Sooo here is a little adventure through my .ai adventure. First, I chose this awesome sweet image of a caterpillar from google (thank you google). I made sure it was a decent size to be sure I could get some good detail.
This is the point where I began using the gradient mesh. It was an awesome discovery, and one that took some time to really understand. Almost all of the work I did initially had to be deleted and re-worked.
After more than 30 years- I mean, hours- came the final piece of work…enjoy.
Categorized in Art, SCAD and georgia
That’s right folks, I bought a bowtie, and might I add, it is fantastic. I have been on the lookout for a bowtie for quite a while now. The other day I ventured to Little Five Points with a friend, Patrick Manangan. This was my first time experiencing the famed hip locale in Atlanta.
It definitely lived up to its rep. We didn’t have the time to really see all of what it has to offer, but we made a trek into a couple different shops, when finally we made it to this awesome! vintage clothing shop. The bowties were right near the front, though we didn’t notice those until after asking about it. There was so much going on in this place, shirts, jackets, button ups, vests, ties, hats, pants, suspenders, and bowties.
After staring at and touching all of the ties I finally came to a decision with the awesomest one there-it’s red and has little blue and white outlined paisleys all over it. I kind of fell in love instantly. I bought the bowtie then Pat and I went to eat at a little pizza shop a few stores down the road. While we were waiting for food we tried to figure out how to tie the tie. That proved to be futile.
Finally, today, I tied it right! So naturally I took a bunch of pictures to show off how awesome it is…enjoy a few.
Categorized in Art and georgia
Tags: atlanta, sunflowerman, paisley, bow tie, bowtie, little five, little five points, vintage clothing, patrick manangan, awesome looking
Here you see the Buckhead Buck. This is my vision of him at least. Sandy Springs in North Atlanta has turtles, and downtown Atlanta has cows, now Buckhead has Bucks!
All the time I am learning that Atlanta is a thousand times better for networking in illustration than GRap ever was to me. There are obviously many many factors that I have effected in both cities, so the stats are skewed, but Atlanta has been good to me.
I heard about the BBA’s need for painters for a launch of a fundraiser event and I was all too happy to participate. I am not exactly sure from whom my boss heard the information, but Sharon Silva was my main contact for the project. She was very enthusiastic and appreciative of my involvement, and I was enthusiastic and appreciative of the opportunity to get my name ‘out there’ in some way.
The original concept design of the Buck was done by famed MAD magazine illustrator Jack Davis. Several of us artists painted from his template. I decided to paint from an art nouveau perspective-mainly Mucha inspired, actually, very Mucha inspired
Click here to link to an online article about the launch.
Categorized in Art and georgia
Tags: sunflowerman, painting, acrylic, art nouveau, alfonse mucha, mucha, buck, buckhead, BBA, Jack Davis
Here is work that I did back in the good ‘ol Kendall days. This is actually one of my favoritest works that I have ev done. The drawing is done in prisma color pencil with the background of the matte board showing through. The style is different than most all of my other works, and I would love to explore this direction more.
The theme is sort of a self portrait of me as Arthur- from the famed Marc Brown books named Arthur, also the PBS kids show (which I love by the way). This is based off a book cover of a said Marc Brown book.
Categorized in Art
Tags: sunflowerman, prisma color, Arthur, Marc Brown, PBS, self portrait, matte board, kendall, KCAD
There once was a man. There once was a man with a shirt. There once was a man with a green shirt. There once was a man with a green shirt and an idea.
The idea he had was to make a shirt design by hand. He didn’t have the resources to do screen printing. So he used acrylic ink and a contact paper stencil.
Then that amazing shirt got wet and the ink bleed all over the place, but he didn’t care.
He wore that shirt anyway.
Eventually the paparazzi caught wind of its amazingness…
Categorized in Art, Faith and georgia
Tags: Love, Design, meijer, sunflowerman, acrylic ink, ichLOVEthys, shirt, contact paper, christening, Kyle Miller
So I was talking with my friend Evan, the guy for whom I am doing the musketeer shirt design. He was mulling over other shirt ideas, and we were discussing interesting ways of designing more than the image.
That being said, he really inspired me to get down and do my own shirt design.
I stole the image that I worked so hard on in the christening of ichLOVEthys. To say I stole it is to say that it wasn’t really mine in the first place, in full honesty I only took the initial concept and inspiration and ran with it, really really far. Thus, the image is mine to utilize how I will.
Right after work that evening I bought some acrylic ink from Binders and used the remaining balance from my Associate of the Quarter gift card from HomeGoods to buy a few shirts-one from TJMaxx and two from Marshalls.
On the way back to the apartment I stopped at Publix to purchase some amazingly awesome Sweet Leaf Green Tea with Mint & Honey. It’s a must have in any sort of inspirational endeavor.
The remainder of the night, from about 8 in the evening to 1 in the morning- with one stop to eat din with my roomie and view an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show via Hulu- I worked on the composition and application.
And the result is a truly creepy image of my holding the final product!…more or less.
Here the shirt is being modeled by a very attractive man. I realize that it is probably stepping over some boundaries talking about a man like this, but what can I say, when I see an attractive man I can’t hold it back.
Come to find out that I need to find a way to set the ink in the shirt before I wear it. Let me say this without too much laughter… I sweat, I know, crazy right!? anyway, apparently my sweat caused the ink in the arm pit region to bleed into the adjacent shirt area.
I guess that experimenting means that you sometimes make mistakes, even when the overall project turns out great.
Categorized in Art, Faith and georgia
Tags: Design, sunflowerman, homegoods, TJMaxx, shirt design, acrylic ink, Marshalls, Publix, Evan Moon, Binders, Mary Tyler Moore Show, ichLOVEthys, Sweet Leaf Tea, Mint & Honey
