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spent some time on this one... but i enjoyed it.

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Latest illustration I did... for the fun of it.

The Box is Back

Well the first run of the box design I did seemed to go over fairly well. They ran out of them. Rather than re-print the same design they asked that a new design be made, this time however they were pretty specific that they wanted the box to have a jar full of tickets on all three sides. Without boring someone to tears, the short of it is... those tickets shown have been sold out of jar for the past, ooooh I dont know, 80+ years. They became to be known as "jar tickets." Well this box has been, what I assume to be, a revolutionary concept to all - and to help ease into this they wanted the thing to look like a jar. After a few drinks who knows it may fool some. Anyways this was my design... went with that retro feel to it. Kinda like this.

Dude and his Girl - Look Ma, No Outlines!!

In a previous post I showed a character of a customers friend. Well this time I had to do the customer and his girlfriend. This is actually a revamp from the very first character i did of him. That one, and I should post this for pure comedy sake, was done using only a blurry photo taken from someone's cell phone. If i can find it I will have to post as you really have to see this pic to truely appreciate the absurdity of it all. It was quite the moment. However this time I was provided with a much better pic... it was in focus! Hoo-ray!! Anyways here is a random dude and his girlfriend. With this one I set out to NOT use ANY outlines. That dosent usually translate well at work as these are literally shrunk down to .387" x .387" Still though we do posters and flyers so the detail does get seen. I really liked doing this without the outlines and may experiment with it further.

Child Rockettes

Had to do female rockers as babies and/or child like. Found someone who greatly influenced this with his style. He is an amazing character designer. Steve Lambe He had these amazing illustrations of kids the harken back to the golden age books from the 50's - He work def inspired and thought it would be great to carry his influence over to this project. And I just like trying new things. Glad they didnt mind little kid rockers as opposed to babies as the girls characteristics and style and personalities would have been REALLY hard to translate in infant form. The customer requested a Pat Benetar, Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper and Madonna. Couldnt use their last names for copyright issues of course.

Dude

Sometimes we get random pics of customers who want to be characterized. This was actually a friend of one of our customers. I often wonder who is even going to know this guy who is about to be put on a game, poster and flyer. Ahh well he was kinda fun to draw.