Archive for February, 2011

I ain’t gettin’ on no choppah, Dutch!

Monday, February 21st, 2011

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Mr. T vs The Predator

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Here’s another sample of my perennial attempts to use Adobe Illustrator drag Adobe Illustrator kicking and screaming to make a painterly style of illustration.

It’s not the first time Mr. T or the Predator have made their way into one of my drawings and probably not the last. I fear as I get older my childhood influences grow more profound. Years ago I thought would be funny to make a comic where B.A. Baracus gets separated from his platoon (Hanibal and the gang, I guess) while on patrol in the waining days of the Vietnam War and ends up having to confront a Predator alien while trying to help some refugee kids. Who knows? With the way Hollywood keeps recycling my 80′s child hood for big bucks it will probably end up a major motion picture directed by Micheal Bay and staring a C.G.I. puppet as young Mr. T.

I pity the fool who has to watch that movie.

Anyways, I also posted my preliminary pencil sketch morphing into vector line art so that the nice Russian girl that keeps spamming me can get an idea of how my graphite drawing gets translated into complicated vector art.

Sweep the legs, Pee Wee!

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

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I’ve been getting a fair bit of t-shirt illustration work as of late. As a result I’ve been working on improving my ability to drawing with limited colors that need to be isolated for screen printing.

This illustration was a fun little 4 color job for purple shirt that I did as an homage to the 80′s. I experimented with custom brushes I built in Adobe Illustrator to emulate a stipple effect.

The drawing features 80′s heavyweight icons: Pee Wee Herman, the Karate Kid (The original one – Sorry, Jaden), Cyndi Lauper, Teen Wolf, Arnold, Spudz McKenzie, Ghostbuster Peter Venkman, Alf, Max Headroom, Johnny 5, Lo Pan, the time traveling Delorian and Kitt. I think this brawl actually happened outside the Danceteria in 1986. Google it!