was spelled incorrectly until a few minutes ago when did a search... I am really bad at spelling...

what can I say?

2008-09-30T10:53:00.000-05:00

more drawings

2008-09-29T08:30:00.003-05:00

if you click on the picture it gets larger...

I think I am obsessed with the internet. I spend all day at work on a computer working, so it is the only distraction from working my life away... I try to make the time spent productive instead of wasted.

anyway here is a pack of marlboro ultra lights and a 1927 movie person. The former from a picnic table the later from TCM.

typical scene downtown cinti

2008-09-26T08:18:00.002-05:00

Becky Shoemaker is on the left page waiting to cross the street, she is a nice lady. Edward Chimpington is on the right, he is a good guy but can be a little jumpy in long meetings....

self portrait & radio show

2008-09-25T07:45:00.002-05:00

the left panel shows a small pain in the back of my neck and the right page illustrates an old time radio show. I can't remember the name but it was science fiction...

April 31, 2005

2008-09-24T08:11:00.002-05:00

this one is pretty self explanatory

new series

2008-09-23T10:59:00.005-05:00

I am going to post pictures from my sketch diary, and then attempt to describe what I was thinking, (if possible)

here is the cover, it protects ths inside from dirt and such,

it is a standard kolo pocket sized book about 4.5 inches tall with off white or cream color (same thing) paper inside

it features a photo window, where I placed a print of my logo, with is based off my artist signature. I can reproduce it with a pen pretty easily,

I also have the word artwork on the logo. I don't think of myself as an artist, but maybe someday I will be good enough to be thought of as one. what ever that means

Drawing becomes reality

2008-09-18T08:16:00.006-05:00

here are some plans for a model airplane.

basically you glue little balsa wood sticks together over the drawing

and assemble it in 3 dimensions, then cover it with japanese tissue and it will fly.

so your drawing can become what ever you draw...

in the 30's the model airplane hobby had like 3 million kids doing this.

this generation of kids grew up to make the lunar modul and fly to the moon.

hmmm, our kids are raised by two working parents, and watch t.v. all the time

what will they grow up to be?

parenting is the most important job...

The Signalmen All Alonely

2008-09-10T11:29:00.001-05:00

no longer a rebel...

2008-09-09T08:27:00.006-05:00

(comments under a near perfect basketball illustration 3.11.96)

Once upon a time people left a corrupt nation to start thier own pure nation. Free of corruption, stupid rulers, and general moral decay. Over time those people died and were replaced by corruption, stupid rulers and general moral decay. This is the state of America. Founded on religious freedom, we have met the enemy and it is ourselves. America has become such a personalized society that we can only see our selves.

Case in point. Christians in Russia are working to ban South Park. Now South Park is a funny show. I have watched more than enough of my share. But it is also very crude at best and sometimes outright disgusting. The Hilary Clinton Snatch episode, the "it" episode, almost all of them... Now there are some redeeming values and point of view featured in some episodes, but they are way over the head of any 9 year old. All they see is it is cool to have poop that talks.

Now the reason I bring this up is the show is on regular all access TV after 12 am. Kids with loose parents regularly let them stay up until then or the kids have a tv in their room so they can see this crap when ever they want. Those same kids can watch Family Guy.

I am one of those parents, now I send my kids to private school and work hard to show them the difference betweeen right and wrong, so I don't think these shows don't change there life course. But I do imagine kids starting to think this is normal acceptable behavior.

These are the types of things every person has to face every day and make a moral desision about. So America is so personal yet we have no intimacy.

I guess my point was it used to be cool to be shocking and rebelious. To march to your own drum. But now we have everyone doing drum solos and marching in different directions. We have lost the ability to work together for a common goal.

jack O'Lantern

2008-09-08T09:27:00.005-05:00

Jackson Storey

2008-09-03T21:32:00.002-05:00

here is a still life I found on the internet, I don't even know where. But if you went to Central Academy of Commercial Art in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati Ohio this guy is kinda famous. He started the school and many productive commercial artists came out of his program. Not fine artists but commercial artists. The CA CA program was an intense training in any field of commercial art, It was all studio time, no classes, just 40 hours a week of working in an art studio. Hand lettering - gothic caligraphy, spencerian script, uh expressive lettering, all done by hand with pencil and brush. Super tight pencil renderings of every shape known to man.

Ink drawings, Guache painting - still life, architectural renderings from blue prints, mechanical paintings and line art, perspective, Figure drawing from a live model every thurs, the second year was marker renderings and ad concepts. We created many campaigns and presented them to the class. from a variety of products. It was a very well rounded program the funny thing is many old timers I run into who are still in this business went there making a living doing the same stuff.

