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2009-09-28T11:00:00.000-06:00

DRAW

2008-12-27T11:46:00.001-07:00

BAM POP concept to finish

2007-10-22T21:01:00.001-06:00

It's been too long since I posted. Now that Rue is back, we should start to see some more action here. I wanted to take a minute to show some recent BAM POP stuff.

We had this idea to make some nested comic bubbles/balloons. Jen has been wanting to do something on chipboard for a while, so this seemed like the perfect medium for the nested bubbles. For those unfamiliar with "chipboard" it is basically just thick board that is usually sold in craft stores and comes all sorts of die-cut shapes. A lot of times companies don't even print on them, they just cut them into shapes like puppies and cows and sell them that way. For ours we wanted to have graphics, so we printed a design on nice stock and then laminated it on to chipboard.

Once we knew what shapes we wanted to make, we drew them up in illustrator and sent them off to a company that specializes in making dies for cutting these sorts of things. While the die was being worked on, I got busy drawing.

Here is the digital art.

Since the die line can't change, you are stuck with one set of shapes, so we thought it would be fun to do a variant colorway.

And this is how the final product turned out.

Ready to be used in scrapbooks or collages or whatever!

"Rubber Cement"

2007-09-11T12:55:00.000-06:00

Started this drawing as a large to-do list one year ago.
Finished it in July at Art Omi.A little too big for the scanner so it is a 'detail'.

BAM POP! x monsterule

2007-08-25T18:25:00.000-06:00

Some stuff Ruel and I did.

love struck monster

2007-08-25T18:22:00.000-06:00

2007-08-21T21:55:00.000-06:00

new prints coming soon!

2007-07-10T21:40:00.000-06:00

it seems like its been forever since we printed anything new, but we are finally ready. 12 new 12x12" offset prints each appearing twice in a pad.
this is the cover ^__^

BAM POP! + monsterule

2007-06-29T14:20:00.000-06:00

Rue and I designed a t-shirt and submitted it to Threadless!
weeeeeee! vote for us!! ^__^

the family harrison

2007-06-28T22:38:00.000-06:00

Getting psyched up for the movie ^__^

some sketchbook stuff

2007-06-28T22:31:00.001-06:00

Bustelo

2007-05-01T22:13:00.000-06:00

scanned pink is not as good

2007-04-18T11:40:00.000-06:00

birth of imagination

2007-04-17T13:11:00.000-06:00

This morning's drawing. Got some new markers. My moleskines are about to get a lot more colorful! ^_^

danse mf danse

2007-04-08T22:41:00.000-06:00

This is what I did while Ruel was over yesterday doing his stellar collages. Rue provided the rad illustration board and little Maggie stamped the flowers and we colored them in with this amazing hot pink pen she has.

draw about a friend

2007-04-08T22:12:00.000-06:00

Busy Bee Scrapbooking wanted to do a feature on our little company and as part of it I got to come up with a challenge for the scrapbook designers on their site. My challenge was to do a page about a friend and this is the one I did to kick it off.

2007-04-08T01:03:00.000-06:00

Mike Kelly and my collaboration.

new snakes

2007-04-03T14:21:00.000-06:00

remember the doodle-swirl? jared calls them noodles. i started doing snakes two years ago, then they became more knot-like. this was a stencil i did last summer. i was about to throw it out the other day, but then decided to glue it face down over a painting i did at byu in my intro oil painting class. then i drew on it cause it wasn't done yet.

two new drawings

2007-03-14T07:08:00.000-06:00

funny how all the byu grads end up converging on the same ideas. doodles, masking tape, whatever. it weirds me out when someone i haven't talked to in years is working in the same direction.

LESSON 10

2007-02-27T22:02:00.000-07:00

Collage night with Chris Coy. This was my effort.

Dance Robots! Dance!

2007-02-13T18:52:00.000-07:00

Ya, Robots.

2007-02-02T04:57:00.000-07:00

Battle Draw

2007-02-02T04:37:00.000-07:00

What is this drawing all about? It is where two people do drawing battle, by drawing and erasing each other’s characters and usually blowing one aother up in the process. My friend Becky was too much of a pacifist for this game sooo I totally annihilated her.

soap studio

2007-01-27T20:13:00.000-07:00

i think this will be the postcard for my upcoming soap show in oakland (come, californians! weekend after valentine's or first friday of march)

black & white

2007-01-19T11:21:00.000-07:00

robot dance party

2007-01-16T11:42:00.000-07:00

more school sketches

2007-01-02T16:49:00.000-07:00

school sketchbook dumplings

2006-12-18T13:20:00.000-07:00

For Josh and Mo...

