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!

track suit

continuing with the "suit up" theme comes sue sylvester from the tv show glee. jane lynch is a great actor and amazing comedienne. if i didn't already love musicals and cheesy teen shows i would still watch this show just for her.

the way of the dinosaur

i submitted some artwork for a threadless and ops (oceanic preservation society) challenge today. the challenge is in anticipation of ops's new documentary the singing planet. the theme is listening to the planet. "scientists predict that we may lose half of all species on earth by the end of this century."

my design has to do with the extinction of the polar bears. they're one of the first animals to feel the pressure of global warming and are definitely in danger. the dinosaur is sort of escorting the polar bear off into the sunset, perhaps never to be seen again.

UPDATE: the voting just ended on this challenge. this design was number 6 (/134)

third birthday

i made this cake for my car's third birthday. last year i threw a huge party, but this year i wanted to keep things more subdued (also i only have 3 friends in this city). i'm happy with the way it turned out. plus it tasted great!

suit up

this is the first in a series to come. i think i'm going to call it v.i.p., vectorized iconic people. barney stinson from how i met your mother has some very iconic catch phrases, "suit up" is one of them, and the inspiration for this illustration.

illustrated for fun and to keep my skills sharp. made with adobe illustrator cs5.

chinese new year

i went to the chinese new year parade today with my friend jack. it was raining at first but stopped in time to enjoy most of the parade without umbrellas.

happy valentine's day

i handed out these valentine's today. i've never cared much for v-day but at work they make a sort of big deal out of it, so i tried to be intentional about making cool cards to handout. i got these postcards printed with moo. they turned out really well! i mailed some to friends and family. king's has a drop box that you can put valentine's and they'll mail them from loveland. yup dorky ;)

dolls

this is pretty random but i came across these awesome repainted dolls today. all of these were done by noeling - view his deviant art page or website!

this is the most recent works i think. anne hathaway and meryl streep from the devil wears prada. they're currently on ebay for $660-$750!

he had quite a few twilight dolls. apparently the kind of people who like sparkly vampires, are also the kind who like dolls.

the pirates of the caribbean dolls were amazing, I had to snag a few of those! shown here are johnny depp's captain jack sparrow, naomie harris's tia dalma and orlando bloom's william turner.

portfolio redesign

i've just finished updating my website / portfolio. it had originally been made in flash, as a school requirement. i disliked it for a long time but hadn't had time or energy to put into changing it. after finishing the website for my sister, i decided i was capable of taking on the challenge of my own website. i like the way it turned out. i wanted something simple (opposite of my old flashy, complicated site) that would let the artwork shine and speak for itself. i ended up making the original a bit too large (a result of disliking how small my old version was), and ended up creating a second smaller version of the whole thing. i figured out how to detect screen sizes so that hopefully the optimal version shows up.