Day Fifty Seven - Sixty Two

Finally, all done catching up... Or so I thought, now OxiClean man Billy Mays dies at the age of 50 as well? What's going on? I can't say I was ever a fan of his "shows", actually, I don't enjoy people on TV yelling at me at all unless its Vince with ShamWOW... Okay, art time.

So here are the last five days of art and yes, its a lot of greatness to take in for one post, I know, but you can do it because I did.

Day Fifty Seven

I've made a few Flash games in the past, most never see the light of day, literally, because they're made in the wonderful creative hours. So the point im trying to get at is that I want to make another flash game and put some more time and effort into making if fun and worth my time and the time of anyone who plays it. So, this is an early character sketch of our hero, Mr. Blankety-Blank (the character's name is not actually 'Mr. Blankety-Blank') and his Many Marvelous Mustaches of Mystical Majesty. Each mustache would give our hero a new outfit and special power. Micron on Big Lots Pad and insomnia.

Kinda looks like Mario huh? Crap.

Day Fifty Eight

I was determined to eat some small rodent smothered in Satan's Breath Jalapeno Hot Sauce this weekend (thanks Mike), and I must say I thought I had it in the bag. But alas, every night, after further perfecting my technique of setting up and baiting the Paiute deadfall, the sneaky little creatures that I later identified as chipmunks and fieldmice, ate all the Easy Cheese, sunflower seeds, Jiffy Pop, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch I set on my two traps. I'll get one next time.

Branches, twigs, a big rock, some string, bait, and my Kershaw Ken Onion Scallion.

Day Fifty Nine

What do you do on a camping trip besides eat ramen for every meal and whittle? Don't beat yourself up, I couldn't come up with anything else either. So that's what I, as well as three other wonderful people, did. Let's see you make that, Kyle/Stephanie/Eric! Stick, scallion.

Day Sixty

Still camping, still whittling, stil ramen-ing. Last night of the wonderful cold hard ground then its back to cell service, computers, and a terribly comfy mattress. Darn. For Nicole becuase you couldn't be there, a stick with your name on it. You honestly didn't think the obsessive type designer would go camping without making a nostalgic slab serif nameplate did you? Stick, scallion.

Day Sixy One

Apparently I'm the only one who didn't know a thai birthday/graduation party lasts 'til four in the morning and consists of a lot of gambling and good food. I got in a very sleepy scribble before passing out from the tail-end-of-a-long-weekend exhaustion. Micron on Big Lots Pad and Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Day Sixty Two

My new desktop background. After the new Yeyo website launches and I finish my other pending projects I will begin development of Mr. "Blank" & the many Marvelous Mustaches of Mystical Majesty or, as I like to call it, MB&tmMMoMM. Thank goodness its not an MMORPG, OMG. I still need to come up with a good name for the main character, preferably a name that begins with the letter 'M.' PLEASE leave any suggestions. Adobe Illustrator CS4 & more insomnia.

Catch Up

I just got home today from a camping trip with a few friends. I had a great time and yes, I did my art. Every day. As most of you probably know, Michael Jackson died on thursday. I didn't think I'd even care that much having only caught the end of his pop-star reign before the more recent and unfortunate part of his story, but I find my self a little upset and more than anything, shocked. When I was about four or five, I remember having a cassette of Black & White and listening to it over and over and attempting to sing along with it. He will be missed. I mean, c'mon, what would free willy be without I'll Be There?

I'll post all the art I've done these past few days later tonight.

Day Fifty Six

Wow, the days are really flying by. I'm geting close to done, which also means close to Disneyland, which also means delicious corn dogs, propeller hats, and splash mountain in a suit. You could say im excited.

Im contemplating using twitter (for real real, not for play play) becuase it just might be catching on now. Hell, I made an account last july or something because it was supposed to be the shiznit. Then I realized only one person I knew had a twitter account and no one else would read anything I wrote. Of course, I then proceeded to spiral into depression and drug abuse* and now im all better and I might use twitter again. What are your thoughts? Would you read my thoughts? would you get a twitter too so I'm not the only one again? *No depression or drug abuse actually occurred, ever. My fav, Micron on Big Lots Pad. This may be the first sketch book I fill from cover to cover, fingers crossed.

Day Fifty Five

Fadda's Day. My dad has a mustache no longer, it's been years actually. Micron on Big Lots Pad.

On a side note, I'm still busy working on Yeyo stuff constantly, if you'd like to follow the Yeyo news closer, go check out The Yeyo Tequila Twitter Feed. Enjoysies.

