Infinity Gauntlet 20oz Premium Sculpted Ceramic Mug.

I was very lucky to be able to work with not only Marvel Licensing and Branding but also Marvel Studios to create the Infinity Gauntlet 20oz Premium Sculpted Mug. I was sent picture fo the actual gauntlet before images were every release dot the public, there are some fun bragging rights to working with these licenses.

Starts at the .ketch stage.

Tighter Sketches in blue line, inks, and digital tones.

The throw the design into Photoshop and give it some realism.

Using the below assets sent to me by Marvel.

3D Sculpt images.

Final Color Chart.

Packaging.

The final product sitting on my desk.

VANDOR LLC / Creative Director

A few things have been happening in my life that have made it a little hard to keep up with Blogging. I found the love of my life, had a baby, bought a new home, helped buy a business and became Creative Director at Vandor LLC in Downtown Salt Lake City, Ut. At Vandor we work with some of the biggest licenses in the entertainment world. Some of our licensors are Marvel, Star Wars, Disney, Pixar, Star Trek, Dr. Who, Hello Kitty, Dr. Suess, Saban, The Beatles, Peanuts just to name a few. Our client list has some of the biggest companies in America such as Wal-Mart, Target, and some of the GEEKIEST such as LOOTCRATE, Game Stop, Entertainment Earth, and Think Geek. Here are a few of the most recent designs and creations I have directed at Vandor.

Utah Arts Festival T-Shirt Design

 This year the Utah Arts Festival is having a design competition for their T-Shirt.  You can only have 3 colors in the design and it has to be 12" x 12". I have created a design that i think is fun and artistic, I have submitted and I hope I WIN!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Color Prints for sale

Prints of these two images are up for sale. 

$10.00 each (8"x10")

or $15.00 for this 11"x17" print

email garrick@deanillustration.com to place your order.

Storyboards for The Brute Squad

Recently I was hired to do storyboards for a local film company named The Brute Squad.

It was a 30 second commercial for Mountain America Credit Union. I enjoyed the project and loved working with the crew at The Brute Squad.

The storyboards are below.

Olive Tree Commission

I was commissioned to create a painting for Theory Brand Agency in Salt Lake City, Ut. Their client lives in Sonoma County, California and has a story behind how he could not get olives trees planted into his property due to size and weight.

This piece was designed to have a classic illustrative feel that you would see in vintage wine and olive oil ads. Beige and tan background give the painting a feeling of age with hints of browns at the trunk level and greens at the leaf level to imply the balance of earth and fauna.

I used willow blanches and willow leaves to stipple ink onto the surface to give a sense of light and dark patches to represent depth of field in the main body.

It was a great project to work on and I enjoyed collaborating with the owner of Theory Brand Agency, Jolene Smith. She is a creative powerhouse.

Acrylic on Masonite w/Ink 18" x 24" - Olive Tree