I guess it was never put to us graduates that art was something else, like a political statement or a highly idealized statement of individuality. I always suspected those things growing up, but never have had anyone validate those ideas. So to me art is not about me, it is about creating something people might want, so I try hard to make things people might find interesting. Knowing people really aren't interested in my personal feelings expressed as color. Nothing is worse than a self indulgent artist thinking he is interesting and talking about his art as being awesome. If your art is really good people should tell you about it. not the other way around.

if you aren't getting that feed back you should reassess your process.

When I make music on guitar it is really easy to be self indulgent. But most music isn't interesting notes and complex ideas. the really good stuff is just plain fun. Classical music is really technical and excellent, but it can be really dull. Now is that art? or is it something else?

is "louie louie" art? what is the point? what is the point of this blog?

see oliver reads my blog, and I think people might be reading this stupid thing and I start to ramble... boring!!!

I apoligize...

The Signalmen Walk

2008-09-02T09:37:00.001-05:00

here is a video made by Mike Sauer the drummer for my old band the signalmen

The Beach Water Park review

2008-09-02T09:10:00.002-05:00

I received a gift from a friend of $5 admission to the beach water park last week. good for the past weekend. The wife didn't want to go, So I packed the kids in the car, plus a neighbor kid and headed up 71 N. I pulled out $40 from the atm and had a twenty in my pocket so I had $60 to go on. It cost $7.50 to park way out in a field, it was hot out like 90 degrees. good swimming weather. Communal swimming is interesting.

People's worst fear, the fear of being naked and wet in public surrounded by hundreds of strangers comes true. I have hang ups abut my body sometimes then other times I have none at all, yesterday was the later. I was surrounded by people I would never see again, I kept hoping I would run into someone to talk to, but people were pretty guarded. which is normal for a swimming environment. If some half naked guy starts to talk to you, it can feel creepy. I would say I saw maybe one or two females who had perfect bodies, the rest were all alittle too fat, too tall, too saggy, too flat, too hairy. I am blessed with an abundance of hair, I have gone to the extremes of shaving it all off, only to have it grow right back. but at this point in the summer I don't feel like doing any maintenance.

You start to get numb to it all after an hour or two. I was looking at a lifeguard, she was female about 18 ? she was wearing a very small red bikini. I was thinking, man she is perfect looking, and almost completely naked right there in front of me... I felt nothing, no feelings at all about it. Swimming in a pool of cold water has a way of taking your mind off of anything else. Now if I was in a bar and she came in wearing that I might pay more attention, but the surroundings made it almost boring.

The water park is set up to invoke fear in the person on the slides. you wait and wait for a chance to fly down a hill on a tube, you start to think about it. both of my kids had bouts of fear were they almost couldn't bring themselves to ride on the rides. I remember having the same problem when I was young. at kings island. then one summer I was over it and never worried about riding rides again, I need to take them back again to help them through it

Morningwood - Sugarbaby CLEAN Version (High Quality)

2008-08-25T21:26:00.001-05:00

new crazy morningwood video, creative and fun

morning wood

2008-08-25T21:22:00.002-05:00

here is another morningwood video

I wish I was playing guitar in this band

the lead singer is really wild, it reminds me of what rock n roll used to be, wild, free, stupid, all the things you can be when you are young and don't know any better. Being old and wise can make you rich and comfortable, but it really sucks the fun out of life

this is an old poster for my old band

2008-08-20T20:55:00.004-05:00

done on a copier with a rapidiograph and white guache, old skool style. pre computers. I used to work in a silk screen printing shop, so we made all the art with a photo type setting machine, a black and white photo copier, and ink. when we did get a computer we used it for typesetting then we pasted everything up and shot it with a stat camera...

did I post this before? I can't remember. feel free to print this out and distribute it. I promise to make the music available someday

fruit illustration

2008-08-20T20:53:00.004-05:00

here is a little sumpin sumpin

Fruit illustration will never be replaced by photography,

real fruit is funky looking and not consistant, the color is off, the surface might have a blemish on it, so really the only good way to get some fruit that doesn't turn peoples stomach is to illustrate it.

these were done mostly in illustrator CS3. using transparancy to create textures and surfaces.

I actually bought some fruit and shot it to use as reference for these. So they are unique statements of what a piece of fruit can look like....

go canoe ing!

2008-08-13T19:27:00.001-05:00

just got back from canoe ing

ity was fun

saw some turtles

Ok just this one....

