The Art of Garrick Dean

Short Keys for CS5

2012-01-26T15:02:00.001-08:00

This is nice quick reference chart for Illustrator, since I use it ALL the time this will be handy to have.It is mostly just for me to look here really quick, instead of trying to find this in the web somewhere, when I need to add a quick anchor point.

Brought to you by Wells & Drew, makers of fine engraved stationery.

Week 7

2012-01-17T15:12:00.000-08:00

Again, this is definitely not week 7, but as a series I am just going to keep the title consecutive so I can find them easy on the blog. This is a Caiman lizard and I really liked drawing him (or her, hard to tell) because of all the great detail on its skin. It took awhile to finish this one because I only work on these when I have a few minutes and it seemed like I was drawing scales for days and days and days!!

I hope you like it.

Kim's Tattoo

2012-01-09T11:01:00.000-08:00

I was commissioned by a friend, Kim Allen, to design a tattoo she was looking to get

She loves Sunflowers and Music so she was looking for something feminine and very nice

I came up with this concept and she approved with very minor adjustments

and here is the finished art for her tattoo.

Star Wars Snowflakes

2011-12-14T13:29:00.000-08:00

Today I found a great creative project STAR WARS CHRISTMAS SNOWFLAKES!!

I did a Darth Vader one

http://www.anthonyherreradesigns.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56:star-wars-snowflakes&catid=34:anthonydesign-blog

Have fun and a very Menry Christmas!!

Week 6

2011-10-17T13:40:00.000-07:00

This latest study took me a bit longer than a week, but I wanted to show the process of these sketches.I first find my subject matter, I try to find subject that will challenge me.

This subject was a gorilla.

I start with a blue line sketch to get proportions and shape down, at this stage I can change my drawing quite a bit.

I then take my graphite pencil and go over the highest detailed parts, and shadows can be filled in with ink and do not need to be filled in with pencil.

I then copy the pencil (and the blue line does not re replicate on a regular xerox so I just have a faint pencil sketch to go over with ink. I have been using Uni-Ball pens and sharpie to see how challenging the sketch can become.

This is my finished sketch, and I have several versions I can add to a portfolio.

Art is a challenge, I love being an artist and I hope you all keep challenging yourselves as well.

Week 5

2011-09-19T14:20:00.000-07:00

Another Instagram photo turned into a sketch.

This photographer just takes photos of his wife and posts them, they are done so well, if you are on Instagram follow kirishoru he does wonderful work.

These are just sketches in my sketchbook.

Pencil on paper

Week 4

2011-08-30T13:59:00.001-07:00

I have become a fan of Instagram on my iPhone and while finding incredible artists and photographers I came across this amazing set of pictures a random photographer takes. rydenbunny is her handle on IG so if you use the app look her up.

I asked her if I could have permission to sketch some of her photographs and she was very happy to say yes, you will see my sketches of her photos peppered now on through out this blog. She is amazing.

Week 3

2011-08-04T08:45:00.000-07:00

Well technically in is not the third week.. but it is my third desk drawing.
This is the Amazon Horned Toad, I loved his face and how serious he looks... the technical part of this drawing was making his skin have the semi scaly feel of a frog with using only an ink pen.
He turned out well.

Pen on Paper

Week 2

2011-07-14T12:16:00.000-07:00

Fatty

This cute little guy is a Brussels Griffon he is the pride and joy of my friend Holly Jo.... I absolutely love his face.

This drawing was a nice challenge, drawing fur is always complex and with a pen it is a challenge to get the shading correct. I had fun drawing this little Chunky Monkey.

Pen on Paper

Week 1

2011-07-14T12:12:00.000-07:00

I felt that I had been losing a little bit of my focus on art with so much going on in life so I set up my desk at work to be a drafting table and told myself to try to do a drawing a week... TRY being the key word.

Here is the first weeks drawing, a Humbolt Squid, I have an obsession with drawing tentacles...they riddle my sketch books and work station.... I have no idea where the need to draw them comes from.... but they are fun.

