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Biker Tattoo

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:23:25 +0000

It’s been a while since I did an actual illustration (been a while since I had time!) But I finally wrapped up all of my 2011 projects just in time for the new year. What a relief!

I started this last night, and finished it up today. That makes it officially my first drawing of 2012. Hopefully this year will be as blessed as last year.

This painting will be at the Intersections: Art and the Body art show this Friday from 6 – 9. I’m putting it up for sale for $250. Email me if you’re interested.

The painting is watercolor, pen and airbrush on 12×8 bristol board.

-Will

Ice Cream Rescue – Logo designs

admin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:52:43 +0000

In my business, I am always meeting interesting people doing interesting thing. A couple months ago, I was asked to do logos for an Ice Cream truck company in Arizona that buys old firetrucks/ambulances and refurbishes them as Ice Cream trucks. They do corporate and public events, providing ice cream and such. Sounds really cool! Here are a few of the drawings I did for them…

One of my favorite parts was designing these ice cream kids, rescuing people with delicious ice cream!

The best part about this job was working with my wife Amber. She herself is an amazing artist, and it turns out she is way more talented with designing art in Illustrator than I could ever hope to be. So she took my drawings and made them look great in this program so they can be shrunk and enlarged endlessly without losing quality. Very cool!

-Will

Texa$ Don Zielinski – Tshirt

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:15:17 +0000

I did this T-shirt design for Texa$ Don Zielinski celebrating his 50th anniversary of drag racing. He is a cool guy and this project was a lot of fun to work on. I did a lot of concept sketches to get the car design just right. I will post some of those here when I get the chance. I also got to work with my (new) wife on this, since she’s an amazing artist herself. AND… I got to see a real Drag Racer in action. Sometimes I have the coolest job in the world.

-Will

Darth Vader – returns

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:00:51 +0000

This likeness turned out a little better for Mr Vader I think. though I still see lots of room for improvement. Whats weird is that I thought I lost this one several times because I over-inked the thing, but was somehow able to bring it back in the painting process. Its funny how that works. I almost never scrap drawings now, because I know if I’m patient with them, eventually they’ll come out alright.

I’m going to try a few more portraits if I have time outside my freelance work. After a handful of those, I might try for an actual “Star Wars” style illustration, the way Drew Struzen makes it look so effortless. Till then, I’m having fun practicing.

-Will

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Darth Vader

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:46:28 +0000

Continuing with the Star Wars theme, I Decided to take a crack at painting Darth Vader. Definitely takes some work to get the costume right. Especially on the helmet. I think this turned out well, and I’m anxious to try it a few times till I get the result I’m looking for.

-Will

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Dead@17 Sketch cards

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:56:17 +0000

I was asked a while back to do some sketch cards for the new Dead@17 card set. This is my first time doing sketch cards, so it was fun and interesting. I’d like to do some more down the road.

Most of the cards I did were done like these with watercolor, pen and ink, white out and a little airbrush.

-Will

Star Wars Storm trooper

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:46:44 +0000

I love Star Wars. I need to do more Star Wars art. Its so much fun. Except when your airbrush is acting up and you end up breathing in too much atomized paint. *Coff* *cof*

This was a quick illustration, using pen/ink, prisma markers, airbrush and acrylic paints. About 10″x10″. Its from a stormtrooper design I saw in a toy magazine. Coruscant trooper, or something like that. Pretty cool.

-Will

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Singles Awareness day – 2010

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:21:08 +0000

Singles Awareness Day is coming up in a couple weeks. I did the poster for the S.A.D. party last year too. They’re fun to do. Hopefully I can do more in the years to come.

Santa Wine

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:29:44 +0000

I drew this Santa for a wine label a few weeks back. I got a couple bottles of the wine recently and it turned out really cool! I’d take a picture, but I don’t have a camera. The wine is from Caprock winery.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!

-Will

Texas Tech VS. Texas 2009 Rivalry shirt

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:43:18 +0000

Last year I worked for a local company called Red Raider Outfitter designing Texas Tech game day shirts. It was a fun job and I got to work with a great artist and I learned a lot about graphic design, adobe illustrator, and meeting deadlines. I also had the fortune to work on a few of the big gameday shirts – one being the BLACK-OUT Texas shirt design that 10,000 plus people were wearing in the stadium when Tech pulled out that amazing 39 – 33 victory. I was lucky to be at that game thanks to some free tickets from my friend Phillip.

Well, it’s football season again, and even though I am only occasionally doing freelance work for Outfitter, I got the chance to work on this years Gameday design. I think it turned out pretty well. The shirt is available for Pre-sell now on their site if you’re looking to gear up for the game.

It’s always crazy how much a design can evolve from its initial conception. It always goes that way, through several different stages of revision. You only have a certain number of colors to print with in screen-printing. Plus your line-widths and colors have to be very deliberate. It definitely teaches you to be more bold with your decisions. This was my original illustrator version before the copy was added…

And the original pen and ink drawing…

I much prefer the detail you can get in pen and ink. But it doesn’t screen very well. But it is what it is. I hope the shirt does well, and I really hope Tech does well too!

-Will