Some Vector Faces

A Couple of Cards

Here are some custom cards I did for a friend of mine. One for her son's (and Jack's buddy) birthday party and one for her work Christmas card. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Cents Magazine

My copy of American Airlines Cents Magazine with my illustrations in it came today.

American Airlines Cents Magazine

I was recently commissioned to do some freelance illustrations for American Airlines. One of their publications is called Cents Magazine, which is published for American Airlines Federal Credit Union. They did a story on "Surviving Self-Employment: Five money rules to help you stay ahead of the curve". They needed some illustrations to go along with it and contacted me to see if I'd be interested in the job. Well, of course I was. They sent over the story along with some ideas they had and I went to it. Here is the finished results, hope you like it. I had fun working on it.

New Vector Illustrations

Here are a few more of the illustrations I did for "Never Marry A Man...".

Some Skydiving Vector Illustrations

New Illustration - Dog Walking

Here is a new piece I did for a client recently. Yes, that dog is wearing high heels. Hey, it was a first for me too.

A Few of New Illustrations

These are of a mascot (named Zoe) for a site called Zen Planner.
This one is of "Jim Healthy" for My Healing Kitchen.

Handy Man Superhero

Just finished up this guy for a client.

Yellow Jumpsuit

Here are some illustrations I recently did for a family who keep a website of all their adventures. It's called Yellow Jumpsuit, which I loved right away because I guessed correctly that it was a "Bottle Rocket" reference and it's one of my favorite movies. I also did a logo for them.

New book with my illustrations in stores now

The book that I worked on, "She's Crazy, He's a Liar-Now What: A Single Girl's Guide to Understanding the Sexes" by Cecily Knobler is in stores now. I have over 100 illustrations throughout the book. I think they commissioned 135 and wound up using 120. It was (obviously) a TON of work, but at least they were fun images to do. I think it came out really nice. I'm proud of it at least.
The official website.
Preview the book.

New Logo Illustration

Here's a new logo illustration I recently completed. I'm scheduled to create a lot of illustrations for this client, so hopefully there will be a bunch to share as we go along. I feel like I've done a lot of bride illustrations lately.

New Illustration

Postcard Illustration

New piece that is going to be used on a postcard promoting a book.

She's Crazy, He's a Liar - Now What?

The book that I worked on, She's Crazy, He's a Liar-Now What?: A Single Girl's Guide to Understanding the Sexes by Cecily Knobler will be out in a few weeks.

They put up a website for it.

You can also preview the book.

I'm a little disappointed that they redid the design of the cover. In my original design, the illustrations were bigger, but at least they are still using them. If you click through the preview pages, you can see a bunch of my stuff throughout.

Got the Kidd Kraddick Kinsey CDs in

I think they turned out really nice. They were very happy with them, so that's cool.Here's where it was the #1 Comedy Album on iTunes at one point, beating out Artie Lange!!

Chef's Rival Illustration

Here's an illustration I recently did for my buddy Lauren Melton, who works for a company called US Jesco. It's for a product called "Chef's Rival".

Design for the new Kidd Kraddick CD

Here's some pretty cool news. Well, pretty cool news around the Slayton headquarters. At least the dog thinks it’s cool. And he’s not easily impressed. I teased it in an earlier post…

The other thing is I've just completed a cd packaging design and illustration for a fairly big radio program. They're putting out a cd of comedy bits. Can't say who it's for yet, no I'm not kidding, but it should be out in December. So, more on that later.

The obvious clue was the word “kidding”. Or maybe it wasn’t obvious. Anyway, as the title of this post points out, I recently did the design for the new Kidd Kraddick Kinsey CD, “It’s My Wedding, WTH???” Of course the word “fairly” in the previous post is clearly sarcasm as Kidd Kraddick in the Morning is on in like 80 markets and I believe reaches a couple of million listeners. So, that’s big.

The CD is a collection of routines based on the real life fiancé of one of the on-air guys, J-Si. Her name is Kinsey, and Kidd plays her (via high-pitched auto tune) as a ditzy valley girl obsessed with shoes and all things materialistic.

They announced the release of the CD on the air today. Here is the audio of it. They talked about around a quarter to halfway in. Kidd Kraddick audio from 11.24.09 Hour 2

It’s available for purchase here:
iTunes | Amazon | Bandwear | emusic

The color on the online artwork at these stores looks a little off (too bright and neon) because I think it got uploaded as CMYK and not RGB. The image I posted above is what it really should be. And here is what the rest of the package looks like. BTW, "smrt" and "presents" are purposely spelled incorrectly and I didn't take the photo or design her logo (credit where credit is due and all).Anyway, it was fun project to work on. I hope to have the actual printed CD in my hands within the next couple of weeks. Thanks to Josh from the show for hiring me to design it, glad everyone liked it.
UPDATE: It was the #1 comedy album on iTunes at one point... From Kidd's site: "One day after its release on Thursday, Kinsey fans created a buying fervor that propelled the CD past three Dane Cook albums to secure itself to first place."

Sweet T's

Here's an another image I recently did for Tesar's. This is his wife, who does desserts for the restaurant. I'm not sure, but I think she might be getting her own place as well. I could be wrong.

Rockstar Creator

This was a cool project I did last year. It was for TIGI, the company that makes hair products, like Bead Head. They wanted to have a website where people could create their on rockstar avatar. Similar to what I did for the Hot Topic Halloween E-Card. Unfortunately, it never went live, but they were cool enough to let me use it for my portfolio.

So I had to create a total of 4 body shapes, 20 different eye, nose, mouth, eyebrow designs, 47 hair styles, 5 one-piece outfits, 10 outfit bottoms, 8 outfits tops, 4 guitars, 2 large accessories (cape and wings) and a bunch of small accessories and piercings. They wanted weird, wild, over-the-top styles. And they had to be built were the person could change the base color and highlights. Labor intensive to be sure, but still fun.