Pen on Paper

Utah FM Benefit Poster

2011-07-01T09:26:00.001-07:00

I was commissioned by local DJ Angie Jantz to illustrate a spoof of Hot Shots part Duex for their annual benefit concert. I did the stations poster last year and this year they wanted to have a very funny image to promote the event.

I did a photo Illustration in photoshop of Charlie Sheen's WINNING face over the old Hot Shot's Part Deux movie poster... surprisingly he hasn't changed that much.

Photo Illustration / Photoshop

Homework Assignment #3 Returned

2011-04-25T09:21:00.000-07:00

I am always happy when assignments come back and the critique gets less and less and the teacher says " Great work!" instead of..."You still need to work on this, this, and this...."
and that is what this assignment was... he really liked almost all of my panels... this is a storytelling class so I need to work a little harder at conveying the STORY rather than just impressing them with detailed art.

But I am extremely happy that the classes are coming along.. I just need ot get the next assignment in a little quicker.

Graphite on Bristol

Homework Assignment #3

2011-04-11T14:04:00.001-07:00

Well I am so glad this is a "take your time" course...because this one took awhile... not that the assignment was hard, but life happened.... a lot of it.
This assignment was to show the ability to draw monsters and tell a story...
I know my monster isn't to scary but I like it.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

2010-11-24T12:33:00.000-08:00

Well my favorite holiday is upon us. Thanksgiving! It is a holiday when family gets together and just has a great time... the smell of everything cooking in the kitchen and the nieces and nephews running around.. the game on T.V. and yes I do wish I had a glass of wine in my hand .... but maybe one day when I hold Thanksgiving at my house that dream will come true.

This Illustration was inspired by a story Roger ( my step father ) told years ago around the dinner table, about a group of astronauts that came to a planet and the inhabitants were giants that captured them all and boiled them and ate them for a feast.. then kept the remaining astronauts around and bred them so they would always have them for dinner every year...
the joke being that the astronauts were from a Turkey planet and we were the giants... that is Roger's sense of humor for ya... funny stuff.

Graphite on Paper 8.5" x 11"
!!HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Desert Star Back Drops

2010-11-24T12:21:00.000-08:00

I was approached by the Desert Star Theater to create some backdrops for them like I did in 2008 fo rtheir show "Wizard of Odd". This year it was for "The Bi-Polar Express"

These drops have to be done in a very short turnaround process, 4 weeks altogether.
1 week of comps and brainstorming to get the feel for the drops they want. Now these drops had existing drops that were painted by hand and now they have a set for their dinner theater also, so they can run the show in both theaters at the same time.

They needed a drop to look like the interior of a train car with section in the windows that they will cut out.

This drop was hard because of all the toys and trying to get them to look like they were all individually painted... which they are but you really have to see the detail of the drop to see the painting effect, from a distance they look very picturesque.

This drop was the funnest one to do..it just was really easy and I had fun with it.. of course it was the one that went the fastest.
Each drop took about a week to do and they turned out well. It is a project that could use a lot more time, but time is not an option I have as a freelance artist

Digital Art done in Illustrator and Photoshop CS5

YOGA Sketch

2010-11-16T14:13:00.000-08:00

I am going to try to hit up threadless.com again.. but this time I am going to try this sketch. The word Yoga illustrated in people doing Yoga positions.
So this is the basic premise, I will put this into Illustrator and make it a nice tight vector image for shirts... I hope this one works.
Graphite on paper.

My New Website is done!!!

2010-10-26T09:45:00.000-07:00

Please go and check out my new website!!

deanillustration.com

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

2010-10-26T09:43:00.000-07:00

My design was accepted!!!

2010-10-15T07:11:00.001-07:00

I put this design up on threadless.com to be critiqued and it did really well, so I sent it in for submission and it was ACCEPTED!!! I learned a lot from my last design I submitted and put that knowledge into this shirt.

