More MUM

Last two were made rather quickly. Getting the details for posters on Friday, that are due by Sunday = YAY! (Not really! HAHA) 

I like the Bear Cat one though

STOKED

42Unheard Illustration

Hey cool dudes, here’s a thing I did about a month ago, and just now stumbled across the final image. Above is how it looked when it left my hands. See the final dealio below.

I knew they were going to change things, but not that drastically. Still, the cut-out aesthetic works pretty well. I don’t luuuuurve it, but it’s a definitely not what I was expecting, and it’s interesting to see. I like the hanging signs/clouds (too bad that url text block isn’t hung too.. blows the illusion a bit)

I am bummed to see feature elements from my original layout  (the skull and balloons) recycled multiple times though… that’s one of my biggest personal design/illustration peeves that I try to avoid as much as possible, although time’s generally the deciding factor.

As per usual, no doubt saying all of this ( is woefully unprofessional, but for whatever reason (just not ruthless enough?), I don’t mind theoretically crippling my career by being honest. But just so it’s clear, I don’t hate it, and I’m not having a sook. I thought it might be interesting (I know there’s a few upcoming designers who sometimes read this blog) to give an example about how things can sometimes go. This is very very chilled out compared to some other experiences.

and just for kicks, cuz I really liked how it turned out, is my intial sketch for the general concept. this was using speakers in place of mouths with cut off wire tongues (disappointed they wussed out and went with a fully betongued version) but apparently it wasn’t clear enough. I dunno…  Design by committee seems the swiftest way to completely suck the life and personality out of something. I’ll be more careful in future.

BEANS gig poster

This was pretty fun to make. I’d never really tried graffiti style writing before… although it may have turned out more Day of the Tentacle than Wu-Tang Clan, but hey, that’s all good. I’ve been really enjoying drawing, from a probably over-analytical point of view. Just interesting looking at other peoples work or ways of drawing things, then mentally breaking them down and understanding how and why they work, and reinterpreting it as my own. Certainly learn a lot more than just straight up copying styles.  In retrospect I probably should’ve made this a portrait poster rather than landscape. Ah well

MUM – Shocking Pinks

MUM - Traps

Was just playing around with text and textures and what not. I think this turned out pretty nicely… nice depth to it.

MUM – Motocade

MUM – Brand New Math

Aww hell naw, what’s up dog indeed. I pretty much traced a photo for this poster. I kinda hate doing that, but whatever, it works, and it doesn’t look particularly traced, so I probably should’ve just kept my mouth shut and let you all think I’d suddenly mastered anatomy and perspective and drawing dogs.

MEGAUPDATE(KINDOF)

So, for whatever reason, I was super productive this weekend and got 3 posters started and finished. It was a good time. And they’re all totally different. I still struggle with that, as an artist… it seems like if you want to really get ahead you have to continually re-re-re-re-re-re-do the same thing, with minor variations.  Which makes sense I suppose. I dunno, I guess I haven’t found that thing I want to do repeatedly yet.  In the mean time, playing around and trying out whatever takes my fancy seems to be working out pretty well.

On with the show.

Handsome Furs

CHEER!

MUM – Coco Solid

I’m pretty stoked on that Coco Solid illustration. Tittays! That’s a first for my work I think… I don’t recall drawing boobs on anything else. Exciting stuff.

In other news, I found out I made the finalists for AS Colours ‘Little Help Project’ T-shirt Label contest. Grand prize winners are announced in a week or so. Fingers crossed. Check the link for more info about the whole dealio.

I’ve never entered any sort of design contests before, so it was awesome to be a finalist the first time I throw my hat in the ring. I’m thinking of submitting a portfolio for the Young Guns awards too.. although they’re kind of expensive to register with… but looking at past winners, couldn’t hurt to try…

Tough Choice #435

I'm considering turning off anonymous commenting. It's maddening not knowing exactly who thinks you're awesome. But on the other hand, would they write these things if they weren't anonymous? Probably not. Dammit.

presenting… My Worst Poster So Far

This was, out of necessity, a little rushed. boo. Figured I may as well post it here just so people can see that yes, I’m only human. No sense hiding these things.

I have dreams that frighten me awake

This poster took a long time to come to life. For whatever reason I struggled with it for a while. I came up with a concept I was happy with and I wrestled with it for a while, but it was time consuming. Then, joy of joys!! My computer had some issues and I lost a whole partition. The one that had all the files for that particular poster. Along with a bunch of other in progress projects. YAY! Anyway, it’s been about 8 years since I’ve had anything like that happen, so I freaked out for 5 minutes then shrugged my shoulders and let it go. Such is life.

Anyway, here’s the completed poster. It was done in one 10 hour or so sitting and I’m really pleased with it. There’s no major conceptual gimmick to this one, I was just shooting for something moody and spacey, which is what I get from listening to the band. Also, lose the show info and you’d have yourself a pretty sweet band t-shirt. Maybe I should run it by Bradford and co. 

MUM – May 1 – BangBangEche

Another quickie for MUM/Cassette #9. The font is a new one from Sparkytype/Very Good Fonts. I use David Bucks fonts all the time. A lot of them fit my vague aesthetic really well, and on the good for me/not as good for him side, they’re not ones you see around repeatedly.

Go check out his site though. He was telling me his sales of Chicken have increased a lot recently when some blogs incorrectly posted that it was the Twitter logo font.

People really are super super gay for twitter. I don’t get it. I mean, I have an account, but what the hell?  I don’t understand why it’s SO exciting. Still, it’s like oh my god soooooo awesome that Ashton Kutcher’s the king of it all though. He Punk’d us all.

Vic Chesnutt + Victoria Williams Australia/New Zealand Tours

MUM – Brain Slaves

I’m not sure if this one totally worked as the reference might be a tad too obscure… anyway, that face is the robot body Krang used on Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles… hence… Brain Slave.. get it? cuz Krang was a brain sort of… HA HA yay. good work.

more MUM posters

Please excuse the lack of updates lately. There’ll be a couple of new things this week though. Easter has been exhausting! but fun fun fun. but EXHAUSTING. ZZZ

Matt and Kim

Here's a new one. Did this in one (pretty long) sitting. I'm digging it though. I worked a little looser and tried not to get too pedantic about things and I think it worked. I suuuck at drawing hands though.  Below is the original thumbnail sketch for it. As you can see it didn't change too dramatically.