(GD) Owlhenry.com t-shirts added to the shop

Reprezent, y'all. Get your shop on by visiting my spreadshirt store: http://owlhenry.spreadshirt.com/.

(I) Illustration for a friend's birthday

New "B is for Baby" CafePress Store

For those of you who dig the baby products I've designed, there's a brand new "B is for Baby" storefront available at CafePress.com. These products make great gifts with a personalized touch: "My starving artist buddy DREW these!" As always, if you don't see what you're looking for, please feel free to request a design on a different product or commission a new piece. The new storefront can be found at www.cafepress.com/OwlHenryBaby

For special requests, please click "View My Complete Profile" in the sidebar to the right, then click "Email" on the left side of the new page.

(V) The Complete Morty Christmas Carol

All six parts of the Morty Christmas Epic- including the prequel and a new final credits sequence- is now available for your viewing pleasure at www.youtube.com/owlhenry.

(I) "Peace Jelly" Holiday Image

I'm wishing everyone a very happy, safe and inspiring 2010!

(V) A Morty Christmas Carol, Part Four: "Eddie"

The final part (but not quite the last bit) of the Morty Christmas Epic is HERE.

(V) A Morty Christmas Carol, Part Three: "Nigel"

To view, please click HERE.

(V) A Morty Christmas Carol, Part 2: "Rita"

To view, please click HERE.

(V) A Morty Christmas Carol, Part One: "Jacob"

The Morty Christmas bonanza begins by clicking HERE.

(V) A Very Morty Christmas

The Non-Permanent Parliament is presenting a very special Morty FIVE-PART EPIC for the Christmas season! As of this writing, only the first part, a kind of prequel, is up. Look for four more between now and Christmas. Watch the first part by clicking HERE. Don't forget to rate what you like and leave a comment!

(GD) New T-Shirts in the shoppe!

Hey gang- TWELVE new designs have been added to the shop! All of them made in the US or Mexico! If you'd like a design on a different kind of product, please let me know- you're definitely not limited by what you see. The shop can be found at www.owlhenry.spreadshirt.com.

(V) ZOMBIE 2!!

The latest from the Non-Permanent Parliament features the continuing adventures of Zombie Bruce, this time with his office staff. Click here.

(GD) Mission Bikes Advertising

Below are some design projects I recently completed for Mission Bikes here in San Francisco. They're hosting a track stand competition at the upcoming SF Bike Expo, so I created a flyer:


I also designed a series of three spoke cards- cards that can be fitted between the spokes of a bicycle wheel that, in this case, serve as advertising for Mission Bicycle Company (the black logo goes on the back of each card) as well as indicators of which heat each rider is registered for:


I also created the graphics for an email blast announcing their Christmas sale:


Mission Bikes designs custom-made, personalized bike experiences for city riding. Their bikes are light and their sales staff is friendly and knowledgeable. They're also committed to selling crafts made by local, bike-friendly merchants. Their site can be viewed here.

(OPP) Ryohei Hase

This guy is AMAZING. Check out his site by clicking here:

(I) Dos y Dos/My Process

I love when illustrators break their process down on their blogs, so I thought I'd do the same with a recent project I worked on. I was hired to do four character designs for a Spanish-language kids show called Dos y Dos; they're considering expanding into printed material- books n stuff. Below is how I created one of the character designs.

So first thing I like to do is grab some pictures to draw from. One of the guys on the show- Bayardo- is a friend of mine, so, with his permission, I lifted a few pictures from his Facebook profile:

That's him on the right. Then I make a sketch that's as true as I can make it to the picture I'm drawing from:

I'm working fast, so it's not crazy true to life, but I'm making an attempt to capture as much of his likeness as I can, and I'm getting a sense of what makes Bayardo's face distinct. I like B's chin- it's definitely distinct- and his face is longer, his eyebrows more defined, than the other male actor's. These aren't the only differences, of course, but my end product won't be all that detailed, so I just need a few keys.

Now it's time to approach the final drawing. I took a picture of myself in the pose I want for the drawing- I decided B would be holding an umbrella:


My picture includes my whole body, and it's hi-res enough that I can zoom in to look at areas I want to focus on. Then I draw the sketch for the final:

Then I scan it in to Photoshop and clean up the lines- I want them clean and dark, but I want to still get a sense that they're hand-drawn, that a pencil was involved at some point in the process. Sometimes I'll ink them and convert them to vector lines with Illustrator, but I wanted something rougher on this:
With this design, I can easily take out the white areas and replace them with colors, then add a background and I'm done:


And the final group shot:

(I) Happy Halloween!

A friend and I played Mr and Mrs Macbeth, yeeeears ago- I recently found a sketch I'd done of us, so I colored it and sent it to her as a Halloween gift.

(I) Monster Doodle

A drawing for a very special Monster. :)

(GD) All In The Timing Poster

A good friend of mine is producing All In The Timing at Mira Loma Black Box Theatre, and commissioned me to do the poster art. (Can you say "commissioned" if it's free?) I'm pretty stoked on it.

(GD) Henley Street Theatre Logo Redesign

I was recently asked to do a redesign of a logo for a theater in Virginia; I guess whether they're actually going to use it is still up in the air. Above is the original, and below is my idea for the letterhead, as well as variations on the logo itself.

(GD) Woman in Black poster design

I'll soon be appearing in a play called, "The Woman in Black", a good old-fashioned ghost story produced by Second Wind Productions here in San Francisco. I designed this poster idea without knowing they were WAY ahead of me. Now it's the Photoshop equivalent of a doodle. I still think it looks kind of cool.

(GD) In-Store Signage Design

Mission Bicycle Company in San Francisco's Mission District just added a whole bunch of merchandise, and I was commissioned to design some signs for the new products. Now I've got some store credit to spend- woop woop!

(GD) Business Card Design (Black Bird)

(OPP) 1001 Journals Project

I was asked to create some pages in a journal that's traveling the world as part of the 1001 Journals Project. I didn't scan my pages, but there is some amazing work on display at the site. Check out journal 3118. The picture included here is just one of the incredible pages created by my buddy Jefferson, and I was honored to have been asked to participate.

(V) ZOMBIE!

The latest video from the Non-Permanent Parliament is on display for your viewing pleasure. Access it and all the NPP offerings by clicking here.

(OPP) Matt Gaydos

Matt Gaydos is a brilliant L.A. artist currently busting out work on two different web comics: Boozenose the Clown and Rent Control. I love this Guy!!