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Happy 2012 (& Thank You too)

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I made a thank you card / happy new year card out of the circles and lines design I drew a couple weeks ago:

I did the original circles and lines drawing with ink on paper. I added the texture and color in Photoshop. The type is from the awesome family, Novecento, a few weights of which are free on myfonts.

New Year’s Monster Portraits

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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.

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.

Faux Bois Father’s Day

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How was everyone’s Father’s Day today? Mine was great and I hope my Dad enjoyed it too. I churned out a handmade Father’s Day card for him and got him a gift certificate to Border Grill. I also picked up a few treats from there, to have a little lunch at my parents’ place. It was delicious and great fun.

Here’s the card & envelope:

Here’s a detail shot to show the texture of the paper:

I used this great faux bois paper from Paper Source for the background. It looks like they don’t have the teal version anymore, but they do have a gold and brown version, which I also bought from them and which is very pretty too. The strip of textured, darker woodgrain paper in the middle is from a set of origami paper I got from dick blick ages ago, which I can’t find on their website now. Woodgrain just seemed to go perfectly with Father’s Day.

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.

Thanks, dudes.

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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.