Recently broke out one of those watercolor sketchbooks that Moleskin make and did a few draintings (just made up that word) of Alaska using GoogleEarth as reference. Volcanoes in the Aleutian islands and the Kenai mountains, rendered with watercolor pencil.
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I want to try painting something like this on wood, but as I just make painting on canvas, I did this draft to understand the effects that I can create and how to take advantage of all tones of wood...
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...and so here it finally is! The whole of Never Been, all nine and a bit meters worth, online, for the whole world to see! So if you couldn't make it to my solo show at Projekts MCR earlier this year, GO HERE NOW!!! I want to say a massive huge thank you to my genius graphic designer brother, Adam Kolakovic, for figuring out a way to get this all online for me! He's the most rippingest designer in town!
This is an image I made for a small edition art book that collects together a bunch of cool artists from all over the world that are influenced by eastern european aesthetics/folk lore. The image itself is based on an idea I've got floating around my head about a florist and his wife. More soon when the book is available...
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This is just kind of an unfinished prototype, but I figured I'd put it up and see if anyone had any suggestions. Right now it's a "floor lamp", but I'm thinking it might get bigger and evolve into a chandelier.
A long time ago a friend of mine made fun of me for having a skateboard, because I didn't use it that much (not that coordinated). He'd come over and it'd just be sitting there. Eventually, it turned into a running gag. He'd ask how the skateboarding was coming.... and then he went all the way and said I should just make a lamp out of it. So, I'm stealing his idea.
This is one from the dusty depths of the archives...The blur on the boot is a bit too much, but I had just discovered Photoshop (version 2.5 if I am not mistaken), and it looked good enough to me on my grayscale PowerBook 165 at the time.
I made this pattern to use as texture and background for this year's siren illustration which I just completed. The sea hag of my dreams makes an appearance in up there. Congrats also to my fellow invisibleman and invisiblewomen as this marks our 600th post.
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I’ve been working on this comic for an anthology—hopefully I’ll be done soon!
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I was psyched to get this super-fun job from Time Out Chicago to do a series of illos for their "Worst Case Scenarios" story in this week's issue (Thanks Mike!). The editors came up with a list of harrowing situations, and asked various Chicago-based experts their advice on how to keep your cool and survive these stressful calamities. The scenarios I illustrated are: "ATM eats your card", "Your car brakes fail", "Your boss asks you to take a drug test", "You lose your job", "The condom broke", "I got doored on my bike", "My apartment was burgled" and "A bat was trapped in my house". This is my first job for Time Out Chicago. Read on to see the full illos...
Continue reading "Worst Case Scenarios for Time Out"
In past years I would get a bit morose come springtime if I hadn't gotten enough snowboarding under the belt. This is not one of those years. From the deep drifts of Utah to the hidden stashes of Vermont's woods it's been a splendid year of riding either solo or with Kristina and Keith. The pattern image at the bottom was part of my entry to this years Salomon board art contest. I didn't have much time to put anything together so I quickly plundered some of the patterns I've been recently working on
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here is an (inverted) image of my computer last night. it's seriously sick. it was in the hospital for two weeks, had 2 internal organs replaced (logic board and display) and it still appears to be not doing so well... and, it's not even 4 months old!
i love apple but i am not in love with apple today...
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On Friday night I attended my first Pratt Draw-a-thon. This legendary event, held every year since 1988, consists if 12 straight hours of figure drawing in which 18 models circulate throughout 5 drawing studios posing for designated periods of time (20 second action poses, 5 and 10 minute poses, 1 hour poses, and two extended poses of 3 and 6 hours each.) Drawing and posing began at 7pm Friday night and continued through the night until 7am Saturday morning.
This years Draw-a-thon was more popular than even Pratt's planners expected. Myself and my drawing partner were there for a few hours and only able to squeeze into the hour long poses room. Despite the crowds the event was a very exciting and a very unique experience. These graphite drawings are the results of my evening. It was great night and I hope to attend for the whole 12 hours next next year.
Here's one of the final images that was used by Barclay's Bank on a huge billboard outside a new branch in Manchester that celebrates the city's achievements.
Here's another preview page from the book proposal I'm working on at the moment... Since last week's post, I have been asked to contribute to uber cool comics site Partyka and have been featured in another Serbian magazine article, this time in
Slovo Magazine- which again I can't read because it's in Serbian.
I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts while working on illustrations lately. A great resource for this is LibriVox which features readings of works which are in the public domain. A great one I recently toiled to was The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells which was written in 1897 and is an absolute sci-fi classic.
The image above of The Invisible Man (who is also a co-founder of this website) was done in my sketchbook a while back and tweaked digitally.
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This is another drawing that I did with Marcelo Delamanha, is one of the series "Faces" that we are doing together.
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| 04/25 Know this feeling? |
| 04/23 Zany Lawn |
| 04/23 Revenge of the Decrepit Shark |
| 04/22 bottles |
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| 04/18 Worst Case Scenarios for Time Out |
| 04/17 Farewell to Snow |
| 04/17 graceland surveillance |
| 04/15 my sick apple |
| 04/14 Pratt's 20th Annual Draw-a-thon |
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