Please go to threadless and vote 5 for me, it is cash and prizes if I win... and I sure could use it right now.... help a poor artist out!

I believe you have to create an account to vote, but it is very simple and takes just a minute to do.

Thanks everyone

Threadless..again!!!

2010-09-30T14:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.threadless.com/critique/77595/Patty_s_Crest

Okay so I designed a crest and I want to see how it does out in the critique world... I really enjoy the design so I hope it does well. Please check the link and vote if you can.

Thanks!!

Cross 2

2010-08-05T13:54:00.001-07:00

Back in February I put up a post about a cross I had designed from a tattoo for a motorcycle graphic. Well the pictures are here of the finished product.

The paint job turned out absolutely beautiful... and the ghost graphics on the bike are phenomenal

The paint job was done at Coonyzs Customz / www.coonyzcustomz.com

The bike looks fantastic and is literally a piece of art rolling down the street, I am glad to have been a part of the creation.

Crest

2010-08-03T07:11:00.000-07:00

One of my latest projects was to help a client come up with a family crest. Well when I say help I mean I illustrated and she just told me what to do.
This was her initial sketch of what she wanted and the final image is what we came up with.

After several emails and sketches we started to move forward. She wanted the classic animals protecting the crest and choose a swan and a bear (but she wanted the bear to look like the classic lions that you see in a crest) so there were a ton of elements added and changed.

Here is the final version of the crest once it was finally decided on. The process was several forms of media, traditional drawings for the animals, Adobe Illustrator for the placement and layout, and Adobe Photoshop for the coloring and effects added to the crest.
All in all it was around 25 concept drawings and samples and around a week of solid working to get it to her liking.

Pencil, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5

Frank Frazetta 1928-2010

2010-05-10T13:42:00.000-07:00

As a boy my father had a set of books by a fantasy artist named Frank Frazetta. I loved these books, strong muscular men battling with axes and swords and sexy curvaceous woman that were dominant and seductive.

These books were my first step into a bigger world of fantasy art, I loved turning every page and absorbing every detail, the colors and the detail in the armor and weapons, and of course his power understanding of the human anatomy.

Today he died at 82. He is one of the men I had wished I could have met, I would hope he was making a special appearance at the Comic Conventions I attended, I had even thought of taking a trip to his estate to see if I could meet him, but never did. His paintings inspired me to become an artist and to love art in a way so few do... through the eyes of a child. I will always look at his art in wonderment and aspire to create something as great as he did. Thank you Frank for making me the artist I am today.

APPROVED

2010-04-22T07:45:00.000-07:00

LOST's Island

2010-04-19T12:23:00.001-07:00

So I was sitting on my couch watching the greatest show on earth... LOST!!! And I got to thinking.. "Hmm.. I see some very close similarities to another T.V. show I used to watch" and so 'We are all LOST' was born.

Done in graphite of 11"X 17" Bristol - A mix of LOST / Gilligan's Island-The Minnow in the back ground reflecting Oceanic 815, Ginger and Mary-Ann replaced by Kate and Juliette... Sun and Jin as Thurston and Lovey...Sawyer as The Professor and Jack and John Locke as Gilligan and the Skipper.This is a color version of the drawing. I colored it in Photoshop and submitted it to http://www.threadless.com/submission/268474/We_are_all_LOST

vote for my drawing and if enough people do they will print it on a t-shirt!!!
So go vote NOW!!!

If the end of the show they run across the Minnow sitting in a Lagoon.... just know I called it.

Homework Assignment #2 Returned

2010-03-23T09:34:00.001-07:00

Homework #2 has been returned!!! I used my good friend Elledge Bowers as my model..Thank you Elledge. and the results were very good.

Joe Kubert himself is correcting my homework.. I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE IT!! I get a feel from his comments he sees real potential and wants me to succeed! I am so excited to start the next piece. Enjoy the wonderful constructive criticisms of a master artist.

