I don't really do very good artwork but I like doing it!
When I first started working with Illustrator I made up fake baseball teams so I could learn how the program worked. They're bad but they taught me what I needed to learn.
I did a bunch more but they're even worse so I'll just go ahead and keep them to myself.
One time I had to throw this together for the header on my "invoices". That's business code for "money request" I think it's latin.
I hate that work up there so bad. I always wanna gunk up lettering so it's not too crisp. I don't like clean letters 'cuz they don't feel lived in.
I wanted to make buttons that meant nothing but this was the only one I could think of and then I got scared a pro-life group would think it was fresh and then I would be on the news. I only want to be on the news for climbing the oldest tree in town or winning 30 games of chess simultaneously not for styling nimrods.
I think this guy is pretty much perfecto.
This is a frame from Big Dumb Animal where I used colours from the background for fill and stroke. It's very simple.
It looks better when the scene is moving. Those flowers at the top fall down and wipe frame.
Here's the logo for my production company. The lettering is super gunked up. Those are prehistoric men. Y'know, mediocre minds. That name is based on this time I quit a restaurant job because my boss was abusing staff and my other boss posted an Einstein quote to the restaurant instagram the next day: "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." I thought that was so funny.
I use that double-face imagery a lot. It's based on Janus, the god of doors and gates.
I do not know what I was thinking for those letters. It's like a gunslinger font and the period is actually a bullet hole. I'm sure it had some significance at the time. Font choice is really its own artform that I'm not remotely versed in. I didn't even kern the letters here. Just a total mess. Nobody tell my mom I'm responsible for this.
Another way to learn Illustrator is to trace other people's work. I did that with the buildings here. Possibly to a litigious degree, so don't snitch!
This frame is from Big Dumb Animal.
I made these for my parents' business but they didn't want them :(
This is some str8 up vegan holiday nourishment and if you don't think this is art then meet me behind the middle school at 3:30 for an ass whooping.
Some more gunked up lettering. Maybe I shoulda called this page MAGNIFICENT GUNKED UP LETTERING.
Making posters for movies is hard. I don't know how to do it. This one obviously has way too many fonts. But I did get to use a colourization technique that I love and have to discourage myself from constantly using. (I just turned Tony black and white and then coloured over the different portions of him. I did it sloppy to accentuate the effect. You can see the sloppiness in his eyes and shirt mostly.)
I use the technique here. I love it because it looks so uncanny. I saw some movie when I was a kid with Ernest Borgnine that had been colourized and I've been obsessed with the effect ever since.
These are some poster ideas for Big Dumb Animal that aren't quite good yet and I can't tell why. Story of my life.
Here's Bullseye Butterfly. I'm getting a bit better.
Here's a background character in an animated short I wanted to make. Turns out making animations is very time consuming? Thought it was just 50 drawings and wacky voices?
Here's what I did by hand. I must have colourized it in Photoshop. The file name is "Zazie" so I think it's based on Catherine Demongeot in Zazie dans le Métro.
This file is called "Moon" so I think it's based on Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon. This character sucks. No possible way she would have survived in this state. She has teeth like Richard Ramirez.
Here I put them in a scene from Do The Right Thing. I would have likely recreated that scene with pencil crayons. I'm obviously not a good enough artist to not steal. But stealing is tite so it's cool.
And here I put them in a scene with different backgrounds and a couple of walk cycles that I would have used as kinematic guides for my characters. The music is permanent. I always have music lying around and I sometimes have scenes laid out already with nothing but music. 'Cuz I'm a musician yo.
Collage is the only good art form. "Collage" is actually french for "the only good art form". Look it up if u don't believe me.
Here's a frame from Big Dumb Animal. I'm trying to ape a GQ cover story. The people who do layouts for those are geniuses. But that's some real sell out work, baby. Better to be mediocre at it, I think. So here we are. Success.
I got this printed on a cake. The woman with the printing machine answered the door in a bathrobe.
Here it is. Pretty good cake.
This is my upholstery business. I used old union imagery as inspirado but with modern colours. I think this would make a good patch. I didn't gunk up the lettering so maybe I'm maturing jk I will never mature.
Here's some 3D lettering. I hate doing this work with the intensity of a thousand suns.
This is an early icon I made for Morning Guts.
Eventually I wanted to make a logo that wasn't referential (d'oh) and that had a repeatable motif for artwork/icons later.
I thought the stomach could be repeated. Here are some variations. I have like ten zillion of these. I don't know what I'll do with them.
UPDATE: prolly something like this.
UPDATE 2: these are useful on instagram.
In 2013 or so, Amazon was starting its streaming service and wanted original content so they were accepting tv and film scripts. I had a pilot/bible for a tv series I was writing and so I submitted. I waited to the last second to submit then realized I needed a thumbnail image so I made this real quick. It's obviously not very good for a number of reasons, but the effect of printing 3D elements onto 2D characters always stuck with me..
I made this when I was 5. Actually Madame Alho probably cut the picture for me because I wasn't allowed scissors. But the purple paint? That's all me.
