Froggie Time!

Once upon a time, I decided to treat this blog as a place to show my work to fellow artists. Not the work that was slick and promotion-packet-ready, but the sloppy, fun, experimental stuff.

I've been slack on this goal. So here -  drawn with an old $7 set of oil pastels which I've never been able to control - is Froggie McClamworthy.

Jerry Dowling: 1961 National League Champions

From Jerry: This is the third of the drawings I've done annually for the Reds Opening day Findlay Market parade. This will be on t-shirts, and a 4 x 6 foot board attached to a float. The board will eventually wind up in the Reds Hall of Fame.

Kids Do the Darndest Things!

Sketchbook: from a park in Mexico City.

The girl had been beating bushes with a stick for five minutes. When this finally bored her, she went after a little boy.

As in the U.S., so in Mexico: without good parenting, children are sadistic barbarians.  And they do the darndest things!

Printing Companies

Hello, all :)

I'm building some material for some projects I am working on. I wonder if some of you might be able to tell me which printing companies (local) are reputable and reasonably priced?

I had advanced a query to several people whilst at Teller's, not long ago. I'm in the process of building a product line of adventure games. As of now, I have more questions than I do answers, though I feel I have a firm direction in which to go. If any of you feel you may be able to shed some light on this for me, please do.

I am also going to approach some gaming contacts I have made over the years, and see where that takes me. Anyone with experience in this area, please feel free to offer advice. At the moment, I am not not comfortable divulging too much information, but I can give enough to get some answers to much needed questions.

Thanks and many regards,

Justin D. Russell

Uncle D's Cartoon Corner

Due to a cruel blow that has recently been dealt to me I am in the process of completely breaking down my studio. Then I'll have to set it up again somewhere else! And I'm kind of amazed at some of the stuff I've found. I'll try and post when my heart and frame of mind will allow.

Here are a couple comic strips I did for fun called "Uncle D's Cartoon Corner".

Hope you like 'em. Wish I could make money on this stuff!

Article About Dennis Porter in the Dayton Daily News

Nice write up on caricature artist Dennis Porter: http://www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyle/caricature-artist-talks-about-his-trade-1098875.html

Nice photo too!

Iron Giant Chef Mini Comic

This is a mini comic I did for a friend's comic anthology called Slam Bang. The theme is robots and I could not resist the topic. I do these to relax when I am doing a LOT of painting. It is like a palette cleanser.

I also love bizarre sci-fi robot speak.

The small press comic show SPACE is in a couple weeks and I hope to make it up there for a day.

Jim Effler: Bockfest Poster 2011 Signing March 4th-6th

This is Jim's 16th Bockfest poster!

Jim will be there from 6-10 Friday March 4th and again on Saturday and Sunday in the afternoon.

Bockfest Hall is at 1619 Moore Street in OTR.

More info: http://bockfest.com/ There is a parade at 5:30!

'Bard the Hare Character Sheet'

Here's a character sheet for a game I'm going to be playing in. This is a prototype, and I inked EVERYTHING. The type's a little rough, but it was a good test to see how I could potentially lay out my own character sheets for sale with a game system a friend and I are going to publish some adventures for, through Epic Werkes.The big thing for me with this project was to be able to signify, with images, things that are normally represented with text. I also included the alternate, colour version, and the sheet after I started using it.

High school sports logo needed

Hi folks!

An painter friend of mine needs someone to design a new logo for a high school, and then he will be painting/airbrushing it on the gymnasium wall. They are the Beallsville Blue Devils, and they've been using Duke's logo up to now, but they would like to have their own blue devil designed to be used on everything.

If I had any spare time I'd do it! Plus I know there are better logo designers than me here.

Simple lines....blue, white, and maybe black. There may be a little bit of reimbursement in it from the school district, but this is a small school in Eastern Ohio.

Contact: Scott Hagan

e-mail: barnartist@dhwireless.net

Quickie Birthday Card Drawing

Here is a quick little colorized ink sketch I did for my nephew for his birthday card (it was quicker to draw than a knight-which he is into now). I would probably do some things different, but I only spent an hour or so on it and have little time.

Although, to truly make a 9 year old like it, it would have been two battling dragons with a lot of blood. His mom would not let him have it though... Daryll is right about most cards for boys having a high lame factor, which is why I made one.

Special Edition Illustrators Lunch: Jerry Dowling's art at Grand Ole Pub-REDO

On March 2nd, we will have lunch at Grand Ole Pub in West Chester since we were snowed out last time.
Jerry Dowling did a cool collection of caricatures to decorate the restaurant.

Hope to see you all there!