American Express Project

2010-03-02T10:27:00.001-08:00

I was approached by our marketing team here at O.C.Tanner to help create some files for a presentation of American Express. They wanted the O.C. team to be turned into SUPERHEROES to show their Heroic dedication to the Am Ex project. it was put into a slide show and presented to the Heads of American Express.
Each image shows the picture I used, the pencil sketch, the Illustrator image I turned them into and then the superhero bodies I put them on. I colored them all in Photoshop. The bodies (well all but two ) were created on a fun little web site called
UGO the website if you make your own superhero is, http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/heromachine2/heroMachine2.asp , and then I hand colored them in Photoshop.
I was approached on Tuesday and had to have the entire thing ready to go Monday morning, along with access cards for the team to access there awards for working hard.

The background was created in Illustrator using live trace.

Homework Assignment #2

2010-02-23T11:18:00.000-08:00

This assignment was to tell a story using no word bubbles at all...using facial features and body motion to convey the premise.

I used my friend Elledge as a model, thank you Elledge!
Graphite on Bristol Board 11"x 17"

King's Cottage Tuesday Nights

2010-02-10T14:41:00.000-08:00

Went to King's Cottage on Tuesday and drew the live model.
Graphite on Paper 11" x 17"

Cross

2010-02-02T10:10:00.001-08:00

I was hired to to recreate a tattoo into a tight image to be recreated into a graphic for a motorcycle.

The upper image is the image given, the one below is the sketch that did to get into the computer so I could start the illustration in the computer

Here is the final product that I did in Illustrator and sent off to the motorcycle shop to be painted on the bike. I am sure I will get a photo when the bike is done and I will post it then.

Homework Lesson 1 Returned

2009-12-16T15:22:00.001-08:00

Well my first lesson was returned. I did pretty well, I love constructive critique, it has always been my favorite part of art school. If you would like to read the comments I think they are pretty cool..this is the best part..for some reason my art was critiqued by Joe Kubert himself! The owner and proprietor of the Joe Kubert School of Comic Book Art, he is one of the greatest artists to have ever graced the comic art world and I have his art and writing all over my work..I absolutely am beaming!!

Homework Lesson 1

2009-11-24T09:16:00.000-08:00

Well my first Homework assignment is complete, that took a bit of time, had so many things come up on a personal level that I did not get it done in September like I wanted..or October...but now it is done!!

This assignment was a based around a Western scene, the class gives you the scenario and the script but the rest is left up to your imagination. you have to establish character faces and angles and then incorporate them in to the story...this is my depiction...I shall send it off have it graded and post what they say.
11" x 17" Graphite on Bristol Board

Hulk

2009-09-24T15:42:00.001-07:00

Here is a fun site a friend turned me onto..it is a great way to see the process of how art is drawn..this is one I did. http://sketch.odopod.com/sketches/99148/edit if you want to see in a full screen version.

Labor Day Creative Weekend

2009-09-09T10:04:00.000-07:00

Here are the ones that have been submitted to me so far.....

Garrick Dean / Acrylic on Canvas

Eric Atencio / Graphite

Angie Jantz / Photography

Isabella Bersen / Graphite

Elledge Bowers / Graphite

Ben Simonsen / Graphite, Computer Color

Warm Up Piece

2009-08-24T09:06:00.001-07:00

Well I have received my first class from the Joe Kubert school so I am about to begin, I decided to warm up by doing a piece of my favorite people you love to hate, The Bounty Hunters of the Star Wars galaxy (well not all, but some). It was a fun piece to do took a couple of weeks at just a hour or two a night. But it turned out pretty good. Enjoy
Graphite on Bristol Board 23" x 17"

Giraffe Creative Project

2009-08-06T15:43:00.001-07:00

We have been having a creative project at work. We found a artist who is trying to collect 1 Million giraffe drawings so we are trying to poll together as many drawings as we can to help out. Here is my contribution.

