In 1999, as Labor of Love was putting together the free newspaper version of Glyph I did a series of cartoon portraits of some of the more active folks contributing to the studio. This is Tim Lowery.
Farewell to the Armadillo Kidd!
I saved this image for last. It’s my favorite Backyard Enterprises illustration. I did the base drawing and Jeff Swenson painted it. The original (and all the other large BE paintings) is in storage now. The darned thing is huge.
The Penultimate Backyard Enterprises Post
And, now, at last, the second to last Backyard Enterprises post. The man behind the company packed it in after a little over a year. Would there have been a lucrative market for the materials he was proposing to produce? He’d started out thinking there was. The marketing he’d had us do indicated that there was some kind of market but that reaching it would probably require more capital than he had to invest. And there would be no guarantee of success. At that point he’d already spent a few thousand and really wasn’t interested in spending any more without an immediate turnaround. So Backyard Enterprises was put out to pasture.
Jump!!
This sketch was done to accompany yesterday’s “sexy” babe. She does have big Eighties hair doesn’t she?
Sexy?
I don’t remember the exact circumstances that resulted in this drawing. It was in 1999 or 2000 and an old colleague of Nizzibet’s (it might even have been the guy who asked for animated website serial ideas) had asked her if she knew of any comic book artists. Nizzibet suggested me. He didn’t doubt that I could draw comics. What he wasn’t sure about was if I could draw sexy babes. Apparently sexy babes were an important part of the project. So I set aside my ridiculous idea that I drew sexy babes all the time and endeavored to draw a Sexy Babe.
And was told – not what he was looking for. And, too Eighties.
Oh well.
The Octopus
A quick break to post a new sketch. This was done for Warren Ellis’s Remake/Remodel exercise over at his Whitechapel forum. Since he doesn’t host images there I needed to find somewhere else on the web to post it. Head on over to Whitechapel if you want to see what other artists have done with the concept.
Fair Budget with Text
And here is yesterday’s artwork with added text.
Going Up
This illustration was done for marketing materials for Fair Budget. I drew the silhouette of the woman running up the stairs. I think Nizzibet did the rest of the work.
PPE Brochure Cover
I know I’ve shown this illustration before but I like the layout of this brochure cover. So thank you for your indulgence.
Rain Cycle Photoshopped
Once the individual vignettes had been pulled out we (well, Jeff) reassembled them so that each image flowed more cleanly to the next. Compare this version with the original painting.