2006-12-12T12:54:00.000-07:00

...you were there when he was first scribbled.

Last week I drew up plans

2006-11-26T18:39:00.000-07:00

Monday

Friday

And this came out on Saturday

Richmond, Virginia - Jackson Ward
(I live in the building second to farthest back)
(someone also lives behind that piece of plywood to the left)
(the pink building is a Baptist church)

hey ru, this is what i did after you went to sleep.

2006-11-12T02:33:00.000-07:00

i never went to bed last night cause i thought i had to do these paintings. ruel and i had a good time painting and watching shows.

they don't look like much here, but after i matted and framed them they weren't half bad.

to get some idea of my mixed up process, here is an intermediate stage of the last two pieces:

studio drawing

2006-11-11T16:19:00.000-07:00

thinking about working on this one more

this one and then that one

2006-11-06T03:59:00.000-07:00

two new pieces:

cry baby

2006-11-04T20:50:00.000-07:00

From Halloween, after Space Ghost departed.

RobotUnicornCowboy

2006-11-01T00:11:00.000-07:00

One night not to long ago some friends and I were at the Pearsons home enjoying one another’s company when I was suddenly hit with a great need to draw. This drawing I wished to not do alone some I asked if anyone wanted to draw with me. The "Triple Draw" that you see before you is where three people draw one picture without knowing what the other person before you drew. First you fold the paper into thirds. The first person draws a head of some sort leaving the neck connection lines onto the middle section of the paper so the other person cant see it. Then the middle leaving marks for the legs and finally the legs to complete the drawing. Once the drawing is finished you all get together to see you masterpiece where much laughter will occur.

By: Sharisa Bly, Mo Fritz and Ruel Brown

soap drawings

2006-10-31T19:20:00.000-07:00

another art school episode

2006-10-30T06:57:00.000-07:00

Chalk on tone paper. Fun medium.

Baddaboom

2006-10-26T00:26:00.000-06:00

I have the brains you have the brawn... lets make lots of money?

By Jack and Rue

Meet Glacticlax

2006-10-22T19:36:00.000-06:00

A clunky name I know.

2006-10-22T03:18:00.000-06:00

Chris Gian and Ruel worked on and still will...

2006-10-18T17:44:00.000-06:00

Somerville Summer

2006-10-14T03:53:00.000-06:00

he hasn't seen this yet, but i did this for puente.

graffiti

2006-10-04T23:47:00.000-06:00

The Tortoise and The Sleeper

2006-10-04T23:37:00.000-06:00

perching hare

2006-10-04T23:32:00.000-06:00

light em' up

2006-10-04T23:28:00.000-06:00

66Olds

2006-10-04T23:20:00.000-06:00

Gian Pierotti and Ruel Brown

a helping hand

2006-10-04T23:13:00.000-06:00

Gian Pierotti and Ruel Brown

goodbye, summer

2006-09-18T20:11:00.000-06:00

Things have dried up around here a little thanks to the new semester. The upside is that with new art classes comes new sketchbooks! One book dedicated to drawing from life/reference and another for drawing from mind.

Heads I saw in Communication Arts.

A man and a rooster.

Woodboy.

sunday i drew friends bearing their testimonies

2006-09-04T19:57:00.000-06:00

the bottom one of bob is my favourite. he is unfortunate enough to have a house filled with several feet of water after the ernesto weekend.

this weekend's 'to do' list

2006-09-04T19:55:00.000-06:00

invasion

2006-08-20T23:12:00.000-06:00

Cover graphic for BAM POP's first wave of products.

BAM POP!

2006-08-19T16:51:00.000-06:00

Splash for our new publishing biz.

On wednesday I drew with friends.

2006-08-18T10:46:00.000-06:00

At JJ's home I collaged this collage.

my clay art

2006-08-17T18:11:00.000-06:00

they have still to be fired.

words to live by

2006-08-16T13:24:00.000-06:00

and noodle on. i'm kind of embarrased about how all i care to draw anymore is noodles over backwards cursive. dumb? definitely.

