Friday, May 13, 2011

RECOLLECTIONS-BACK 2 SCHOOL

I'm finally able to post some of the work I did last year at EK Success Brands, the scrapbooking and crafts company I've been working at for the last nine months. The first batch of dimensional stickers I designed, under the Recollections line, (sold exclusively at Michael's crafts stores) has just hit the shelves.

This was my first foray into work done for scrapbooking. I designed around 35 sets of stickers, for categories ranging from sports to school, travel and kids. Working along with me, was a terrific artist and muralist, Dan Fenelon, who designed another 10 or so. All told, there were 48 finished 'sku's' that we created, fully vectored and colored, from which only 13 were chosen to be produced.  For my sku's, I did all the pencils, and some of the vectors, with Dan handling vectoring duties on a good portion. When it came to crunch time to get the program completed, another great artist who was working with us, Craig Parrillo, helped out on some of the vectors. I'll break it down as to who did what in the ensuing posts.

This is one of the first ones I did. For the vectors, I did everything, aside from the books and pencil cup, which Dan did.  You can see from the photos that the actual stickers have depth, and are produced with different materials - foil, faux suede paper, gems, etc, to mimic real world textures and items. Pretty neat.
It was a bit difficult to photograph the packages because of the glare of the plastic bag, so you miss some of the details. For instance, the 'Back 2 School' logo at the bottom is printed in a sort of holographic mylar that shimmers when moved around.  The lines on the color page pointing to objects are from the notes to the factory telling them what sort of techniques to use for those items. I couldn't locate the original vectors for this one (I only had a jpeg) to take them off.





Garanimals - The Final Line-up

All fourteen animals in three poses each for a total of forty-two poses. Whew!


Friday, April 29, 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Garanimals!

Over the last few months I worked on creating a new style guide for the Garanimals kids clothing line.

Garanimals uses a simple mix and match system with it's clothing to easily help parents and kids coordinate their outfits. Each of the Garanimals characters represents a line within the clothing collection, and each has  a bunch of seperates created for use within that line.  The art will be used on the clothing as well as on the hangtags that identify each line. There are fourteen Garanimals characters and I created three poses for each, for a total of 42 poses.

The monkey was the first character I worked on...I've included some of my sketches here, including some unused ideas.

More to follow.




Sunday, March 27, 2011

Monday, March 21, 2011

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Sketches For Rob

A couple of recent sketches, done for my friend Rob Kramer, out in Portland, OR. The "shark in a business suit, made out of steel and smoking a cigar," was his request.





Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Baron Karza

I've been very busy with freelance work lately, and haven't had much time for any personal art. I'll be posting some of that freelance work soon, but in the meantime, here's a drawing of the Micronauts bad guy, Baron Karza.


Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Witchy Woman

This drawing is from a  couple of months back, while I was working on Halloween designs at work.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Friday, November 05, 2010

Monday, November 01, 2010

Gorilla Grodd

Did this in a copy of my book,  for my friend and co-worker, Craig Parrillo.

Check out some of his cool art at his blog:

Pencil Mayhem