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New Year’s Monster Portraits

andrea — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:11:37 +0000

These monsters hired me to do their portraits as New Year’s gifts to each other, which I thought was sweet. It seemed like the monsters might eat me for dinner, so I had to make their portraits a little more flattering than realistic. This went over really well and the monsters even jokingly mentioned that I might need new glasses. They winked at each other, which sent ooze flying.

These were done with pencil on paper. Color & texture done in Photoshop.

Thank you (thank you)

andrea — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:28:34 +0000

I had a birthday, guys! I’m 30 now, which means I’m officially an adult, which means that it’s perfectly acceptable for me to make thank you cards of kitties with kitty tails. I’m pretty sure this is a nice kitty with an evil kitty tail, but cats are so weird that you can’t really tell who is who. So I had a birthday, and this is the thank you card I made for people who were nice enough to remember me on my very special day.

I did this in pencil on paper, then I traced it in Illustrator and I colored it and added texture in Photoshop. The typeface is Le Havre Rounded.

My Hands are Peeing Rainbows

andrea — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:00:42 +0000

This is what I feel like when I’m feeling super duper creative.I drew it in pencil on paper, traced and colored in Illustrator, and then added some additional texture and stuff in Photoshop.

And here’s a video of that process:

LetterHeads Done Done Done!

andrea — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:22:24 +0000

I finished my LetterHeads poster and it is for sale at Zazzle! All profits (10%, so maybe a buck or two per poster) go to 826 Valencia, a nonprofit organization that promotes kids’ literacy, writing, and creativity. I’m making zero profit, except for the immeasurable emotional reward of knowing my poster is causing you endless joy and happiness. There are two versions of the poster, thusly:

I wanted one poster that was lower-contrast, and one that had a more contrasty oomph. I don’t know what’s going on with your decor at home, so I thought I’d better give you a couple options. Both poster options are 14″w x 24″h. The poster comes on a range of paper options. I recommend the archival heavyweight paper, which looks awesome. But even the cheaper options come out great.

My sweetie Gabe Danon wrote the excellent copy: “Welcome to the Land of the LetterHeads, a town full of shifty characters and boldfaced liars living in the margins of society. It’s a lawless town: there is not one sheriff and there is not one serif. They’re oversized, capitalized, and politicized — some are left-aligned, others right-aligned, and some fall right down the center. But in their own way, each and every one of them knows he’s justified.”

Go on over to zazzle and buy a poster! Oh, and before you do any purchasing, check out retailmenot to see if there are any promos you can use! Sometimes you can get 50% off of posters.

Please feel free to email me at andrea@plinkyplinky.com if you have any questions about the poster!

We’re the Veggies!

andrea — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:01:07 +0000

Yum

andrea — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:02:12 +0000

AlphaBeasts Part Five

andrea — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:30:14 +0000

I made it, guys! You can see all the AlphaBeasts here: AlphaBeasts A to Z. Now all I gotta do is trace, ink and color in Illustrator/Photoshop and make this into a poster. Which is totally nothing, am I right? I may make the drawings into a poster, or at least a downloadable pdf, since I kind of like the handmade quality of it.

Again, all of these were done in pencil on paper, then texture and color was added in Photoshop.

AlphaBeasts Part Four

andrea — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:32:27 +0000

Allllllmost there! Just W X Y Z to go, now. I can see the Z at the end of the tunnel.

AlphaBeasts Part Three

andrea — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:13:12 +0000

Oh my gosh, I moved house. It’s been tiring, but not so tiring that I couldn’t churn out some AlphaBeasts.

Thanks, dudes.

andrea — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:56:02 +0000

I made some thank you cards, which I based on a “thank you” type treatment I drew out. My original plan was to scan in my lettering, then Photoshop it into a nice little layout. However, I was disliking how I was losing the hand-made, organic, tactile quality of the pencil on paper once everything became digital. So I hand-drew 8 different versions of the above type and pasted them on a variety of patterned papers. It came out very well. I drew on lightly textured, cream paper and I liked how when I pasted it on top of the patterned paper, there was a nice show-through of the pattern.