I’ve been doing some covers for a newsletter and i thought this one came out pretty good.

here are some pencils from the upcoming daves killer bread coloring book.  its gonna be amazing!!!

so here’s the finished thing of that thing i was drawing.  i think it’s going to be on an iphone app or something.  the tech savvy gentleman who hired me to do this is going to be making some updates to ohyesverynice.com soon.  that’s right!  first update in 4 years!!!  watch for it!

i’ve been trying to post less booby drawings on here because i can’t imagine it’s helping my career in childhood education, but i really liked how this submission for the next issue of stumptown underground came out.  the theme for the issue is, “sex.”

it’s based on an old playboy pin-up.  after i finished it i thought i’d rather have done a portrait of r. kelly, but i had already used up all my spare time.

here’s a little preview of my next big project, the dave’s killer bread coloring book!  more on that soon!

happy new year, everybody!  2009 was rad!  could 2010 be more rad?!!?  stay tuned!

lately i’ve had lettering projects to do:

pretty exciting!!!

Dave called me up the other day because he wanted to make a new t-shirt.   i was all for it, not knowing then that i was agreeing to work on a project that would require more revisions than anything ever created by anyone, ever.

we started with this, the old peace bomb design.  dave wanted to do a revised take on this with some extra characters added.  sounds easy enough.  i did some sketches:

dave liked these drawings but wanted to add a character from a newer type of bread, the sin dawg.  i did some sketches:

things were going well.  we monkeyed around a little more with dave’s pose:

we seemed to have a pretty good idea of where things were going so i started to pencil what i thought was the final version:

dave decides that it’s a little off…  we agree to move some characters around and then we go through some drafts of alternative poses for dave:

finally, we arrive at a new pencil draft:

dave decides that he’d really like to see what it looks like if he is riding the dog.  i am not thrilled about taking another step back, but i do some quick sketches anyway:

dave decides that this is the way to go so i do a new pencil draft, copying parts of the earlier draft on a light table.

im starting to worry that there might be something a little funny about this image and i send dave a quick sketch that suggests a new way for him to hold his guitar:

dave agrees with the change and the pencils are altered:

then dave decides that we should get rid of the bread guy who is falling in the air and change the seed guy on the back of the bomb to a piece of bread playing a stand-up bass.  i tell him a regular bass would be a lot easier to draw but he insists that a stand-up is funnier.  i do a quick brush sketch:

dave likes it so i put it all together and ink it:

dave asks me to move the peace symbol, which is easy to do in photoshop, and the bass player, which is harder and requires some redrawing.  i tell him it’s impossible and then he offers me more money:

and then it’s all done.  next we show it to some of the other fine folks at daves killer bread and they all immediately tell us that this is a disturbing image and its probably a terrible idea to put it on a t-shirt.

we decide that maybe we ought to put it down for a few days and in that time some helpful solutions are cooked up.  shobi makes a mock-up of how he thinks it can be fixed and i copy it using pieces of what’s done and some really quick doodles:

that seems to be where we want to put everything so i do another draft:

and it works so i ink it:

and then its done!  its really done!  its finally over!!!

and that is where t-shirts come from.

latest logo for daves killer bread, spelt!