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Just a quick reminder for any of you reading this in the Portland area: the Robopocalypse Comics Collective, my group of scrappy, young artists, will be having our first ever gallery show this Thursday, May 1st. Please come down to Tender Loving Empire (NW 18th and Lovejoy) between 6pm and 10pm on Thursday. There will be food and booze and even two bands.

We’ll be showing a ton of original comic pages as well as selling our new set of tiny screenprints, and of course, our comics.

Please come see the show of you can; support your local cartoonists!

If you need any proof of how well TLE and the RCC go together, glimpse this combo: TLE owner Jared Mees keeping it classy at Stumptown with a copy of Mustaches: For Fun and Profit.

I feel like I’m on a roll here, with two consecutive Illustration class projects in which I am incredibly happy with the results. This week’s project was to create an image that could be used within an advertisement for a product of our choice, but without designing the ad itself. I decided to do something fun for my favorite beer in the whole world, Grain Belt. It’s only available in the northern midwest, so I cannot enjoy it whenever I please, as I once could, so this is my tribute. I wanted something that spoke of the history of the beer (the old neon sign, snapped while I was on a trip back to Minnesota) but also the very specific region in which it is available.

I’ve been working on this image for almost three weeks now from the thumbnail sketch stage and it still cracks me up every time. I think I might be using this as a promo post card image soon.

If you still don’t know by now, this coming weekend is the 5th Annual Stumptown Comics Fest here in Portland. I have attended all but the first year, as I was not living here at the time, and have had a table since the third year. This will be my second Stumptown under the banner of the RCC. I have spent most of the last few weeks screenprinting, photocopying, stapling, folding, and cutting my way through a pile of comics and other goodies. This photo only includes things I’ve worked on for myself, I’ve done even more if you also include my work for the RCC.

That is, of course, Baby Otto: Volume One on the right, but on the left we have my 24 Hour Comic from last year, Mustaches. Yes, those moustaches are felt, and yes I cut and glued them all by hand. But wait, you get your choice of flavors! As you can see, they are available in sexy blonde, classic brown, macho black, stately gray, and the elusive orange. It’s a little something for everybody! I also just finished printing a few hundred free, screenprinted takeaway cards for radrobot.org, as well as some for bigtimeillustration.com (not pictured).

Oh, yeah, and I came up with this kick ass t-shirt design to wear at the show. For the time being, this design will be a one-off, but if the interest is there, I might want to have a run of these printed, however, I’m not too clear on the legalities of parody t-shirts. If you don’t get the reference, maybe you need to take a long, hard look at your life and feel shame, for you have not rocked hard enough.

If you’re going to be tabling or just attending Stumptown, and we haven’t met before in person, I’d sure like it if you said hello sometime this weekend. I’ll be there both days, behind the Robopocalypse Comics Collective’s tables (12-13), and I plan on attending most of the pre, award, and after parties. I LOOK LIKE THIS, but probably not so intense, and I’ll be wearing the t-shirt above at least one of the two days, so say hey.

For those of you wondering when you will see The Life and Times of Baby Otto Zeplin: Volume Two, I assure you that it is fully written and the drawings are in the works, but a lot has seemingly been standing in the way of getting any real work done on it. At the moment, I’m realistically anticipating a mid-summer release for Volume Two.

Tiny prints are great! I am going to print a small edition of these in a different color soon, but I just found two test prints in burnt sienna laying around, so I thought why not sell them super cheap on Etsy? I also just put up my Beans, and Howdy prints, as well as some other paintings.

The image size on these is only 1″ by 3.25″ and each is printed on a heavy printmaking paper. There are only two available in this color, so act quick if you like it! (I scanned this print before signing and numbering both, in case you’re curious)

I’ve been happy with my little sketchbook lately, so I wanted to post a few things I’ve drawn since my last sketchbook post. The Portland Art Museum’s special exhibit right now is “The Dancer,” featuring the work of Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. I was most struck by the work of Forain, whom I had never even heard of previously; much of his ink and watercolor linework is just so “current” looking and I was blown away by how right at home I felt seeing his brushwork, as though I was looking at my own lines sometimes. There’s also a preponderance of facial hair in his work, so you know I’m a fan.

