Was is the key word here. Was just chillin’ on a Sunday. It was still a good day, although I had to work – but I ended the day pretty darn satisfied that I’d learned something new.
Day 09
Posted in The Honest Sketch Project.
– August 17, 2009
Day 08
Just kickin’ it today w/ the kids. Played w/ my daughter for a while w/ her Littlest Pet Shop collection – she loves this stuff. I think they did a really great job on the character design on these little guys. Watched All Dogs go to Heaven w/ my son, AJ. Last weekendof summer for them! : (
Posted in Illustration, The Honest Sketch Project.
– August 15, 2009
Day 07
What a crazy hectic day. You know when you have those days where everything seems to break? Um…Yeah, that was a perfect description of my day. Days like this are painful, but they do keep you humble.
Posted in Illustration, The Honest Sketch Project.
– August 15, 2009
Day 06
My oh my how time flies when you’re having fun. This was a great week and the kids are getting ready to go back to school on Monday. We met Andew’s teacher, and said a quick “hello” to Calie’s new teacher. Can’t wait until Monday to take them to school!
Posted in Illustration, The Honest Sketch Project.
– August 15, 2009
Day 05
Today, you guessed it – we ate all the cookies. Some other things happend within the course of the day, but it went by so fast, I couldn’t tell you what, exactly. I saved some crumbs for you, though.
Posted in Illustration, The Honest Sketch Project.
– August 13, 2009
Day 04
Make these amazing chocolate cookies w/ a buttercream filling with the kids today. It was cute watching them help with the ingredients, especially when they get to crack the eggs – they love that. Overall, a pretty darn productive day. It was overcast, too, which I love.
Posted in Illustration, The Honest Sketch Project.
– August 12, 2009
Day 03
Pretty typical Monday today. Nothing really to write home about. Pretty much a whirlwind of work, phonecalls, tasks and t0-do’s. The highlight of my day was probably eating lunch with the kids. My daugher is a bit intimidated about going back to school because she’s not a big fan of math. She’s like me when I was a kid. Really creative, but not all that academically movitaved. I explained to her that she just needs to practice, practice, practice!
Posted in Illustration, The Honest Sketch Project.
– August 11, 2009
Design Revival in the Form of Illustration
An Unexpected Source of Design Inspiration
Illustration is hot. It’s new, fresh, unique, funky – really – whatever you need it to be. With all of the easy access to stock photography, and the overuse of it, illustration is a great way to differentiate, infuse excitement and add vibrancy to visual communications.
I recently found a really great source of illustration while visiting Sephora (makeup store) with my wife, and was totally inspired by what I found. I literally spent an hour in there just looking at packaging (while my wife shopped!).
The first thing I noticed when walking into Sephora were some cool pinup girl illustrations on some packaging for BUXOM. The BUXOM logotype was embossed and clear foil stamped on a very weighty uncoated stock. The pinup girl illustrations had a really kind of rough feel to them, like the ink bled on the packaging – almost like they were drawn right on the package.
After drooling over the packaging for a minute, I noticed another brand, called Urban Decay. This packaging was just freaking awesome – particularly one makeup case they did with a magenta-ish foil stamp of icons, leaves, and flowery-swirly-thingys flowing out of the barrel of a revolver on a black matte case. Over the top of the foil was a purple velvet pattern. Just gorgeous. They also have a line of really cool smaller makeup cases, each with a themed name and custom illustration/design for each. Very cool indeed.
Posted in Design, Illustration.
– August 11, 2009
Photo Caricature Series
Here’s a set of photographic caricatures I created for my friends/family. Enjoy.
- My daughter, Calie
- My son, Andrew
- My little sister, Mary.
- My friend, Brad
Posted in Photo Illustration Caricatures.
– August 10, 2009
Day 02
Okay, so we didn’t actually end up going roller skating today. We got to the place and they were closing in fifteen minutes. I had a feeling I should have waited until afterwards to do this sketch. Oh well – my intentions were illustrated, at least, right? Haha. We went bowling instead. My wife kicked my butt.
Posted in Illustration, The Honest Sketch Project.
– August 9, 2009
