Category: Art

I have always been a doodler, and still doodle often, creating new characters or sketching out a new idea, but in recent years have really come to love drawing landscapes. I started in simple number 2 pencils but soon moved on to ink and paints. In this category you will find some of my favorite of pieces, landscapes, doodles and sketches in a variety of mediums.

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Ember’s Angels

Bryan, owner of General Insurance Adjusters, is a returning client who had an idea for a non-profit company which would help fill a tremendous need. He found himself often having to turn away families who had suffered through a devastating fire, simply because they had no insurance, or the insurance they did have, offered no coverage for the event.

So he thought, why not try to connect people through a charitable website, by which individuals and organizations could donate items directly to families. Some of the simplest things we often take for granted are hard to come by when you’ve lost everything to a fire.


Bryan, owner of General Insurance Adjusters, is a returning client who had an idea for a non-profit company which would help fill a tremendous need. He found himself often having to turn away families who had suffered through a devastating fire, simply because they had no insurance, or the insurance they did have, offered no coverage for the event.

Along with a WordPress installation, theme customization, and some custom coding…I also created a brand. A logo, an icon, some business cards and mailing materials were the required images. I started, as I usually do, sketching some ideas for his logo in the old fashioned “paper and pencil” manner and the proceed to bring into fruition what follows thusly…

SECONDARY LOGO

FLATTENED ICON

BUSINESS CARD

ENVELOPE

LETTERHEAD

WANT TO HELP A FAMILY IN NEED?

Support Embers’ Angels

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American Eagle Designs

I had to make a Made in America Seal for a project I was working on, thought, “while I’m at it, why not make a couple graphics for some T’s or whatever”. Got to playing around with them and whipped these out real fast like. Of course, I already had cheater images to start with, which cut half the time off of making these two beauties, but I ain’t one to look a “Gift Eagle” in the mouth…

THESE WERE THE IMAGES I STARTED WITH

I wanted the final images in black/white/grey. So the first thing I did was strip out colors. While I was at it I fixed a few minor imperfections I noticed, then added a some borders with a grungier feel, a little splatter here and there, duplicated and resized some stars, and finally added some text…and…

THESE WERE THE IMAGES I FINISHED WITH

HERE THEY ARE WITH A BLUE/WHITE DUOTONE FILTER

You know how I like my blue…

HERE’S ONE WITH PURPLE/WHITE & ONE WITH MAROON/WHITE

Maybe not my best work but it really didn’t take too long to do these. Besides, I almost always learn something new when I spend time on images like this. Of course, I don’t recall learning anything specific on these, but either way they will be added to “the things I may never use, but spent time creating” pile.

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Grower Gang

I watch a podcast called Slightly Offensive with Elijah Schaefer. The other day he had Alex Jones on as a guest and they, as men often do, we’re talking about their junk. At some point, one of them calls themselves a grower not a shower, and so began a community of people, who were probably dying with laughter (exactly what I was doing), claiming membership to this not so exclusive gang.

I enjoyed being a spectator to this clown show so much that I simply couldn’t resist joining in on the fun by making a few honorary images, which I sent to Elijah! Not that he’ll ever actually see them, but what else was I gonna do with them? Other than share them with you?

I know it isn’t the most hilarious thing to have ever been discussed on a podcast, but the collaboration of these two characters is what had me so amused.

The following is the result of too much time not very well spent…but boy did I have a good laugh that night.

I MADE THIS BADGE/COIN FIRST

NEXT CAME THIS ONE

AND LASTLY THIS SHIELD MATERIALIZED

A short while after sending the images of the badge/coin’s on over to Elijah, I suddenly thought…..Shield, yeah I’ll do a shield too! You’d think I had nothing better to do…but that’s what I did…tada!

Of course when I decided to post it here I just had to create a logo, which is attached to this post as the feature image and shown below with a blue/blue duotone filter applied…

UPDATE!

So, yeah I took a couple hours to create a semi-useless graphic, but — I did get a reply from Elijah! Basically he said he had just seen it and commented a simple – epic! followed by the words Grower Gang. Yeah, I know, I made it wrong… it’s funny that I had it wrong…and also makes total sense to me. So guess what I’ll probably end up doing? You got it! Fix the images to correctly reflect the word he’s actually using. The results of said corrections, should they ever appear, will appear below…

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