Poster for Conversations: A Discussion Series

One of my favorite parts of my job is that I get to design posters for events at the university, here's one for an upcoming panel series that I was asked to do this week.

Site Redesign

I recently relaunched my website with a new design, if you get a chance you should check it out. http://www.theartoftylerparker.com/ Plus it should now be viewable on mobile devices.

Underwear Dance Party

Nipples are a weird thing to draw, you don't want to put too much thought into them but you can't really just throw them on. This was a lot of fun. mostly just throwing all the random things in the background. Also if someone wants to name all 4 albums featured in the piece I'll throw some sort of prize for your way.

Last year I really wanted to do a post a day but that ended up being entirely unrealistic with moving across the country and everything else, so I've decided to try this a little differently this year. I feel like setting the bar at at least once a week is much more realistic.

Wizard People

I went to see Deathly Hallows Part 1 opening weekend and it was really great and made me want to do some Harry Potter art. I in no way feel ashamed to occasionally indulge my geekier tendencies. Can't wait until July for part 2.
When I was drawing the original for this one of my staff saw me working and assumed I was working on a self portrait, I'm not entirely sure how to take that since I'm pretty sure i'd make a lousy Ginny Weasley.

This even has two figures who are, in fact, actually touching; progress, progress

He seems like a respectable chap.

Back from my brief vacation to Baltimore, had a chance to get some work done while I was there and then finished this one up over the last few days.

Ill Lucid Onset gig posters

I was recently contacted about doing some gig posters for the local portland based band, Ill Lucid Onset, They were great to work with and gave me complete free range for the project. I have to say that I've been wanting to try my hand at gig posters for a while so I was pretty excited to have the chance, hopefully this is something that continues.

People In Places

I've been looking back at some of the ladies that I've drawn in the past and was reminded something my bud Sam Bosma said a while ago about it doesn't matter how cool a character is that he doesn't give a damn unless they're in some sort of environment, so thought I'd try to put them somewhere. Also I've been really exploring what I can do in digital. I've been working completely flat for so long that it's been a challenge to thinking about making form this way again. Been looking at the great process post by the aforementioned Sam Bosma and the always great Meg Hunt and found them to be really helpful. Really love some feedback on this one.

Also finally working on drawing some dudes.

In other news I switched my art related flickr over to here in case anybody cares.

This one even has a dude in it.

...and a background

I'm more or less settled in Oregon now and have finally gotten to get back to work (which feels pretty great). I still feel like the part of my work I like the most is the pencil drawings and I'm not quite sure how to rectify that. Fun story this started as a digital piece, with which I proceeded to get frustrated, started a painted version, which at about 5 hours in I realized that there were two sweat droplets and was abandoned (painting over gouache never seems to work) and basically started the digital version all over again. I think I miss the critique world, maybe I need to look into studios in the Portland area or just make some art friends.

New living place, less than new work

Sorry I disappeared for a bit there, I kind of moved across the country. I'm still getting things unpacked/settled and hope to be able to get back to work now, but in the meantime here's a little something to hold you over that I've had on my computer for a few weeks.

Thursday THORSday

Enchantress


Hela

For the record I still hate puns.

Thor's ladies are pretty great to draw. I'm still not entirely sure I understand how Hela's headgear is supposed to work, I suppose it doesn't really matter when you're a Goddess of Death.



Also here a quick Thor and Loki just because.

Black Canary

The guys over at Project Rooftop announced Black Canary as their latest redesign which is pretty exciting since she's a really fun character. I always really liked the old Black Canary design with the mask so that was the first thing to come back. In my redesign for some reason the first thing that came to mind was some sort of victorian/dandy feel, probably because of the character's inclination towards corsets and such, and ultimately came out with this Dandy meets Masquerade Baller meets Hipster, but alas still not proper trousers for Black Canary this time.

Amazon-ish

This is from a few days ago while I was subbing, I don't understand how teachers can watch the same video 5 times in a day and not go nuts. She makes me think of the greek or more accurately wonder woman mythos amazons.

Big week of interviews ahead, cautiously hopeful.

Trying not to be lame.

Dear internet, sorry for dropping of the face of the earth for the past month, I've been focusing pretty much exclusively on the job hunt (which is still in progress) and seemingly never ending application and now some hope inspiring phone interviews I haven't really had a chance to do any real work. For the time being I can't guarantee any sort of frequency with post but I'll do what I can.

About the only time I have to work these days is when I'm substitute teaching so here are some fashion-y ladies. I don't know where to take these but I'm really enjoying doing them.





A student saw my drawing and described them as angry hipsters, I think I'm okay with that.



The folks over at Project Rooftop recently relaunched their site and suggested that the next contest they're doing is Black Canary (still waiting for the official details) and I realized that the lady from a couple post ago was a good starting point for the redesign. I had this idea of what if Black Canary was Victorian/Dandy-ish though I'm worried she looks a little like an olde timey hooker. Also I like the old drawings of Black Canary with a mask. Also she still doesn't get pants.

Back From Holiday

Sorry for the sudden lack of posts I went on a little holiday to Baltimore to visit some folks (which after some car trouble ended up lasting a bit longer than expected). Easing back into the posts with a fashion-y girl post.

I had intended to work on the comic today but realized I had left my notes at home so that's on queue for tomorrow.

Comics Time (yes plural)

I decided to give comics another try and started a new one today based on an idea i've been throwing around for a little while. These are the rough thumbs of the layout and the text/notes which have been censored to preserve your future enjoyment.

This got me thinking about the other comic project I attempted and I've decided to offer the graphic novel from my thesis, that I posted a preview of so long ago, as a pdf download so people can finally see the whole thing. It's available here (right click to save as). It has some problems but there's are probably a few people out there who actually wanted to see it.

Gordon

Fun fact I'm sick again which is awesome.

This is my ukulele, his name is Gordon. He was named after both the Barenaked Ladies first album and Commissioner Gordon from Batman. Maybe I can play him for you sometime.

Alice Final Finally

Here's the finished version of the Alice in Wonderland piece, I was going to post the progress pics from the week but ultimately the finished version is what matters. This is basically my most elaborate purely digital piece so any feedback would be really helpful/appreciated (like even more than usual). Took a lot longer than I thought it would, almost quit and just painted it a couple of times but ultimately stuck with it.

p.s. trying flickr for the photo hosting because blogger/picasa's tendency to wash out really whacked this one out so we'll see how that goes.

I haven't forgotten the post a day pledge but I'm working on a more complicated piece (the alice one I started a while ago and abandoned) so I'll be posting a final with progress shots from everyday probably friday. You can see the first one here http://twitpic.com/zsjwc

Colored Denim Dress

Not sure the colors on this are quite right yet.

Peter Pan

Here are a few quick Peter Pan design sketches from today, not sure where these are going