Left side doodled while watching How To Draw A Bunny (highly recommended), right side during 9 to 5 (also highly recommended). These are both drawn in ink an Dr. P.H. Martin’s Concentrated Watercolor, a product a friend recently urged me to try. I bought a small selection of colors and I’m not sure if I like them quite yet, but I haven’t really pushed them too much yet.

And a different friend just turned me on to Speedball’s Super Pigmented Acrylic Ink, which I have fallen head over heels in love with. Not all the color options are that great, but the ones that work are amazing; flat and intense color.

Once every few weeks in my Illustration class, we have an in-studio assignment, to be completely finished within the span of about four hours. Usually they revolve around some concept related to illustration. Yesterday’s had to do with “street art” as an alternate means of illustrating a concept. We had the class period to come up with a “social issue” relevant to Portland and create a piece of work on a giant piece of cardboard. I chose to speak on the topic of beards, something that has been on my mind since I have recently shaved (it’s getting warm out). It’s sort of a joke on how it seems like every dude in Portland has a beard, like that’s one of the things that the city is known for now. It’s also an homage to a conversation I had with my roommate a few days ago where she said in order to work at a coffeeshop in this town, it was nearly a requirement that you have a beard, or at least a mustache.

A few words on the details: I was able to snag a cheap HELP WANTED sign from a shop down the street and I found all of those now-outdated “SUBMIT” fliers in my locker at school, so I decided to use them instead of recycling. The little stenciled face underneath “32A” is a quickie two-color stencil I made of my Illustration teacher, after which I tried to get everyone in class to spray it on their piece (5 people did). Also, you may notice the smaller beard stencil that is sitting below my signature in the lower right corner. That’s actually a stencil modeled after my own beard which I miss terribly. I make reference to it because you’ll be seeing that stencil again next week in a use that is just as awesome as it is horribly disturbing, so keep your peepers peeped for that.

Why the long face? This guy is acrylic paint and ink on a 4″ by 5″ piece of scrap wood. I have boxes full of small to medium sized pieces of scrap wood cluttering up my apartment, having collected it from various sources over the last few years. I’ve started sort of doodling on them with ink when I find the time and I’ve been really liking some of the results. This piece will actually be a part of something much larger I’m working on that I will explain once I am a bit further. Until then, also enjoy this other tiny piece, “Moon Shot;” acrylic, ink and Letraset on a roughly 4″ by 3″ piece of wood.

My latest assignment for my Intermediate Illustration class was to create a “seasonal magazine cover” illustration, representing both a city and season of our choice. I chose to represent an early morning Spring cleaning in Minneapolis, MN, where I am originally from. For those of you who don’t know, that is the Spoonbridge and Cherry, a huge Claes Oldenburg sculpture, and one of the most iconic images of Minneapolis. Even though the internet is chock full of the exact same photo, I was in Minneapolis a few weeks ago and snapped my own reference.

I said I’d post pictures of my printing process of the “Beans” print I posted late last week, so here it goes. Color one exposed, washed out, and drying.

Color two being exposed.

And finally the third color.

All three screens ready to print!

First color drying on my drying rack, aka my bed.

Ready to print color two, and a refreshment.

Second color done!

Third and final color, mid-print session.

All done and drying.

Stacked up, ready to be cut down, then signed and numbered.

If anyone’s curious, these will probably be for sale here and on Etsy by the end of the week.

In early June, I will be taking part in the Screens and Beans art show at Mugshots Coffeehouse in Philadelphia. All pieces will be screenprinted and related to coffee. Here’s mine, a three-color, 10″ by 12″ print, featuring a hill of beans. I just finished printing last night, so I still need to cut them down, and sign/number them. I’ll probably post a bunch of printing process photos on Monday so watch out for that.