Thursday, July 23, 2009

sketch-a-day #3: me vs. fruit


me vs. fruit, originally uploaded by mhipley.

Vegetables are not as much of a problem.

CONYEEZY INDUSTRIES

I finally finished the pokémon-inspired design I promised to my favorite nerdcore couple over at Conyeezy Industries. Here is a version where I played with the color a little to make it pop a bit more:

They are a rad couple making nerdtastic music (and with a little nerd baby on the way!) so check them out.

sketch-a-day #2



Okay, it's still the same month, so that counts right? I did this last night and already have today's planned, so hopefully I can have a 2-day record at least.

I am kind of frustrated with the layout of this blog, but I want to commit to posting in it more before I start messing with the settings.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

sketch-a-day #1

I've had this nice little moleskin for months and have barely used it, so I decided that I have to do at least one page a day every day from now on. Right now I am pretty motivated and tempted to draw more, but I want to save some of that commitment for tomorrow.

thanks to modern medicine

Here are some new and oldish things:




I kinda of want to add some color to the second, but I am not sure how. I drew it with marker on Bristol paper, so I could always go back and add a little watercolor, but I was also thinking of adding some color in Illustrator and giving it a screen printed effect kind of like Carlos' poster for Wavves:


I might be doing a new poster project soon. Need to make some calls and work out the details though.