Queen of the Conch Republic Logo Design!
Every now and then we get a really fun project to work on. Our friend Jennifer Smith (of Pirate Radio Fame) decided that she was going to run for Queen of the Conch Republic this year during the Conch Republic Independence Celebration coming up at the end of April. The election of the Conch Republic Royal Family is a charity event held each year to raise funds for the Conch Republic Foster Children’s Fund.
As most of these things are wont to go, this was a last-minute decision, so we only had a couple day’s notice to brain-storm a few ideas and free up some time to work on it, and then it was go-time.
Pulling from a few different sources for inspiration (most notably one of my favorite pin-up artists Serge Birault), and trying to stay within that pin-up style, we cranked this logo out in record-time.
Barb spent a few hours drawing Jenn’s face to try to capture as much of her as possible while still maintaining a simple drawing, and then she handed her drawing off to me so I could hard-line it in the computer and marry it to a drawing of a buxom spear-fisherwoman, which I must admit was heavily borrowed from Serge, and add the text.
It was a short-fuse project, and as usual, there are things I’d like to spend more time polishing, but we just didn’t have the time. All in all I think it came out great. And I’m glad Barb can draw faces, because otherwise Jenn might have wound up looking pretty scary!
The Conch Republic Royal Investiture Party will be held at the Green Parrot Bar Saturday April 21st at 8PM.. You definitely don’t want to miss this! One of my all-time favorite bands is playing that night too.. The Legendary JC’s!
Cheers!
Mike
New Year, New Site!
Well, it seems that this page has been up and static for almost a whole year. I’m going to change all that, because well… I can.
Stay tuned for exciting updates, such as the like you don’t want to miss! Dogs and CATS… Living together.. MASS HYSTERIA!!! Well, OK. Maybe not that exciting. But I’d like to start posting tips and tricks, local art stuff, and some rambling thoughts on art, etc.
So bear with me over the next couple of weeks as I fiddle around with things here on the ol’ BIG site. I think it’s going to be fun.
Stay tuned!
Mike
