Anime In The Washington Post

Here is a piece from a couple years ago I totally forgot about and stumbled upon the other day. The post found me via theispot.com. At the time I think there was just 2 or 3 artists that worked in an anime style who advertised on the site.

Self Checkout

This was done for Consumer Reports and is a good representative of using transparencies and scanned art in Adobe Illustrator.

Planting

A simple visual with a few elements can say a lot. This image can speak of gardening, the economy, the green movement, self development.

Business Related Art

These were done in early 2009. Fun with Photoshop and a print roller.

Cap and Trade

I like doing illustrations for assignments I don't even have. Yes, I am an illustration geek. I read an article on cap and trade issues and this image popped into my head. Having a traditional art background, I am still blown away how quick and easy it is to throw a sketch into Photoshop and poop out something reasonably good in a short period of time.

Strawberry Shortcake Grows Up

This was done for Radar Magazine for an article about the new revisions to this little darling. I've also attached the sketches so you can see where we started and my thinking. This was done in Adobe Illustrator.

Skate Art

Here's some art I did a while back for Corbis. I love working with a limited palette.

Young Witch

Again, pencil and Photoshop and about 3 hours to kill.

Crash! Bang! Boom!

This art was inspired by the bursting of the housing bubble, which in turn caused the world-wide recession, which in turn burst my income bubble, which in turn caused me to almost lose my house to the same financial institutions that caused the crisis in the first place.
It's a beautiful world we live in.

Investing

I love spot art. This is vector with the dollar leaves of the plant an embedded tiff. I did for my portfolio. I wanted to have more financial stuff.

Girl and Guitar

I did some Xbox art for Corbis. I like the simplicity.

Warrior

Not WoW, but Wow inspired. And NO, there is no nipple in this one... I think.

Yes, you can see some nipple popping out. No big deal. Go ahead, click on it to see larger image.

Sugar and Spice and....GAK!

Ghoulish little girl done in pencil, slapped into Photoshop and done for Corbis Mobile.

All they need is a dog and a van and mysteries to solve.

Character ideas.

Shopping

Another card for American Greetings.

Reason Cover

A recent cover. It was fun.

Ah, lovers!

An early manga-esque piece. I was just starting to get an interest in this genre when I did this. I also noticed that there was a lack of truly ethnic looking people in a lot of anime/manga. It seemed sometimes that anime's idea of diversity was someone with blue hair.

How about some Artwork?

Here is a mish mash of work I'm finding stumbling about hard drive. I work almost totally digital with Adobe Illustrator my number 1 application. I think I first installed it into an underpowered Apple computer (version 5.5) in the early 1990's. The artwork at the top was a greeting card for American Greetings. I do a lot of cards and I truly enjoy it.

Hi from Me: The Noob

Yes, this is my first blog...evah!
I can't say this will be entertaining, but it will be something to fill a void that did not exist until I created this space for it to fill... ah, did I mention it won't be entertaining?
I'll be posting some art I've been doing, IF I remember to post at all.

Thanks!

hb

First piece: random something.