Apr 28 2014

WFDD T-Shirt Design

Shirt_Design_on_Red_Shirt_0I don’t usually do “freebie” work, but when our local NPR station asked me for a t-shirt design, I was glad to oblige. I’m a regular listener and an on-and-off member (mainly depending on whether I manage to remember to let them know my most recent credit card number for my monthly contribution) so I was glad to help out.

I initially came up with several ideas that I thought were absolutely brilliant… until I did a Google search for “NPR calendar” and realized that they were fairly obvious ideas that had already been executed by illustrators much better than I. I did, though, manage to fold a few personal “easter eggs” into this design, including a few book references and a car from my absolute favorite recent newspaper comic, Cul de Sac.

WFDD’s campaign is going on until Friday. Contribute here. Fifteen bucks a month gets you a cool t-shirt!

Apr 22 2014

AlphaBands – N is for Nigel Tufnel

N is for Nigel Tufnel

nigel tufnel

OK, I guess this is cheating a tiny bit, since Spinal Tap isn’t a real band, but oh well…

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AlphaBands is a weekly online collaborative project in which illustrators and cartoonists draw a band or musician for one letter of the alphabet each week for 26 weeks. See the art and find out more at the AlphaBands tumblr: http://alphabands.tumblr.com/

Apr 14 2014

Alphabands – M is for Marvin Gaye

M is for Marvin Gaye

marvin gayeIf you don’t agree that What’s Going On is one of the ten greatest records of all time, I’m afraid we can no longer be friends.

I started then scrapped a drawing of Matthew Sweet for this week’s “M” entry, but I’m much happier with how this turned out. It’s obviously not in the style I’ve been using for most of these entries, but I was really wanting to play around with some of illustrator Ray Frenden’s new Manga Studio brushes. The line art here is some sort of charcoal brush from his new dry brush set and the sepia textures are from his watercolor set.

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AlphaBands is a weekly online collaborative project in which illustrators and cartoonists draw a band or musician for one letter of the alphabet each week for 26 weeks. See the art and find out more at the AlphaBands tumblr: http://alphabands.tumblr.com/

Apr 07 2014

AlphaBands – L is for Lady Gaga

L is for Lady Gaga

lady gaga

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AlphaBands is a weekly online collaborative project in which illustrators and cartoonists draw a band or musician for one letter of the alphabet each week for 26 weeks. See the art and find out more at the AlphaBands tumblr: http://alphabands.tumblr.com/

Mar 31 2014

AlphaBands – K is for Karl Bartos

K is for Karl Bartos

Karl BartosKarl Bartos was a percussionist for the German band, Kraftwerk between 1975 and 1990. He played on and did songwriting on my favorite Kraftwerk record, Man-Machine. He recently released a solo record, Off The Record, which is fantastic.

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AlphaBands is a weekly online collaborative project in which illustrators and cartoonists draw a band or musician for one letter of the alphabet each week for 26 weeks. See the art and find out more at the AlphaBands tumblr: http://alphabands.tumblr.com/