Joe Kubert's School of Cartooning and Comic Book Illustration

2009-06-10T10:16:00.000-07:00

I am going to go back to school and get my official degree in Comic Book Illustration, I want to go pro in this genre and this school is the best there is!
I will still be living in SLC but doing correspondence classes from the school which is based in New Jersey. Wish me luck, I will start posting my art as I progress through the classes. Nuff' said!

Toy Hunter / Wolverine

2009-04-15T15:37:00.001-07:00

With the new Wolverine movie coming out I designed my Toy Hunter logo around the movie logo, which is directly below.

Stones.

2009-04-15T10:12:00.000-07:00

One of my hardest challenges and also one of my favorite projects here at OC was to recreate our stone library to make it look more realistic. I took photos off the internet and used them to recreate all our stone, and there are a lot..these are only a few.

Pearls

Ruby's and Garnets

Princess Cut Diamonds

and of course regular Round Diamonds

Here are some of the old stones and the new stones I have created, mind you these are all vector images that have been created in illustrator. The entire stone library I created (over 20 stones )
took close to a year to perfect, and in my opinion I can probably build them a little tighter.

What I do everyday.

2009-04-14T09:21:00.000-07:00

I have never blogged about what I do here at OC.I develop processes for new illustration, and continue to improve current processes we currently have. I find new ways to illustrate our product for a WOW effect to dazzle the client. Here are some examples of my work here at OC.

The top illustration is the old way of showing artwork to clients when I arrived here and it was my job to develop new ways of displaying artwork, so the one below it is the new process I developed using Illustrator and Photoshop to create the effect I needed.

The next couple images are recreating how we do 3-D illustration, they used to do flat 3-D and I have helped develop a Photo-realistic effect to make our illustration look great.

So that is what I do 8 hours a day..oh and I go to a lot of meetings and put out a ton of fires, and every now and then I help the artists here do some creative work.

Artchive

2009-02-12T10:11:00.000-08:00

So we try to have as much creativity as possible at the OC and so we recently renamed our Art Storage folder on our server to Artchive..kinda witty.
So we had a small contest to come up with ideas for an illustration for the folder..my ideas are here..if you don't "get" the second one it is an Art-C-Hive (Artsy-Hive) get it...
Pencil on paper.

Cows with a new perspective

2009-02-02T10:21:00.000-08:00

So the sales office like the cow drawing I did but wanted a new perspective on the cows so you could see them eating each others grass..so I redrew the image and it turned out a little better...I okayed the original sketch and inked it this time, so I think it looked a little bit sharper.

Sales Cartoon 2

2009-01-09T08:15:00.000-08:00

The sales team asked me to do another cartoon..now this one I know I have seen this one before , but hey they ask me to produce..I produce.
Pencil sketch colored in photoshop

Sales Cartoon

2009-01-05T09:23:00.001-08:00

I did this cartoon for one of our sales staff, it is a remake of one he had seen before but it was fun drawing.

New Toyhunter name

2008-12-31T09:26:00.001-08:00

So a new name to match a new movie..this one did not take as much time or effort, but it looks fun.

Portraits of The Crew

2008-11-20T10:27:00.000-08:00

At my work I have a group of artists that I pal around with and as a art project we decided to do stylized portraits of each other. I did mine on Watercolor paper with ink and watercolor wash @ 8"x10".

Punisher Toy Hunter Title

2008-08-26T14:30:00.000-07:00

There is a new Marvel movie coming out called Punisher:War Zone, I am very excited about this movie and in honor of it I have made a new Toy Hunter Title and I am going to change my page to reflectthe new movie...check it out. toyhunter.blogspot.com

Art from the San Diego Comic Convention 2008 #1

2008-08-01T22:11:00.001-07:00

Well the San Diego Comic Convention ended last week and it was a blast. I went for 5 days, I went for business and pleasure I got both. I went to the portfolio review booths and showed my work to professional and I had such good feedback I was reviewed by Hasbro and Dark Horse Comics and they both were so kind and had great words about my art they took my sample books and gave me great tips to work on so maybe I can get some professional work. Here I am at the Dark Horse review with Chris Warner senior editor, he liked my work but wanted to see a more variety in my people and city scenes..I am going to do some work and go again next year.

