Thanks to the long weekend I was able to start and finish this new wrapping paper design. It was one of those things that once you start you just can’t stop. I drew pages and pages of small town animals, people and objects. I was going to make it more dense with pictures, but I think I got to the end of my tether on this one.
Non wine experts such as myself, love hearing those stories about panels of expert wine tasters being fooled by a C-grade wine in a blind tasting. In South Africa that wine is called Chateau Libertas – and though it isn’t undrinkable and many hip and happening people swear by it, it’s vinegar compared to some of the A grades out there. This illustration is for an article about such a story which also touches on how open to influence the human brain is in wine tasting. If one person mentions an aroma, suddenly everyone smells it.
This I did for an article in Menshealth that I wrote. The article tackles the question of whether men are better drivers than women. Age old and a little controversial – always a winner. The illustration is of this paragraph:
“Guys on the other hand have been writing off horses, ox wagons, penny-farthings and cars ever since it was an option. And it goes without saying that when you’re smashing up cars, safety goes down the toilet, along with affordable insurance premiums.”
A long time ago, on this very blog I threatened to do a huge cityscape. Well, with all the power failures we’ve been having, there’s been plenty of time for me to sit on the couch, drink tea and draw. So I hauled a big old canvas out of the garage, found a permanent marker and started. This is what it looks like so far – I’ll probably try fill up the whole canvas and then I’ll add colour in Photoshop. I won;t have the patience to use real paint.
This is for an article in Menshealth about how eating unhealthy foods can lead to erectile dysfunction. I decided to think of an idea that wouldn’t be too pornographic to draw – and I think I succeeded.
I’ve been asked to design wrapping paper for a card company using my tea drinker characters – it’s not easy, especially because I’m not a designer and also especially because I’m doing it in Photoshop and the file has grown to be about 250 megs. It’s making my iMac feel like a Commodore 64. Maybe I shouldn’t be using Photoshop, but as I said, I’m not a designer so how should I know. Anyhow, this is where I’m at right now. I like my font, don’t you?
