I haven’t posted new illustration work in a while. Bad, illustrator, bad! Here is a preview of a card I’m currently working on for JQ Greetings. The first image is the front, the second image is the inside (it will be colored in the same style as the front). I think it’s going to be something of a “miss you” type card. I’ll post the finished product when I get it. There’s more in the works as well.

Which reminds me. Some of you have expressed interest in purchasing some of my cards, and how to go about doing that. My wife and I recently moved so I’ve been really busy with the new house, and getting caught up on work, but as soon as I get settled I’ll post ordering details. I may create an online form to gather interest.

I’ve been hard at work on a new promotional mailer postcard. Voila! Here it is! If you would like one let me know. I thought this would be a good time to share with you a little of the development of this illustration. How fun! This isn’t meant to be a tutorial, but rather an insight on how I work, and the time involved in putting together an illustration like this. So, let us begin.

Update 10/9/09: I have decided to include this illustration in this week’s “Illustration Friday”. Topic: “Flying”.

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I launched the redesign of this website and blog last weekend (Friday, July 24, 2009). It was a long process, and here are a few screenshots detailing the design and development.

Objective

If you’ve been following my previous site and blog you may ask, “Why, Josh, did you redesign your site?”. I guess the short answer is, I wanted to. Being a designer/illustrator it’s really hard to be satisfied with my work for an extended period of time. I guess that’s one luxury of client work: when it’s done and delivered IT’S DONE. I can’t go back and change what bothers only me. However, in order to actually justify spending time redesigning my site I established three objectives:

1. I wanted the site to be very functional
2. I wanted to completely get rid of Flash
3. l wanted it to be a fun place to visit

Design Process

The initial concept included a very fun, quirky spirit with a heavily illustrated barnyard scene. While the “barnyard” imagery became very minimal throughout the development, I maintained the spirit and brightness that I set out to achieve (although you’ll see from my EWWW comps that it was a process). Above is the initial sketch. The idea was to have a cow illustrating a dramatic rooster. The drawing was going to be very cartoony, while the rooster very over dramatic. Added some character to the cow. It’s getting there. Read More »