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Thank you (thank you)

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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.

LetterHeads Done Done Done!

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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!

MOOOONSTERS!

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Gabe & I have been listening to the amazing Mike & Tom Eat Snacks every week. It’s a great podcast to doodle along to. I did some monster doodles while we were listening a couple weeks ago. Here are some things I made from those doodles:

As always, I tried to keep the colors neutral, the graphics soft and restrained, and the overall tone as refined as possible.

Drawings done with ink on paper. Color and texture added in Photoshop. Some additional graphics and patterns made in Illustrator.

LetterHeads — Inking’s Done!

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I’m on vacation with my honey this week! Some highlights have been:

  • Doug Loves Movies and Comedy Bang Bang at UCB on Tuesday. We got sake from Gelsons and drank it in line.
  • Fast Five and then El Cholo for delicious grub and margaritas.
  • Meltdown Comedy Show yesterday. The scene was unbearably hip, but the comedy was great. It was awesome seeing Greg Proops, Moshe Kasher and Nick Kroll.
  • The Silver Bullet at Knott’s Berry Farm.

Despite the nonstop fun and excitement, I got some LetterHeads work done! The inking is finished and now I have to experiment with some coloring options.

I’ve decided to set up the poster at 14″ x 24″. Everything is vector, though, so I could scale it larger. Once I’m done, I think I’ll throw it up on Zazzle, since they seem to do non-standard poster sizes. I’m not sure what the quality of their printing is like, so I’ll have to get a test print from them done once I’m finished.

This version of the LetterHeads poster here isn’t fully colored. I just dumped a hue/sat layer on top of the greyscale outlines. But, it turns out that I rather like the simplicity of this style of coloring. I do still want to do a little more experimentation with coloring, and adding a little texture to it as well. Stay tuned, dudes!

AlphaBeasts Part Five

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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 One

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These started as doodles I did on an airplane. My big exciting plan is to finish the drawings, then trace and color on the computer, and then make a really nice poster of this. The poster will be both educational and entertaining (this means it will be edutaining).



These were done in pencil on paper and then I just added a little color and texture in Photoshop.

Well-suited

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This project was based on a concept that originated with my clever parents. They thought it would be nice if my dad could have some casual calling cards that he could hand out when the occasion called for something a little more lighthearted and personal than a formal business card. Because my dad is such a dapper fellow, their idea was that the card would have a suit illustration on one side, with his contact info on the reverse. Taking advantage of moo’s multiple-design card printing, we thought the tie patterns and colors could vary per card. Oh, fun! I came up with nine different variations on the suit design, with various colors, tie patterns, and pocket square shapes:

For the front of the card, I went with a simple, old-fashioned, classic design with a monochromatic color palette. I used the typeface Le Havre Rounded for the text.

As usual, moo’s printing came out very well and the process was straightforward and easy. Thanks, moo! My dad was really pleased with the results, as am I.