Concepts

Sustainable Holiday

el-holiday-card-toon.jpg I drew this Christmas tree with a windmill for the star for a sustainable design-build company’s holiday card. The sun & sky are part of their logo, not drawn by me.

First Convention Sketches

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I drew these sketches during the first comics convention I tabled at. Sketcin’ Safari: A man in glasses and shorts using a pencil to surf a wave in the ocean. Yes! Comics!: a bald cartoon man who’s very excited about comics. Breaktime: a mechanical brain with arms & legs jumps out of the head of a man. Monster Eating Child: just what it says (I was hired to do an illustration on the basis of this sketch turning up in a Google search). Lightning Polka: a man in lederhosen & sunglasses shoots lightning from his accordian.

Old Web Menu Sketches

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I made these sketches while trying to figure out my previous web menu graphics. We have some hands (one of which I’m quite proud of), some close-up faces (one focused on the eye), a man with long hair, glasses, and a beard (it’s me, but looking like a stoned goth), a cluttered cabinet full of stuff behind the door, and a shady man in a trenchcoat selling comics on the street.

My old web menu (in part)

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Some menu buttons from the old version of my website, showing a person in glasses recursively holding a comic book, an outhouse, a comic store / shop, and trees & hills.

Love A-Plenty Wedding Poster

gary-n-shelly.gifDrawn for a coworker’s wedding; features the happy couple, man and woman, with love a-plenty (as well as pig and clam a-plenty, since they were having a pig roast and clam bake). Ah, marriage.

Halloween Art

flywheel-10.gifOctober 2006 events calendar cover for Flywheel, showing a jack-o-lantern person (maybe a pumpkin-headed scarecrow?) playing artist by painting a portrait of a ghost sitting on its former body (now dead). An essential part of any funeral!

Microphone and Firecracker

flywheel-07.gifJuly 2006 events calendar cover for Flywheel, showing a microphone aimed at a firecracker. Talk about noise on a recording! Fireworks.

Lion-Sheep with stuff on its back

flywheel-03.gifMarch 2006 events calendar cover for Flywheel, with imagery drawn from the month and it’s coming events: a combination lion / sheep with a box on its back containing a tree in a basket, maps, atlas, painting, owl, number sixes, a spider, and some other stuff. Yup, it’s spring.

Charter School

ava.gifDrawn for the website of a group working to create a progressive charter school; unfortunately, they weren’t able to achieve their vision. We’ve got a young person in a sweater with an apple for education, and an interconnected world behind them.