Day Fifty Four

Holy geez, a unicorn. what do you think? I've been doing Yeyo stuff all day too, but I thought I could take a break from posting work work and post some ridiculous junk work. Micron on Big Lots Pad.

iPhone OS 3.0 makes the camera better somehow, the pictures seem crispier. :D

Day Fifty Three

So, as we get closer to the Yeyo launch and we start putting in those extra hours to really get this all done we're left with the most difficult and possibly most important piece of this seemingly neverending puzzle: the Yeyo website. Lucas Schoen and I are working on separate concepts and putting our ideas together to play to the strengths of both and eliminate the weaknesses. Here is my first concept. It's clean, crisp, modern, and smooth like the tequila itself. As you may notice, there is no content yet, or really much of anything because it's just a skeleton. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, & Flash CS4, and just a little ActionScript 2.0.

Check it out here.

Day Fifty Two

Today was the final Yeyo Tequila photoshoot before the launch, got everything we need for the website and stationery (hopefully). This time we had a slightly better plan and I took 215 pictures in just over an hour. Here's a little something I made with a pic from the shoot including a couple of the behind-the-scenes type stuff. Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Canon EOS 30D Digital SLR with various lenses.

Day Fifty One

This ought to hold Marc until he can get (or discourage him from getting) a chameleon. I call this one Cham'ere Leon. Kinda sounds french. Hmmm. Micron on Big Lots Pad.

Day Fifty

So I'm here at fitty, two thirds of the way through and It still feels like the beginning... Oh the foreshadowing! I have told a few of you that I am contemplating phase two already, a slightly more serious attempt at daily art. I'm thinking of doing all portraits for another seventy-five days. 100 days? I'd like to hear any suggestions any of you have for a theme for phase two. Anything at all, but specific enough for each piece to connect to the others and broad enough to do 75 days worth. I'm counting on you! Yes, you.

I give you A Portrait of Mike Wazowski. Adobe Illustrator CS4 (no reference pic was used).

Day Forty Nine

This is a composite image made from two separate photographs, the four bottles from one, and the drink from another. More Yeyo Tequila work in preparation for the late July launch. Your thoughts? Photoshop CS4 and Canon EOS 30D Digital SLR with EF 100mm F2.8 Macro lens.

Day Forty Eight

"We're going 'mmmhmmm' word."

I had a good day. Micron on Big Lots Pad.

Day Forty Seven

I designed this new ampersand tonight and I needed a nice way to show it off on here so I made that awesome background. Now I just need a good place to use it. Lots and lots of Adobe Illustrator CS4 for the background and the orignial letterform curves were done in FontLab 5. I had a lot of fun making this. What do you think about it?

Day Forty Six

Some of you know about the cartoon idea I've had for some time, if you don't, do not be sad. Basically, the story follows an as of yet unnamed boy and his best friend Bear (who is actually a bear) on their wonderful adventures and mishaps. The cartoon begins in a small coastal town and the treehouse (the one in the picture below) turns into a boat with a sail and allows them to travel the seas. They find all sorts of strange people and animals and people-animals and animal-animals like the formidable bearshark and narwhalhorse. Oh, and a seagull named Cornelius follows their boat/fort from port to port and offers the ridiculous cracked-out comic relief in many instances. It's based loosely on my life and experiences which of course include my friends and family. Basically, it's a place to put all my favorite inside jokes and random funnies. The treehouse/boat works by flying the sail while in the tree and then the wind pulls it out of the tree and over the cliff, I don't know how it gets back up there though. Magic I guess. Micron and Prismacolor on Big Lots Pad.

Day Forty Five

Welcome to part 2. As you may already know, last night I designed the capital letters of a new typeface I am working on. Tonight, since I was in the groove, I went ahead and not only designed all the lowercase letters but I also set both the lower and uppercase letterforms with FontLab and did a bunch of custom kerning pairs. Tomorrow will be my break from this font while the wifey is here. :) So i'll pick up on numbers and basic punctuation & symbols on saturday and hopefully have a "working" version for everyone to try out by monday or so. Tomorrow you can expect a painting maybe... or a colorful drawing... or something else... who knows. Adobe Illustrator CS4 and FontLab 5 (behind the scenes).

Day Forty Four

In times like these with a crumbling economy, where value is sought after and Bang to Buck ratio holds great importance, a designer needs a font that can offer value. A font that can do more than simply look good, or work well, a font that can do both at the same time.

I give you Façade, a sexy display typeface that is also legible as body text. Borrowing inspiration from classic sans-serifs like Gill Sans, Frutiger, and Lucida Grande, Façade brings together the best features from the greatest fonts of the last century and assembles them in a nice modern package. Adobe Illustrator CS 4. Lowercase on it's way.

Day Forty Three (Ruff Giraffed)

With the iPhone 3G S is coming out soon, I gotta get some extra cizzash (cash) to bizzuy (buy) the new phizzone (phone) as well as Disneyland monies. So im participating in a couple logo design contests and planning on maybe selling my current iPhone on eBay in a couple weeks. Anybody need to have one? I do. Okay, enough iPhone talk, the logo is for a high-end plumbing and hardware association... or something... so I made this logo with a custom typeface to look high-end-ish. What are your thoughts? This is concept one, draft one. Adobe Illustrator CS4.

