Tag: Illustration

  [button link=”http://spudart.deviantart.com/art/Science-fiction-is-totally-cool-589672191?purchase=print” size=”large” color=”orange”]» Art prints and canvas available[/button] Giant alien robots invade Chicago! Death rays shoot out of their eyes. The campy setup makes for a great B-movie sci-fi thriller poster. What could be more fun? Swap out…

  [button link=”http://spudart.deviantart.com/art/Science-fiction-is-Knowledge-invention-589673191?purchase=print” size=”large” color=”orange”]» Art prints and canvas available[/button] A worm dressed in an astronaut uniform watches a rocket blast off into outer space. Totally crazy. This is the final poster in this series of three illustrating the etymology of…

  [button link=”http://spudart.deviantart.com/art/Science-fiction-is-Knowledge-fiction-589672726?purchase=print” size=”large” color=”orange”]» Art prints and canvas available[/button] Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy is always one of the top results when googling for vintage sci-fi posters. The design of this poster fit exactly what I needed for my…

Time is short. People are watching you. Will you have the guts to draw something fun on a foggy window on the bus or train? These questions faced me this morning as with below zero degree temperatures in Chicago. Commuters…

Four hours and 33 minutes of a realistic drawing is condensed down to 3 minutes 42 seconds in this youtube video: The artist Marcello Barenghi does have some mad skills. But you can also make a drawing like this with…

In the past week the Spudart Facebook Page had 28 posts. Here are the top three that got the most clicks. Seriously? There’s a Kickapoo State Park in Texas? 29 clicks. This also got 418 views! The other posts on…

Yesterday I tweeted, “One day is 0.00273972603th of a year.” A couple people retweeted it, so that made me think of how to visualize this. I did the first illustration above. And then I thought a pie graph would make…

Last week I ordered this INCREDIBLE illustration on a yellow/orange tshirt.

For my encaustic painting class, we are going to learn image transfer. We were told to bring patterns of just b&w—no gray. This is what I’m bringing. Starting with the Gummi bear and moving clockwise:

I started a new pinboard of artwork I own. One of the first things I pinned on this board is a wonderful piece by Todd Webb (one of my top five favorite artists from 2010). Todd writes and draws one…

Finland’s stamps feature the cutest illustrations and photos. Cartoon hippos camping, animals dancing around a Christmas tree, funky shaped stamps, raspberry delights, snow dogs. C’mon you can’t beat that. This is going to make me a collector of Finnish stamps.…

Etsy seller robotcamp was selling 14 drawings of robots for the low low price of $1.19. How can anyone resist? Apparently the 91 people who viewed that auction could resist. I, however, could not resist. Here’s a screenshot of the…

A friend of mine is ordering a pound of worms for a worm bin. A pound of worms is available in the mail! Worms traveling through the mail. It’s like they are worming their way through. What a delight! Also,…

We all often sit like robots on the bus. I’m a reading robot. Being a robot can be good sometimes, because we respect each other’s quiet and space. But we don’t have to be totally robotic. This past Wednesday night…

Trader Joes Coloring Contest! Color the Chicago bean and get your drawing on display in the downtown Chicago’s Trader Joes grocery store. At the front door of the store they have sheets of paper with an illustration of the Chicago…

Hey, my illustration of a gummi bear made it into the mental_floss magazine blog. They wrote a post called “The Many Uses for Gummi Bears” where they included an image of my drawing and the following text: Gummi Bears are…

A chalk drawing on a sidewalk will dissolve when it rains. So if you leave a piece of chalk outside in the rain, will the chalk dissolve? That’s a logical connection, but I think when it rains on a chalk…

Every week I design 13 newspaper pages that get syndicated to newspapers across the country. I illustrated the cover of the “Your Life” section that had a lead article about how to say “no” to people.

The rain soaked windows of the “That’s Our Bag” store in downtown Chicago left a great opportunity waiting for someone to draw something on the windows. I was talking on my cell phone with my girlfriend and drew some faces…

Every week I design 13 newspaper pages that get syndicated to newspapers across the country. I illustrated the cover of the “Your Life” section that had a lead article helping adults to learn spanish.

Kevin Hulsey spent 720 hours on this. That’s 18 weeks of 40-hour weeks (4.5 months). Wow.

A couple days ago I added 16 missing design and illustration items to spudart.org:

Have you ever noticed how vector shapes in a pdf file tend to look bitmappy? This makes no sense, because vector shapes should be super smooth. Here we will get to the bottom of this problem. Here are the things…

Knight Ridder Tribune and Tribune Media Services have a table at the annual Florida Press show where they gave away a new Calloway golf bag. This postcard promotes the giveaway. Design and Illustration by me.

This appears in the 2005 Graphic USA Design Annual. Tim Rickard sent Tribune Media Services a comic strip proposal for Brewster Rockit. TMS decided to take Brewster under an 8-week development deal to help improve the strip before syndicating it.…

“At Home with Marni Jameson” was a column syndicated by Tribune Media Services. This was an identity developed for the column. Fun strong font with a little bit of retro flair in the word “with” and little monopoly-esque style legs.…

We’ve all heard of contintental shift where supposedly all the contintents were one big mass called Eurasia or something. What if we were to use Adobe Illustrator to align all the countries. Here’s the starting map of the world: Here’s…

Source: “Moroccan Blue’ Leads Top Fashion Colors for Fall 2005” on creativepro.com And I made an illustrator file with the swatches if you want to import it into Adobe Illustrator. 2005colors_womensclothes_v8.zip

Amazing that Curt Shilling’s blood-stained sock is now in the hall of fame. It’s a testament to this pitcher’s courage. Here’s some tshirts being sold about it: The Real Red Sock √Ø Red Sox red sock enters Hall of Fame:…

Here’s what was selected into the 2004 Graphic Design:usa 2004 annual The Zap2it Consumer Ad campaign: Zap2it Ad 1, Zap2it Ad 2, and Zap2it Ad 3 and the Lola folder Background on the awards: Every year the Editors of Graphic…

The creative director at work used to work at a magazine. So when she got married last year, we made her a fake National Enquirer magazine cover with custom headlines. Now she will be having a baby in February, so…