Published on
June 5, 2008 in
Illustration and cartooning.
Tags: art, cartoon, cartoon character, cartoon character design, cartooning, design, fez, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, mascot, Photoshop, poster, sketch, vector, Wacom.
I recently completed a concert poster design featuring a fez-wearing cartoon genie mascot character for Nashville, Tennessee roots-rock jam band Vinyl Soup.
I have been working with guitarist Andrew Hooker for some time now with t-shirt designs, a logo redesign, concert posters and other promotional materials for the band.
Recent gig poster design work for Vinyl Soup had started to go down a path of design-only work. Andrew initially contacted me for a t-shirt design for the band, and his initial interest was in my cartooning/illustration work.
Starting out on concepts for this poster, I was again working on a solely design-oriented approach, and before I got too far along I dropped Andrew an email to see if going back to an illustrative style would be cool with him. It most certainly was, so I set about to work up a theme for the poster.
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Published on
February 6, 2006 in
Illustration, art and cartooning.
Tags: art, cartoon, cartooning, coin, drawing, fez, freemason, fun, Illustration, sketch.
Just a quick doodle I did while I should have been doing something more productive, I’m sure. Maybe I just wanted to draw a fez. I can’t recall which came first – the fez or the “Eye in the Pyramid” coin.
This guy didn’t start out as a Freemason — I was just drawing up a weird guy and thought he had some weird thing going on with his gaze. Seemed like he’d be involved in some conspiracy — or at least some shenanigans.
Actually, I think the fez is technically a Shriner thing, not a Freemason thing. Freemasons wear that lambskin apron and carry a trowel and a compass & square around. Weird. I guess they are “masons” though.
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