plinky? plinky!

A Stripey Birthday is a Happy Birthday

andrea — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:47:44 +0000

I made a card for my Uncle’s birthday. I was in a clean, summery mood, so a made a super-simple and bright birthday card. Here’s the front:

And on the back (leaving room for writing, which I did with a brown gel pen):

Done in Illustrator, with ITC Avant Garde Gothic. Happy birthday to my uncle! And yours too, whenever his is.

Mother’s Day Happened Again

andrea — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:57:46 +0000

Mother’s Day is an annual celebration. This year, I made my mom a mix cd of songs I thought she might like. I made liner notes; the proof of which is below:

I made these using Photoshop and Illustrator. The script font is Emily and the font used for the song list is ITC Avant Garde Gothic.

Our special mother’s day activity was going to see Star Trek on its opening weekend. In honor of this sacred and special event, I made a commemorative mother’s day card:

It was a one-sided deal. I made it all in Illustrator. The font is Huxley Vertical. I harvested the art from House Industries’ Vectagrams, part of the House 3009 font family.

A couple other headlines for the card that I considered:

“You boldly go where no mother has gone before!” (Sounded dirty)

“Mhaaaaaam!” (Too obscure?)

Star Trek was awesome, by the way. A perfect mother’s day treat.

Swirly Guys

andrea — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:02:58 +0000

How: Pen on paper, colored in Photoshop

I love you, x-acto knife

andrea — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:44:24 +0000

I can’t stop making collages!

This one’s about four friends who are planning on taking over the world, for nefarious purposes. Their plans include: making everyone bake them cupcakes every day, drinking up all the tea, and forcing people to listen to Randy Newman all the time. This is the scene where they’re walking down the street in slow motion.

How: Collage and pencil on paper, colored in Photoshop, with little graphic bits added too.

Giving it the ol’ collage try

andrea — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:34:09 +0000

The collaging just did not stop this weekend. Gab and I worked on some more cutting and pasting yesterday evening.

And here’s Gab’s:

He let me do the background. The finger fangs are genius.

How we did: collage and pencil on paper, with some color and stuff added in Photoshop. Post title pun courtesy of Gab.

Saturday Morning’s Alright for Collaging

andrea — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:18:57 +0000

Oh what a lovely Saturday! It involved some collaging. I cut up some lady-type magazines and got a little crafty. So these three girls arrive to a party and they’re kind of nervous and they’re about to say hi to the hostess and then get their first cocktails of the evening. But first, they’re greeted by a little lamp deer and a flying pink hotdog. It’s gonna be a good party!

How I did it: collage and pencil on paper, with some additional graphic stuff and color added in Photoshop.

Happy Early Valentine’s Day

andrea — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:31:44 +0000

Hi everybody. I won a little contest over at one of my favorite clothing shoppes, modcloth. They held a valentine’s card-making contest. I submitted these two bad boys:

The giraffe/turtle one was cobbled together from a couple drawings I’ve done recently. And the x-ray is a revised version of an old drawing I did a couple years ago (over here).

So the x-ray one won, yay! You can send it to your sweetie on modcloth’s send-a-valentine’s-card page. Some cute stuff over there!

You’ve impressed the giraffe

andrea — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:43:47 +0000

Here’s a giraffe who is pleased with you. Good job, you! I made him for my boyfriend.

How: pencil on paper, traced in Illustrator, colored in Photoshop. The font, as usual, is the excellent Diavlo.

I heard that you didn’t get enough turtles.

andrea — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:29:13 +0000

So here are some more.

I used the lovely and free Diavlo for the text.

How many turtles would you like?

andrea — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:32:22 +0000

I hope the answer is four. Here are four turtles.

I made this by doodling with pencil on paper, then sketching in Illustrator, then coloring in Photoshop. I can’t stop thinking about the turtle and his black hole! Why doesn’t he get sucked in? Clearly, because the black hole has a crush on him.