Day Forty Two

Tomorrow is the last day of painting and we have our final critique. This ought to be fun. The assignment was to make a composition of "your five favorite things" so I thought, "hey, Una Kim doesn't know my five favorite things, I can do whatever I want, right?" So I was going to throw in a narwhal, an iPhone, a pokeball, a wizard, and some other fifth thing. After sketching the giant pokeball, I had a sudden change of heart and I couldn't waste this giant blank canvas on some random things that were entirely unrelated to each other. So I decided a pokeball surrounding with Marc the cartoon holding a lightsaber in one hand and a zombie head in the other was the perfect image to fill my canvas with, especially since its going on marcs wall in the living room of his new apartment. Marc bought the canvas a few years back and gave it to me to use for this project so I'm giving it back as a house warming gift. Acrylic on canvas 4' x 5'.

New iPhone!

AAAAAHHHH! New iPhone! Im so excited im in shock. It's even got a really cool name: iPhone 3G S. It has a new 3 megapixel auto focus camera/camcorder with auto white balance, touch to focus (tap anywhere to focus on the area), and it shoots 30 fps VGA with audio! Its got a faster processor, a digital compass (magnetometer), and now comes in 16GB and 32GB models. And best of all... iPhone OS 3.0! Voice controls, turn-by-turn directions (even a TOMTOM app!), bluetooth connectivity for third-party accessories, MMS that includes not only pictures and videos, but Google Maps locations, contact information, and audio recordings! And for the Pièce de résistance, Cut, Copy, & Paste. I know. Magic.

Day Forty One

I did a lot of half art pieces today, but I did finish this (didn't I?) and I like how it turned out so here it is. Prismacolor and micron on a cool little book I found in one of my aweome stacks of paper goodness.

Day Forty

The LG phone contest ends tomorrow so I had to do one more. This phone is unique in that the working parts are suspended in a crystal clear, hard plastic shell. All the external buttons are touch sensitive and require no impression. And there would be a bunch of multi colored LEDs along the sides for cool light shows when a text or call was received. Adobe Illustrator, about 3 hours total.

Day Thirty Nine

Body Art! It's nuts! It's crazy! It's those damned hippies! Not you Whopple. It's my art for today! A wonderfully patient girlfriend is all you need and some acrylic paint of course, then a little bit of inspiration and a unicorn. Acrylic on flesh.

Day Thirty Eight

So one of my besties, Marc Lepine, gave me a 4'x5' canvas to use as my final project in my painting class. I did a lot of thinking about what kinds of 'amazingly great' things should go on this canvas and after many daydreams of unicorns, tyrannosaurs, iPhone 3rd gen, and various sweets I had an epiphany; a Pokeball with Marc the cartoon bursting out (of the red lasery stuff) holding a microphone-lightsaber, or microsaber, and beheading a zombie. That was a lot to take in so we got a Pokeball, Marc the cartoon, Microsaber, and Zombie. Great. Now all I had to do was put it together. BIG. Now I know what you're thinking, "This sounds amazing!" and it is, I assure you. But, you do have to wait a short while as the masterpiece is in the progress of being painted. Here is a little teaser of sorts, the original cartoon in graphite on my favorite Big Lots pad. Enjoy.

Day Thirty Seven

Sunrise Coffeecat. India ink on canvas board. 

Day Thirty Six

Kaipo is leaving for Hawaii tomorrow... For a year! Who's gonna go get 30 donut holes at 3 in the morning with me? Who's gonna borrow my movies for months at a time and still never watch them? WHO? Marc, that's who. Anyway, today's art looks very similar to an older one, BUT, I assure you it was made from scratch today except for the buttons and glowing green light. I needed to slim down the entire face of the device to make it look like something even I might use, not that I'd even need it, what with the iPhone. So here is a revision of the hardware and GUI (Graphical User Interface) and since the original idea was to incorporate and LED or OLED screen I chose the name "Glow" because of the intense brightness and feeling of deep space that can be achieved through LED and OLED technology. LED stands for Light Emitting Diode and OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. Custom typography for "Glow," everything done in Adobe Illustrator CS4, LG Logo supplied by LG.

Day Thirty Five

Blogger has been unavailable for about ten minutes, I was not late! I promise, I made it on time today. This is the final piece from the three color triptych I posted on Day Twenty Two. Its three scenes of birch trees in a forest during different seasons... kinda corny and cliche I know but I think I made it look good and I used some not so tradritional techniques to do it. I like the outcome and I hope you enjoy it as well. Acrylic and india ink on 10"x30" canvas

Day Thirty Four

I went to the beach today with kaipo and Nicole and it quickly became the setting for my art. Performance art. So I spent... A long time trying to start a fire with a fire bow and a dowel. Well, you can see how well it worked in the picture. The red piece is the bearing block. Cedar chunk, 4x4 driftwood piece, hoodie drawstring, and time, lots of time...