it's sticky

After doing several comic strips for METRO's Stick with Bus campaign, I have a lot of emotional faces for him. Here's a matrix of them.

Today, I did another ad for First Night Akron and a flyer for my children's school.
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what's in the box?

Two years ago I did a Santa Shop illustration for my kid's school newsletter. Pictured first is the original rendering.

The idea is the cute animal students are in line buying the presents. The rabbit bought a teddy bear and is hugging it and winking at the cute boy bear behind her. The boy bear is distracted by her and doesn't notice his Jack-in-the-box popped open scaring the kids behind him.

I show my wife the finished drawing and she says - Uh... Is that his penis? A la Mickey Rourke's popcorn box in the movie Diner.

Here's a detail of the alleged inpropriety. Two years later my wife still sees it.

I did change it. I think it looks better anyway.

get into the wayback machine

This is from waaaayback in 1998. Of course, it was a lot of fun to make. I did the marquee and facade of the Highland Theater from memory. It's pretty close, the tower is actually a little wider than the marquee.

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out of the past

A job I did this past summer, creating vector art for a marketing firm for Alcoa Tire. Here is the image made in Adobe Illustrator and the wireframe of the same image.


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2012 is coming

I finished up last changes for the First Night Akron postcard and did the first draft for the First Night Akron poster. Again, I'm not sure if the button has been unveiled, so I can't show any of this work yet.

Here is work I did for Downtown Akron Partnership a month or more ago, the Discover Downtown Akron Passport. First is the final product. Next is the first proof, they wanted the word PASSPORT smaller and their logo bigger.



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more young inventors

I worked on a First Night Akron promo postcard today. I don't think the new First Night button has been unveiled so I can't show the postcard yet.
Here is some more art from the Young Inventors Hall of Fame comic.






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young inventors hall of fame comic

I 'm happy with much of what I did for this year's comic. I did pencil sketches, scanned them, then finished in Illustrator. Here are some samples with a screen shot of the process.

my modeling career

Occasionally, when there isn't a photo reference available I need to create one, and even be one. Here's a demonstration of the manly arts of cardboard flattening for the Downtown Akron Partnership's recycling program. And, pizza cutting for the Portion Paddle.

all the young inventors

Along with 2 Downtown Akron Partnership ads, I completed the comic for the 2010 Young Inventors Hall of Fame comic book. I drew this year's on the computer, my mouse finger really hurts now and it's spasming. I need some ibuprofen. I started out drawing, but thought it'd be quicker and easier to make corrections if I drew them in Adobe Illustrator. Below are examples and one of the hand-drawn sketches.

t-shirts for kindergarten field trips

For the past few days I've been updating some software and searching for lost fonts and other problems that pop up when getting a new computer.

Today, I did some designs for t-shirts for my daughter's class field trips. Shown are a couple illustrations for them.

I'm back

I wasn't gone, just working a lot! The Young Inventors comic book/info/program/thingy is at the printers. Below are some of the portraits for it. That job and the firstnightakron.org redesign took up all my time. The website still isn't live yet though.

Back to the regular quick jobs, I did a First Night Akron ad to go in the Akron Beacon Journal today.

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young inventors comic book

I finished up the 2nd revisions for the First Night Akron's website design. I began work on the National Museum of Education's Young Inventors comic book. This is a program for the annual Young Inventors Induction ceremony, each inventor gets a comic book style profile in it.
No pumpkin carving party this year, but here's last years invite, done in my comic book style.

at the dentist again

I did work on METRO's Traffic Jam give-away calendar and exterior building signs.
This is an illustration for the Downtown Akron Partnership's towpath brochure from last year.
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