Robyn

me and some friends are going to see robyn and röyksopp in about a month and i'm really excited! when i get really excited i need some way to get my energies out. that's where this poster comes in. robyn's song call your girlfriend has a really fun music video where she's just in a giant warehouse and dances around. the dance is really fun and at first i had hoped my friends and i would learn the dance together (and break into it at the concert) but nobody ever has the same days off of work so that was out. when i was going to the john legend concert i had this same excited energy and that's why i originally started the lyrical posters. i though i could do one for robyn but she's a little crazier than those. she's more colorful and less serious. i think this poster fits her pretty well.

Graduation

i just placed an order for my niece's graduation announcements. the family couldn't decide on which pictures they liked for the back so i did two versions. i tried to keep it very simple and straight-forward, focusing on the pictures to tell the story. luckily justice decided her theme for graduation was colors. all colors. that tied in extremely well with the photos i took of her while she was in sf visiting. so one of those graffiti shots ended up on the front with 4 others gracing the back. i really like the picture of her with the sunglasses - it's young and fun. and since we were unable to use that for her senior pictures i was happy to be able to include it here. on the front i used the typeface whoopass for her name while the rest (including all on the back) is set in metromix.

catering

here is the website i made for myself. for my catering... uh... business? i don't know that i'd call it a business. i'm not sure what else to call it though. so it's pretty much 2 pages. the landing page has all the details and contact info and a link to the second page, which is the different outfits i can wear. that page is fun because you can click on the color options on the right and the outfit on the left changes to match. fun. also i used the illustration of casey for the outfits page. made her a little heavier and blonde - and there i am ;)

casey klein

from the starz series party down. someone at my part-time catering job suggested i watch this show (since it's about a catering company). it's pretty funny! all the characters are so weird and quirky and lovable.

so i've been thinking about doing an independent contractor thing with catering / serving. i like the jobs at people's houses and i've decided i don't really need a middleman to get those jobs for me. and i definitely don't need them to take over half the profits! i decided i'll try to make a website and see what comes from that. on the website i'm planning on having a page that lists the types of outfits i can wear. what better way to show these off than with one of my illustrations. i plan on using this illustration and adjusting it to look a little more like me. and voila - outfit page done.

"just give me all the bacon and eggs you have...

I was inspired by this trader
joe's "recommendation"

wait wait, i worry what you just heard was 'give me a lot of bacon and eggs.' what i said was 'give me all the bacon and eggs you have.' " ron swanson is the best. parks and rec is a great show - but more than the plot or storyline, the best part is the characters. ron. leslie. tom. april. jerry. all wonderful, amusing characters. 

"What's a not gay way to ask him to go camping with me?"

the doctor

i've been streaming a lot of netflix stuff lately - i'm canceling that portion of my membership soon because the price is more than doubling. boo. anyway i'm trying to get through my queue and doctor who is a tv show i've been halfway interested in for a while and am just now getting around to watching.

i haven't watched any of the older versions, just the one starting in 2005 (i think). i'm currently in season 3, which is the doctor shown here. i actually liked the first (9th) incantation better - the actor wasn't very good looking but he was extremely charming. and i loved the smile that would just take over his whole face!

with this illustration i debated including rose tyler. i really like her (and her actress). but i left her out for one main reason: it's a quarter after 11, i'm tired and have to work tomorrow ;)

nachoooooooooooooo

jack black's character brother ignacio and his alter-ego nacho the luchador, from nacho libre.

Hug hug, keess keess, hug hug, big keess, leettle hug, keess keess, leettle keess.

"you lie down with the devil...

[long pause as glasses are either put on or taken off] ...you wake up in hell." horatio caine from csi: miami is an amusingly predictable character with some great one-liners. "so an accident... [sunglasses] ...is not an accident at all" YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH

i'm in a glass case of emotion

the members of the channel 4 news team have very nice suits. they deserve to be remembered in vector for that fact. brian fantana, ron burgundy, champ kind and brick tamland from anchorman.

bigger than my body

i love this photo of john mayer. i've had it saved on my computer for a while not knowing what i wanted to do with it. illustrating it was fun. all the detail in his tattoo(s) was intense but it was good practice with the wacom tablet that i got recently.

why so serious

this guy was hard. it's amazing how much his face has to do with the character. i had to decide how much to include without adding too much and making it super different from the rest of the pieces in this series / experiment. anyway this is heath ledger's joker from the dark knight.

in the neighborhood

mr rogers is awesome. there's not much else to say about this amazing guy, besides trying to find some dvd's of the show that i can re-watch...

scuba squad

"you mean i can be in the schkooba schkwad?" julian / frankenstein from big daddy is so freaking adorable. this is scuba steve. well, it's actually scuba sam, scuba steve's father. okay technically it's adam sandler as the character sonny, dressed up as scuba sam, scuba steve's father.

smoochy

i've run out of types of suits. there's no plan from here. i watched death to smoochy last night and i couldn't get over rainbow randolph's fantastic sparkly suit so i decided that he would be my next v.i.p.

united words of america

an illustration i thought would be fun and challenging. the fonts don't really have anything to do with the state that they represent. i was going to attempt to match them up, but i realized that there are too many states that i don't know enough about to personify with a font. so i decided to just go with interesting and varied fonts. some states were really easy (colorado, new mexico, the dakotas), some were more difficult (michigan, hawaii, alaska, pretty much all of new england) and some ended up fitting better than i had anticipated (west virginia, mississippi, florida).

baywatch

stephanie, mitch and cj from baywatch. do you get it? swimsuits!

also please take a moment to look at the full size picture. i worked hard on that chest hair and i wouldn't want you to miss it!

playhouse

a classic suit wearer! pee-wee is making his comeback and for this i honor him in vector.

dumber

are tuxes suits? for my purposes today they are. harry and lloyd from dumb and dumber.

i'm with coco

i've been trying to think of more types of suits. or just people who wear suits. i watch conan's show and he is always in a suit so he became my next illustrated person.

threadless/ops design #2

i submitted another tshirt design to the threadless / ops design challenge. this one plays more with the "1/2 of all animals will disappear by the end of this century" idea. the planet is half empty. sad!