Happy Friday! I thought I’d try something different this weekend and post a challenge to you all: draw something. Draw one thing you can see in front of you and one thing that you make up.
Can a person ever get too much Quentin Blake in their life? Didn’t think so.
If you like rad and you like shirts, then chances are that you will like this rad shirt. Want to double the rad? It’s my design! Yutaka is a sweet new clothing company based in Britain, where all their clothing is manufactured from start to finish. They have a slew of unique designs based on the…
“I feel that a book influences, and has as much of a contributing effect, on the story as the drawings, ink, colors and paper,” Chris Ware observes. “To me, a book is a fairly obvious metaphor for a human body: aside from the fact that it has a spine, it’s also bigger on the inside than…
That’s it. For years I’ve been wanting to make my own Look-n-Find book, and this freelance illustration put me over the edge. I’m doing it. I’m making own Look-n-Find book! FOUND is going to be a look-n-find parody, filled with hand-drawn, full-color illustrations of characters and items to find. You know, like Waldo! I’ll be…
He’s in here somewhere! At least I think I remember drawing him in somewhere… I’ve been having a blast drawing my first Where’s Waldo?-type illustration. While there are plenty of things to find, I wanted to share with you a little bit about how much fun this was to color. I packed each major stage of…
Still plugging away at my Where’s Bigfoot? drawing. I was nervous at first, that I wouldn’t know what to draw after a couple of hours, but it’s been a lot of fun coming up with creatures and scenery, and it’s coming to me a lot more easily than I thought it would. I guess all…
Recently, I was commissioned to make a giant Where’s Bigfoot? illustration. (You know, like a Where’s Waldo?, but with bigfoot.) I’ve been snapping a few photos of the drawing process along the way and thought I’d share ’em here. For all you equipment junkies: I’m drawing with a Micron 08 technical pen on 11×14″ Strathmore smooth…
A lot of artists that I follow have shared videos of themselves working through their own illustration and design processes, and the videos have been incredibly informative for me in my work. I decided to record one of my own illustrations, from start to finish, and here it is!
For those of you who are new to this blog, or are trying to figure out who I am and what I do: this post is for you. HELLO. MY NAME IS JESS SMART SMILEY & I MAKE RAD PICTURES. Despite what my name might suggest (and ponytail in this photo), I’m a guy. It’s…