Cheerios has a bee, Frosted Flakes and Exxon, a tiger. Hostess has a vulture and racoon, Mastercard, a zebra, Geico, a gecko, and you gotta love that Chucky Cheese rat. But it’s the stallion that seems to speak to young men specifically, seducing them to work hard and drive fast with a smoke dangling.
These pictures were taken in Greece, inspired by the artist Richard Prince.
One of the items on my to-do list recently has been to expand my ‘texture library’. Since I have moved over to doing all of my color on the computer, texture is more important than ever. If there is a large area of flat color, and it is just ‘paint-bucketed’ in Photoshop, the flatness screams “Computer!”. The look I am trying to achieve is one that is more hand-made. I try to use custom brushes with my Wacom tablet as much as possible, but sometimes an area needs a bit of real-world texture to break the flatness…
The swatches above are from a few of the textures I worked up this week. They will be much more subtle when included in my work, sometimes only a tiny corner of one, but having a variety on hand is a valuable part of the illustrator’s tool-belt.
A few years back Stephen Antonson, Jon Keegan and I created this video. Then James Antonson and Patrick Macintosh supplied the music resulting in this piece.
Chance Griswold is an anagram for Clown Discharge which nicely illustrates the nature of the video:
With the help of Photoshop, I’ve been transforming some photos and doing paintings of them. This one is 24″x 36″.
film stills from a the 2 minute feature film “looking at me looking” which i may eventually post somewhere…
