Still sorting out the color and the background. Here’s the first couple of iterations.

Doing some work for TRIPWIRE this week. Here’s some of the preliminary portraiture.

It’s not cheating if I’m projecting my own illustration. I love this thing.

I started work on “Daddy Issues” in 2009 and finished in the Spring of 2011. The series consists of five life-sized female nudes.
In 2010, I was lucky enough to have Nicole Fallek document a little of my work on girls #3 and #4.

Like the “For the Gusto” series (2008-09), I used
archival ink for the linear black shading and acrylic for the for the tonal color.

Since the girls were nude (damn close to it), I added interests in the form of abstractions and animal appendages.
Each of the tens-of-thousands of bubbles were hand-painted (which is why I don’t stand while I work. lol)

Click the images below for a larger view.

By late 2010, I had been working on my “Daddy Issues” series for over a year.
I needed a break from acrylic and ink.  So, in October I started work on an untitled project.

I’ve always been most comfortable using graphite. It’s easy to control and gradate.
 I like to use a super-soft 8B lead in a Rapidomatic holder.
“Manimals” started in earnest, as an 11 X 20″ illustration in my sketchbook.

When I finished the drawing portion, I scanned it at 600 DPI and cleaned up the file in Photoshop.
From there, I printed the resulting hi-res .tiff to a treated canvas.
I used gouache and light washes of acrylic to build the color on top of the black line work.

“Manimals” has since become my most popular print (in sales terms.) I kept the original.

All photos courtesy of Nicole Fallek.

There’s something really satisfying about making stickers.
A couple of hours of works nets you a handful of tiny promotion.These little guys ride forever if you pick the right spots.

SADLY, THE VINYL PLOTTER IS NO MORE.
I used one of my last two layer stickers to breathe life into my old Macbook Pro. I even die cut the apple.

CLIENT : UNDER ARMOUR MTN
PROJECT : FALL/WINTER 2012 CATALOG
CREATIVE DIRECTOR : NICO JOHNSTON
PROJECT COMPLETION : OCTOBER 2011

DETAIL : (10) Full-color illustrations. (2) Cover illustrations (back and front), (8) Double-trucked interior illustrations.

DESCRIPTION – “For the Fall/Winter rollout, a ‘Globe Trip’ theme was decided upon by Under Armour’s art department.  Over a series of 8 illustrations (one more involved than the next), UA-sponsored athletes are shown jet-setting to exotic and… unexpected locations around the world.  I was given the opportunity to re-imagine the classic UA logo for this edition’s cover illustration.”

DISSEMINATION DATE : LATE SUMMER 2012

UPDATE ON THE CHARACTER CROWD PIECE. IT’S CLEANING UP NICELY. I GAVE THE TRIBAL GUY A SHRUNKEN HEAD NECKLACE JUST TO ADD A LITTLE NARRATIVE. THE FINAL DIMENSIONS SHOULD BE ABOUT 90″ X 48.”
NOW, BACK TO THE TEFTODEF.COM UPDATE.