4 posts tagged “art”

There's finally been a "Love" theme at Threadless that I want to get in on, although I must confess I haven't been watching them for that long. Until mid-September, the theme is "Drawing" and the prizes rock. I don't expect to win, but why bother if you can't at least hope, right?

I only have one entry that is in "pending" status right now, but I plan to get a couple more new ideas drawn up and submitted to the critique section this weekend.

Here's the first one pending:

Those of you who have followed my "work" for the past couple of years might recognize it as a variation on an Illustration Friday design I did a long time ago. It was handy and time was short.

If you have a size in mind and it's a popular one, you might want to order early. They preprint a set number of each size and once a size is gone it stays gone until/unless they do another printing.

PaWN3D t-shirt design @ © SplitReason.com

Zombie Day at the Mall t-shirt design @ © SplitReason.com

New ones up for voting:

Goth... Sith... design @ © SplitReason.com

Beelzemama's running the grill design @ © SplitReason.com

It's only fair warning. design @ © SplitReason.com

Gamer Party design @ © SplitReason.com

Gnu-Bee Hunter design @ © SplitReason.com

Monster & Kitten design @ © SplitReason.com

Brainbox design @ © SplitReason.com

And a revised Frogger design:

Frogger Blogger design @ © SplitReason.com

Back around October of 2003, I agreed to try to make a video of a song by Mark Maynard's band Monkey Power Trio. Lacking enough knowledge in animation programs it was doomed to failure. I had access to Flash; I just didn't know how to use it. I still don't, however I'm in the process of learning. No promises, but I may be able to finish the video sometime this year.

I bring this up because the theme for Illustration Friday, this week, coincides with the name of the song: "Someday we'll reach the moon."

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This is a composite of the Flash interface and a few of the elements that I illustrated before realizing I had no idea what to do next. The concept behind the video was, it would look like one of those toys that you push a button on and the music plays while the shapes move behind a textured screen. Even though this isn't a brand-new illustration, it IS the first time I've shown it to anyone who wasn't involved in the creation process, or close to me.

If you would like to listen to the song, head here: The Monkey Power Trio's 1999 album 'Chasing Monsters With Our Love'.

Someday I'll finish that animation. Someday. Someday.

I really think the idea behind the Monkey Power Trio is awesome. They are a group of friends who get together once a year, play music for a few hours and then turn it into an actual vinyl LP. They don't practice together at any other point during the year, and yes, it shows. Yet they still manage turn turn out some interesting songs. They plan to do this every year until they die. All of their music is also available at their site as free MP3s.

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About the Shirt.Woot Derby... Maybe next time, and then only if they revamp how voting is done. As it is now voting is shown in real-time; the more votes an image has, the larger its icon is; "New Hotness" pretty much reflects the top five images because that's all anyone seems to be voting on; the lead image is already up to 422 votes; it's pointless to enter after the first day. Unless they change the rules, the only strategy I can think of to have a chance of winning is to do up a bunch of random designs ahead of time and then hope I can make one fit the topic on Friday at noon. The currently winning design wasn't the first design submitted, but I know it was there within 4 hours of start time. And in the forum, the creator said it was a design he made years ago in high school.

I'll keep you informed.

Ah, heck, I made a design anyway. Voting be damned. Still, I do hope they fix it so it's less discouraging.

For now, this is going to be where I post during the day. For some reason I'm having trouble connecting to Blogger. When I can, I'll repost this at my normal Fizzle and Pop blog.

So, geeky.

Here's my last minute geeky.

Poorly done, but then this is also the first thing I've drawn in over a month. I've just been terribly uninspired lately. Anytime I try to draw anything it feels horrible. It was a struggle to even get this done. But there you go. Sometimes it's just that way.