Valentine’s Q & A

Readers! I need your help!  Which of the following Valentines is better/makes more sense/is funnier/will sell more at the fund-raising sale?  Cast your vote in the comments: A or B?

A:

I’m Letter A!

OR….

B:

I’m B!

You can also add comments such as “I like the brighter pink but want the yellow bingo daubs on their faces, while keeping the font of B, but the word placement of A!”

Thanks for your help!

Valentimes!

It’s that time again!  As a part of the OCAD Illustration thesis class, I am contributing a few Valentines to our grad fund-raising sale.  Here’s an early version of one of my designs. It now says “You make Lovin’ fun” because a friend thought the tagline below was from a McDonald’s ad (rather than from a hilarious song).

Sample Version

Click the link for more info on the Fundraiser and a sweet poster from friend and fellow OCAD comrad Jessie Durham: http://torontocraftalert.ca/2010/02/06/crafty-happening-lookin-for-love-valentine-fundraiser-february-12/

Happy V-day (soon)!

Thesis Work In Progress

I am submitting the following pieces to some upcoming contests.  They are my current favorites from my thesis work, in which I am having people describe a significant photograph from their past, and I try to recreate it based only on the description.

CD cover

I made this for my gentleman caller when we started dating. Aw! It’s a mix cd (barf!) hopefully improved by it’s illustrated cover! At the time we were long distance, hence the significance of the telephone.  I can’t read it on my file, but there is no doubt, an embarrassing play list in this too. Sigh.

Just the scanned ink drawing, prior to being coloured.

Coloured and with the lovey-dovey playlist! Blech! Gross!

Curbside Cycle

My day job at Curbside Cycle is keeping me busy with some graphic design work, which is a delight. Here’s a sale poster I made for a current bike sale.

See it in action on their website: http://www.curbside.on.ca/blog/

I love doing this kind of thing, so thanks to the Curbside crew for the work!  I also did the current window display so if you are in the Annex, check it out.

Lindsay’s career upswing; Alana’s haircut

My oft-illustrated writer friend Alana asked me to make something to go with an article she wrote about her ill-fated Spanish haircut.  Here’s what I made: I am not above some mild celebrity-watching, and made this little drawing in class, that consistently makes me laugh (I am also not above amusing myself, apparently).

I would LOVE to do a regular snarky little sketch like this for some magazine or website.  Hey art-buyers and art-directors, what do you say?

Sketchbook Reprise

Hello 2010!  Here are some excerpts from yet another sketchbook.  The first is Steven Colbert and Amy Sedaris from Strangers with Candy. The second is just some random heads, some of people I know, some invented.

Collage Complete!

If you follow this regularly, you may remember my summer collage party. Here’s the major collage I did, digitally, then the painting I did of the digital collage, first in process and then finished. Woo!

City Life

Last year I did a few sketches of people I know who are living largely alone in the city.I still would like to do a series of something like that. Here’s two of them:

Watercolour-style Gouache

Here’s a recent image that I am working on for my  final project. It’s not a stand-alone, but part of a larger composition (one that I am not working on now lest in hinder my preparations for Terror Bingo. That’s priorities!).

Heartwarming!