IF: Baby

The Illustration Friday topic this week is Baby. Being lazy, I'm reusing my Baby New Year drawing from earlier this year. If I have time this weekend I'll update this post with an image of what this guy looks like now that we're half way through 2008.

Update: We're half way through 2008 so the picture below shows the middle aged Baby New Year. With wars, earthquakes, cyclones, rising food and fuel costs, let's just say the year has not been kind to him.

Happy Paper Anniversary!

My blog turns 1 year old on Friday. According to tradition (or at least wikipedia) the first anniversary is the paper anniversary. Since I still haven't had time to draw I thought I'd google 'paper' and see what images popped up.

Somehow the David Hasselhoff paper doll image above was on the first page of Google images. At first I thought, "there's got to be a better image than this out there" but after looking through 5 more pages of images I can honestly say there isn't.

I figure there must have been some sort of monetary exchange to get this image display so prominently in a search, and who am I to fight the free market system?

The Hoff and I say, "Happy anniversary!!!"

Yet More Bloodbowl Logos

Still working on projects around the house with no time to draw, so here are yet more Bloodbowl logos I've created. From top to bottom: Lincoln Lumberjacks, Kashyyyk Parcel Service (KPS), Jolly Green Midgets, Hobbiton Horde, Gauche Nanus

Even More Bloodbowl Logos

Spring time means home improvement projects....and still no time to draw. So here is another batch of Bloodbowl logos. From top to bottom: Rejected Dwarfs, Dixie Rednecks, Deep Sixes, Blood Sox, Bizmark Polar Bears.

More Blood Bowl Logos

Not enough time to draw lately so here are some more Blood Bowl logos I created. From top to bottom: Cursing Mummies, Anvilforge Arsenal, Amish Maulers, Alluvian Kennel Club

Blood Bowl Logos

I thought I'd share more BloodBowl "fluff" since creating it satisfies my creative urges. These images are logos I created for another player with an Amazon team called "6 Inch Heels". Again these are not drawn by me, just creative uses of Photoshop and images found on the web.

Creating these logos made me rethink my feelings on rappers who sample other musicians songs. I never considered sampling very artistic and I still believe it takes less skill than creating something from scratch. However, it does still take some talent to be able to figure out what to sample and how to re-use it in an interesting new way.

By the way, the second logo was the one that ended up being used.

BloodBowl Stuff

I play a game online called BloodBowl. (http://www.fumbbl.com) I like to create "fluff" for my teams which is geek speak for things like logos, helmets, etc. that make the teams seem more "real". The images above are team sponsors I created for my Khemri team, made up of mummies and skeletons, called Cursing Mummies.

I didn't draw any of the images above. They're mainly just Photoshopped versions of existing logos and/or made from fonts I downloaded from the web. However, the Bloodweiser image is from Wacky Packages.

Those of a certain age may remember Wacky Packages as the collectible stickers that were parodies of real life products. They had many imitators but the one that came closest in popularity was probably Garbage Pail Kids.

If you want to relive your youth you can find Wacky Packages info at http://www.wackypackages.org/ and Garbage Pail Kids info at http://www.garbagepailkidsworld.com/