2008-08-08T08:37:00.004-05:00

I drew this with the computer in 1995. by drawing a line like the silhouette of a balloon then flipping it horizontal, then using object blend to draw the lines precisely in between.

drawing with a computer is a excellent way to make precision drawings. in fact I was having a hard time getting work before the computer because my hand work was so loose and characterized (see blog header) people had a hard time finding a place for it. but with my love of machinery and computers I was able to draw thing more precisely than ever before and create precision art. people can argue over the validity of calling it art... but I don't really care about those people. I make the rules for my life not them. every thing is made up. everything. all words, all man made objects and if you believe in God, all of nature... so if I want to make up my own definition for art I will.... try and stop me world

oh yea this looks like something from the turn of the century, the style, the color, the object, I didn't plan that, it just came out that way. so in a way it is magic...

stuff and junk

2008-08-07T10:53:00.003-05:00

there is a bill in congress about orphan works

that has me worried...

it basically gives people the right to use old artwork as their own. this is interesting forpeople who use old art but bad for people who make art...

so I am not posting any original art work on this page until I can figure out how this will effect me long term

Cheerwine - drink it!

day 14,592 of my life

2008-07-31T08:04:00.003-05:00

14,592 sun rises, sun sets...

averaging 2 poops a day sometimes more, sometimes less - 29,184 poops

14,592 times to remember things,

14,592 days of trying new things,

14,592 days of breathing in and out

65% good days

15% bad days

1% truley awful days

19% of days of ennui

some days are good half the day and bad half the day

the body is a sea of ingredients in different ratios, sometimes they are out of wack and that effects the mood.

I hope to push the good day percentage up by 1% this year!

www.timeanddate.com

I am tired of this being a drawing blog

2008-07-29T13:15:00.002-05:00

I suppose I could accomplish something if I had a goal and kept at it long term. but mostly I get bored with everything before I can get really good at it. except art layouts which I have been forced to do to pay the rent - anyway look up the band "stereo total" for some far out french music

golf outing part 2

2008-07-24T07:14:00.002-05:00

so I am on my own. driving my old car down a lonely road at 4 am. pointlessly driveing. I have a couple thousand in the bank, from various investments and social security, enough to eat and buy gas, not much else. I am getting tired though, so I pull into this abandon golf club. not a high end country club but a blue collar golf shack. I figured I could pull around back and park, nobody would notice my car back there...

golf outing pt 1

2008-07-22T09:52:00.005-05:00

I was driving out of town heading east on the highway. It was the end of my life. I was an old man, my wife had past, the kids had moved on. No one wanted me. No one wants an old man hanging around. they remind us of mortality and death. The problem is we aren't dead yet. so we have to watch from the sidelines and wait for the inevitable.

At my age you don't think about sex any more, you still like the cut of a pretty woman, but you have to give up on making any progress. Years of rejection teach you that.

IKEA review RND 2

2008-07-08T08:12:00.004-05:00

Here is a preview of a special project you can actually take home for a good cause (March of Dimes)!!

http://www.charminbearaffair.com

now on the the review

this weekend we went to Ikea. My mother in law was in town and thought she would like it.

we ended up buying a new bathroom....

The cabinets were cool and cheap and well designed, they hold twice as much as our old cabinets and are flatter to the wall.

the sink was cool and made space in our super small bathroom 4 x 5?

the flooring sucked and wouldn't go together. it was 35 bucks.

cheap for flooring but, it wouldn't stay down on my uneven floor. so it was too cheap to be good.

so I pulled it and bought pergo that went down in a snap but it was an extra 100 bucks

the faucet had the opposite connectors as ever other sink I have ever bought so I had to make a special trip to buy adaptors at 9:30 before we could turn the water back on. it had female ends instead of male ends.

my house is old and it seems like there is no wood behind the walls in the bathroom. so every screw would just go into the drywall and spin because there is nothing for it to catch on.

marker layout

2008-07-03T08:11:00.002-05:00

this is a marker layout... it is a rough sketch of a package design, before we create a package, we do some sketches like this of different concepts to see what the client sparks to....

it is quicker than a computer generated drawing and the fact that is is not finished looking keeps people focused on the big picture and not the minutia like that particular shade of blue.

color version

2008-07-02T08:09:00.002-05:00

here is the final color version, I traced my pencil in ink, then colored it with prismacolor markers... the color is from reference and some guesswork. judging by the colors in his reference photos I picked some background colors that seemed appropriate for the subject. like if he was into barbie I would go hot pink, or what ever. its a judgement call.

I think he needs alittle more modeling in the face but overall it turned out ok. my next one will be better.....

thanks

caricature

2008-06-21T23:13:00.002-05:00

oh yea here is a drawing I just did, living the dream...livin da dream