Wizards of Firetop Mountain

Here is a T Shirt Design/logo I have been working on (under my wereworms name) for my 70's rock influenced band Wizards of Firetop Mountain. I have printed a one layer version in grey/silver ink on a black shirt, and am in the process of printing 2 layer coloured inks on to grey and blue shirts. The design was hand drawn and then modified into readability and coloured digitally. Available soon in mens and womens sizes, photos to follow.

Typography Project

The brief started very simple. Tear/cut out some letters from black paper, keeping them roughly within 75mm high.

Part 2 Trace letters with pen tool in illustrator. Ok I can deal with that. Things I like that I incorporated - the fact that I cut it out poorly. I traced the jagged little paper cut frays around all the knife turns, makes the vectors look more like the real paper lads. I was pretty happy with that. That being said, after I traced a few to be marked, I did cheaty cheat. Of course I just used trace. Shhhh. But the sentiment and the design argument was there!

Part 3 Make 4 promotional postcards and a poster for your font on illustrator.  I knew I didn't just want to place some letters on a page like those type of graphic designey digital type posters where one big letter is half off the page, and some transparencies of other letters float around asking art questions. That would look really wrong and modernised with my paper cut irregular human letters. When I was asked to name my font in the first project I called it 'Bubble Hand Bob'. Not for any reason other than because bubbles were the main thing you notice. So from that I decide to cheat and make the project narrative so I can adapt it to myself better! Bubble Hand Bob became a character whos exploits could be recreated in the postcard series. We are only allowed to use the letters, but I just decided to turn my letters into pictures ( I like pictures better and stuff.) I think thats allowed. I'll find out next semester I guess!

It became the story of a man called Bob who lived in a boring town and wanted to be an adventurer.  Here's 2 of the postcards and the long format poster. The poster suffers from blurring, I think because I used way too much copy and pasting and scaling and rescaling, I'm not sure yet, I'll have to look in to it. All the colour on the clothes etc is made from tiny letter o's, and all other parts of illustrations are letters themselves, scaled or chopped.

Postcards

Poster

Part 4 Make a storyboard of your proposed 3 screen minimum website to promote the font.  Well I figured screen one would be something roughly like this, using the poster image. This displays an idea of the whole alphabet, and also introduces the character.

and screens 2 and 3 would the same design like so (with border), but screen 2 would essentially be a story. It would open to an animation depicting Bubble Hand Bobs adventure, as a development from the stills in the postcards. Screen 3 would be a simple animated display for the font. 

Here's the stills

I made the videos as simple flash animation on illustrator, there's only around 30 frames max. In the one I'm uploading. The project is more of a proposal than a finished work, so only one postcard was brought to that point, the rest were implied in notebook work.

Because the future we live in is confusing I wasn't able to upload the flash file on blogger, so I haphazardly converted it to something viewable I hope, after much hair pulling!

Here's a slightly jumpy idea of how it would look. 

New design

apologies for the rough layout, im in the process of redesigning here, so bear with me while it evens out!!
In the meantime, check out www.wereworms.blogspot.com 

Monarch poster

So here is finally the finished work, the poster and double sided colour flyers. I hope to be selling posters at the gig, as wereworms will have a stall on the night. Being a relatively moronic ham fisted ludite of a computer user I decided that my stubborness would get me through this project digitally. It's the first thing I ever produced with mostly digital methods, so forgive the fact that the word/letter spacing/sizing is a lot all over the place. 

I really enjoyed working this way, still drawing the basis of the piece, but cleaning it up and having composition/scale/and colour options without having to redraw everytime. The only downside was that I was suddenly faced with endless posibilities, and being an indecisive person, I ended up with about 5 different posters to choose from, some better developed than others. I really could have kept trying varients forever. 

Anyway, I love process, so heres some of my work along the way, complete with unconfirmed bands and lack of general info.

Mini Cards

Here's a bunch of postcard size drawings I did as prep for figuring out what to get printed up. I will be getting a few designs on postcards printed up as soon as possible, and I'm selling the original drawings for 5euros each at markets and online just by getting in touch or leaving a comment.

Independent's Day

Here's the poster I made for the unpcoming Independent's Day. Independents Day is a celebration of independent publishers, artists, musicians and more. There will be some really great stuff for sale, as well as performances, exhibitions, screenings and workshops. And to make it even better? There's a cafe in the venue with great pizza, coffee and snacks. If you want to come along, or are interested in selling/showing your work, contact independents_day@dublin.ie . For more information go to http://independentsdaydublin.blogspot.com/

lil' budies

Pleeeeeeaaaase can I draw some pictures for you?!?

I am desperately seeking an internship with some nice people so if you have a design company or have friends in that line of work please think of the monkey. Monkey will work for free because Monkey is longterm unemployed due to just graduating on a grant, and just might be able to get a FAS trainee wage as an intern. 

MONKEY WANT DRAW FOREVER!!!!!!  

Monster Fun Fair!!

For Culture Night I had the opportunity to be involved in my favourite activity - monster painting.
I think I found my ideal job.

Entrance

Beanbag toss

Paint gun target

Beanbag throw in action

Astro Chimp part 2

Sorry I haven't added anything in a few weeks, college has been absolutely mental for me the last while. I honestly think I've had about 10-12 hours sleep a week for the past while. Oh well, all summer to sleep!

I know the comic didn't get as far as my plans for it, which will teach me not to publicly pre-empt myself on things I can't follow through on! I plan on taking it further, but with the college deadlines, I just wrapped it up at the nearest logical point. I'll do issue three once college is finished up. Promise ;)

This issue I used an A4 format, purely because I was finding it hard to visualise a comic size print out when drawing on A4. Also, I wanted to simplify everything, which was easier when I wasn't faced with a huge blank page that I would feel compelled to fill.

Anyways. Here it is. If you don't have a clue whats going on, heres issue 1.

ASTRO CHIMP 2