Everything illustration-y I’m working on right now is either in the early, thumbnail stage or under a NDA, so here are a smattering of the doodles and lettering I’ve done during classes or at other random times this week.
Plus, here is a very new review of one of my first comics, Business Casual, written by Ashcan Magazine. The last few remaining copies of Business Casual are still for sale in the store.
Fadges, fadges, and more fadges! I have now done over 100 of these in the last few weeks, and I’m itchin’ to make a book out of them.
The book will be smallish in size, probably 4 inches square, but will only have one fadge per page, so will be 100+ pages when you include title page, contact info, etc; and it will be perfect bound. I’m thinking of making the first edition limited to 100 books, screenprinted covers, of course, AND each book in the first edition will include one of the original fadges.
The questions for you, dear reader…
For those of you who also make books, what would you charge for a book like this?
And for those of you who buy books, what might you expect to pay for a book like this?
I’m a pretty big fan of Rockasaurus.
Shameless Begging: Times are rough out there these days, the freelance illustration market has been pretty dang slow for me lately. After a long hiatus, and in an effort to stave off apartment eviction, I finally relaunched the radrobot.org STORE! Now, and for the first time ever, you can find my comics, prints, original works, and yes, even moustache wax for sale in the same spot. Please take a look, and if you are in a position to buy, every little bit would help; thanks much. RAD STORE!
First off, something a little different and more serious than I usually get to do. This illustration is appearing in this week’s Portland Mercury, alongside an article about the recent settlement in the case of a mentally ill man who was tasered and beaten to death by the Portland police three years ago. I thought a rough pencil portrait would look better in the negative, as opposed to my usual, clean ink line.
I’ve done a bunch more of these little ink splotch doodles that I posted about a few days ago; 53 in the last three days to be exact. I’ve taken to calling them fadges because it’s a word I doodled in the same manner a while back, and it sounds interesting (and just kind of dirty enough) to catch the eye and the ear. I think I’m going to put together a little zine of these, maybe when I reach 100+. Hats, or things wearing hats, seems to be a repeating theme in many of these that I’ve done so far.
Lastly, I just found this picture on Flickr of me looking like the coolest dude on the planet. This is from a photo taken by Sam Guerrero, curator at Tender Loving Empire, and was taken during the opening of my You Better Believe It show opening last Thursday night.
As part of my show at Tender Loving Empire this month, I showed four customized test prints. Whenever I screenprint, I always pull a few initial prints onto some scrap paper, and eventually these scraps pile up with layers and layers of beautiful ink. Sometimes, these layers create an interesting image on their own, but I had a few that just didn’t seem like they were going anywhere special, so I added some liquid gold leaf and ink, and there you have it.
The other two can be seen on my Flickr page.
And, here’s some ink splotch doodles I did yesterday. I’ve been watching a lot of Sifl & Olly lately, so there’s a weird lookin’ Chester too.
I’m working on a little comic something with a bear in it, and I realized I haven’t really tried to draw a bear in a while, so I went to a bar this afternoon with some reference photos and drew me some bears!
The other week, I posted a few pages from my sketchbook, and they seemed to have been enjoyed, so here’s a few more recent spreads from my Moleskine. All are a combination of Copic 0.05 Multiliner, Pental PocketBrush, a handful of markers and a cheap watercolor set. These Moleskine don’t take watercolor in any traditional sense, but I kind of like the effect you can get by letting the paper decide whether or not it will absorb the liquid.
The middle page is definitely my favorite of this set, but I think “No Hurries, No Worries” will almost definitely make it onto a Weekly Print one of these days.
I did a little traveling to see some friends and family this last week. Here are a few of my favorite sketchbook pages from the trip.
Also, there’s a new print over at The Weekly Print. It’s a bearded lady, if that is going to inspire anyone to click who may not have otherwise.
I thought I’d post a couple pages out of the old Moleskine today. I was drunk and watching Jason and the Argonauts while doing the linework on these two.
Did this at a restaurant yesterday afternoon while waiting for my food and looking out upon the horrible wintry slush of Portland. I really like the “Dirty Snow” lettering effect. The page wasn’t soaking up the dark gray ink I was using, so the letters just pooled until I got a napkin and slowly soaked up the liquid, leaving what you see on the page.
I spent a much of my day in the printmaking sphere of things, so I took a late night trip to my studio and threw a little ink around, something I’m starting to enjoy again after some time off.