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.

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.

up late

I am finally feeling like I am making some progress on some things. Here is a skull in progress for a project involving some grungy skulls:



Drew it, futzed with in in Photoshop, and then traced it in Illustrator. Too late to write much more now.

catching up

I am feeling super inspired of late and want to start doing this more frequently. I just got a package from Carlos that included some arty things. First, there was booklet from the Seattle-Tehran Poster Show that featured his No More Poster Giant protest poster:

I love love love his stuff, and it's so good to see it side by side with some other awesome designs. The Seattle end of the show ran last year from August 29 to September 1.

He also sent me a copy of Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators and Creatives. It looks amazing, and I can't wait to post more about it after I've had a chance to look through it.

I made a quick birthday card for a friend this Saturday and it went over so well I am thinking of doing a set of blank animal cards.

The original is watercolor and marker on Bristol paper, but if I were to do them as sets to sell, I think that might be too time consuming. If I can manage to get a quality medium format printer sometime soon, I could print them that way onto card stock from scans of the original pieces. I am also toying with the idea of screen or lino prints. As for selling, outside of friends and relations, I only want to sell over the internet. I am not a craft fair kind of person. So etsy or big cartel it is.