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Mendola Artists: New Website!
Mendola Artists: New Website Launch! The Directory of Illustration is excited to share the new website launch of Mendola Artists! WHAT'S NEW? Mendola Artists' new website has several exciting new features and beautiful upgrades. The entire site is very user-friendly, intuitive and delightful to navigate. The new gallery homepage is stunning and inviting; every page is clean and bold. Some of our favorite new features are the added filter functions on the portfolio pages, making it easy to view the different styles and genres of each artist. We also love the optimized ability to search within [...]
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Strange Kids Club interview
Check out this interview I did with one of my favorite pop culture website, The Strange Kids Club!http://www.strangekidsclub.com/2012/05/01/every-day-is-a-meaty-day-in-degrandland-interview-w-cartoonist-david-degrand/
Secret 7″
last month I was asked to participate in this interesting project - Secret 7" - in conjunction with Universal Music & The Teenage Cancer Trust. Aiming to rekindle the interest in vinyl sleeve [...]
On 20468 Petercook
Illustration superhero and pal, Irene Gallo, asked me to whip something up for this short story by Andy Duncan about the comedy duo Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. I have [...]
Submerged Gothic
Lindsey Burrows at The American Interest got in touch with me looking for an image to convey the current state of the real estate industry. She and her colleagues were pretty [...]
The Pipe
Just finished up taking the time render a self promotion image featuring my oldest son Joshua. This represents the kind of image that I truly enjoy creating...high energy, very detailed, [...]
Packaging Illustration Idea
I wanted to draw some birds, but put them in a sort of packaging layout idea.
Randy Packs
Here's a small taste of a really disgusting illustration I drew for a fun but gross series of trading cards called Randy Packs. I'll let the website do the explaining! [...]
Microvisions!
This is my contribution to this year's Microvisions Student Scholarship Auction. I can confidently say that I've never fretted and worried over a painting like I did with this. A [...]
Alice’s tea party and something about sports
David Bamundo of the Wall Street Journal gave me a call with an overnight deadline. Luckily, he had an assignment that was right up my alley, so instead of preparing [...]
Kraken Rum Advertising Animation Spots…
Kraken Rum just released three new advertising spots that will be aired during the ESPN March Madness that includes “Existence,” Strength” and Survival” with can be view in the following [...]
New stuff and Microvisions!
Between drawings I've been trying to play with different papers, rather than the cheap stuff I'm used to. Here is the result of one experiment with Fabriano 300lb Hotpress watercolor [...]
sketching-live in court
This court sketch for CTV, was done in mixed media - pencil, ink, chalk and coloured pencil.It is enhanced in photoshop with contrast and colour saturation.
Some more sketches: Dogs, monsters, ladies and kiddos.
Been messing around in my sketchbook a little bit more recently. Here are some of my better looking pages. I got to play chess with a class of 2nd graders [...]
Mixing Margaritas
Found myself with some free time and took advantage by updating my high end food skills. I wanted to combine a commercial object with some organic elements to really showcase [...]
Snow assignment
Living here in Wisconsin its really unusual not to get any significant snowfall until January. Ironic we should get dumped on shortly after I rendered this image for the magazine [...]
Got Milk Redesign…
Silk Tricky commissioned Steven Noble to illustrate five new logos for the new redesigned “Got Milk” website and commercial national TV spots. The old fashioned style woodcuts were used on [...]
SILA 50
Happy news, I've had two pieces accepted in this year's Society of Illustrators West annual exhibit!Virginia Hamilton (Ohio Magazine AD Lesley Blake) was accepted in the editorial category.He Worried His [...]
Steampunked
I was given the assignment a few weeks ago of creating “tools of artistic creation” in the vision of steampunk. I’ve unknowingly been a fan of the genre as I [...]
Happy New Year
Happy New Year everyone! Like many creatives in the digital era, I love my mac. It makes everything seem pretty simple. Unfortunately, the disadvantage to Apple’s automative system is that [...]