To everyone who voted for and commented on this design and helped get it printed, thank you, you rock! To Threadless, who saw fit to choose this guy out of so many awesome designs, thank you, you rock!

As for the actual "about this design" part of this blog, I must admit that I can't rightly recall how this one first came to mind. I DO know, however, that the Triceratops was not originally filled with candy... I can't for the life of me remember at the moment what it WAS filled with, but it wasn't candy... :/ I reckon someday I'll remember. When I do, I'll post it here. Because I just know that someone out there is just being tortured by the terrible mystery of it all...

Maybe it was skulls? I dunno. ANYWAY, I've been getting a few questions lately about my process and all. Not here so much, but on flickr and stuff I guess. As such, I figure I may as well give the run down on this design, especially since I can't seem to find anything else useful to say about it. I began by making a loose sketch of the Triceratops in Illustrator with my wacom tablet. Sometimes I start with paper and pencil, but this time was AI. I often find it helpful to start a sketch in Illustrator if I know that there are going to be multiple figures (in this case 2) because AI allows me to quickly and easily re-size figures or portions of figures and any other random elements. I can manipulate them and move them around like scalable puzzle pieces, thus enabling me to lock in the basic information without having to start from scratch and make a new sketch each time something doesn't fit right. Once I have the proportions and placement I want then I may go in and tighten it up with a new sketch over top of the first, or I may just start in on some final linework (usually with the pen tool, though sometimes with the tablet) depending on how coherently things have ended up. From there it's mostly a trace job and that pretty much takes care of it. Of course, this is a process that is typical of my Adobe Illustrator designs, which not all of them are (but let's face it, most of them are)

Anyway, if any of that was useful then great. If not, I salute your patience and I'll try harder next time :)