Graffiti painting

Graffiti painting I did for someone named Annalise.
Spraypaint, paint markers and acrylic on canvas.

Merry Christmas

Yinztown graffiti

Random Illustration of the day: Girl and Robot

Random Illustration of the day: The Seamonster and the Bird

Welcome to Yinztown

yinz.

"Our Families" JA poster

Another big poster I illustrated for Junior Achievement earlier this year. Adobe Illustrator

"Our Communities" JA poster

Big poster I did for Junior Achievement earlier this year.

Ally Angel

Chimp suit

A chimp in a suit. Adobe Illustrator.

A find

Another illustration I found while digging around in my house.
I did this one just for fun a few years ago. I was experimenting with different techniques. This is colored inks, markers, gouache, and colored pencil on bristol.

Illustration process part 3

Here is another example of the aforementioned technique. (see previous post)



sketch.



line drawing.



final.

(I copied the crowd on another layer, flipped the layer, and changed colors to make it look like a larger crowd.)

manga style illustration

I was digging through my old illustrations, and I came across this piece. I did a set of these manga style illustrations a few years ago for a Christian publisher. Unfortunately, this never saw the light of day, because of some kind of budget problem. I got paid, but the publication went under I think.

I kinda like this one.

Done with Adobe Illustrator

Illustration process part 2

Here is another 'anatomy of an illustration' piece.
I have a few different techniques that I use.
Here's one. This piece was done for LifeWay Christian Resources a while back. It was for a children's Sunday School curriculum I believe.



First, I did a sketch to present to the client.



After approval, I took the drawing into photoshop and adjusted the hue, saturation, and lightness (image/adjustments/Hue-Saturation) until I had a light blue looking sketch. Then I printed it.



I drew over top of the blue lines with a brush pen and fine-tipped fancy shmancy art marker. I buy the heavier, brighter stock paper, so that I can do this technique without the ink bleeding. Then, I scanned the black line drawing back into photoshop and further adjusted any little dots or mistakes I may have made in the drawing step. (in the case of this illustration, I didn't have any errors, as far as I can tell)



Then I exported the black line drawing to Illustrator, did a 'live trace' to convert the line drawing to vector, and then colored it, and added shadow shapes etc.

There. Finished.

Anatomy of an Illustration

Here is a time lapse of my creative process when creating an illustration.
This piece was commissioned by Plugged in magazine. Music by the Odd Numbers.




Basically, I did a sketch, and I imported the sketch into Illustrator. Then on a separate layer, I constructed the content mostly with the pen tool, brush tools and my Wacom tablet.
Then I imported the vector piece into Photoshop, and added layers of detail, shadows, highlights and textures.

New Threadless design ... Flying Fat Cat

New Threadless design ... Chasing Birds

New Threadless submission - Fun!

(I think I might have missed the mark when I added the word "FUN". I think it would have a better chance with just the characters.)

New Threadless design ... You are a Rock Star

Time lapse of the Learning Lamp Mural

I painted this in March 2009 for the Learning Lamp's Children's Book festival held at the ArtWorks in Johnstown PA.

Time lapse of the ACRP mural in Johnstown PA

here's a time lapse of a mural I painted in June 2009.

Berkey Excavating Inc. Mural

a time lapse video of a mural I painted for Berkey Excavating Inc. in Boswell PA.

painting

I did this painting for a local silent auction.

word.

art show in LA part 2

I had forgotten that I"m not very good at these sorts of things. There were about 500 people there. The evening was sort of difficult because I am not skilled at socializing- but, Oh well. My art was shown. That's the point.

art show in LA

this is me at the Royal T placing my painting (which wasn't completely finished by this point) Tonight is the art show- I'll be posting more afterwards.

Graffiti Mural for ACRP

BEFORE


AFTER

cafepress tshirts

here are 2 random tshirt designs.

visit my cafepress shops here:

Yinztown 1

Yinztown 2

"In the Music" Dance recital illustration

I have been illustrating the program cover/t-shirt design for Concepts Dance Studio for the last few years. Here is this year's program, "In the Music" (my 6 yr. old daughter will be in it)

Happy Mothers Day

video I animated for my wife for Mother's Day.

graffiti piece

another graffiti piece.

random

some quickies

Ode to ice cream


Smiling at the future


Bird Jam


Blue Like Cat


Birdy Note


Ghosts