Portland Mercury Illustration
An illustration for this week’s Portland Mercury regarding the money that’s being raised towards building a new freeway bridge across the Columbia River between Portland and Vancouver, Washington.
Bearfight! Covers
Here is the front side of the wraparound cover for BEARFIGHT! The brown will be chipboard, and… AND… the white will be flocked. That’s right, fuzzy covers!
If you haven’t gotten your submission in yet (thank you to those who have), you still have about a week, so get on it! Deadline for submissions is March 10th.
For more information, or to download the template/submission pack, head to http://www.banneryearpress.com/bearfight.
R is for Rasputin - Preview
Sorry to keep posting partial, preview images; as soon as I get my typeface made, I’ll show the completed pages. Here’s the mad monk himself, Rasputin, who is my subject for the letter R in B is for Beard.
C is for Cookie Duster
OK, here’s another sort of sneak peek at another spread from my B is for Beard thesis project. This is the full spread, but the “is for cookie duster” is just a place holder. It will eventually be set in a handwritten typeface along with some other text which I have not finished writing.
B is for Beard Sneak Preview
I’ve been spending most of the last week gearing up to get started on all the interior illustrations for my senior thesis project, B is for Beard. In case you don’t know about it yet, I’m creating a fully-illustrated alphabet book with facial hair as the theme. It will be completed and an edition of books made by the end of April.
This is just a small section of the first completed illustration, for B, obviously. B is for “beard” but B is also for Babe the Blue Ox and Bunyan, Paul as well. I’ll be showing a few more sneak peeks as I go, but won’t start posting full pages until I get the full text written and placed.
Portland Print Series
I was asked to create a piece for the “Portland Poster Series” through Society6.com. Each artist was asked to create a Portland-themed poster that displays a bit of trivia about Portland, or something that symbolizes what Portland is to them.
It’s for sale as a large, high-quality print through Society6.
You can see what prints have been uploaded so far right here: Portland Print Series, and if you happen to live in or near Portland, all prints will be hung in a show at 19Ten Gallery in North Portland, which opens on Saturday, March 6th. More on that in about a month.
The Future Is In Your Hands
Each year, my school puts together a print portfolio exchange. Usually 40-some artists, students and teachers alike, take part and get together at a big potluck party to compile and exchange prints. This year’s theme is “tarot cards,” so I thought it might be fun to take the classic, one-color style of regular playing cards, and design what could be the backside of the cards in a tarot deck.
I also think it’s kind of funny because of the double meaning of the phrase “The Future is in Your Hands” being somewhat related to cards in the sense of hands of cards, but also the other meaning in reference to you making your own destiny is not really what tarot’s all about.
I won’t be printing this for another couple weeks, but I’m definitely going to make a non-exchange edition too, in case anyone is interested in one.
Mercury Illustration
Here’s an illustration for last week’s Portland Mercury. For those not from Portland, there is a restaurant downtown called Greek Cusina, and they have this giant purple octopus climbing out of their second floor corner window…
They are currently suing the city over some fire code issues. I love being able to draw fun stuff like this for money; it’s wonderful.
Greek Cusina Mercury Illustration
Here’s an illustration for last week’s Portland Mercury. For those not from Portland, there is a restaurant downtown called Greek Cusina, and they have this giant purple octopus climbing out of their second floor corner window…
They are currently suing the city over some fire code issues. I love being able to draw fun stuff like this for money; it’s wonderful.
Crafty Wonderland
Portlanders: still looking for some perfect holiday gift ideas? Come down to the convention center today between 11am and 7pm for the Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Holiday Sale!
My business partner and I will be be there selling moustache wax underneath the giant moustache sign, and there are something like over 250 different vendors in the show, all selling wonderful items, I’m sure.
Remember to support your local, independent craftspeople when you’re doing your final holiday shopping (no matter what city you live in), we sure appreciate it.