Turtable: Redo / Illustrator Practice

In the fall, I drew up this guy:
I was happy with the idea, but considering I was drawing, painting, scanning, and leaving everything to the last minute...well, the execution and final product left something to be desired.

So I'm practicing Illustrator and reworking it at the same time. Trying to get a handle on the pen tool but tracing the original image. It's not perfect and I'm still getting some weird results from the tool that I don't quite understand, but for the first time out of the gate, its looking pretty decent.

Here's just the illustrator work:
It's really nice to see some wonderful clean lines (hooray vectors!) instead of fuzzy pixels.
My future plan for this baby might be a Threadless submission.

Illustrator

Learning some new tricks

Winter Break: A bit of NYC

Over the holidays, I visited NYC for about a day. One night I hung out with James and then the following day (Monday) I got pumped to check out some galleries. Unfortunately, no one was open because it was (a) a Monday and (b) during the holiday season. But I did get to see some cool stuff, if only in passing.

This stand at the Union Square Market isn't really art related, but I though it was real funny.


The only open gallery I found actually had a Robert Rauschenberg exhibit up! I'm not a huge Rauschenburg fan, but I do love stumbling into Chelsea galleries and finding that someone really well known is hanging on the walls (and that admission is free). I would have taken some pictures inside, but I got the impression that the guards taken me out.


No idea who this is. Probably that lady crouched down on the wall. It was on the wall of a dance studio lobby. Definitely more my style.


Street art in Chelsea, even featuring some Jeff Soto.

Since when does spackle grow mold?

WTF?

Unfortunately, I have not pictures. I was angry and just threw it out.