Below is the pleasure part of of the Con, I got ot meet several professionals that I have wanted to meet for a long time...check out the next few entries below for details.

Art from the San Diego Comic Convention 2008 #2

2008-08-01T22:05:00.000-07:00

Here is one of my favorite comic book artists Travis Charest, he is a genius, his attention to detail and his line work is simply beautiful, he signed my Wild C.A.T.S #1 and he was selling a small book that he signed also.

Here is David Finch his artwork is simply crazy he is wild in his line form but he can put so much in one frame and still make it look so tight! He was really nice and he signed a book of his sketches I bought also, great guy. He also signed my Aphrodite 9 #1 & #2.

Art from the San Diego Comic Convention 2008 #3

2008-08-01T21:57:00.000-07:00

This is J. Scott Campbell who I have admired since his first full book Gen13. He was great and very personable, he looked at my sample book said he liked a lot of the illustrations. He signed my Gen13 #1 and Spider-Man #30.

Here is Darwyn Cooke a great artist who illustrates in a classic style of the 40's and 50's he waas really nice also talk to me for a few minutes. He signed my Catwoman #1.

Michael Turner / R.I.P.

2008-07-15T07:44:00.001-07:00

Michael Turner was a great artist and storyteller, I idolized his career and his success and I wanted to meet him on a professional level some day. I met him at the San Diego Comic Con a long time ago and he was such a wonderful guy. Good-Bye fellow artist, you will be missed.

A new Toy Hunter name/ IRON Toy HUnter

2008-04-25T13:34:00.000-07:00

A new logo to reflect the Iron Man movie that is coming out next week
and to reflect my Toy Hunter blog theme.

Superman

2008-04-11T13:02:00.001-07:00

I was asked to draw Superman for a client in pencil..so I did, I didn't take to much time (the budget was very low) maybe a hour or so. After I got done I wanted to see what it looked like colored so I took it into Photoshop and colored it up...it was a fun afternoon.

Epic Property Managment

2008-04-03T14:45:00.001-07:00

I was hired by J&D Property Management to create a logo for their new name Epic Property Management.
I did this logo in Adobe Illustrator.

Guitar Hero Sign / Finishing

2008-03-28T07:27:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of pictures of me in my studio working on this sign. The first pictures are the painting before the black is added. The black makes the painting pop! The three holes in the bottom are being filled with color Gels and strobes to give the Guitar Hero effect. This painting was done with Liquitex laytex paints.

Guitar Hero Sign / Beginning

2008-03-28T07:22:00.000-07:00

I was hired by Guitar Hero fan to create this sign...I did not cut the shape but I painted it. It is a 3/4 MDO board primed. I will post more images soon.

Desert Star Backdrops / Finished!

2008-03-19T10:47:00.001-07:00

THEY ARE COMPLETE!!! I was hired by the Desert Star Theatre in Murray, Utah fo create 3 new back drops for their new production of Wizard of Odd. These images in their original state are 26' x 13' and fill the entire stage...they are huge. I created these images 100% in Photoshop CS3 and did a 1:1 ratio and reduced that in half to get a high res file that would look great for the printing. I taxed my little Mac Mini to it's limits and each file was close to 2 GB, so it took nearly 10 minutes to save each time. This was a really big project, I had only 3 and a half weeks and they all went through major changes and revisions...and as anyone knows I have very little time anyways with my million other projects so I would stay up till 12:00 or 1:00 in the morning a lot to get these done. I really had a good time doing them and feel my Photoshop knowledge is at a solid A game.

