Been A WHILE

I was reminded the other day I had this blog. I started it when I was learning Illustrator a couple years ago. Thought I should put something up, so here is the very last thing I made.

I drew this skull whispering some profanity, but I replaced that with a slice a pizza to keep my blog clean as a whistle.

You're welcome internet!

Mr. Pixel

A new day, a new post. I'm on a roll already. I'm part of a company that does web design and development, among other things, called Pixel Nation. (check us out at http://wearepixelnation.com/) Anyway, every time I think "Pixel Nation" I always imagine a country full of people with pixel-esque cubes for heads... Since we are shifting into some inside work over the next couple weeks I figured I better get the idea out of my head so my brain can move on when I think Pixel Nation. Viola:

So I guess he is walking through a desert and some other people have been long buried in the sand. I was gonna do footsteps and add some more detail, but then iI realized this image has served its purpose. Maybe a mascot could come somewhere from this.

Zombie Character Study

A couple of rough zombie illustrations I did, trying to narrow down a character style for a client project. 

I really like this one, so I might do something else with these cube-lite type of characters. And another:

This one was a later design. You can tell the order I did these in, because when I work with the same subject matter over and over, I start making things more and more silly as I go to keep myself entertained. So this one makes me laugh. I like the colors and his ribs popping out, but it's not my favorite.

New Look

I'm in the process of changing the look and aim of up of this page. I had stopped using it so I thought changing gears would get me back in it. Here is a larger image of that new icon I just made for the header as part of the change.

 

Character Types

Been busy. Made a bunch of character types to pitch to client for a thing... 8 of which I can't share yet, but here are 2 less sensitive ones.

Blocky baby. Looks like he has a boom-box for a head, and

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Running Lady. These characters were all shaped like a bars of soap. This ones got some high-wasted jean shorts on. Ha. All that retail experience is coming in handy!

Kickball Team Design #3

HAHA!

Kickball Shirt Design #2

Here is the second design I did for a friends kickball team. They kept alluding to guys balls so I but these lil guys in briefs and told them that this is about as close as I am gonna get to that allusion. They ended up going with this one