Midnight Classic!

One of the biggest organized rides in Memphis is happening this weekend! If you've got a bike, and you're in Memphis, and you like, I don't know... FUN, you should totally participate in this year's event. Go to midnightclassicbiketour.org for more details!

The Saga Continues...

So the squares are coming along steadily as the semester quickly reaches it's end, and I'm really impressed by how much I've been able to make given my busy schedule . I laid them out yesterday and it was so fucking cool to see entire tabletop decked out in a blanket of little swatch illustrations. It's times like that where I wish there was a digital camera in reach to make snaps and show off a little... But lamenting aside, I've got a few more squares to share:







Speaking of things that should be documented with photograpy, I've also been working on some more promo books featuring some work from the square project, and a few past and recent works. One of the recent illustrations is a flyer that I made for my awesome brothers in arms for a benefit dance party coming up in May. I spent some crazy hours drawing out the initial linework, and even more time coloring it digitally. The effort paid off and resulted in a fresh ass piece of advertising for the Rozelle Artists Guild.

Here's the black and white:



And the color:



If I ever get my hands on a camera, I will (hopefully) be able to post some pics of some of handiwork that deserves photo documentation...

Finished(?) Posters, Comics, and...Nien Numb?

I finished working out the designs for the travel posters, and at this point working on some anal-retentive fine tuning. I found a solution for the previously mentioned crappy font, and I made a few adjustments to the color scheme. By adjustments, I mean that there's another frickin' version. Here they are:





I've also finished working on the inking for my promotional mini-comic, and I'm working to get snazzy covers made for it.





While I was working on the last page, my friend Cody made the keen observation about the resemblance of my self-caricature and a creature from the Star Wars universe. After a quick Wikipedia search and a call to an "expert" on the subject, we found that the alien in question was part of a race called the Nien Numb. It was a little disconcerting how close the resembance was, but you can check it out for yourself:

Works in Progress and Image Dumping

So I've got some follow-ups to my previous post about the travel poster. I'm almost finished, but I've got the two major problems that have yet to be resolved. The first is the wonky-assed text that I used for the design that looked cooler as a sketch, but for some reason didn't translate well into vector... The second problem is the color scheme, which I kind of solved by adjusting the color balance to get some of that visual-unity jazz. Here's what I got so far:

The first version...



...and the color-adjusted one.



I've also got a few new sketches, some from my drawing workshop class that I'm taking this semester, some for fun, and a few Photoshop scraps that were taking up space on my hard drive.