A bunch of happy oranges get juiced, for your drinking pleasure! Here's my eighth drawing for Drawgust!
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To close out the first week of Drawgust, I wanted to do something a little simpler, so here's a rascally rabbit merrily jumping into some freshly washed laundry. He loves those warm dryer clothes just like everyone else!
I'll be back tomorrow for the first drawing in next week's set. Thanks for viewing!
Today's Drawgust illustration is a boy sitting on a swing, looking out over a vast, fantastical valley.
Originally, I set out on this project to just make a collection of cartoons, to serve as potential inspiration for this year's Chalk It Up festival, but I've been venturing into more complicated images now, so maybe a course-correction is in order? I don't know... I've been enjoying the practice!
We'll see how things go as I start adding color, I guess!
We're diving underwater for today's Drawgust illustration - and it's a hairy situation!
Here's Drawgust drawing #4, a dark afternoon - punctuated by some lightning!
Be sure to check the Drawgust 2021 post on my work page to see all of my drawings up to this point!
My third drawing for my month-long Drawgust series. This one is a woman playing guitar for a fascinated child!
Here's drawing 2 for my month-long Drawgust series: a serpent chomping through the landscape!
Here's the time-lapse of my first drawing for Drawgust 2021 - a surprised cat!
If you've ever looked through my album of drawings for the Year of Art 2011 project, you might recognize one of the illustrations used in the Los Angeles Coalition for Water Conservation (LACWC)'s new campaign, Dustbowl Disciples.
46 seconds into the video they produced, you'll see this:
And that should look pretty familiar - here's drawing #150 from the Year of Art 2011, appropriately titled 'Dry Mouth':
Some of the people who worked on the Dustbowl Disciples project were kind enough to reach out to me about using the artwork, and I was happy to help. I re-drew this illustration for them, providing a much cleaner vector version!
I wrote this post with the intent of highlighting the use of one of my illustrations, but I'll close it by saying that if you've got a project which requires illustrations (new or existing), do get in touch with me using my contact form. I'm almost always up for work like this!
I haven't been able to keep my blog up as often as I've wanted lately because I've been busy with lots of different things in both personal and professional capacities.
Home Buying
My girlfriend and I are looking at buying a house soon, and as you'd expect, it's a complicated process. We've been spending months combing through home listings online and going to view them in person at open houses or with our Realtor. We've been spending the rest of the time sorting through the details of lenders, the finances, taxes, and so on. My girlfriend has done much more than I have, and I still find it extremely exhausting.
It'll be great, at the end of all this, to go home to a house instead of an apartment, however, and that keeps me going through all the extra work.
Site Crafting
I've also been busy with website jobs. I've been contracted to work on a site for a friend of my girlfriend's uncle's son, and it is in the second revision now. Unfortunately, my laptop hard drive broke (again!) and my working files are all lost, until I have time to plug the drive into my desktop computer to see if I can recover any of it. Normally this wouldn't be much of an issue for a website, because I've usually got an online copy floating around somewhere, but this site needed a Flash element built in, and I never upload FLA files, so I'm probably going to have to rebuild it. Not fun.
I'm also working on a revision to the look of my buddy Andrew's website, noLove Skateboarding. It's coming along really nicely, but because of the increased activity in the aforementioned house hunt, I haven't been able to put as much time into it lately as I would like. "Not enough time in the day" seems to be a recurring theme for me these days.
By the way, the new site isn't live yet, so if you visit the link above, brace yourself for our original janky design.
Marty Decks
On the upside, one of the other projects I've been involved with for noLove (putting my tree painting onto a skateboard), has finally come to fruition - and I even have one of them in my possession now! All things considered, the final product looks pretty nice, and after taking an impromptu trip to one of the local skate shops, I think the art stands out a lot more than a lot of the generic crap out there.
You can buy a noLove tree deck from my buddy Andrew. Drop him a line on Facebook or Twitter.