Portland Texas. 1995 Toyota Tacoma for sale. $1750. 154000 miles. Runs good. AC works. Some Rust. Minor body damage. Some dings on hood. Head rebuilt 14000 miles ago. leaks some oil. Call 361-434-0236.
1995 Toyota Tacoma for sale $1750
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Here’s one I did today. It’s for a t-shirt. This will screen print with a blend, and then black.
1 spot, 1 blend
June 18, 2014
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Sandwich Illustration
This is an illustration I did for a t-shirt I printed for a now defunct coffee shop. I chose this style because it reproduces well in spot color, and maintains the illusion of tone while appearing organic – unlike a halftone.
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Tagged drawing, Engraving, illustration, Lettuce, scratchboard, Spot Color
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Corpus Christi DMD First Friday Dowtown Map
This is the latest map I put together for the Corpus Christi Downtown Management Group. Something like this is fairly simple looking, but gets fairly complex in the execution. The map was generated in Illustrator, and then the numbers and listings are built in InDesign. It gets updated nearly monthly, and for many months I would manually reposition the numbers – but I overhauled this system by using text variables in InDesign – so I change the number in the variable list and it updates it in the listing and on the map. Fancy, right? It has saved me about 10 hours of zooming, dragging, and unzooming so far.
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Tagged Corpus Christi, Downtown, First Friday, Illustrator, InDesign, Map, Text Variables
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Nueces County Seal
I do a map about every month for a city agency, in the form of a gatefold legal (8.5″ x 14″ brochure. The back panel of which is a logo bomb. You see these anywhere something is printed through the support of multiple sponsors, and the piece needs to reflect each sponsor with their logo. Most of the time a sponsor hands over the money, and then the person managing the sponsors goes to the websites of the sponsors and collects the logos. Webgraphics are almost always unsuitable for printing on paper in general. They’re too low-res (jaggie in the parlance of the people) and usually horribly compressed with color artifacting. Case in point: The Nueces County Seal. This one is the best version of this logo I could find. Trying to track down a camera-ready logo from a small private company is generally nearly impossible. Doing the same with a government entity seemed like an exercise in futility, especially with a deadline. I love this city, So I rebuilt it. I took a few liberties with color, font, and shadow. It ends up being about an inch square on the piece.
Before
After
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Tagged Corpus Christ, Logo, Nueces County, Rebuild, Redraw, Seal, Texas
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Skeleton Crew
This was a design I did for a customer. I love drawing skeletons. My job here was to come up with something for their “skeleton crew” that wasn’t creepy. It’s tricky to do skeletons that are cuddly. 
Scratchboard Skull
This is a skull design I did for a t-shirt design for a customer. It was a coropate design, and they wanted something halloweeny/tattooey/ed hardy-ish, and specifically wanted a skull. They send a bad image of a skull in to show what they meant, and I drew a new one. They ended up going with the one they sent in and rejected mine. It’s a crazy world.
What the customer supplied
What I drew
What the customer picked
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Tagged drawing, illustration, portfolio, scratchboard, skull
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Little Bay Rod & Gun Logo Redraw
This is what accounts for a large portion of the work I do: logo redraws. I take crappy low-res and badly reproduced bitmap logos and vectorize them, sometimes black and white, sometimes process cmyk, and often as spot color – a subject with which I am intimate. They wanted me to change the name and the type of bird and gun. This may be the thing I’m best at, I’m sad to say, but at least I enjoy doing it. This was 45 minutes to an hour’s work.
Customer File
After
DMD Logo
This is a logo I submitted for the Corpus Christi Downtown Management District. It’s a committee, so they were all “we like it, add 7 more things so it’ll look crappy” but I think it came out okay if a little busy.
Art in the Raw poster
This is from a poster I did for a show of art painted on peoples’ flesh.
