My take on Frankenstein’s monster for a friend’s band. Hand lettered type at top. Gonna hand letter the show info in the area of negative space to the left, too. So far, so good.

Gonna try to gore it up a little, though!

I’ve been doing a bunch more hand lettering. It’s a lot of fun. My piece in the aforementioned show even incorporates it a bit. Here’s another recent example:

I think that getting better at hand lettering will only increase the abilities I can market for and get work doing. The other biggie that I want to get better at is 3D work.

So, I’m in a show set for this Saturday. Yay! Details here.

The concept behind the show is this: the participants offer personal works with little or incidental commercial value. In other words, do what you want to do, not what pays your bills!

At first, I was a little stymied. I mean, I DO what I want to do for a living, right? A little reflection left me with a clear idea, though. Comics. I love comics, but never have the time to make them. I made a little vignette. Half comic, half piece of art, and that’s what I’m printing and bringing along.

I just finished my piece last night at 4:00 AM. Whew. I’m not posting it till after the show, though. If you want to see it, you’ll have to show! Well, at least till Monday.

My ISP is down, so I won’t be able to respond to questions or comments for a day or two.

Well, the Threadless submission cleared. Go ahead and vote if you like!

Here’s a mess of process on this image:

Whew! Even I’m sick of looking at this one!

There’ll be more exposition with my next post. I’m smack dab in a host of client and personal work. I’m going to be in a group show on Saturday in Chicago and I’ll post details on that tonight or tomorrow morning.

Mammoth is going to be a clothing brand with a demographic that largely consists of Mixed Martial Arts fans. I was commissioned to work on the logo and it served as a perfect opportunity to do some more hand lettering.

I’m working on getting better with my hand lettering. In addition to the lettering in the logo above, this was all done by hand:

It’s a lot of fun to not be restrained by what fonts you have installed and, rather, to rely on your own ability. I’ve got a way to go, but it should prove fun to get better.

As is usual, I encourage you to click on the images and get whisked away to my Flickr page. Larger versions are available and the linework looks better in the non-resized, uncompressed version. Hey, what can I say? I’m vain about my linework!

I know that a decent crowd of individuals reads these posts. I’d like to interact more with you guys. What part of my process do you guys have questions about? What would you like to see more of? Less of?

Thanks for feedback, it’s always appreciated.

It looks as though I’m going to have five sets of five pieces of vector stock art over at You Work for Them. There are a lot of people I really admire subbing for YWFT, so I’m pretty happy to be contributing myself. Woo!

Now I just need to wrap my head around their templating system and get my 25 pieces uploaded. I’ll make a big post with the sets linked when they’re up (which might be a little while).