Molson Golden

My 200th post!

I was cleaning out a closet the other day and came across this, a picture of a poster I drew in college for an aborted competition. While the competition fell through, at least I got credit for the work in my illustration class. This is pen and ink with watercolor. As a side note, I wrote the words Molsen Golden in very tiny letters up and down the cliffs to add a bit of texture.

Gangster

Here’s a look at a rejected sketch for a client. I used to do a lot of crosshatch long ago, and it kinda came back all by itself when this sketch hit the paper.

Clothes

It’s all great stuff, but what I love most about this artist is his treatment of clothes.

Pig

Another sketch that will be paired with this bull sketch as soon as I get a chance.

Celtic Knot

This design is a Celtic knot created in Illustrator for the iPhone game I’m helping out with. The programmers gave me the design and I recreated it in Illustrator with a little web research. It’s a fairly straightforward technique, but requires a bit of patience. I’ve added an ‘exploded’ example to show how the under/over illusion is created. Note that the topmost stroke has rounded caps to overlap and hide the ever-so-slightly-visible seams beneath where the paths have been cut apart and butt together.

South Pacific Pina Colada

Yep, another silly drink label. But at least this time I’ve given you a bit of a twist and plastered it on a virtual bottle to give you an idea of what it might look like in use, in real life. The 3D mapping feature of Illustrator is a pretty cool thing to play with, even though my rather poor efforts only hint that the bottle might be made of glass.

Pencil Tests

Here is a link to a very nice blog if you have any interest in animation or the process that goes into it.

Walking in the Shadow of Ghosts

Boing Boing linked to this site recently and I was intrigued because long ago, in another lifetime, I spent a few years in Berlin. Some of the pictures presented on the website are haunting, literally, from the juxtaposition of today and yesterday.

Sergey Larenkov has artfully fused the past and present to give history a new perspective. Contemporary pedestrians walk through the venerable spaces where fallen combatants from history lay, with little idea of the ghosts that inhabit that dimension.

Graphic Design

I came across this website and immediately bookmarked it. Producing a “perfect book” caught my eye, but the love this guy has for graphic design oozes out of every page and dribbles from each word. I’ve only just begun to sift through all of the articles and I look forward to poring over them all.

Gone Fishing 2

Here is the color version of the cartoon reject mentioned in my last post. I’ve rearranged the layout a bit to make it work better as a header graphic for my website, wizardofdraws.com.