Another blockprint

I really didn't put too much thought into this. I am trying out different materials to make blockprints from and this is a linoleum block that I purchased quite a while ago. Real linoleum blocks tend to dry out with age, but this one seemed to be okay.

Bookplate

This is a bookplate design that, once I find a way to print them en masse, I hope to have available for purchase. And despite my aversion to and success in doing series I am planning on doing more.

And what are bookplates? Well, they're a way you can say "this book is mine." Ex Libris means "from the books of" and once you pasted this fine looking bookplate in one of your many books, you would write your name just under the "Ex Libris"

Once again, this is a linoleum blockprint that I colored in Photoshop.

Another Commercial

Here's another commercial that I did the artwork on. The hardest part of it was the simplification of the characters. It was a learning experience for me. I mostly learned that I can draw more cartoon-like characters if I set my mind to it.

This is the second commercial I have had the pleasure of working on for Charter Media. Valerie, who is a video editor there, did the awesome animation.

Hot Peppers!

Ah another linoleum block print. I love doing them. Even though in my formative years everyone did everything they could to keep sharp, pointed objects away from me. Something about my unbridled curiosity and a need for empirical thinking...

Now that I have reached well into adulthood, so to speak, they can't stop me now. Anyone with cash and the ability to at least act normal can purchase carving tools for printmaking.

And I love Photoshop, too, which is why I posted 3 different versions of the same blockprint. That and, well, to show the designs now available on my Zazzle store.

Plan for Art World Domination....maybe

This is a small blockprint I did a couple days ago. I was mostly playing around, I guess. I had heard somewhere that those white plastic erasers made good stamps and I wanted to see for myself. I would have to say I agree.

So here's the plan. This print is a good size for a sticker. I am planning on doing a small series of these blockprints as stickers and, well, stickering them all around town. Lightposts, bus shelters, signs signs everywhere a sign...

So yeah, I just preannounced what some would call vandalism and owned up to doing it in one breath.

I would like to tell the city officials of Madison that its a lot better than spraypainting. These stickers are removable, which is the whole point. It's the impermanence of the artwork, right?

Except with blockprints I can always print more....

Gas Mask Girl redux, finally...

So I finally finished carving out the block for printing this piece. I am actually happy with how it turned out. I had originally carved out the words "Gas Mask Girl" along the bottom, backwards of course, but decided to remove them.

The colors were added with Photoshop.

I'm definitely turning this one into t-shirts, stickers and other items for sale at my Zazzle store. In fact, the t-shirt is now available. Other products will follow!

Take a Moment or Two

I am usually not inspired so much by conservatives. I find them dull, talking heads with a tenuous grasp on facts and reality.

Yesterday though, I was behind a pickup truck with assorted bumper stickers that would make me think right-winger. John McCain for President, one that said something about Obamunism, you get the idea.

Not that I thought that people would automatically change their minds. There is stubbornness on both sides of the scale. The only difference between the right and the left is, well, the left was voted in and the right was voted out.

Like the Republicans said when Bush was given the first term of his presidency: Get over it!

So that's where this drawing came from.

Greenback, Greenback

"Just a little piece of paper, coated with clorophyll"

I could give you a lengthy speech on economics and the value of the dollar. Well, actually I couldn't. I didn't fall asleep in Econ class, I never had to take it. I was, you guessed it, a librul arts major.

Anyway...

This time I actually looked at the EDM Challenges and then did the drawing. This one is #191, submitted for your approval.

You say you want more info on the Everyday Matters Yahoo Group? Look on the sidebar of this very blog, there is a link!

My Covered Submission

A few months ago I submitted this drawing to Covered, a blog done by Robert Goodin. It gives artists opportunity to do their own take on past comic book covers. I am amazed at some of the artwork and interpretations that appear there.

This one is from one of my favorite Frazetta covers. I even owned a copy of this issue a long time ago, most likely reading it to tatters.

He Speaks the Words that Kill

I've had this image in my head for a few weeks now. And after drawing it over and over in my head, today I drew it for real. It's a lot easier for other people to see it that way, besides.


Drawn with a RapidoSketch .o35 pen and colored with watercolors in my HandBook sketchbook.