Smurf Houses

2008-03-13T08:44:00.001-07:00

Here is a closer look at the Smurf style houses that I have done for the drops. I have painted them in Photoshop and have several different colors...they were so much fum to work on.

Desert Star Backdrops / Almost there!

2008-03-13T08:40:00.001-07:00

Here is my progress on the backdrops for the Desert Star, they are getting huge! Back drop 2 is 1.4 G big...it is the biggest file I have ever created...I am pushing my Mac Mini to the edge when I work on it....it sure is a lot of work, I pour every free amount of time I have into this project. I will put up the final images when the project is over.

LOST

2008-02-20T10:16:00.001-08:00

I love LOST so much I made this little image that I put on my computer. I made it in Illustrator and Photoshop CS3.

Desert Star Sketch

2008-02-20T09:50:00.001-08:00

Here is the first drop half way done.

Desert Star Color Comp

2008-02-11T09:18:00.001-08:00

I have been hired by the Desert Star Theater to design the Backdrops for their new show "The Wizard of Odd". Here is one of the Color Comps that I have done for them.

Extreme

2007-10-17T14:53:00.000-07:00

Soooo.....I extremely HULK-ed out at work last week and while it was happening I drew this little cartoon and then later colored it in Photoshop. Even though I hulked out I still had to answer my phone.

Illustration Friday's - OPEN

2007-10-07T11:06:00.000-07:00

Che Guevara - Revolutionary, Idealist, Open-minded thinker. I had watched "Motorcycle Diaries" about the young life of Che, and it really opened my eyes to reasons to why people stand up for the thing that matter to them.
This piece is Acrylic on Masonite and measures 11" x 13".

Illustration Friday's

2007-10-03T14:26:00.001-07:00

Well this is my first entry into the Illustraton Friday's website (I hope I do this right) I am not so sauve' with uploading stuff on to websites, my panche is for traditional illustration.
That being said..this is a pencil sketch I was going to do a series of Blues artist paintings, B.B.King being the first of this series.
I hope you can all enjoy.

I WOW By....

2007-08-31T14:59:00.001-07:00

Being the Illustration Procees Owner is a lot of work at the O.C. but sometimes you do get fun projects to work on. I was asked to illustrate the first of 7 posters we are using all around the office building and I had a good time working on this project. It was hard subject matter and really made me think outside the box. I sketched ideas in pencil, scanned them in and Illustrated over them in Adobe Illustrator CS3.

88 M.P.H.

2007-08-22T11:46:00.001-07:00

So I am the rhythm guitarist for a 1980's cover band called 88 M.P.H. (Like in Back To The Future)and it is really fun. I have designed the logo for the band to look like the Back To The Future movie logo. I did this piece in Illustrator CS3.

Backgrounds

2007-08-21T16:16:00.000-07:00

I have been doing these backgrounds in my spare time as just a fun thing to do(it is a form of meditation)
. I do them in Illustrator CS3

Cherry Blossom

2007-05-10T19:45:00.000-07:00

Here is a nice little comission, I call it Cherry Blossom. It was a purchase by an employee at O.C.Tanner for her Grandmother.
I did this piece on canvas 10" x 14" in acrylic.
It is a very colorful piece and I hope it is enjoyed.

SVIRZ

2007-05-01T12:45:00.000-07:00

Pronounced "Sphere's". I designed this logo for Cindi Perkins for her new natural cutical oil, body oils, and natural body line. She gave me free reign to design the logo, she wanted something hip and modern, with a natural element to it.I really like this design alot. Thanks Cindi.

Flowers

2007-04-30T19:48:00.000-07:00

I have been comissioned by a friend of mine, Steve Wilkinson, to paint a picture for his wife Quisha. This was a huge project, the painting is 5' x 3' on canvas. Steve picked the subject matter and the color and I came up with the creative style and balance of the piece. I normally would take a month or two to develop a painting, but this was a suprise birthday present for Quisha and I had to complete this piece in 3 weeks. Buy supplies, create painting, paint, get the picture photographed, and get the painting shipped to Kansas. It was quite the project. Quite fun.

