Blues Hound Email Campaign

Check out this email promotional campaign I am did through Agency Access for November of 2013. It is the second installment in a series I have in capturing the challenges art buyers face in a humorous way. I decided to use a fun B/W doodle illustration style for the main image with an arrow that lets you see the full color version of the art when you click on it.

I wanted to do something more than just show an existing illustration to attract work, I wanted to create something that is designed for this particular campaign and have art buyers relate to it.

I have included the ad in its entirety which includes the copy I had written for it.  

Waddayathink? All comments and/or suggestions are welcome. 

-Fian

Children's Vitamin Packaging Illustration

Awhile back I was commissioned to create some fantasy characters for a line of sugar-free vitamins for kids called Dr. McCombs Magical Nutrients. I created a wizard, a knight, a dragon and an elf prince and princess, each for a specific flavor. The vitamins come in a powder form where they can be mixed with water or eaten like Pixie sticks. I recently received samples to try out and I was totally impressed by how great they tasted. They should go into production in a few weeks. I can't wait to see them on store shelves. Its such a great product I know they will be flying off the shelves.

Here is the artwork on the packaging design for one of the flavors, Magical Wizard's Potion.

Lemme know what ya think. Thanx!

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University Mascot Character Design

Recently I was commissioned by Turkel Advertising in Miami, Florida to do a character design for Barry University. They needed a redesign for their parrot buccaneer mascot Bucky.

The first step was to draw sketches of numerous different pirate parrots, in Corel Painter using my Wacom Intous 4 tablet, to narrow down the direction we wanted to focus on.

After that was completed, finding the right combination of clothing, hat and what the character was going to be holding in his hands was the next step.

The next step was to create various color comps in Photoshop to get the colors right before going to final art. When we had what the character was going to look like wired, I went to final art and completed Bucky in Adobe Illustrator.

I also created color comps of Bucky for a costume design company to use as a guide in making a mascot costume.

Check out the final art along with 3 of the many ideas created in the process.

Lemme know what ya think.

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New Board Game Artwork

I just finished artwork for a box cover and game board for a new game for MindtwisterUSA called Ramps And Rails. Its kind of like the classic game Chutes And Ladders but uses skateboarding ramps and rails and features the characters for the board game called Skateboard Madness I developed a few years ago. Check out the Skateboard Madness game here.

I can't show any of the new art yet because it is just now going into production but I will post it soon. You can check out some of the Skateboard Madness characters in my character design section of my portfolio here.

Stay tuned for even more new work coming up soon.

Kid Stuff Winter Catalog Cover

I recently illustrated another fun piece for the great folks at Kid Stuff for their winter 2013 catalog. Its great to see kids have so much fun with toys and I wanted to capture that joy in this piece. I posted an earlier blog on Oct. 1 that shows a super rough gesture sketch of how I wanted the composition to be. It was a challenge to fit all the elements, the client requested, into such a vertical format and leave room for the logo and some type but I do love a challenge and believe it came out great. What do you think?

Thank you Kid Stuff for the opportunity to create such fun pieces and I look forward to many more....you all rock!!!!

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