My family crest

2006-08-09T22:55:00.000-06:00

i wanted to make a family crest. I love the way they look. It is such a classic looking thing.
Here is the Football shirt I would like to have with the crest.

freckle ace

2006-08-08T22:13:00.000-06:00

Freckle Ace is having the best summer ever.

trip to the big city

2006-08-05T14:35:00.000-06:00

D.C., that is. Chris Coy made me this sketchbook two or three years ago for Christmas but it has been too precious to make marks in. so yesterday a get-away-art-trip drawing on the metro was just the excuse i needed to get the courage to break into that blank paper.

we went to the Hirshhorn and i bought one of those ridiculous six-colours-in-one-tip watercolor pencils at the gift shop. turns out i love it. Anselm Kiefer wasn't bad either.

this is finishing the drawing at Tryst in Adam's Morgan. i really don't know why i look so angry when i make art, but i'm pretty consistently angry looking while in the zone.

old art

2006-08-04T23:21:00.000-06:00

i wanted to post somethng so here you are. i made this stuff for a book. each one is a page, minus the mustache one.

allergies

2006-08-04T08:51:00.000-06:00

Oh how I hate them.

Monster Vans

2006-08-03T23:12:00.000-06:00

When I was in high school I used to draw on my shoes. So after Squarehead and I saw Monster House the other day we went to the shoe store and I saw a pair of blank Vans and knew I had to return to my doodling roots and draw on them. So after the purchase of the shoes and some colored Sharpies I got to work. And here's what I did.

Mail Bonding

2006-08-03T23:11:00.001-06:00

So I get this envelope in the mail today from my good friend, Jared Lindsay Clark, and inside the envelope I find this blank ledger paper with a letter enclosed detailing this idea of "mail bonding". Jared's idea is to send these blank sheets to his artist friends and have everybody put stuff on them and send them back to him where he will, I don't know, do something with them on the internet. Maybe. So I thought this was a fun idea and started right away and here they are. Love ya, Jared.

Venture for Water

2006-07-28T23:33:00.000-06:00

Drawing/brainstorming session at JJ's one night and Van (AKA Venture) was screaming at his daddy for some water...

Redunderbite

2006-07-28T23:32:00.000-06:00

So JJ and I were talking about what to name this guy and he's red and he's got an underbite. So I guess we called him Redunderbite. Cool, huh.

Passander

2006-07-28T23:31:00.000-06:00

Introducing...Passander!

Green Machine

2006-07-28T23:30:00.000-06:00

So when I was 7 years-old I lived with my grandparents and they bought me this three-wheeled, awesome pedal machine that you steered with two levers instead of handlebars. You would get going really fast, then crank the levers, which would send you into a 720 spin of mind-blowing proportions (to a 7 year-old). This contraption was called...
"The Green Machine."

clean

2006-07-28T09:14:00.000-06:00

Noooo, Black Coat doesn't want a bath!

hayao miyazaki

2006-07-28T08:25:00.000-06:00

Miyazaki-san is magic.

if i only had a band

2006-07-25T08:30:00.001-06:00

Updated for Illustration Friday - Match

maggie on the stairs

2006-07-25T08:23:00.000-06:00

30 seconds with a new Pentel brush pen.

heatwave shmeatwave

2006-07-24T10:00:00.000-06:00

It is too hot out. Best to just stay inside and make arts!

rocketship

2006-07-19T17:47:00.000-06:00

Designed for space travel, but works for daytrips to nerd prom.

comicon blues

2006-07-19T11:10:00.000-06:00

Well, my friends are all off to San Diego while I'm stuck at work.

venomous children

2006-07-18T14:38:00.000-06:00

Along with the new moleskine I got a set of Faber-Castell Pitt Pens. I like them more than my old Microns. They just feel nicer. And they come in a nifty case.

smartass birds

2006-07-18T14:17:00.000-06:00

I'm obsessed with tentacles lately. And maybe Anders Nilsen?

new moleskine new blog

2006-07-18T12:55:00.000-06:00

Just started a new moleskine so I thought what better time to start a blog. The girl on page 2 is a poorly drawn swipe from a Seonna Hong painting. Her art is so pretty.