Tattoo Concepts

I haven't posted it here but people at my work have seen some of my concept sketched for my tattoo.... I think #3 might be the final one. It's a merge of a few concepts liked by both Linda and I :) Number 2 is getting into the invader zim territory so I'm not really digging it.

The critera...
- Robot
- Tell a story of my life (personal sorry people!)
- Oddly enough it had to be cute or playful
- Highly graphic

Long Time Coming

Today's meeting was uber boring. Recently we've been very busy so I haven't had time to sketch during our meetings since I actually had to work O_O

red and black pens

...influenced by the amazing Willie Real and Geoff Peterson...OH YEAH!

MITW Completed!

Finally I am finished! Well, until the client makes a change ;) But seriously she really liked it so hopefully Linda will lay the text out for me and we'll be completed. I'm actually really happy with this one I think it improved lots since last year.

Also, the festival people talked about maybe making t-shirts with my little ent on them so that will be cool. I want so badly to sew up some plushies and sell them at the festival but I already have so much on my plate. Work is fucking nuts with 17 new toys I'm responsible for designing and or managing out, I've started a second secret blog (if you're interested private message me), I still need to finish Bernie's poster, I just moved into a new apartment this past weekend and I need to find some time to repair/clean the old one, I've only lost about 8lb of my 30lb goal, trying to play more guitar, and I'm less than 1/2 a year away from getting married. Fuck me.

Anyways, how's life for all of you my five readers?Good that's awesome! In light of the festival I shall share with you my other, other, blog, well vlog?


I suppose this one isn't so secret but here I am, efmuok, being an emo fuck. (Now my handle is exposed!) But I don't play in front of people anymore...well not without my web cam so you won't find me playing at the festival only watching:) ciao people!

Sunflower Girl

So I actually did this digital painting as a gift for Linda's folks. I'm pretty sure it's not their style but Linda liked it and it'll be hanging in her room in Taiwan, hahaha.

I actually really like this painting even though the girls ear is way low...need to go back and fix that. Lets be honest though, I probably never will because I'll move forward onto a new piece. Maybe that Wicked fanart in my brain? Anyways, I went from sketch to painting in one night before we flew out to Taiwan so I'm happy for it being a speed piece.

Plus it looks good on my wall as well!

MITW Update

Whadup? So I have a quick post tonight on the Music in the Woods poster. I waited a week or so for some feedback on my thumbnails...and heard nothing, so I went ahead and started on concept number 6. It was one of my favorites and was well received. So I started painting it and of course when I was like 50% finished I find out that they like concept 3! WTF?! Well here's my progress so far and i think i will do both 3 and 6 because I like where 6 is going and I think it'll be a better poster!

Concept 6 Progress

Music in the Woods

Yes, yes I know it's been a long long time since I've posted. I'm sure all 5 of you that might be following my blog are probably dying to know "Jeff what have you been up to?" Well things have actually been busy.

Being that I'm engaged, this winter break I took my second vacation to Taiwan to put in some face time with the future in laws but more importantly RELAX. Fuck I was seriously stressed out at work and a little depressed. I'm much better now :)

Where's whitie?

Also I was e-mailed to build a website again this year for a Harvard law school club since they like what we (Linda, Ming, and I) did last year. So that's some extra cash I will need for sure to filter into the wedding...or maybe some tattoos. But no, mostly likely to pay down my credit card after that ring O_O shit's expensive!

Finally, I'm trying to lose about...30lbs for the wedding. I was doing pretty good before the Taiwan trip, I had lost 9lbs but I need to get back into my routine. Jon that means I can't eat all that fast food then falling asleep on my sofa.

Now onto what this post is about sans my boring introduction...

The Music in the Woods! Lets see, how to explain this? Linda's studio manager is friends with the person that runs the solar music festival in Greenville SC; Music in the Woods. Last year they held a design competition at Linda's work for the graphic designers to design the poster. I entered with Linda even though I'm not technically employed there and like a couple of assholes we won...haha but this year the festival organizers would like to use my little tree ent guy as the "mascot" for the festival so I'm doing the poster again. Here's my process thus far and I'll make sure to post as it progresses.

So I began with a bunch of quick thumbnails...Then chose my favorites and sent them over to Linda to check out. After that we both agreed that 3, 6, and 9 were the strongest to pursuit.

Thumbnails

The difficult thing is that they want to list all the bands...last year there was about 15 or so. The list must also be editable in a PDF format by someone who isn't a graphic designer. Basically they want the bands in a very simple column and then a map with directions...

Last years poster

So from there I took concepts 3,6,and 9 and whipped up some cleaner digital sketches to send off to the MITW people to review. I personally love 9 because I have in my head how I want to paint the sky...but 6 is my second favorite! 3 is just an update to last years poster.

Concept 3

Concept 6

Concept 9

Hope you all enjoyed and check back because I plan on updating more often. We've started our wedding planning and I'll probably post up some stuff.

I'm back....and engaged. Holy shit.

Yeah it's true.....I popped the question and she said yup. Well it was more like a "Yes you idiot of course!" I think anyone who reads this blog has access to face book so check out my fiancé's page to see the proposal. And wow that sounds so fucking weird to say....fiancé. Anyways, i will post this gif I made to embarrass her. ^_^

Blogger doesn't support animated gif so click here!!!

Now onto the post. A friend of mine contacted me about a tattoo he wanted. I've know this guy my entire life so I'm stoked he asked me to help design it. This is the first concept.

His request was very broad so it left lots of room for me to sketch which was great. I knew it had to be a tree that was alive but starting to die with some falling leaves and that it would go on the side of his torso (ouch!). I hope he digs it and I'll continue to post as it gets updated. I wasn't' sure if he wanted color/shading or not so I sketched with a pen to keep strong line work that color and chiaroscuro could build off.(chiaroscuro...yay intro to drawing class!)