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Teen Meme

Couldn’t help but participate in the draw yourself as a teenager meme floating around the net. 

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101 Sobbie the Robot

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Warm-Up Drawings Reach 100

As you can see from the previous entry, I’ve reached 100 in my series of warm-up drawings.  Check ‘em out on Flickr or in my portfolio.  It seems like just yesterday the series reached 50. 

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100 Gymnastigator

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Design Inspiration interview

Oops, I keep forgetting to link to this. Jeff Andrews interviewed me a while back for the Design Inspiration website, and the interview is now online.  LEARN! Startling facts. DISCOVER! The secret to long life. BEHOLD! My hairy face.

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099 Grampire

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Huffington Post on Excelsior

I’m tickled by this surprisingly thoughtful review of Excelsior 1968 by Jeremy Axelrod of the Huffington Post. Some choice quotes:

On its own terms, though, the project is evocative. Something about sampling that convergence of lives—a Venn diagram of bygone adolescence—has always had a voyeuristic (even poignant) appeal, and this is no less true of Martz’s blandly exact adaptation.

And:

Martz bills his mass-portraiture as an exercise, but it’s also a prodigious visual study of a small universe of personalities, now long dissipated to cubicles, fortunes, graves.

Well, golly.

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098 Jig

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097 Bait

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096 Worm Time

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095 Astro-Joust

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In Bruges

A pair of hitmen, hiding out, and waiting for their cues is
about to find themselves at odds, and, dare I say, in bruises.

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Shine a Light

Ode to a 50-foot Keith Richards

Keith! Oh Keith! Your craggy face,
I bet it could be seen from space --
all pock-marked, creased, and krinkled.
IMAX-size, you fill the skies
with planetoidal bloodshot eyes
as massive as they’re wrinkled.

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Links on a Thursday

Some quick links for this Thursday afternoon

More Yearbook Projects
I’m thrilled with the positive reception to my crazy yearbook project. I mailed nearly 40 books today, each with a drawing inside, and the orders continue to roll in slowly, so thanks to everyone! Now, I am not the first person obsessive compulsive enough to attempt an exercise like this.  John Ralston’s The Liner, was the first such project I was aware of, and here are two others: Joshua Bienko’s The Girls of Delta Zeta, and most recently, The Beauty of Graduation by Justin White.  I’m glad I’m not the only one with this obsession.

Cardiggins
Looking for greeting cards? My good friend Becca has started making cards with calm, reflective photographs on them: Cardiggins.  Perfect for when you want to say, “Happy Birthday,” but also, “Relax, pal.”

Logo Design Love
I helped judge the Logo Design Love Awards, a competition for blog logos, and you can check out the winners, and read my commentary.

Plagiarized Illustration Book
This is disgusting: Darren Di Lieto was tipped off that hundreds of illustrators’ work and the interviews he conducted with them for the LCS have been plagiarized in a book. I’ve been interviewed by Darren as well, but it looks like the book was published before then, so my work escaped the poaching. Darren has photos of each page of the book. Ugh.

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094 Coffee Ghost

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