It's been a long while since my last visit to the threads of threadless. I posted a new entry and Frick commented on it and it made me remember that there might be some familiar faces wandering nearby.

How's everyone doing out there?

oh and... here's the design that brought me back for the "love's green" contest.

Man I haven't been here in a while.

If you look through my past submissions you'll see I've experimented with a wide variety of techniques for trying to work within threadless' color limitations.

I've tried freehand, pen tool, draw/scan/color, draw/color/scan, illustrator, photoshop, painter. I've tried everything I can think of. I'm missing some fundamental component that I can't kin.



That's my original digital illustration for this concept.


http://www.threadless.com/critique/6459/Celestial_Surgery

This is my new attempt at a translation into Threadless acceptable format.

I just had an amazing revelation of a technique to improve the quality of my submissions.

My big problem is that trying to translate my ideas into such a limited scale (5 color max + shirt) has been really tough for me.

I love playing with textures and contrasts and saturations. It's my thing.

Trying to digitally illustrate so crisply with so few colors is counter intuitive.

My most recent attempt was VERY minimal. Unfortunately too minimal. The cookie didn't translate.

I just had a revelation though. I'm gonna try something. Hopefully this will work. If I succeed it'll allow me to maintain a much more organic feel in my submissions.

Wish me luck and if you don't hear back from me in 7 days... call the president.

Does anyone know of any good poster/art print shops where I can order in decent bulk with good pricing?

I'm looking to get a panel at a convention to sell prints of my digital illustrations.

I've avoided this place long enough. Practiced some new techniques. Now I'm back with a more minimalistic approach and some new ideas.



Check it out. let me know if you're with me.

That is all.

I'm looking for work. Ideally I'd like to get a job in digital illustration, traditional illustration, design, etc.

I've been reviewing resources and job hunting sites all day and working on my resume.

I figured I should try to make use of the experience and expertise here.

Does anyone have any leads in the Boston, MA area?

Does anyone know of any reliable sites for hunting for such jobs?

Does anyone have any reliable resources for freelancing?

:-) Thanks.