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Huge English Mastiff

Dear blog,

I was leaving work today in SoHo and laying on the ground in front of the building was easily the biggest dog I've ever seen. It's an English Mastiff.

To give you a little more perspective, the guy who's standing with the dog was probably like 5"10

Sole gig poster

Dear blog,

Oh how I miss doing posters for the Bug Jar. Cameron is always happy with what I give him and I've often given him some pretty twisted stuff. I like gig posters because the point is to sell the band, but more importantly to get people's attention and look really cool. There are many many means to justify those ends, blog. This drawing took me about 20 minutes because of the deadline constraints I was under.

Check out SOLE. He's a sweet rapper on the experimental hip-hop label Anticon.

Bubbles preview

Dear blog,

Here's a preview of a vector I'm doing of my adorable dog, Bubbles.

Hector, the talking fish

HEY LADIES! Get your own 'Hector, the talking fish' t-shirt.

He's talkin!

I wonder if I'm the only one who finds this funny...

vector obama

Dear blog,

Here's a sketch of Obama I vectorized for practice. I'll think of something clever to add later.

JMP

Dear blog,

Here is a flyer I did for a client of Bernadot Studios. I did a pretty rad comp with roots coming out of the bottom of the buildings, but my director told me that it looked too arty for the client.

JMP is a building company out in the Midwest that toted as being green and Eco-friendly. Coincidentally, they're also on of my father's competitors. Go figure, right blog?

Noble Desktop

Dear blog,

for years I harbored a dark secret. I was not a pro at Adobe Illustrator. It has haunted me ever since graduation and ruined a few really positive job opportunities for me.

Thanks to Kristin Varner and the good folks at Noble Desktop, that is no longer the case! I strongly recomend this place if youre in the NYC area and need to bone up on your creative suite. They also offer tons of free seminars, 6 of which im signed up for next month with classes ranging from Intro to HTML to Advanced Fashion Retouching. Should be a blast

I just graduated from their 1 month Adobe Certified intensive Illustrator CS3 course and I have a strong working knowledge of the program now, so expect to see a lot of new vectors out of me in the coming months.


Here are some examples of exercises we had including one that I took some liberties with. (I hope I'm allowed to post this stuff)

the dog, now in vector

Dear blog,

I finally vectorized the dog I always draw.

productive day

Here's more. The drawing of the girl next to the windmills comes from listening to Boy's Life and Ranier Maria obsessively for the last week or so. It also kind of makes me miss Chittenango a little bit. We have some killer windmills.