I Let My Fists Do The Talkin’

I’ve had a slight up-swing in the number of commissions I’ve been getting. It’s still only a tiny percentage of what I was doing this time last year.

I did a logo for a production company (I’m not sure if that’s the right word) that puts up plays and live events a while ago. They were honest up front—it’s going to be design by committee, you’re going to do a million versions, the final version is going to be something extremely compromised, but we’ll pay you more. It’s a devil’s bargain but I took it. I’m doing another logo on the same tip for a play about an animal shelter called “Tails” and my direction was to make the word in the form of a dog.

(a rejected draft—too hard to read)

I’ve just started doing some character sketches for bryk.com… the guy vanished for a little while and then he emailed me to tell me his hard drive crashed. We’re going for something sad and slightly Sanrio-influenced. I was trying to bring in some Junko Mizuno drippiness as well.

This is a rough sketch done with a thick sharpie that I colored in photoshop to get a sense of what the colors will look like. I may brighten the palate considerably looking at it. The finished version will be made entirely in Illustrator and probably won’t have outlines like this. (The top one came out too much like Strong Sad in the face.)

I’m waiting for feedback on both of these from the client.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 20th, 2006 at 4:27 pm and is filed under Design.