Oh my, my, my. March, you are everything I hoped and feared so far, and we’re only a week in. It doesn’t hurt to schedule in the occasional evening of sanity-vegging time now and again when life gets crazy like this. So I’m thinking about kicking off my heels and spinning up my DVD player. [...]
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Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category
January 27th, 2011
Album cover I designed for 888 in 2007 I’m feeling nostalgic. Maybe it’s the weather. But it leads me to page through my old sketchbooks and notebooks. Even an old blog I’d forgotten I’d kept until I saw a photo today of a certain amazing individual who in my life had a very fleeting moment [...]
November 4th, 2010
It’s getting pretty chilly here in the Midwest. We’re hardly into November and I am missing cooking out, festivals, trips to the beach and all the warm weather good stuff already. And more than anything, I’m dreading the long, cold winter I know is coming. The good side of this, of course, is that now [...]
August 18th, 2010
What’s inspiring me today? Vintage and antique illustrated posters. Specifically butcher charts and anatomy charts. I love the subdued colors and the graphic quality. Fascinating. Call it morbid, but I think they’re incredible in not only the aesthetic, but the historic essense as well.
August 16th, 2010
I read a great quote on etsy.com the other day, “Consider your work as your firstborn: you adapt to its needs, you learn through mistakes, and you grow with it when it grows” from artist Brook Fung. So what makes your work grow? Certainly practice. With time and persistence, skills become honed, styles develop, and [...]
May 26th, 2010
With all of the projects, commitments, and work to be done these days, sometimes it’s easy to get away from that old-school child like joy of just drawing for the sake of being creative. It has been my goal lately to, no matter how busy I am, put at least 15 minutes of my day [...]
