Monday, August 27, 2012

Help Find A Cure


T-Shirt Graphic I did for a t-shirt fundraiser (just the top part). I'll post pics of the finished shirt once I have one.

Monday, August 20, 2012

Youth Retreat T-Shirt Graphic


Quick T-shirt Graphic I put together for a friend. I had a blast adding in vector textures to make the design have a well "worn" feel to it.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Footlloose VW Beetle

Ah, the things we do for love. My wife was put in charge of decorating for a local festival by her place of employment. The place she works decided to use "Footloose" as their theme for this event. She asked me if I could create a large cut out of the VW Beetle Kevin Bacon fixes up in the movie to use as decoration.

Of course I said yes. If your wife asks you to help out, you better help out. Free advice for the day.

I decided making a vector graphic of the VW beetle would be the way to go. Since I was kinda pressed for time, first looked inline to see if maybe there was a suitable vector graphic of a VW Beetle I could use as a jumping off point. After some searching, I found this:


Not a graphic I would ever want to use "as is" but I thought it was decent enough to get the basic shape. The color is horrible. Looks like someone picked their colors out of MS Paint. Anyway, I need to turn that into something that looked more like this:


This is actually the VW Beetle from the "Footloose" remake but it's was the best profile shot I could find of the car. For all you Footloose purists, get off my back. As you can see, there are several differences between the vector graphic I found and what it needs to look like to make it more authentic looking. After a lot of details were added, more dynamic coloring, and some drawing changes, it turned into this:


What do you think? I'll post some pictures of it (when I have some) of how we used it as decoration.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Lincoln's Clubhouse


As I'm sure with most kids, my son (who is growing up way to fast mind you) loves Mickey Mouse. He also loved Barney but I can't bring myself to drawing that purple dinosaur. Any who, I started a project a while back where I was going to make Lincoln into cartoon character and put him with the rest of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse gang in front of the clubhouse entrance. I've got the basic character's drawn, Next is the clubhouse background.

Stay tuned to see the process work.

Need Job


Well, things haven't gotten that bad yet but being without a job for close to three weeks starts to mess with you. The company I worked for finally closed their doors due to years of incompetent business practices and mismanagement from the corporate level.

I was so busy trying to wrap things up at that place and searching for a new job that I haven't really had time to post anything new in here. I have been fairly busy though. 2 weeks ago I completed a pretty large project that I can't post of here yet. Actually, I did post the first part of the project on here but was asked to take it down until a later date. So be on the look out for that. I've got a couple other irons on the fire that I will be posting in the next day or so.

In the mean time, be on the look out for a job for a guy qualified to do nothing but make pretty pictures.

It's in your hands now. : )

Wednesday, February 15, 2012


Here is the final design for the Preferred Realty Logo. Like I said in the last post, I turned this one around pretty quick. The client honed in quick on this concept (which is always a nice thing) and the there really wasn't much to the finish.  They had mentioned early on that they wanted to have some sort of blue & green color scheme incorporated so all I had to do was plug in colors. The only thing that is different from the sketch to the finished art is the tiny little square flourishes I added to the corner of the blue square the "P" and "R" sits in.

It seems like most of logos I design revolve around letter form concepts and designs. It's not intentional. I always try to show a client a few concepts and try to vary them from each other quite a bit. I try to show a symbol or "mark" based design, obviously a letter form design, and I usually try to make a hybrid of the two previous. For what ever reason, it seems like most clients I deal with lean towards the letter form designs.

I guess they really like the ABC's. Thank you Sesame Street.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Preferred Realty









It's been a slow start to the new year but hopefully that will change. I have however just finished a quick, fly by night logo for a up-starting realty group. I wouldn't really considered this a freelance job since the client came through my "day job" but none the less, I thought I would share. From meeting the client to the final design, that will be shown on here a little later, including a weekend where I did nothing, took 6 days. Probably the fastest turn around on something like this is a long time. Reminded me of college where most of us suffered through what we thought were insane deadlines. How little we knew then huh?

On a side bar, taking on actual graphic design projects for local people as apart of my "day job" will not happen again. I really don't have the time to dive into the creative process as much as I would like and the higher ups don't really have a clue what I do (or what goes into good design work). Also, the pricing put in place on something like this by people other than me was way off. I will offer my personal services on a freelance basis if a situation rises like this again. I am more than happy to create printed material (like signage, banners, etc.) as a part of my daily responsibilities.

The three sketches/concepts I provided the client are shown above.