MPI

2007-04-11T09:23:00.000-07:00

These 2 pieces were commisioned by MPI of Utah. They needed a Dragon for their Save the Date, Invitations, and Programs for their Chinese Auction. I created the second Dragon by pencil drawing it then scanning it into Photoshop and coloring it in the computer.
The first Dragon was a piece I did for their silent auction, it is a 10" x 14" acrylic painting on canvas. I donated both pieces for charity, the auction benefits the Make A Wish foundation.

Directory of Illustration

2007-01-31T18:52:00.000-08:00

I have bought a page in an Illustration Annual called "The Directory of Illustration". This is the cover of the annual and my page is on the left. I am really excited to be in this book because it is seen by almost every Art Director in america, close to 150,000. The hope is that this will generate new business for DEAN Illustration. Keep your fingers crossed.

Classic MARVEL characters

2007-01-02T18:26:00.000-08:00

I love the classic MARVEL comics characters, 60's and 70's Iconic figure of strength and power.
These two are Crymson Dynamo, and Apocolypse, I have been doing sketchs to get in the feel of the classic design with my style of drawing. I am going to do a small mini-comic of a classicMarvel character called "Molecule-Man". These are just pencil sketchs done in my sketch book.

Zodiac

2006-12-01T18:34:00.000-08:00

Currently I am recreating some Zodiac symbols I had from an old calender I collected from a chinese restaurant. I am recreating them in Illustrator. This is just a sample, I will post some more as they come along.

Dr. Holman

2006-11-15T08:21:00.000-08:00

I am in the process of having my teeth straightened, and my Orthodontist is an avid hunter. He knew I used to work at Hart Signs and was wondering if I could make a sign for his hunting cabin. I made this design to give the backwoods feel by using multiple browns, but a little more modern feel by excluding high details and using shilouettes. He enjoyed the sign very much and has it posted outside of his private road.
The sign is 4' x 4' 1/2 MDO board w/High Grade Vinyls and outdoor paint.

Classic Garrick Artwork / Ben & Elledge

2006-11-06T19:39:00.000-08:00

I used to draw a comic strip for fun called Ben & Elledge, about my two friends Ben Simonsen and Elledge Bowers...they were funny and stupid and full of inside jokes. I thought it would be fun to show you all a little glimpse into some artwork I used to do before I knew what to...do.
These will be called "Classic Garrick Artwork"

Horse for Jamie

2006-10-28T15:28:00.000-07:00

I was asked by my brother Jesse to draw a picture of a horse for his wife / my sister-in-law Jamie, for her birthday. I did this piece at 11" x 17" on Brown Paper with Pirsmacolor pencils. I really enjoyed doing it, it took quite a while, but I am always interested in projects that take me out of my comfort zone.

Tim and Darin's Boat

2006-10-20T14:52:00.000-07:00

This summer my good friends Tim and Darin bought a brand new boat.
I have done the boat name on all of their boats for the last 4 boats.
Normally the boats name is "Private Reserve" but this new addition is called the "Knotty Bouys", and it was quite a process to get the name just right.
But we did and it looks great.

Effing Brutal

2006-10-11T18:59:00.000-07:00

I was commissioned by a man in Seattle, WA to draw this nice little piece about a graphic novel that he is producing. I don't know if it will ever get published but it was fun to do, I drew it in pencil,inked it, scanned it, and colored the whole thing in Adobe Photoshop. It was a learning project...learned the hard way. Enjoy

Larping Piece

2006-10-07T14:18:00.000-07:00

I was hired to do this piece for S.L.U.G. Magazine. It is an article about "Larping" it is a form of Dungeons & Dragons where people dress up as their characters and have mock battles...it is quite interesting.

First Entry On A New Blog

2006-10-04T14:33:00.000-07:00

Many posts, alot of art, and tons of crap...still to come.