Guest Artist: Tawny Rose

we have a new guest artist coming up! i am pleased to introduce Tawny Rose...

she's a designer, photographer and artist. she also loves bikes, ukuleles, and hamburgers with french fries. Tawny went to Art Institute of California and does graphic design for Roadtrip Nation.
see? she made this awesome poster:
i hijacked this information from her site and her facebook. now its your turn to check out her site.

website: http://www.tawnyrose.com/
email: hoot@tawnyrose.com

Spread Eighteen

Inspired by Matt's sketch of clocks and a sole man in a destroyed city, I decided that I wanted to do a typographic study of disintegration and destruction. I chose to use Bodoni as I think this typeface contains some of the most beautiful characters ever designed. Drawing the lovely curves was an exercise in worship as creating the characters by hand really made me aware of the intricate details of each form.

As we close on the year, I thought this sketch was pretty representative of 2009 as the economic crisis definitely affected all of our lives. I hope everyone has a restorative holiday and a wonderful new year. Next we will see the first sketch by new member, Tawny Rose!

Invasion of the Masters...

While we wait for our next spread to be posted...vote for our friend Josh Kemble on Threadless!

Time Enough at Last!

Alright, here it is, sorry it took so long to get this up here but its been a busy couple weeks! . . . inspired by the clocks of the last spread and a Twilight Zone episode, our protagonist's finds himself in the near distance future with all the time to draw in postal sketches but with no one to send it too. Oh what a cruel mistress Time can be . . .

Postal Sketches Progression

I thought this one would be pretty interesting . . . it is a snapshot of the progression of the sketches as it slowly overtakes the white canvas of the empty pages. Pretty cool, huh?

Spread Sixteen!

Here it is! In all its splendid glory, spread sixteen by the amazingly colorful Rachel Peterson. The origami swans were a nice touch. There seems to be a bird theme this round of sketches . . .

Comment from Rachel: "I had SO much fun covering the page with COLOR and textures! :D I was also inspired by Chris's small pocket watch on the previous spread (which is brilliant!)
I was watching parts of Alice in Wonderland that night too.... :D Definitely inspired by the beautiful and creative, playfulness s of that movie!"

Spread Fifteen...

We've gone to the deep ocean in the first round, so thought we might climb towards the sky a bit. I was staring at that peacock for a while-- decided to go with some sort of feathered friend.
I had the sketchbook with me this weekend at the Alternative Press Expo in San Fransisco. I had a great time meeting folks and hanging out with some gamer pals who mentioned an upcoming game "The Last Guardian", which got me thinkin...
fun with big bird :]

(drawn in ink n' coffee, in a coffee shop~)

Spread Fourteen...

so i took the sketchbook with me on vacation. i drew this during my flights to and from chicago. i currently have an obsession with peacocks and of course i was inspired by the crazy pattern in ichae ackso's page.

round two...

so we finally completed round two, and i'm always delighted to see the sketchbook come back to me with new embellishments...
witty, huh? i love it.

Spread Thirteen...

the long awaited spread thirteen is here!
the amazing ichae ackso covered this page in intricate, mind boggling detail.