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I made this “warts and all” illustration of British heavy metal legend, Lemmy Kilmister in order to convince my friends at SXSWorld Magazine that they need to hire me to punctuate their article photos with an occasional drawing or two.
That is all. Rock on.
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Every year I volunteer for the SXSW music, film and interactive conference so that I can participate without having to pay for it. I’m cheap like that. The 10 day festival has nearly 12,000 attendees with venues that span the entirety of downtown Austin, Texas. Aside from the conference staff, several thousand volunteers are needed for the whole operation to run smoothly. Those volunteers all wear identical shirts so that participants can easily identify them.
This year the SXSW staff decided to have a design contest for the volunteer shirt and I took a crack at it.
The contest rules stipulated that only three colors (not including the shirt) could be used and the design must somehow reflect the 25th anniversary of SXSW. After that anything goes.
My design, “VolunDEER In The Headlights” won!
I had a second submission, “SXSW 4 Life” which apparently resonated with the SXSW staff because they have decided to use that design for a SXSW employee shirt.
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I was honored that my design was chosen and I can’t wait to see it forcefully adorned by tons of people on the streets of my hometown.
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I haven’t posted a drawing in a while so I decided to put up this homage to Vargas style pin up art. She is an example of my continuing efforts to use Adobe Illustrator more like a painting tool.
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I made some Punch Design skateboard decks for an art show at my favorite local watering hole, The Parlor. The show invited artists to decorate blank boards and display them. Skate culture is always producing interesting graphics and there where a lot of really cool designs at the show. I was short on time so I recycled existing illustrations, but when I get the opportunity I plan to make some skateboard specific illustrations that use the shape of the deck better.
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I made this rather demonic portrait of everybody’s favorite 80′s icon, Mr. T. It was an experiment to help me with an upcoming poster design that I’ve been asked to do. The project that I will be doing is suppose to be reminiscent of the Russian revolutionary propaganda posters from the 1930′s. I drew Mr. T to help me adapt my drawing style for that job. I used the bold stylistic coloring and the angular geometric forms that were often employed by Russian poster artists of that time. I like the end result and if I get time I think I will try to develop this style of illustration a bit more.
It’s important to me as an illustrator that I take jobs that challenge me conceptually. I was recently asked to illustrate a pair of lips fashioned out of coal with an electrical cord jutting out of the mouth that alluded to the famous Rolling Stones logo and to 70′s rock n’ roll in general. I accepted the job for the reason that I had no idea what that should look like. Illustration is a strange vocation because there is no school degree, or sanctioning body to help distinguish the professionals from the amateurs. I think that accepting and completing jobs where the actual execution strategy is not obvious is an important quality that separates the dabblers from the true commercial artists. Plus it expands your mind, man-oh wait I think mind expansion was the 60′s.
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I recently did an illustration of an avatar for a friend. My goal was to try to visually emulate the look of an airbrushed portrait using Adobe Illustrator. Here are a few pictures showing the stages of the drawing.
My freehand pencil sketch :
A mess of vector lines:
The final image:
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My name is Adrian and I am an illustrator working in Austin, Texas. If you need high quality commercial illustration then email me at adrian@punchdesigns.net.