So I am back on the threadless kick. Nothing like busting out some apparel design to keep the creative juices flowing. I had fun doing this one. I wanted to do something outdoorsy. With the weather getting nicer (or at least trying to in Ohio) I have outdoors on the brain.
I had some fun with a medium I haven’t worked with in a long time with this design. Watercolor! I actually used water color pencils which I haven’t used many time total. It is quite fun! Water color, colored pencil, ink and then good oldphotoshop was the total involvement in the creation of this one. It is pending approval at this point but check back to vote and see how it does! I have a few others brewing in the creative pot and hope to have some extra time to get them finished and submitted soon.
Remember the good old days of elementary school art class. Around each holiday you had the pleasure of drawing pictures of holiday themed.. things. I remember drawing pictures of leprechaun in art class around St. Patties day. I also remember the consequences of not wearing green but that is another story. Anyway, leprechaun were always depicted as these happy go lucky little guys with no care in the world other than finding four leaf clovers, rainbows, and pots of gold. I quickly thought to myself, what if there was an unlucky leprechaun? is it possible? Sure!
This leprechaun didnt forget to wear his green but he is sore out of luck. I had never seen an unlucky leprechaun (um.. or any for that matter but roll with me here) so I decided to create one. One of the many thrills of illustration.
He stepped on his four leaf clover, is loosing his lucky pot o gold, and here comes the rain. Dang!
Happy St. Patricks Day! I was honored to just find out that this illustration I did and contributed to I stock’s collection, was chosen as “Vector of the week”. Thanks i stock!
http://www.istockphoto.com/illustration.php
A few months ago I received an email with a request to join a creative network called PNW (Premium Network Worldwide). PNW is an invitation only community that Selects, Integrates and Showcase global creative talent to art directors, commissioners, publishers and employers worldwide. They are fairly new but seem to be growing. I was thrilled to be asked to join as the site seems to have a lot going for it.
In January I was selected as Artist of the month and interviewed which was also a thrill. (Interview)
I can also be found on most of your most popular creative networks as well. Some include: Coroflot, Deviant Art, Behance, LinkedIn and then of course PNW. If you are an artist, writer, or illustrator and designer like myself, I encourage you to check out PNW. You can go to their site and request an invite. It Never hurts to keep working at getting your name out there, I know that has been one of my marketing motos. You never know who could run across you at the right time. Of course that is what Networking is all about.
For any graphic designer who has a little extra time and inspiration, Threadless is a great thing to be discovered. For the past couple months in my spare time I have had a lot of fun designing some shirts for Threadless. Basically its a contest. You design a shirt, load it on Threadless, people vote, and hopefully you score well and the lovely folks at Threadless choose to print your shirt. If that isn’t exciting enough in itself you also get paid $2000. Nice chunk of cash and sometimes there are other tasty prizes. This submission Surreal Souvenir is a shirt I designed for a Threadless contest called “Threadless Loves Travel”. These contests give you a theme to design for and extra incentives most of the time. I have designed a hand full of shirts so far but this one has gotten the best voting. I am excited to see how it does!
Illustration Friday subject of the week is foggy. Not froggy, foggy. A frog goes out for a morning surf as the fog rolls off the surface of the pond. I may have stretched a bit fitting the subject but it work right!?
