TODAY'S FEATURED POST
a Thanksgiving story
Don’t have much art that I can show at the moment, so I thought I’d treat you to a fun thanksgiving story. This one time, years ago back when I was just starting out, a friend of mine reached out to me with a prospective illustration job. It was 1996, I was living in El Paso Texas, before I’d moved to San Francisco and gone to art school. Art jobs were scarce and you took…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Color Trends
September 5, 2024 - If you thought I was going to let the summer go by without mentioning brat green — you're wrong. From the day the new Charlie XCX album, brat, was released — long before it became a political meme — friends have been joking that it's MY SUMMER. And while I prefer a slightly more yellow green—a true chartreuse—as my favorite shade of green, even I have to admit, this is pretty close. And while the album cover looks like it was designed in 30 seconds, designers know better. There have been more than a few interviews with the design firm Special Offer Inc that handled the design, and hundreds of colors were narrowed down to get to this one. The New York Times and Architectural Digest articles about "brat green" are worth a read for…
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Crit-Submit #2
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In The Courts Of The Crimson Kings, by S. M. Stirling
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Illustration Process: Digital Trickery
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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“Art on a Grand Scale”
Monday, March 7, 2011
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McQueen Retrospective
Sunday, March 6, 2011
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What Makes an Artistic Genius?
Friday, March 4, 2011
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