MILK

Found this through Juxtapos' FB page. I really like the stuff. It's definitely digital, but I can't tell if it is AI or PS. Maybe both?

Great images.

Rainy Afternoons At The Library and Saturday Morning On The Internet

Found this great site built of a bunch of little sites that are dedicated to Gilded Age cartoonists. My favorite of which is Henrich Kley, whose beautiful drawings I discovered while at the library one rainy Saturday afternoon with my mom. I remember just being completely abosorbed by his drawings. The little vignette drawings were amazing little trips into imagination where so much could happen. The more I looked at his stuff over time I admired his fearlessness with a pen and his subtle ability to subtly slap around society.

Of course naked ladies help, too.

Rhino Poaching Illustration

Grad. illustration project based upon this article. Digital. All pieces hand drawn, scanned, modified, tweaked, ruined in Illustrator.

Typography Posters to Keep You Alive

In design class my students are creating posters comprised of only type, inspired by a poster my friend Frank sent me. The kids had to take it a step farther and apply a theme to how they layout their type, then create an interesting and readable poster. My example is inspired by my recently favorite movie. I watched when I needed exactly what kind of movie it was. I'll post some of the students work when they get done.

I'm getting their bomb posters ready, too.

Bomb The World

In my design class we are learning the art of poster design and creation. Each student had to start with the image of a bomber squadron and then create a symbol that the planes could be "dropping". Kind of: "If you could give people something, spread a word of some, what would it be?" I, of course, made an example. The kids came up with some pretty cool stuff, which I'll post later.

I think I'm going to turn it into a t-shirt design.

My Burger Is Seeping

Finished Illustration for class. Pen and Ink and Digital. I have been fighting myself lately on whether to render the heck out of something or lay off a little. I like to put little details and shading hints in drawings, but I like the stripped-down design of mid-century modern stuff so much I want to try to balance the two. This is sort of that kind of attempt. Looking at Dave Stewart's comic coloring alot.

Clouded Ideas

Class example for illustrated potrait. Pen and ink drawing, photoshop colored in about half an hour.

Illustration Class Sketches

Graduate Illustration Class: take an overheard conversation and illustrate it.

Conversation #2 – My Burger Is Seeping

This conversation also took place at school, on a different day in a different class. This took place in my cartooning class as the students were working on a cartoon illustration for a T-shirt design. A girl student is drawing a cartoon happy meal that has ben turned into zombies.

Girl: “Mr. Mac does this look right? I don’t know…”

Me: “Well, how do you want it to look?”

Girl: “I want it to look like a zombie, but I want it to look right.”

Me: “Well, the thing about zombies is they’re dead. It doesn’t really matter how they look as long as it looks cool.”

Girl: “So make it my way?”

Me: “Make it your way.”

Girl draws more.

Girl: “Hey, look!” Shows it to other kids. “My burger is seeping.”

Conversation #3 – Coffee Light Bulbs

A young lady at Starbucks is mopping the floor with determination at the starbucks. She cleans counters and straightens items quickly. A Young man watches her while doing some other cleaning himself.

Young Man: “Alright! We got power mopper!”

Young Lady: “I just feel so bad because this place was looking so fresh!”

She serves a drink, puts mop away. “Okay. I’m going to go see if I can figure out how to look at that light bulb.”

Conversation #1 – You Should Make a Chupacabra

The conversation was overheard in my art class at the school I teach from a a group of 5 girls working on a wire essence sculpture of an animal.

Girl 1: “What are you making?”

Girl 2 (Not the one sculpting): “It’s a meerkat.”

Girl 3 (Still not the one sculpting): “It looks like a Chupacabra!”

Girl 4 (The one sculpting): “Yeah! Heh-heh!”

Girl 5: “You should make one!”

Girl 1: “You should totally make a Chupacabra!”

Girl 4: (The one sculpting): “Oh, yeah! That’d be cool!”

Girl 3: “Yeah!”

Girl 4: (The one sculpting) “Heh! I should totally make a Chupacabra!”

Girl 3: “Wait, do you even know what that is?”

Minimalist Star Wars Posters

Re-posted from the Drawn! blog. OOF! This is great stuff!

Who Is RocketBoy?

A character and his adventures in an ABC book for my grad project. He'll be posting his adventures regularly on his FB page.

It'll be fun for the whole family!